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  • Press freedom group condemns Hezbollah for threatening media
    Earth Times
    Paris - The media watchdog organization Reporters Without Borders on Friday condemned the Lebanese radical Shiite group Hezbollah for attacking news media owned by a family opposed to it. &Reporters...

  • US, Israel and Middle East
    Turkish Press
    The dimension of the harm that the United States' adventure in Iraq has caused, not only in the Middle East but in a big part of the world as well, is becoming better understood because of its...

  • Opposition gunmen seize control of key points
    Israel News.Net
    The Lebanese Shia movement Hezbollah and its ally Amal Friday seized control of key western part of the Lebanese capital in the third day of armed clashes with pro-government opponents.

  • Israeli raid kills two in Gaza
    Gulf Daily News
    Gaza CITY: A Palestinian woman was killed by an Israeli tank shell during a military incursion in the southern Gaza Strip, a Palestinian medical official said. Wafa Al Dagma, 33, was killed at her...

  • Israel celebrates its 60th birthday
    WLOX
    Festivities for Israel's 60th independence day have been marred. There was a clash between Arab protesters and police. It happened when Israeli Arabs marked the flip side of the...

  • Hezbollah takes over west Beirut
    BBC
    Most areas of the Muslim western half of Beirut have now been taken over by Hezbollah, as battles between the group and government supporters continue. Gunmen loyal to Hezbollah and its Shia...

  • Israeli stocks chart a prosperous 60-year path
    Market Watch
    ... amp;It's certainly been attracting more foreign portfolio capital,& Cameron Brandt, global markets analyst at EPFR Global, said of the Israeli market. &We've seen flows into it perk up in recent...

  • Olmert defies calls to resign
    The Globe and Mail
    Jerusalem — Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert defied a barrage of calls to resign on Friday after he admitted taking cash from an American businessman at the centre of a police inquiry into...

  • Hizbullah Seizes W Beirut
    Arutz Sheva
    Royal Jordanian Airlines suspended flights to the embattled nation, joining Middle East Airlines, the Lebanese national carrier, in ending traffic in and out of Beirut indefinitely. Anti-Syrian...



  • Olmert resists calls to quit over bribery probe
    Reuters
    Legal sources say Olmert took hundreds of thousands of dollars from a New York financier referred to as &The Laundry Man& in coded records that investigators say were kept by Olmert's secretary.

  • Hizbollah in control of western parts of Beirut
    Euro News
    Hizbollah has tightened its grip on western districts of Beirut as relative calm returns to the streets.Lebanese army tanks and soldiers have managed to bring some parts of the city back under their...

  • Palestinians mark the "catastrophe" of Israel
    Euro News
    Demanding their right to return to their homeland, Palestinians have marked what they call al-Nakba, or &The Catastrophe.&At a rally in Bethlehem, a giant key was driven through the streets to...

  • Hezbollah overruns west Beirut as Lebanon on brink
    Yahoo! News
    ... amid fears the protracted political feud could plunge the nation back to the dark days of the 1975-1990 civil war. Earlier Friday, terrified residents cowered inside as the rattle of gunfire and...

  • Hizbollah in control of most of Beirut
    The Hindu
    After night-long gun battles, Lebanese militant group Hizbollah has taken over most of west Beirut and forced a shutdown of pro-government media outlets. Hizbollah fighters also besieged the...

  • International alarm at Hezbollah
    SBS
    The takeover of the Muslim half of Beirut by Hezbollah has triggered alarm in the Arab world and the West, and the embattled Lebanese government called it an armed coup by the Iranian and...

  • US urges Hezbollah to stop violence in Lebanon
    Earth Times
    Washington - The United States on Friday urged an end to violent clashes between the Shiite movement Hezbollah and pro- government opponents in Lebanon that have rocked Beirut for days. &In Lebanon...

  • Hezbollah gunmen seize control of Beirut neighborhoods
    WLOX
    Clashes have eased in Beirut today, but not until after Hezbollah (hez-BUH'-lah) gunmen seized control of Sunni Muslim parts of the capital. The Shiite militiamen have been...

  • Hezbollah Gunmen Seize Beirut Areas
    News Channel 5
    Shiite Hezbollah gunmen have seized control of several Beirut neighborhoods from Sunnis loyal to Lebanon's U.S.-backed government.At least 11 people have been killed and 20 more...

  • Contrast between democracy and observing minorities
    IRNA
    Minorities The main factor involved in violation of the minorities' rights in Israel should be sought in the type of democracy practiced in that regime. Democracy as the rule of the people over the...

  • Olmert fights for political life in bribery scandal
    Daily Star
    Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert was facing mounting calls yesterday to resign over a criminal probe into allegations he took bribes from a millionaire US financier.Olmert has vehemently denied any...

  • Telephone network keeps Hezbollah one step ahead
    Gulf News
    The coming days could decide which vision of Lebanon ultimately triumphs - a liberal, Western-friendly, free-market economy and tourist hub catering to wealthy Arabs, or a key component of a regional...

  • Hezbollah Offensive in the Battle for Beirut
    ABC News
    Gunshots, explosions and blazing roadblocks peppered Beirut this week as Hezbollah took control of several of the Lebanese capital's neighborhoods.

  • Hezbollah Gunmen Take Control of Beirut
    NPR
    2008 · Tensions are high in Lebanon's capital after three days of gun-battles have seen Hezbollah fighters taking control of much of the city. At least 11 are dead, and on Friday...

  • Hezbollah tightens its grip on gov
    Turkish Daily News
    Reuters Iranian-backed Hezbollah tightened its grip on Beirut airport yesterday, piling pressure on Lebanon's U.S.-backed government on the second day of a protest campaign that has...

  • Palestinians say one dead in clash with Israelis near Ramallah
    Haaretz
    Palestinian witnesses say a Palestinian man has been shot dead in a clash with Israeli settlers.The incident occurred when two Palestinians opened fire at Israelis hiking in the Ein Yivrod region...

  • Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert
    MSN Slate
    Prime Minister Ehud Olmert had accepted hundreds of thousands of dollars in illegal campaign contributions from an American benefactor when he was mayor...

  • Israeli PM denies taking illicit donations
    The Globe and Mail
    Jerusalem — Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Mr. Olmert denied fresh accusations that he illegally accepted hundreds of thousands of dollars from a U.S. citizen, but said Thursday night that he will...

  • Racism on the rise as Israel turns 60
    Gulf Daily News
    Shiite Hezbollah gunmen have seized control of several Beirut neighborhoods from Sunnis loyal to Lebanon's U.S.-backed government.At least 11 people have been killed and 20 more...

  • Obama accuses McCain of
    Examiner
    Cnn , Obama accused McCain of trying to smear him by repeating the comments.&This is offensive, and I think it's disappointing, because John McCain always says, 'Well, I'm not going to run that kind...

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