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A powerful bomb exploded outside the UN building in Gaza
June 26, 2011Elena Vnorovscaia / Chişinău / Moldova.ORG / -- The UN mission headquarters’ wall was damaged by the powerful blast in Gaza. No casualties and injuries have been reported yet. Blast made a hole depth of two meters in the wall surrounding the building...
Palestinian faction Hamas rejects Fatah nominee for PM
June 12, 2011The Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas has rejected its rival Fatah's nomination of Salam Fayyad as prime minister in a transitional government. The decision came hours after Fatah agreed to back Mr Fayyad, who currently heads the Palestinian Authority...
Hamas and Fatah due to sign reconciliation agreement
May 04, 2011The leaders of the two main Palestinian factions, Fatah and Hamas, are due to sign a reconciliation pact in Cairo aimed at ending their four-year rift. Mahmoud Abbas and Khaled Meshaal have not met since the expulsion of Fatah from Gaza in 2007 following...
Gaza violence: Hamas declares ceasefire with Israel
April 08, 2011Islamist group Hamas says it has brokered a deal for Gaza's militant groups to stop firing on Israel, amid the most serious fighting since 2009. The move comes after militants hit an Israeli school bus with an anti-tank shell on Thursday, injuring two...
Gaza: Hamas militants killed in Israeli air strike
April 02, 2011The Palestinian Islamist group, Hamas, has warned Israel of "consequences" after an air strike in Gaza killed three members of its military wing. The Izz al-Din Qassam Brigades militants were killed near the southern town of Khan Younis, a...
Israeli jets hit Gaza after Palestinian rocket attacks
February 24, 2011Israel has bombed four Hamas training sites in Gaza, a day after Palestinian militants fired rockets into Israel. The overnight air raids came hours after a Palestinian militant was killed and 10 others injured in clashes with the Israeli army near...
Playing chess with the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt
February 07, 2011The US is facing a dilemma on how to deal with the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt. On one hand, accepting them means accepting an Islamist system that will certainly have an anti-American and anti-Israeli agenda, and on the other hand rejecting and delegitimizing...
Possible case scenarios for the future of Egypt
February 03, 2011Violent clashes erupted in Egypt between the anti-Mubarak groups and others who were described as "pro-Mubarak". Some of the pro-Mubarak groups attacked the anti-Mubarak demonstrators while riding on horses and camels thundering through the...
Wikileaks' Julian Assange 'fears US death penalty'
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January 12, 2011Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, who published leaked US diplomatic cables, fears he could face the death penalty in the US, defence documents say. He is fighting extradition from the UK to Sweden over allegations, which he denies, of sexual offences...
Wikileaks man Julian Assange 'ready to fight extradition'
January 11, 2011Wikileaks founder Julian Assange is ready to fight extradition from the UK at a full hearing next month, his lawyer has said. The 39-year-old Australian, who denies sexual offences against two women, is wanted by the Swedish authorities. Geoffrey...