IAEA tours Egyptian nuclear facility
A Western diplomat said on Friday that UN nuclear inspectors recently toured an Egyptian laboratory as part of their review of the country’s fuel programs. The tour comes after irregularities…
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A Western diplomat said on Friday that UN nuclear inspectors recently toured an Egyptian laboratory as part of their review of the country’s fuel programs. The tour comes after irregularities…
            A prominent British Academic, said that “it is wrong to present            reports about the Palestinian-Israeli conflict without highlighting            the main facts to the viewers who ignore some fundamental…
Under unprecedented security measures in the history of the United States, US President George Bush was inaugurated to second term in office as the President of the mightiest country in…
U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney on Thursday expressed concern that Israel may attack nuclear facilities in Iran. Cheney added that Iran was at the top of the American administration’s list…
UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan has decided not to reappoint the head of the UN relief agency for Palestinians Peter Hansen, UN officials said on Wednesday. {mosimage}Anan’s decision came due to…
‘For Europe this issue here, the peace process, is one of the most important issues in our presidency’, Luxembourg Foreign Minister Jean Asselborn told reporters prior to meeting Israeli Prime…
IMEMC & Agencies, January 19, 2005, 09:00 Condoleezza Rice, who will replace Colin Powell as U.S. Secretary of State, said Tuesday she plans to personally manage Israeli Palestinian contacts. Rice…
June 30, 2004 AP reported that New Zealand slammed Israel’s destruction of Palestinian homes in the occupied territories particularly in the Gaza Strip, and donated made a big contribution to…
Egyptian Intelligence Minister Omar Suleiman asked Israel on Sunday to give Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas time to enforce law and order in the Palestinian territories. Suliman passed Egypt’s request in…
Israel asked Russia to halt its arms sales deal with Syria in which it will buy advanced shoulder launched surface-to-air SA-18 missile known as Igla. The Israeli defense establishment expressed…
The U.S. State Department urged new Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to strengthen security forces on the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. In a phone conversation on Tuesday, U.S. Secretary…
The U.S. State Department urged new Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to strengthen security forces on the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.  In a phone conversation on Tuesday, U.S.…
On Monday, European Union (EU) Foreign Policy Officer Javier Solana criticized Israel for obstructing the Palestinian Presidential elections held on Sunday. Solana told reporters during his visit to the information…
The US Administration is considering a proposal to boost U.S. aid to the Palestinian Authority this year by up to $200 million, an official US source said. The source also…
The US Administration is considering a proposal to boost U.S. aid to the Palestinian Authority this year by up to $200 million, an official US source said.  The source also…
Turkey believes that Syria is serious about making peace with Israel , Turkish Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul told Israeli newspaper Haaretz in an interview on Monday. Gul is currently on…
In a statement on Saturday, the Egyptian foreign ministry called on Israel to fulfill its commitment to help Palestinians run smooth and democratic elections, saying that Israeli escalations, especially in…
Egyptian foreign ministry called Israel on Saturday to fulfill its commitments to help Palestinians run smooth and democratic elections, saying that Israeli escalations, especially in the Gaza strip, would hinder…
Visiting British Prime Minister Tony Blair said Wednesday afternoon that his call for n international Middle East peace conference in London aimed at providing a passage for parties to move…
Egyptian Intelligence Minister Omar Suleiman met Tuesday with Amos Gilad, head of the political-security branch in the Defense Ministry. The two are working on the details of the deployment of…
British Prime Minister will meet with Palestinian and Israeli leaders on Wednesday morning after arriving in Israel Tuesday night coming from Iraq . Israeli officials said that Blair will separately…
Syrian President Bashar Assad is ready to resume peace talks with Israel ‘without conditions,’ the top United Nations envoy to the ME Terje Roed-Larsen said on Wednesday. ‘President Assad has…
he was encouraged with Israel’s approach to Palestinian January 9, presidential elections. ‘I have been much encouraged by the very positive messages that you [Shalom] have given me today about…
As Palestinian President is going through medical checks to decide on the reason of why he suffers an abnormal low count of blood platelets, U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell…
