 | Palestine, Syria condemn Israel referendum law | |
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Palestinian and Syrian officials on Tuesday condemned a new Israeli law mandating a national referendum ahead of any withdrawal from occupied East Jerusalem or the Golan Heights. |
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| | Hariri dismisses CBC report on father’s murder | |
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Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri on Tuesday dismissed a media report that implicated Hizbollah and possibly Lebanon\'s head of police intelligence in the 2005 murder of his father, ex-premier Rafiq Hariri. |
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| | Hizbollah accuses Israel of infiltrating its mobile network | |
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Israel bugged the mobile phones of members of Lebanon\'s Hizbollah, allowing it to send false text messages and to track the phones\' movements, a senior Hizbollah MP and a government expert said on Tuesday. |
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| | South Yemen bomb kills one | |
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A roadside bomb in south Yemen killed one soldier and wounded two others riding in a military vehicle on Tuesday, an official said, a day after the state kicked off a regional football cup in the volatile south. |
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| | Jewish settlers take over East Jerusalem home | |
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Settlers and Israeli forces evicted a Palestinian family from their home in East Jerusalem on Tuesday, after the house was sold to a group involved in settlement activity, the family and activists said. |
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| | 'Alarming escalation in Yemen fighting near Saudi border' | |
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The UN refugee agency on Tuesday warned of an "alarming escalation" in fighting in northern Yemen close to the border with Saudi Arabia despite a nine-month ceasefire. |
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| | Egypt Brotherhood, ruling party clash before vote | |
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Members of Egypt\'s ruling party and opposition Muslim Brotherhood accused each other of stoking violence before Sunday\'s parliamentary election, when the ruling party is expected to sweep to victory as it has for decades. |
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| | AT A GLANCE | |
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Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak on Tuesday kicked off a Gulf tour with talks in the United Arab Emirates on the stalled Middle East peace process, the official WAM news agency reported. |
