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Egypt's border with Gaza stays closed as protest continues
CAIRO — Egypt's border with the Gaza Strip remained closed Sunday as the families and colleagues of seven Egyptian soldiers who were kidnapped in the northern Sinai Peninsula last week continued a sit-in. A video was briefly posted on YouTube...
Tags: Kidnapping, Armed Conflicts, Cairo (Egypt), Unrest, Conflicts and War, Egypt
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Supporters of abducted soldiers keep Sinai-Gaza border shut
CAIRO — The families and colleagues of seven Egyptian soldiers who were kidnapped last week in North Sinai kept Egypt’s borders with the Gaza Strip closed Sunday for the third day in a row. Nearly 170 demonstrators have gathered inside the...
Tags: Kidnapping, Cairo (Egypt), Hosni Mubarak, Israel, Fatah
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Fears grow of clash between Israel and Syria
JERUSALEM — Fears about a possible escalation of violence between Israel and Syria grew Sunday amid renewed Israeli threats to destroy Syrian weapons caches and Syria's warnings of retaliation. After decades of relative calm along the two nations&...
Tags: Iran, Syrian Civil War (2011 - present ), Weaponry, Tel Aviv (Israel), Benjamin Netanyahu
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Enraged by kidnapping, Egyptian police block Gaza border
ReutersCAIRO (Reuters) - Egyptian police angered by the kidnapping of seven colleagues by Islamist gunmen kept a crossing into the Gaza Strip closed again on Saturday, stranding hundreds of Palestinian travellers, witnesses said. The protest began on Friday...Tags: Kidnapping, Al Jazeera (tv network), Hosni Mubarak, Gaza Strip, Mohamed Morsi
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Ocean City cigarette smuggling ring had ties to terror groups, police say
The Palestinian immigrant and his brother lived next door to each other in homes in West Ocean City, over the years opening a number of businesses throughout the area — three pizza shops, a Mexican restaurant, a liquor store, gas stations, and...
Tags: Tobacco Products, Brooklyn (New York City), Terrorism, Heroin, Sales
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Turkish prime minister, Obama discuss Syria's civil war in White House meeting
Associated PressWASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama said Thursday that the U.S. and Turkey will keep ramping up pressure to oust Syrian President Bashar Assad from power, but there's "no magic formula" to stop his violence. At a news conference with Turkish...Tags: Turkey, Terrorism, Syrian Civil War (2011 - present ), Politics, Barack Obama
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Obama says U.S. won't act alone on chemical weapons in Syria
This post has been updated. See the note below for details.WASHINGTON--President Obama on Thursday ruled out any unilateral U.S action in response to the alleged Syrian use of chemical weapons, further reducing the chance of any forceful response to the crossing of what Obama had described as a “red line.&...Tags: Syrian Civil War (2011 - present ), Weaponry, Politics, Barack Obama, Washington, DC
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New York says breaks cigarette-smuggling ring linked to militants
Reuters(Reuters) - Fifteen men of Palestinian origin have been arrested on charges of running a multi-million-dollar cigarette smuggling ring in New York, and New York authorities who announced the arrests on Thursday said several of the suspects have ties to...Tags: Prisons, Brooklyn (New York City), Trials, Prosecution, Police Arrests
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Suspected militants kidnap 7 Egyptian security personnel in Sinai
Associated PressCAIRO (AP) — Suspected militants in Egypt's Sinai abducted seven security personnel as they headed to Cairo for holidays early Thursday, security officials said. It was the first such kidnapping of security forces in the lawless peninsula. The...Tags: Politics, Elections, Prisoners and Detainees, Crime, Law and Justice, Kidnapping
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New York breaks militant-linked cigarette smuggling ring
Fifteen men of Palestinian origin have been arrested on charges of running a multimillion-dollar cigarette smuggling ring, and New York authorities who announced the arrests on Thursday said several of the suspects have ties to Hamas and other Islamist...Tags: Prisons, Brooklyn (New York City), Prosecution, Punishment, Trials
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Global Voices: Palestinian quest for statehood a moving target
In the 65 years since the creation of Israel and the scattering of millions of Palestinians from their historic homeland, hope of resolving the core crisis of the Middle East has risen to joyous pinnacles like Camp David and crashed into despair with...
Tags: Entertainment, Movies, Palestine, United Nations, Entertainment Events
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Newseum wrong to honor propagandists
A museum of journalism in Washington, D.C., the Newseum plans to honor and include in the institution's Journalists' Memorial Mahmoud Al-Kumi and Hussam Salama. Both worked for Hamas' Al-Aqsa TV. Also, Basel Tawfiq Youssef of Syrian State TV and Maya...Tags: Timonium, Iran, Human Interest, Politics, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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