Al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden said in a video tape aired late Friday that the scene of destroyed towers in Beirut , during the 1982 Israeli invasion, motivated him to…
The U.S. State Department on Tuesday praised the Knesset’s approval of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s unilateral disengagement plan and the removal of settlements from Gaza and four of the West…
An Egyptian government source announced Monday that eight Egyptian and a Palestinian were involved in the three simultaneous car bombings of a hotel and a tourist resort in Sinai on…
The Israeli newspaper, Haaretz, said in its online edition on Monday, that a Jordanian group is planning to build the fifth minaret in the Aqsa Mosque area. According to Raef…
‘If Sharon believes that with a pullout from Gaza everything is already done and that peace would come automatically, we won’t support that, that wouldn’t be a dream, but a…
In an interview with Al-Jazeera TV, U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell called Wednesday on the Palestinians to end the four-year-old Intifada, as it is hindering the creation of an…
In an interview with Al-Jazeera TV, U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell called Wednesday on the Palestinians to end the four-year-old Intifada, as it is hindering the creation of an…
AFP reported that the Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmad Abu Al-Gheit is scheduled to visit Israel next week, for talks with Israeli officials on the Israeli unilateral disengagement plan. AFP also…
Jordan said on Monday that the West Bank wall will interfere with establishing a stable Palestinian state and presents a threat to neighboring countries. In a speech to the United…
Israeli security sources confirmed Sunday that Israel is involved in the car bombing that killed one of the senior Hamas officials in the Syrian capital of Damascus. Minutes after the…
UN Human Rights investigator dismissed Israeli claims that the West bank separation wall was built to keep out suicide bombers, saying that the findings of his investigation affirms that it…
Disagreeing with US officials, France’s foreign minister reiterated his country’s stance, that no progress can be made in the Middle East peace process by marginalizing or not negotiating with Palestinian…
In a speech to the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday, U.S. president George Bush hinted that the Palestinian leadership is not qualified as a peace partner. He called for…
Syria, began moving troops from the hills surrounding Beirut on Tuesday. According to Lebanese sources, some 3,000 Syrian soldiers are being redeployed, and some of them will return to Syria.…
Preparations will begin next week in the Belgian capitol to announce plans to establish a joint Palestinian-Israeli maternity hospital in the town of Kisofim near the Gaza Strip. The hospital…
Iran rejected on Sunday UN International Atomic Energy Agency resolution that it should freeze uranium enrichment, warning that if the case is sent to the UN Security Council, Iran will…
According to Al-Hayat newspaper, Egypt has postponed the Palestinian factions’ Cairo meeting, scheduled for Sunday. AlHayat said in its Saturday edition that the decision to postpone the meeting was ‘due…
According to Israel Radio, the U.S. State Department announced its intentions to stem the number of resolutions against Israel passed in the United Nations General Assembly. The United Nation’s General…
A non-governmental conference committee meeting at the United Nations headquarters in New York on Wednesday adopted a resolution calling world nations to increase pressure on Israel to put an end…
The International Solidarity Movement (ISM) sent out a media alert demanding an investigation on the killing of five Palestinians in the West Bank city of Nablus by an Israeli special…
The Egyptian and Syrian Presidents called Wednesday Israel to open talks with the Palestinian Authority on the creation of a Palestinian. In a Damascus summit, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and…
According to Israeli media sources, major European Union countries expressed opposition to renewing the deliberations over the separation wall in the 59th United Nations General Assembly, which opened officially Tuesday.…
Arab foreign ministers faced the divisive issue of Syria’s role in Lebanon in their meeting on Tuesday, a day after Gulf states and Jordan endorsed a UN resolution to withdraw…
The U.S. is pressing for an IAEA decision that allows the UN Security Council to impose sanctions against Iran. Israel warns that it will not stand hand tied if diplomatic…
apparently, without a strong international backing of Egyptian efforts, the Egyptian attempts to link disengagement to the road map are doomed to fail. Palestinian official source said Friday that Palestinian…
