Israel commandos seize ship loaded with guns
JERUSALEM (AP) Israeli commandos seized a ship today that defense officials said was carrying hundreds of tons of weapons bound for Lebanon s Iranian-backed Hezbollah guerrillas the largest arms shipment Israel has ever commandeered. The Israeli ...
 5.6K - Nov. 4, 2009; scored 129.0 Palestinians say hopes in Obama 'evaporated'
JERUSALEM The Palestinian president s political party says all hopes in the Obama administration have evaporated, accusing the White House of caving in to pressure from the pro-Israel lobby and backing off a demand to freeze Jewish settlement. Ma...
4.9K - Oct. 13, 2009; scored 148.0 Palestinian official: We erred over Gaza report
RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) The Palestinian leadership made a mistake by suspending action on a U.N. report on Gaza war crimes, a member of President Mahmoud Abbas inner circle said today the first such acknowledgment after days of protests in the ...
4.1K - Oct. 7, 2009; scored 163.0 Obama has hopes for Egypt's Mubarak
WASHINGTON (AP) President Barack Obama is trying to restore Egypt s President Hosni Mubarak as the U.S. ace-in-the-hole in its decades-long effort to forge an elusive peace among Israel and the Arabs. After a serious falling out over Bush administr...
5.0K - Aug. 18, 2009; scored 78.0 Gaza war crimes probe hits wall
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) - A veteran U.N. war crimes investigator acknowledged his probe of possible war crimes by Israel and Hamas - which included interviewing dozens of victims and poring through the files of human rights groups - is unlikely to...
5.7K - Jun. 9, 2009; scored 148.0 Obama, Netanyahu to tackle Mideast issues
WASHINGTON (AP) - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is signaling he may resist President Barack Obama's pressure to support Palestinian statehood as the two leaders try to tackle an array of Mideast issues Monday on which they disagree. A sen...
4.2K - May. 18, 2009; scored 78.0 Pope endorses homeland for Palestinians
BETHLEHEM, West Bank (AP) Standing in the cradle of Christianity, Pope Benedict XVI told Palestinians today he understands their suffering and offered the Vatican s strongest and most symbolic public backing yet for an independent Palestinian homel...
6.5K - May. 13, 2009; scored 202.0 Clinton pledges $300 million in aid for Gaza
SHARM EL-SHEIK, Egypt (AP) Hillary Rodham Clinton, on her first foray into Middle East politics as U.S. secretary of state, arrived at an international donors conference today with a U.S. pledge of about $300 million in humanitarian aid fo...
1.2K - Mar. 2, 2009; scored 117.0 Aid to rebuild Gaza to top $900 million
JERUSALEM (AP) United States aid for the Gaza Strip s reconstruction will likely top $900 million, an official said, as U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton prepared to make her first Mideast trip as America s top diplomat. Israeli and ...
0.6K - Feb. 24, 2009; scored 359.0 Venus tops Serena to reach final
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates Venus Williams beat younger sister Serena 6-1, 2-6, 7-6 (3) Friday to reach the final of the Dubai Tennis Championship. The sixth-seeded Venus dominated the first set at the Aviation Club as Serena struggled with her ser...
2.1K - Feb. 21, 2009; scored 78.0 Sports Briefs: Crew member is first supended under new NASCAR drug policy
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. A crew member for Jeremy Mayfield s team has been suspended indefinitely for violating NASCAR s new substance abuse policy. Paul Chodora failed a mandatory test Feb. 11 at Daytona International Speedway, NASCAR said Thursday. He...
6.6K - Feb. 20, 2009; scored 78.0 Israel nears decision on cease-fire
JERUSALEM (AP) Top Israeli Cabinet ministers opened debate today on a proposal for a sweeping cease-fire deal with Hamas militants in the Gaza Strip, seeking to deliver quiet to the country s south and bring home a captive soldier before the govern...
0.8K - Feb. 18, 2009; scored 390.0 Gaza militants launch rockets at Israel
JERUSALEM (AP) An agreement between Hamas and Israel to bring quiet to the war-torn Gaza Strip could be announced within days, Hamas officials said, as rocket fired from the territory today further strained an informal cease-fire. Two rockets fired...
1.1K - Feb. 13, 2009; scored 117.0 Palestinians say Israeli airstrike wounds 2 in Gaza border town
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) Palestinian medical officials say two people have been wounded by an Israeli airstrike in the southern Gaza Strip. Witnesses say the men were wounded while traveling in a car in Rafah, a town near the Egyptian border. The...
0.8K - Feb. 2, 2009; scored 461.0 In one destroyed Gaza neighborhood, Hamas' relief checks come with dose of politics
JEBALIYA, Gaza Strip (AP) The aid money from Hamas came with a heavy dose of politics. A Hamas Cabinet minister carried a carton stuffed with checks worth nearly $2 million into a Gaza tent camp pitched on the ruins of the Salam neighborho...
1.4K - Jan. 30, 2009; scored 438.0 Aiding Gaza
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip Doctors from the United States who rushed to the Gaza Strip to help the war wounded quickly learned that their challenge went beyond treating shrapnel injuries. The eight American specialists found themselves operating on pati...
6.0K - Jan. 30, 2009; scored 636.0 Hamas may be willing to negotiate truce
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) Senior officials in the Islamic group Hamas are indicating a willingness to negotiate a deal for a long-term truce with Israel as long as the borders of Gaza are opened to the rest of the world. We want to be part of the ...
1.6K - Jan. 29, 2009; scored 529.0 Israeli troops clash with Palestinian militants on Gaza border
JERUSALEM (AP) Palestinian militants detonated a bomb next to an Israeli army patrol near the Gaza Strip today and Israeli soldiers quickly crossed the border in search of the attackers in the first serious clash since a cease-fire went into effect...
1.2K - Jan. 27, 2009; scored 438.0 Truce may lead to swap of prisoners
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) Israel indicated today that it wants to swap Palestinians held in Israeli jails for an Israeli soldier captured in 2006 as part of a longer-term truce after three weeks of fighting in Gaza. Israeli media said some Cabinet...
5.6K - Jan. 22, 2009; scored 620.0 Obama administration outlines new foreign policy agenda
WASHINGTON President Barack Obama put his stamp on U.S. national security and foreign policy today, moving quickly to repudiate programs of his predecessor. The man he tapped to oversee the intelligence community promised Congress he would not allo...
4.7K - Jan. 22, 2009; scored 78.0 | 
