Israel to discuss military draft reform proposal
Josef Federman, Associated Press |
posted May 23rd - 1:37pm
An official Israeli committee on Thursday handed the government its proposal for ending a contentious system that grants Jewish ultra-Orthodox seminary students automatic exemptions from military service, setting the stage for what could become the first major conflict in the new Israeli coalition government.
Clashes in Lebanon feed fear of Syria spillover
Zeina Karam, Associated Press |
posted May 23rd - 1:16pm
Lebanese supporters and opponents of Syrian President Bashar Assad fired heavy machine guns and lobbed mortar shells at each other Thursday in some of the worst fighting in the port city of Tripoli in years.
Israel says Iran unaffected by world pressure
Associated Press |
posted May 23rd - 11:53am
Israel's prime minister says a new report by the U.N. atomic agency shows that international pressure is having no effect on halting Iran's suspect nuclear program.
AP PHOTOS: Egypt's languishing Islamic antiquities
Nasser Nasser, Associated Press |
posted May 23rd - 11:47am
Cairo, the Arab world's most populated city, is often referred to as an open-air museum of Islamic antiquities and the city of 1,000 minarets.
Iran's Rafsanjani blasts clerics, says report
Nasser Karimi, Associated Press |
posted May 23rd - 11:30am
Banned from upcoming elections, Iran's former president has leveled harsh criticism at the Islamic Republic's clerical rulers, saying they are doing a poor job running the country, an Iranian pro-reform website reported late on Wednesday.
US, Israel raise hopes for Mideast peace restart
Bradley Klapper and Josef Federman, Associated Press |
posted May 23rd - 11:11am
The United States and Israel raised hopes Thursday for a restart of the Middle East peace process, despite little tangible progress so far from U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry's two-month-old effort to get Israelis and Palestinians back to the negotiating table.
Gunmen kill 7 Iraqi soldiers in central Iraq
Sinan Salaheddin, Associated Press |
posted May 23rd - 9:53am
Gunmen killed at least seven soldiers in central Iraq on Thursday, officials said, in the latest episode of violence to hit the country in a particularly bloody month.
AP Interview: Syria conflict uproots Palestinians
Albert Aji, Associated Press |
posted May 23rd - 8:51am
Syria's fighting has uprooted more than half of the country's 530,000 Palestinians _ descendants of refugees from a Mideast conflict half a century ago _ and their situation is becoming increasingly desperate, the head of a U.N. aid agency said Thursday.
Iran denies its drone entered Bahrain's airspace
Associated Press |
posted May 23rd - 7:04am
An Iranian semi-official news agency reports the country is denying that an unmanned drone violated the airspace of Bahrain, the strategic Gulf kingdom that hosts the U.S. Navy's 5th Fleet.
2011 jail breaks become political issue in Egypt
Hamza Hendawi, Associated Press |
posted May 23rd - 12:38am
It was one of the most perplexing events of Egypt's revolution: orchestrated attacks on prisons around the country that broke out more than 20,000 inmates while police were tied down with the massive popular protests that swept autocrat Hosni Mubarak from power.
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