American Middle East envoy William Burns arrived in Damascus on Friday to deliver a strong message to President Bashar Assad to pull his troops out of Lebanon . ‘Burns will…
The Dutch and German foreign ministers Bernard Bot and Joschka Ficher asked Israel to end its attempts to isolate Palestinian President Yasser Arafat. Israeli foreign minister Silvan Shalom rejected their…
The Egyptian delegates who met with the Palestinian President Yasser Arafat headed by Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmad Abu Al-Gheit and Omar Suleiman chief of Intelligence told Arafat that Egypt withdrew…
Lebanese Parliament amended Friday the constitution, allowing President Emile Lahud to extend term in office by three years. The exceptional, and for one time only amendment came one day after…
Egypt on Friday dismissed Israeli allegations on the Syrian involvement in the double bombings in Be’er Sheva as baseless, calling Israeli threats to retaliate against Syria “illogicalâ€Â. ‘There is no…
The European Union unhappy with the vacuum in Middle East peace efforts created by the U.S. presidential election, plans for a new drive to stop the cycle of violence and…
Against Israel’s assertion to have not spied on U.S., American officials told he LA Times that Israel secretly maintains a large and active intelligence-gathering operation in the United States, and…
The UN Security Council adopted Thursday a resolution calling foreign forces to withdraw from Lebanon, for disbanding and disarming all Lebanese and non-Lebanese militias, and warning against outside interference in…
The UNRWA said that Commissioner-general of the UNRWA Peter Hansen was bared on Wednesday from leaving the Gaza Strip to the West Bank through Eretz Crossing, in the north of…
A Palestinian political source said, the visit of Egyptian Ahmad Abul Gheit and Brigadier Omar Suleiman the head of the Egyptian Intelligence, delayed their visit that was planned for Wednesday…
FBI investigators briefed key White House and congressional officials in recent days on their investigation of the Pentagon mole on suspicions of turning over classified policy documents to Israel. Starting…
an official U.S. source said Sunday that the FBI will likely refrain from charging suspected Pentagon mole Larry Franklin with espionage, but with mishandling a classified document. The official source…
Washington post reported Sunday that the FBI broaden the probe in the alleged Israeli spy in the pentagon to include interviews at the State and Defense departments and with Middle…
The Washington Post revealed the name of the spy working for Israel in the pentagon. The name of the person under investigation was not officially released, but two sources identified…
A U.S. Administration source said Thursday that State Department official Constance Mayer could head an American team of experts formed to supervise the delineation of the construction boundary line in…
There is “an apartheid regime†in the Palestinian territories “worse than the one that existed in South Africaâ€Â, law professor John Dugard wrote in a report to the U.N. General…
The U.N. Non-Aligned Movement is urging all of its members to act ‘individually or collectively’ to impose sanctions against Israeli settlements and companies that participate in settlement activity, including those…
The New York Times on Saturday quoted American and Israeli officials as saying that the Bush administration is considering supporting building in developed areas in existing West Bank settlements. A…
U.S. Justice Department announced Friday that two men were arrested on suspicions of funneling money to the Islamic Resistance Movement Hamas. Mohammed Hamid Khalil Salah was arrested in Chicago and…
According to a report published Friday in the Egyptian daily, Al-Ahram, Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit and the head of Egypt’s intelligence service, Omar Suliman will visit the country…
U.S. National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice on Thursday called on Israel to halt all construction in all settlements, Called on Palestinians to adopt a democratic and transparent leadership. Rise explained…
The Union of British Journalists condemned on Tuesday the arrest of the British Journalist Eva Jasiewicd at Ben Gurion airport. The union expressed in a leaflet issued Tuesday its rejection…
The United States is still looking into the details of tenders issued Tuesday by Israel to build some 1,000 housing units in West Bank settlements. Even when Deputy U.S. State…
U.S. Ambassador Dan Kirtzer and Israeli defense Ministry Advisor Baroch Shbeigle agreed Monday that the evacuation of settlers’ unauthorized outposts will be directly supervised by American officials. The Israeli High…
Senior Israeli security sources expressed doubts about the level of Egypt’s involvement in enforcing order in the Gaza Strip after the intended Israeli pullout. According to Israeli media sources, top…
In a monthly briefing to the UN Security Council, Undersecretary-General for Political Affairs Kieran Prendergast said Wednesday that until Israel and the PA take necessary first steps, the stalemate in…
