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  • Kerry holds talks with Israeli and Palestinian officials Kerry holds talks with Israeli and Palestinian officials

    JERUSALEM - US Secretary of State John Kerry Thursday separately began meetings with Israeli and Palestinian officials but appeared doubtful about his success on getting the two warring sides back to peace negotiations. This is Kerry's fourth trip to the Middle East in as many months of his assuming the office of the top US diplomat. He was been trying to revive a peace process that has been ...

  • Syrian Rebels Continue To Clash With Hezbollah-Backed Forces

    Copyright © 2013 NPR. For personal, noncommercial use only. See Terms of Use. For other uses, prior permission required. MELISSA BLOCK, HOST: This is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED from NPR News. I'm Melissa Block. ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: And I'm Robert Siegel. Today was the fifth day in the battle for Qusayr, a small Syrian city, population normally about 30,000, that lies close to the ...

  • Kerry Initiative can create breakthrough in peace process

    In a meeting with British Secretary of State Hague, President Peres says that though the process to renewing Palestinian-Israeli talks is long and hard, it is important to note positive developments in the ...

  • Hague Israel losing support in UK because of settlements

    After Steinitz questions whether Britain is still a friend of Israel, British foreign secretary says settlement activity causing support for Israel to wane in UK, other European ...

  • Analysis Sinai is becoming a major threat to Egypt

    kidnapped last week in the Sinai Peninsula . They were released unhurt after marathon negotiations that lasted until dawn Wednesday between a representative of military intelligence, a Salafi sheikh and a representative of the Swarka tribe, one of the largest in the peninsula.No one will guarantee it will be the last kidnapping. The official version is that no deal was struck, and it may ...

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Match Point

Match Point

With his latest film Match Point, Woody Allen has not gotten away from his increasing tendency to repeat himself -- in fact, the majority of the plot and many of the emotions, though not the final message, are lifted directly from his 1989 masterpiece Crimes and Misdemeanors ... ...

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  • Olmert W. Bank policies behind bad intl press

    The government is at fault for its own negative image in the international press because of its policies in the West Bank, former prime minister Ehud Olmert said Thursday."I think it is inarguable that Israel's main problem isn't public diplomacy; it's first of all a policy problem," Olmert said. "We won't be able to convince the world we're right ...

  • Nochi Dankner set to lose control of IDB

    An agreement bondholders reached overnight on Thursday may oust Nochi Dankner from controlling IDB, the Israeli conglomerate that controls companies such as Cellcom and Shufersal.The bondholders from two tiers of the pyramid company, IDB Holdings and IDB Development, would merge the two companies and convert bonds to stocks, thus wresting control from Dankner. IDB Holdings bondholders would get ...

  • Google mulls buying Waze presaging bidding war

    Google Inc., maker of the Android operating system, is considering buying Israeli map-software provider Waze Inc., setting up a possible bidding war with Facebook Inc., people familiar with the matter said.Waze is fielding expressions of interest from multiple parties and is seeking more than $1 billion, said one of the people, who asked not to be identified because the talks are private. The ...

  • Israel near bottom of BBC poll ranking countries

    Israel placed near the bottom of a BBC poll released Thursday ranking the world's most positively viewed countries.Some 26,000 people from 25 countries around the world were asked if they viewed a list of 16 countries and the European Union as having a "mainly positive" or "mainly negative" influence in the ...

  • Muslim writer touts Israeli tolerance of minorities

    British author Dr. Qanta Ahmed spoke on Wednesday at the Menachem Begin Heritage Center in Jerusalem about the difficulties for minorities in Islamic societies and how Israel is the only country in the Middle East that tolerates them.The event was organized by Alan Schneider, director of the B'nai B'rith World Center in Jerusalem, and cosponsored by the Ecumenical Theological ...

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