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- Palestinian envoys head to Egypt for reconciliation talks
- GAZA CITY AFP — Palestinian factions will send envoys to Egypt next week for talks aimed at ending months of bitter infighting, leaders and spokesmen for several groups said on Saturday. Nafid Azzam, a senior leader in Islamic Jihad, said his movement would send a delegation from Gaza and...
- Research articles 2008-08-23
- Fatah commander wounded in Lebanon blast: medics
- AIN EL-HELWEH, Lebanon AFP — A Fatah military commander was seriously wounded in an explosion on Tuesday in a Palestinian refugee camp in south Lebanon, a medic said after a Palestinain official had earlier said he had been killed. Talal al-Asmar "had surgery to the legs and is in...
- Research articles 2008-07-29
- Gaza clashes as Hamas presses security crackdown
- GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip AFP — Clashes broke out in Gaza City early on Sunday, wounding at least six people, as Hamas-run security forces pressed a territory-wide crackdown on rival Palestinian factions after a deadly bombing. The fighting erupted overnight when Hamas-run police moved to arrest members of the...
- Research articles 2008-07-26
- Abbas meets Syria-based Palestinian chiefs except Hamas
- DAMASCUS AFP — Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas has met Palestinian leaders based in Damascus, excluding the political chief of the rival Hamas movement, a member of his delegation said on Monday. The meetings aim "to restore order in the Palestinian house. But Mr Abbas will certainly not meet (Hamas...
- Research articles 2008-07-07
- Mbeki meets Mugabe in Zimbabwe
- HARARE AFP — South African President Thabo Mbeki, chief regional negotiator on the Zimbabwe crisis, met here Saturday with President Robert Mugabe and leaders of a breakaway faction of the main opposition party. Mbeki had a brief discussion with Mugabe, whose re-election last month has been rejected by the...
- Research articles 2008-07-05
- Hamas releases Palestinian faction official in Gaza
- GAZA AFP — The Hamas rulers of the Gaza Strip said on Monday they released the spokesman of a faction detained after the group fired rockets on Israel last week in breach of a fragile truce. Mohammed Abu Irmana, also known as Abu Qusai, was released during the night...
- Research articles 2008-06-30
- Exchange of fire in tense north Lebanese port city
- TRIPOLI, Lebanon AFP — Tension was running high in the northern Lebanese port city of Tripoli on Sunday, where a shop was torched and gunmen exchanged fire even as troops were out in force on the streets. There were no immediate reports of casualties in the clashes, which erupted...
- Research articles 2008-06-29
- North Lebanon calm again after fresh clashes
- TRIPOLI, Lebanon AFP — Shops reopened their doors and traffic returned to the streets of Tripoli on Thursday as calm returned to the northern Lebanese city following a fresh bout of violence, witnesses said. An AFP correspondent said armed men who had taken to the streets on Tuesday night...
- Research articles 2008-06-26
- US eyes Mugabe party divisions as way out of Zimbabwe crisis
- WASHINGTON AFP — The United States is counting on fissures within Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe's party to allow a negotiated end to the crisis with the opposition, the State Department indicated Wednesday. "I think there certainly is more to the ZANU-PF than Robert Mugabe," said State Department spokesman Tom...
- Research articles 2008-06-25
- Top member of Islamist group wounded in Lebanon blast
- SIDON, Lebanon AFP — A top Islamist militant was critically wounded on Sunday in a blast near the Palestinian refugee camp of Ain el-Helweh in south Lebanon which injured four others, a security official told AFP. Imad Yassin, a senior member of the Jund al-Sham Islamist group, was wounded...
- Research articles 2008-06-22
- Fidel Castro denies split in Cuban government
- HAVANA AFP — Fidel Castro has strongly denied rumors that he is the leader of a faction of hardline Communists disgruntled about reforms introduced in Cuba since his brother Raul took over as president. "I am not now, nor will I ever be at the head of any group...
- Research articles 2008-06-22
- Inter-Palestinian talks positive: Islamic Jihad
- GAZA CITY AFP — Islamic Jihad representatives held "positive" talks with a delegation from Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas's Fatah party, the Gaza-based radical group said Thursday. "We held positive discussions," Nafez Azzam, a leader of Islamic Jihad told AFP. "The Fatah delegation confirmed they wanted to hold dialogue....
- Research articles 2008-06-19
- Would-be Lebanon bomber probably Saudi: Fatah official
- TYRE, Lebanon AFP — A would-be suicide bomber who was shot dead last month outside a Palestinian refugee camp in south Lebanon was "probably" a Saudi national, a senior Palestinian official said on Monday. The incident outside Ain al-Helweh "during which a man, probably of Saudi nationality, was killed...
- Research articles 2008-06-09
- Senegal president calls for Israel-Palestine ceasefire
- DAKAR AFP — Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade called for a ceasefire from Monday between the Israelis and Palestinians, in a statement published by the national daily Le Soleil. "Already I have asked Israel and Hamas (the Islamic movement that has controlled the Gaza Strip since June 2008) for an...
- Research articles 2008-06-09
- Fatah, Hamas emissaries meet in Dakar under Senegalese mediation
- DAKAR AFP — The Palestinian factions Fatah and Hamas, at loggerheads since the Islamist Hamas seized power in the Gaza Strip last year, have sent emissaries to Dakar to engage in a "process of fraternal dialogue" mediated by Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade, a statement said Saturday. "Emissaries of the...
- Research articles 2008-06-07
- US backs talks with some Afghan rebels: ambassador
- KABUL AFP — The US ambassador in Kabul said Thursday that Washington backed the Afghan government's efforts to reconcile with Taliban and other rebels without power-sharing or ceding control of certain areas. There is mounting debate in Afghan political circles and media about peace talks with militants, notably former...
- Research articles 2008-06-05
- Top Zimbabwe opposition figure arrested
- HARARE AFP — The leader of a rebel faction of Zimbabwe's MDC party was arrested Sunday over a written attack on Robert Mugabe, becoming the most senior opposition politician to be detained ahead of a run-off election. Arthur Mutambara, who recently pledged to work with the main Movement for...
- Research articles 2008-06-01
- Motorbikes banned in Lebanese capital
- BEIRUT AFP — The Lebanese interior ministry on Tuesday announced an indefinite ban on motorbikes, provocative convoys, slogans or flag waving in the capital Beirut. "Motorbikes will be banned in Beirut effective at 6:00 pm (1500 GMT) on May 27, 2008, until further notice," a statement said. The...
- Research articles 2008-05-27
- Lebanon factions mull Qatari proposal to end crisis
- DOHA AFP — Rival Lebanese leaders continued tense talks in Qatar on Monday over a proposal calling for an immediate presidential vote and the formation of a unity government in a bid to end a crisis which has brought Lebanon to the brink of civil war. The initiative was...
- Research articles 2008-05-19
- Arab mediators unveil deal to defuse Lebanon crisis
- BEIRUT AFP — Squabbling Lebanese factions agreed on an Arab League-mediated deal on Thursday to begin talks on defusing a long-running feud that drove the deeply divided country to the brink of a new civil war. Under the agreement announced after two days of intensive talks, the factions agreed...
- Research articles 2008-05-15
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