According to Israeli army source, a delegation of senior Egyptian army and security officers visited Israel this week and discussed ways to prevent arms smuggling from Egypt to Gaza. Egyptian…
In a move reflecting ‘frustration and bitterness’, the U.S. administration is considering sending Israel a letter listing unfulfilled obligations and promises. A senior American source said that the administration is…
The European Union wants to send investigators to Israel to interview Palestinians in Israeli prisons about allegations that the Palestinian Authority’s used European donations to fund militants. The EU fraud…
American and British government officials criticized Monday Israel for approving plans to expand the West bank settlement of Ma’aleh Adumim against the terms stated in the road map peace plan.…
Jordanian diplomats expressed anger over reports that Israel is working to foil the arms’ deal with the United States. The diplomats said that Jordan will officially complain to Israel and…
United Nations report released Friday stated that some two million Palestinians were living on less than 2.1 euro a day, and a poverty rate of 63 percent, in mid-2003. The…
U.S Democratic presidential candidate Senator John Kerry on Friday assured Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon of his commitment to Israel’s security. Kerry made the comments as Sharon phoned to congratulate…
In an interview with Israeli Daily Newspaper Haaretz, Jordanian Foreign Minister Marwan Muashar warned that the current route of the separation wall constitutes a "grave national security threat" to Jordan.…
Following last week meetings with Israeli officials, representatives of the World bank visited Erez industrial zone at the northern borders of the Gaza Strip on Thursday. Israel started efforts last…
George Rishmawi-IMEMC & Agencies, July 28, 2004 The General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the USA issued a statement in which it authorized exploration of a selective divestment of…
U.S. Secretary of State Collin Powel said Tuesday that even as Palestinian President Yasser Arafat accepted to cede more authority to his Prime Minister Ahmed Qurei, he still enjoy the…
The United Nations reported that its General Assembly will convene on Friday an emergency special session to examine the advisory opinion issued last week by the International Court of Justice…
The E.U bloc Dutch presidency said Monday that the aid provided to Israel by the E. U depends on Israeli cooperation but at the same time the Duck Minister failed…
The Arab States called on Monday the United Nations General Assembly to convene an emergency session to demand that Israel comply with the International Law as stated by the International…
EU foreign ministers will meet Monday to define the 25-nation bloc’s position in the wake of Friday’s ruling by the International Court of Justice against Israel’s West Bank separation wall.…
U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell said Saturday that turning the wall issue to the International Court of Justice was inappropriate, and that the court ruling was not binding. While…
ArabYnet online news site reported a Palestinian official source saying that Egypt called for an International conference with the participation of Quartet to discuss the preparations for the Israeli withdrawal…
U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell said Tuesday in Washington that the American administration was disappointed by the rate at which settlers’ unauthorized outposts had been removed, demanding Israel to…
The German mediator of the prisoners’ exchange between Israel and Hezbollah, Ernst Urlau, decided on a month freeze of activities in protest against numerous leaks to the media. United Arab…
The U.S. Army Brigadier General Janis Karpinski formerly in charge of the infamous Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq told BBC Radio on Saturday she has evidence Israelis were involved in…
U.S. official sources said today that the U.S. administration opposes an initiative to hold presidential elections in Palestine suggested for January 2005. Having said so, Washington adopts the Israeli position…
met Palestinian President Yasser Arafat in his Ramallah compound onIMEMC Staff & Agencies, Despite Israeli objections, French Foreign Minister Michel Barnier met Palestinian President Yasser Arafat in his Ramallah compound…
AP reported that New Zealand slammed Israel’s destruction ofPalestinian homeless George Rishmawi-IMEMC & Agencies, June 30, 2004 AP reported that New Zealand slammed Israel’s destruction of Palestinian homes in the…
Secretary of State Colin Powell dismissed any similarity between theIMEMC & Agencies, June 26, 2004 9:38 In a meeting with Arab journalists in Washington on Thursday, U.S. Secretary of State…
peace brokers expressed the committee’s support of the role Egypt isGeorge Rishmawi-IMEMC & Agencies, June 26, 2004 In its Thursday meeting, the Quartet of International Middle East peace brokers expressed…