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After Lieberman remarks, Assad repeats Syria demand for Golan Posted: 27 Apr 2009 11:51 AM PDT Syrian President Bashar Assad repeated Monday his country's demand for the return of the Golan Heights after Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman said Sunday that Syria should drop the demand as a precondition to peace talks. ...

Yemen's Jewish community fights for survival as Muslim hostility grows Posted: 27 Apr 2009 11:43 AM PDT KHARIF, Yemen - In this village in northern Yemen, where a kosher butcher slaughters chickens and the school bus carries young boys in side curls along a dirt track to their Hebrew studies, one of the oldest Jewish communities in the Arab world is fighting for its survival. ...

Abbas: I won't recognize Israel as a Jewish state Posted: 27 Apr 2009 10:39 AM PDT Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas dismissed on Monday calls by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to recognize Israel as a Jewish state, an issue emerging as a main obstacle to peacemaking. ...

EU hails Obama's new openness toward Iran Posted: 27 Apr 2009 10:13 AM PDT President Barack Obama's new openness toward Iran is a chance for Tehran to reconnect with the international community and find a negotiated settlement to the nuclear issue, the European Union said Monday. ...

Report: Obama wants aid to go to PA even if Hamas joins government Posted: 27 Apr 2009 07:36 AM PDT The Obama administration has asked Congress to amend U.S. law to enable the Palestinians to receive federal aid even if it forms a unity coalition with Hamas, the L.A. Times reported on Monday. ...

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