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  • Israeli PM says sanctions on Iran should increase despite newly elected moderate president

    Israel has warned the international community not to ease sanctions on Iran following the election of a moderate president. Israel said Iran's nuclear efforts remain firmly in the hands of the country's extremist ruling clerics. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu issued the warning a day after Hasan Rowhani won the presidential election in Iran. According to news24, although Rowhani is ...

  • Shimon Peres says peace will be achieved in his lifetime

    Shimon Peres can attest better than most to the maxim that politics is the art of the possible. A lifetime in the often violent cauldron of the Middle East will have brought home to a man who won a Nobel Peace Prize - for a peace that has never arrived - that political failure is often a more likely outcome than ...

  • Shimon Peres Im optimistic about a Middle East peace deal

    The Israeli president, the world’s oldest serving head of state whose 65-year political career spans the entire history of Israel and includes three spells as prime minister, says he is optimistic about a peace deal between Israel and the ...

  • Shimon Peres Israel and Iran could negotiate

    Israel and Iran could sit down and talk to each other despite the bitter enmity that has pushed the two nations to the brink of war, Shimon Peres, the Israeli president, has ...

  • Peres throws his weight behind US plan to arm Syria rebels

    President Shimon Peres has thrown his weight behind US plans to arm Syrian rebels, shrugging off fears the weapons could be turned on Israel and exacerbate the conflict.In a wide-ranging interview ...

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Melinda and Melinda

Melinda and Melinda

In the liner notes on the back of the Criterion Collection laser disc of Annie Hall (1977), which, along with Manhattan (1979) marked the pinnacle of Woody Allens unique filmmaking achievement, cowriter Marshall Brickman recalls a conversation he had with Allen. Brickman was ... ...

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  • Obama Iranian election a sign the people seek change

    WASHINGTON - US President Barack Obama said on Monday that Iran's election of a moderate as its next president is a sign that Iranians want to move in a different direction, but he was uncertain whether it would lead to ...

  • Assad Warns Europe Arm the Rebels and Pay the Price

    "If the Europeans deliver weapons (to rebels), Europe’s backyard will become a terrorists’ place and Europe will pay the price for it," Assad was quoted as having said in an interview with the German ...

  • Fiji Troops Replace Austria in Golan Heights UN Force

    A force of 170 soldiers from Fiji will replace Austrian troops in the United Nations peacekeeping force monitoring the Golan Heights buffer zone. The United Nations Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF) has been stationed on the Israel-Syrian border since the ceasefire declared following the 1973 war. U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon urged the Security Council last week to expand the force to ...

  • Netanyahu Unveils Stamp in Memory of Former PM Shamir

    The stamp was unveiled in a special ceremony attended by Shamir’s son Agriculture Minister Yair Shamir, Communications Minister Gilad Erdan, Israel Post Chairman of the Board Sasi Shilo, Israel Post CEO Haim Elmozino and the designer of the stamp, Ilan Eliezer ...

  • Israel’s President Peres Calls for Two-State Solution

    "We have to enable the Palestinians to have an independent state of their own, and live like neighbors, not like enemies," said 89-year-old Peres, whose political career has spanned 66 years. Peres added that barriers to the peace process were more "psychological than real". "I think the greatest problem we have is skepticism and a belief that peace is impossibleTo ...

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