JERUSALEM - Jewish settlers pressed on Thursday with their refusal to abide by a government-ordered freeze on building in West Bank settlements, and blocked inspectors from entering one such community to enforce the edict. Leaders of the settlers me
CARACAS, Venezuela - Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas dismissed an Israeli plan to halt new construction of West Bank settlements as insufficient on Friday, saying it won't be enough to restart peace talks. The Palestinian president said during his
LONDON - The government said Wednesday it wants Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's proposal for a temporary halt in settlement building to help resume Middle East peace talks. Foreign Secretary David Miliband said Britain has strongly and
JERUSALEM - Israel's military says it has carried out three airstrikes in the Gaza Strip, targeting a weapons-manufacturing facility and weapons smuggling tunnels. The military says the aerial assaults early Tuesday came in response to two rockets P
CAIRO - Israel's president said Sunday expanding Jewish settlements in the West Bank was a marginal issue blocking resumption of peace talks with the Palestinians. But Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, speaking at a joint news conference with Shi
JERUSALEM - The Israeli military says its aircraft have attacked two weapons-making factories and a smuggling tunnel in the Gaza Strip. The military says the air strikes Sunday were in retaliation for rocket fire into southern Israel from Gaza a day
SALVADOR, Brazil - Brazil's President Luis Inacio Lula da Silva is joining his Palestinian counterpart in calling on Israel to stop building new settlements in areas claimed by Palestinians. Silva says that his country understands that any new sett
JERUSALEM - Palestinian and Israeli officials say troops have killed one Palestinian along the Gaza border. The Israeli military says five men appeared to be planting explosive devices along the tense frontier when troops opened fire. A Palestinia
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