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/ 21 December 2009
Former Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert on Monday pleaded not guilty in court, denying all the graft charges against him.
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/ 25 September 2009
Former Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert on Friday made his first court appearance on charges of graft, vowing he would prove his innocence.
Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas was to meet with President Barack Obama Thursday as the new US administration steps up pressure on Israel.
Sudan said on Friday it believed Israel was behind two attacks on suspected smuggler convoys which killed up to 40 people in the north of the country.
Eleventh-hour talks on a Israel-Hamas prisoner swap appeared to collapse on Tuesday as both sides accused each other of about-turns and bad faith.
Israeli leaders and military commanders deemed by Iran to be "war criminals" should be executed, a senior cleric said in a Friday prayer sermon.
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/ 23 February 2009
Ehud Olmert has suspended his pointman for the Gaza truce talks in Egypt after he launched a scathing tirade against the outgoing premier last week.
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/ 19 February 2009
The Israeli president was to hold talks with party officials on Thursday and decide within four days who will be tasked with forming a new government.
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/ 17 February 2009
Israel is involved in a covert war of sabotage to delay Tehran’s efforts to develop a nuclear weapon, the Daily Telegraph said on Tuesday.
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/ 17 February 2009
The fate of an Israeli soldier should not be linked to talks on a long-term truce with Hamas in Gaza, president Hosni Mubarak said on Tuesday.
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/ 26 January 2009
Front-runner Benjamin Netanyahu has moved quickly to deflect allegations his victory could mean conflict with new US President Barack Obama.
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/ 23 January 2009
Barack Obama on Thursday ordered the closing of Guantánamo prison and named veteran trouble-shooters for the Middle East and Afghanistan.
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/ 21 January 2009
The war in Gaza may have ended but the territory remains under Hamas rule and Israeli sanctions, which could hinder efforts to rebuild the enclave.
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/ 20 January 2009
Voicing shock and anger at the ”heartbreaking” devastation, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon visited the Gaza Strip on Tuesday to pledge aid.
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/ 17 January 2009
Israel battered Gaza with new strikes on Saturday, as it was poised to unilaterally halt a 22-day-old war on Hamas.
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/ 16 January 2009
Israel worked to secure guarantees on Friday that arms smuggling to Hamas militants would end under any deal to call off its three-week-old offensive.
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/ 15 January 2009
Israel unleashed its heaviest shelling of Gaza neighbourhoods on Thursday in what might be a final push against Hamas before a ceasefire.
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/ 12 January 2009
Israeli leaders trying to find a knockout blow for Hamas militants defying a 17-day-old assault on Gaza have thrown army reservists into battle.
Israel pounded Gaza with bombs and shells on Friday, vowing to pursue its war on Hamas despite a truce order from the UN Security Council.
Israel killed a senior Hamas leader in an air attack on his home on Thursday, striking its first deadly blow against the top ranks.
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/ 29 December 2008
Israeli air strikes flattened Hamas government buildings in the Gaza Strip and targeted leaders of Gaza’s Islamist groups on Monday.
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/ 29 December 2008
”I will play music and celebrate what the Israeli air force is doing.” Those chilling words were spoken on al-Jazeera on Saturday by Ofer Shmerling.
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/ 29 December 2008
Even as Israel’s F16s were aiming their first salvoes at Hamas positions in the Gaza Strip on Saturday, questions were being asked at home and abroad.
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/ 29 December 2008
Israeli warplanes pounded the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip for a third consecutive day on Monday and prepared for a possible invasion after killing 307.
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/ 28 December 2008
Israel launched air strikes on Gaza for a second successive day on Sunday, piling pressure on Hamas after 229 people were killed.
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/ 25 December 2008
An Israeli air strike killed a Hamas gunman in the Gaza Strip after Palestinian militants fired dozens of rockets and mortars into southern Israel.
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/ 27 November 2008
Israel’s acting Prime Minister, Ehud Olmert, on Thursday faced pressure to step down following a decision to indict him in one of several graft cases.
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/ 17 November 2008
Israel Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said on Monday that 250 Palestinian prisoners would be freed in a goodwill gesture.
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/ 10 November 2008
Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said on Monday Israel must give up most of the Palestinian territories it has occupied since 1967 if it wants peace.
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/ 26 October 2008
Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni was expected to announce her failure to form a new government on Sunday and call for snap general elections.
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/ 15 October 2008
Palestinian people are suffering under Israel’s oppressive movement policies in the West Bank, writes Karen Longstreth.
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/ 14 October 2008
Military cooperation between Moscow and Damascus appears to have taken on a new zeal, writes Hugh Macleod.