GAZA, Dec. 1, 2008 (Reuters) A Libyan ship trying to deliver aid to the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip on Monday turned back in the face of an Israeli naval blockade, Palestinian officials said. ... > full story
JERUSALEM, Nov. 30, 2008 (Reuters) Israel approved on Sunday the release of 250 Palestinian prisoners in a bid to bolster Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in his power struggle with Hamas Islamists who control the Gaza Strip. ... > full story
GAZA, Nov. 30, 2008 (Reuters) The Palestinian group Hamas has claimed responsibility for Friday's shelling of an Israeli military base along Israel's frontier with the Gaza Strip where six soldiers were wounded. ... > full story
TEHRAN, Nov. 29, 2008 (Reuters) Iran has sentenced three men to death for being involved in the fatal bombing of a mosque that killed 14 Iranians in the southern city of Shiraz in April, the hardline Kayhan newspaper reported on Saturday. ... > full story
DOHA, Nov. 29, 2008 (Reuters) Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad blamed the West for the global financial crisis on Saturday, saying other countries were being dragged in to help resolve Western problems. ... > full story
DUBAI, Nov. 28, 2008 (Reuters) Al Qaeda's second-in-command said in an Internet video the U.S. financial crisis was caused by Washington's military campaigns in Iraq and Afghanistan and taxpayers were paying the price. ... > full story
JERUSALEM, Nov. 28, 2008 (Reuters) Palestinian militants fired three mortar bombs across the Gaza Strip's border on Friday, wounding six Israeli soldiers, the army said. ... > full story
VIENNA, Nov. 28, 2008 (Reuters) The United States and the European Union said on Friday they were disturbed by apparent Syrian efforts to "sanitize" sites U.N. inspectors want to examine in a probe into alleged covert nuclear activity. ... > full story
VIENNA, Nov. 27, 2008 (Reuters) The U.N. nuclear watchdog chief prodded Syria on Thursday to open up military sites to investigators and said he would soon show Damascus satellite images which Washington says indicate covert atomic activity. ... > full story
Tire, Lebanon, Nov. 27, 2008 (Reuters) Israel inadvertently galvanized an international campaign to ban cluster munitions by hastily raining bomblets over south Lebanon before a U.N.-agreed halt to its 2006 war with Hezbollah fighters could take effect. ... > full story
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US suggests alleged Syrian reactor had no peaceful uses Nov. 28, 2008 (Ynet News, Israel) The United States' ambassador at the International Atomic Energy Agency said Friday in Vienna that the alleged Syrian nuclear reactor that Israel ...
Syria begins nuclear efforts Nov. 28, 2008 (Ynet News, Israel) Damascus has begun efforts towards establishing a nuclear power station, Syrian nuclear chief Ibrahim Othman announced Friday. . . "Syria will not ...
IAEA & Lack of Transparency in Iran, Syria Nov. 27, 2008 (GlobalSecurity.org) The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency expressed frustration Thursday that neither Iran nor Syria been completely transparent about ...