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London, Sep 18 (ANI): It has emerged that more and more Brit men are having cosmetic surgery to get rid of their “moobs”.

According to the British Association of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons (BAAPS), there has been a 44 per cent year-on-year rise in the number of men [...]

Jerusalem, Aug. 30 (ANI): The Israeli Left has expressed disappointment over a recent Jerusalem Post poll which found that only four percent of Jewish Israelis believe that US President Barack Obama’s policies are more pro-Israel than pro-Palestinian.

The Jerusalem Post-sponsored Smith Research poll published on Friday reported that 51 percent of Jewish Israelis considered Obama’s [...]

West Bank, July 16 (ANI): The Palestinian Authority on Wednesday banned Al-Jazeera television from operating in its territory and threatened legal action over allegations it broadcast against President Mahmoud Abbas.

According to The Telegraph, the Palestine information ministry said the Qatar-based Arabic news channel had spread falsehoods and incited viewers against the authorities that run the [...]

Gaza City/Cairo – Egypt will invite Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Hamas political leader Khaled Meshaal to Cairo to sign a deal establishing a Palestinian “national unity” government in early July, a Saudi newspaper said Thursday.
The Saudi daily newspaper Okaz cited an unnamed Palestinian source it said was close to the negotiations as saying [...]

Gaza – A Hamas military court in the Gaza Strip Sunday sentenced three Fatah members to death after finding them guilty of killing two journalists affiliated with the Islamist movement in the Gaza Strip two years ago.
Two of accused were tried in absentia after they fled Gaza when Hamas seized control of the salient [...]

Ramallah – Specialized committees representing feuding Palestinian factions have been invited to Cairo this week to draft an agreement ending the two-year schism between the two, a Palestinian official said Saturday.
The work will build on previous rounds of discussions between Fatah, which heads a government in the West Bank, and Hamas, which controls the Gaza [...]

Nicosia, Apr 22 (ANI): Hamas Spokesman Fawzi Barhoum has dismissed accusations made by New York based Human Rights Watch against the Hamas-run de facto government that gunmen with suspected links to Hamas security forces killed at least 32 Palestinians and wounded dozens in attacks on political opponents and alleged informers during and after Israel’s recent [...]

Cairo/Gaza – Egypt is planning to open the Rafah border crossing into Gaza temporarily over the weekend, an Egyptian official said Thursday.
The crossing at the town of Rafah will be open only for those Palestinians who have permits to live or work in Egypt or other Arab countries. Students and medical patients will also [...]

Riyadh – Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas arrived in Riyadh on Sunday for a one-day visit to discuss with Saudi King Abdullah ways to deal with the new Israeli government, diplomatic sources said. Abbas will coordinate with the Saudi monarch a strategy to approach the new right-wing government under Benjamin Netanyahu, who rejects a “two-state solution” [...]

Egypt calls on Palestinian rival to negotiate Gaza City – A Hamas leader on Saturday revealed that Egypt proposed the formation of a national committee to liaise between the Hamas, which controls the Gaza Strip, and the Fatah government in West Bank. The suggestion was made as part of Egyptian efforts earlier this month to [...]

RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) – Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has made peace talks with Israel’s new government conditional on it committing to previous agreements and freezing Jewish settlement growth, aides said on Friday.
Senior Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat said Abbas conveyed that message directly to the so-called Quartet of Middle East mediators — the United States, [...]

GAZA (Reuters) – Egyptian mediators trying to break the deadlock in talks on a Palestinian government of national unity have told rival groups Fatah and Hamas to cooperate on reconstructing Gaza as a first step, officials said.
Palestinian groups have been talking in Cairo for months but have so far failed to agree on a unity [...]

Cairo- Egyptian President Hosny Mubarak met Thursday with Palestinian
President in Cairo, Egypt’s official MENA news agency reported.
The
two reportedly discussed the Arab-Israeli peace process in light of the
new Israeli government, the current state of negotiations aimed at
forming a Palestinian “national unity” government, and the
reconstruction of the Gaza Strip following Israel’s offensive there in
December and January.
Egyptian [...]

Gaza, April 9 (DPA) Leaders of the rival Hamas and Fatah movements held a meeting in Hamas-ruled Gaza Wednesday to discuss reconstruction of the Gaza Strip and mutual reconciliation.
The meeting between the two movements’ leaders is the first of its kind since Hamas’s takeover of the Gaza Strip in the summer of 2007 following weeks [...]

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’s government, which resigned last month, will stay on until the formation of a new government, Foreign Minister Riyad al-Malki said on Thursday.
He told Reuters that Abbas had rejected the resignation of Prime Minister Salam Fayyad and asked him to stay on until Abbas’s Fatah Faction and Hamas Islamists, now negotiating a [...]

Ramallah/Cairo – Palestinian factions will reconvene in Cairo in early April to hash out an agreement on a “national unity” government, representatives of Palestinian factions said Tuesday.
The talks, which were suspended on Thursday after parties failed to agree on such issues as the composition of the new government and whether it will recognise Israel, will [...]

Gaza – Independent Palestinian representatives on Saturday called on Hamas to take a speedy decision on unity proposals put forward at this week’s reconciliation talks in Cairo.
The Egypt-mediated talks were aimed at ending the schism between Islamic Hamas in the Gaza Strip, and the secular Fatah movement, which rules the West Bank.
“I hope an agreement [...]

Gaza City/Cairo – Hamas spokesman Fawzi Barhoum announced on Thursday that the Palestinian factions meeting in Cairo to flesh out the contours of a national unity government had concluded the first round of talks after nine days of intense negotiations.
Barhoum, in a statement released in the Egyptian capital, said that leaders of 13 Palestinian [...]

Gaza City/Cairo – Hamas said Wednesday that Palestinian factions agreed in Cairo on forming a transitional unity government which would prepare for new elections by early next year, but the sides were still disputing the government’s platform.
Fawzi Barhoum, a senior leader of the radical Islamist movement ruling the Gaza Strip, said in a written statement [...]

Cairo/Gaza City – Egypt on Wednesday opened the Rafah border crossing for two days to allow Palestinians stranded on both sides of the border to cross, Gaza’s Interior Ministry and Egypt’s official MENA news agency reported.
Trucks carrying humanitarian supplies and more than 100 Palestinians that had been stranded in Egypt crossed into the Palestinian [...]