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Netanyahu: Four-country draft deal with Iran 'positive' - Summary
Jerusalem - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu expressed support Friday for US President Barack Obama's efforts to negotiate a compromise with Iran over its nuclear programme. Reacting for the first time to the joint deal drafted by the Vienna...

[Posted on : ] Category : [ Middle East (World) ]

Mitchell preparing Clinton Mideast talks - Summary
Jerusalem - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Friday welcomed US efforts to relaunch Mideast peace talks as soon as possible, ahead of a first visit to Israel by Washington's top diplomat Hillary Clinton since Netanyahu took office in March...

[Posted on : ] Category : [ US (World) ]

Netanyahu: Israel sees four-country proposal to Iran as 'positive'
Jerusalem - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu expressed support Friday for US President Barack Obama's efforts to negotiate a compromise with Iran over its nuclear programme. Reacting for the first time to the joint deal drafted by the Vienna...

[Posted on : ] Category : [ Middle East (World) ]

EXTRA: Mitchell to Netanyahu: regional peace 'common objective'
Jerusalem - Washington's special envoy to the Middle East ended a more than two-hour meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Friday, preparing the ground for a one-day visit by Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton. George Mitchell...

[Posted on : ] Category : [ Middle East (World) ]

Israelis applaud, Palestinians slam Netanyahu UN address
Tel Aviv/Ramallah - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu returned to Israel Friday, to applause by the majority of Israelis over his address to the UN General Assembly, but to sharp criticism from the Palestinians. Most Israeli commentators hail...

[Posted on : ] Category : [ World ]

Netanyahu congratulates Merkel, commends her tough stance on Iran
Jerusalem - Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has congratulated German Chancellor Angela Merkel on her election victory, his office said Wednesday, and commended her tough stance on Iran. Netanyahu and Merkel have agreed to meet in December ...

[Posted on : ] Category : [ Middle East (World) ]

Obama envoy Mitchell meets with Israeli premier
Jerusalem - US President Barack Obama's special Mideast envoy met Friday morning with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as part of a US effort to bring Israelis and Palestinians close enough together to revive peace talks still this fall. Geo...

[Posted on : ] Category : [ US (World) ]

Netanyahu 'shocked' by brutal murder of Israeli family - Summary
Tel Aviv - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu expressed Sunday deep pain and shock over the horrifying murder of a family of six - two grandparents, two parents, and two young children - in Israel this weekend. The six victims were found e...

[Posted on : ] Category : [ Middle East (World) ]

Obama envoy meeting Netanyahu in bid to revive Mideast peace talks
Jerusalem - President Barack Obama's Middle East envoy held talks Friday with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as part of an intense and ongoing - but so far unsuccessful - US bid to revive broken-off peace negotiations with the Palestinians...

[Posted on : ] Category : [ US (World) ]

Netanyahu calls for immediate sanctions on Iran - Summary
Tel Aviv - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has urged the imposition of harsh sanctions on Iran, in wake of evidence of a clandestine Iranian nuclear facility, the Israel Ha'aretz daily reported Sunday. If not now, when? the daily quoted N...

[Posted on : ] Category : [ Middle East (World) ]

Netanyahu calls for immediate Iran sanctions
Tel Aviv - Israeli President Benjamin Netanyahu called for immediate, hard-hitting sanctions on Iran Sunday, following Tehran's revelation the day before that it had a second, previously unannounced, uranium enrichment plant. If not now, when? Isra...

[Posted on : ] Category : [ Middle East (World) ]

Claims Israel digging under holy site outright lie, Netanyahu says
Jerusalem - Claims that Israel was digging, or intending to dig, under the Noble Sanctuary/Temple Mount compound in Jerusalem were an outright lie disseminated by an extremist minority, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Monday. Last...

[Posted on : ] Category : [ Middle East (World) ]

Report: Clinton to visit Israel and West Bank
Tel Aviv - US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is to make her first visit to Israel and the West Bank since the government of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu took office in March, Israeli and Palestinian media reported Wednesday. C...

[Posted on : ] Category : [ US (World) ]

Netanyahu: 'Israel must prepare to fight delegitimization'
Jerusalem - Israel must take appropriate measures against its delegitimization in the UN Human Rights Council, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a special ministerial forum Friday night, the Israeli Haaretz daily reported on Saturda...

[Posted on : ] Category : [ Middle East (World) ]

At 60, matured Netanyahu has second go at peace making - Feature
Tel Aviv - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu turns 60 Wednesday, celebrating the landmark birthday back in the premier's seat, older and - he assures his critics - wiser. A decade after he had his first...

[Posted on : ] Category : [ Middle East (World) ]

Netanyahu to undergo tests on bladder and colon in hospital
Tel Aviv - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was due to undergo medical tests in hospital on Sunday, his office said in a statement. The 59-year-old would be placed under mild anaesthesia while doctors examine his colon and bladder at the Had...

[Posted on : ] Category : [ Middle East (World) ]

Hillary Clinton arrives in Israel to meet Prime Minister Netanyahu
Jerusalem - US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton arrived in Israel Saturday to meet with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in efforts to revive peace talks between Israelis and Palestinians. Clinton arrived in Jerusalem on Saturday night and ...

[Posted on : ] Category : [ Middle East (World) ]

Israel sets up team to collate findings from Gaza fighting probes
Jerusalem - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is to form a team of legal experts and Foreign Ministry officials to collate all material gathered by the military in its investigations of the Israel offensive in the Gaza Strip at the turn of th...

[Posted on : ] Category : [ Middle East (World) ]

US envoy leaves Israel with no peace talks announcement - Summary
Jerusalem - US envoy George Mitchell met Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Monday to try find a solution to an impasse over settlement construction, but ended the discussions apparently unable to announce a breakthrough which would lead to th...

[Posted on : ] Category : [ Middle East (World) ]

Netanyahu meets US envoy in bid to end settlement dispute
Jerusalem - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met Monday in Jerusalem with US special envoy George Mitchell, in a further bid to find a solution to an impasse which has prevented suspended peace talks with the Palestinians from restarting. Pa...

[Posted on : ] Category : [ Middle East (World) ]

Netanyahu denounces Iran's Ahmadinejad at UN
New York - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday slammed Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for calling the Holocaust a lie, showing to the UN General Assembly copies of Nazi documents for the extermination of Jews during World Wa...

[Posted on : ] Category : [ Middle East (World) ]

Israel gives go-ahead for rebuilding of damaged Gaza hospital
Tel Aviv - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has agreed to a French request to rebuild a Gaza hospital damaged during Israel's winter offensive in the salient, the Ha'aretz daily reported Wednesday. The premier told French President Nicolas S...

[Posted on : ] Category : [ Middle East (World) ]

Israel urges UN Rights Council not to adopt Gaza report
Jerusalem - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned Thursday that a UN report on Israel's Gaza offensive, if adopted, would lead a critical blow to the Middle East peace process. The report by South African judge Richard Goldstone accuses ...

[Posted on : ] Category : [ Middle East (World) ]

Fayyad: Palestinians don't want 'Mickey Mouse' state
Ramallah - Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad said Wednesday that the Palestinians want no Mickey Mouse state in a small part of the West Bank. The new Israeli government of Benjamin Netanyahu should explain exactly what kind of state it is t...

[Posted on : ] Category : [ Middle East (World) ]



 
 

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