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In Easter message, Pope calls for Israeli-Palestinian peace

Posted: 12 Apr 2009 10:25 AM PDT

Pope Benedict called in his Easter message on Sunday for a renewed push for Israeli-Palestinian peace just weeks before he travels to the ...

Netanyahu tells Abbas: I will cooperate for peace

Posted: 12 Apr 2009 10:22 AM PDT

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Sunday that he planned to cooperate with him in order to advance mutual peace efforts. ...

Before talks with Netanyahu, Obama to meet Jordan king

Posted: 12 Apr 2009 09:56 AM PDT

King Abdullah of Jordan is to visit the White House at the end of the month to urge U.S. President Barack Obama to move ahead with the Arab peace initiative. Abdullah would be the first Middle East leader to meet with Obama in Washington, ahead of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. ...

ANALYSIS / Israel is profiting from Egypt-Hezbollah quarrel

Posted: 12 Apr 2009 09:50 AM PDT

In what was apparently one of Hezbollah Secretary-General Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah's most important speeches since taking office in 1992, on Friday he admitted for the first time in the organization's history that it was operating on Egyptian soil. Nasrallah mentioned the swearing-in of Benjamin Netanyahu's cabinet, but it was clear that, in the context of Friday's speech, the real enemy was the Egyptian regime. ...

Iranian bloggers wary after death of colleague jailed for criticizing regime

Posted: 12 Apr 2009 05:30 AM PDT

The first line of his first blog from Tehran in September 2006 asks: What is freedom? ...