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Soldier?s Captors Say They Gave List of Demands to Israel 
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Hamas militants said they sent Israel a list of prisoners they want released in exchange for Cpl. Gilad Shalit.Israel, Palestinians advance in talks on prisoner swap AFP via Yahoo! News - Apr 08 2:06 AM
Israel and the Palestinians inched closer towards ending a months-long crisis over an Israeli soldier captured last June after Israel confirmed on Sunday it had received a list of detainees the Palestinians want freed in exchange.Rep.: Israel said no Syria attack plan AP via Yahoo! News - Apr 08 12:42 AM
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert told a visiting group of U.S. lawmakers to relay to Syria that Israel had no intention of attacking it, according to one of the participants on the trip, Rep. Keith Ellison, D-Minn.Israel given prisoner exchange list Deutsche Welle - 7 minutes ago
The Palestinian militant group Hamas has handed over to Egyptian mediators the names of prisoners it wants Israel to release in exchange for a captured Israeli soldier. The list is said to contain over 1,000 names, including that of Fatah leader Marwan Barghouti.Israel reviews list of Palestinian prisoners as efforts on captured soldier progress San Diego Union-Tribune - Apr 08 3:01 PM
JERUSALEM, 11:16 a.m. April 8 (AP): Israel is reviewing the names of hundreds of Palestinian prisoners that Gaza militants want released in exchange for a captured Israeli soldier, security officials said Sunday, signaling a possible breakthrough in efforts to win the young man's freedom.Israel reviews list of Palestinian prisoners; efforts on captured soldier progress CP via Yahoo! Canada News - Apr 08 1:43 PM
JERUSALEM (AP) - Israel is reviewing the names of hundreds of Palestinian prisoners that Gaza militants want released in exchange for a captured Israeli soldier, security officials said Sunday, signalling a possible breakthrough in efforts to win the young man's freedom.Israel, Palestinians plan prisoner swap Japan Today - Apr 08 3:30 PM
JERUSALEM Israel and the Palestinians inched closer to a prisoner exchange deal for a soldier held by Gaza militants on Sunday as Israel confirmed it had received a list of people the Palestinians want freed.Israel says Gaza is no longer occupied, but it still exerts much control CP via Yahoo! Canada News - Apr 08 11:03 AM
RAFAH, Gaza Strip (AP) - Raouf Ziara's love life is in Israel's hands.Israel in deadly air raid against Gaza militants AFP via Yahoo! News - Apr 07 3:08 PM
Israel launched an air strike against suspected Gaza militants on Saturday, killing one and wounding two, as it made good on threats to get tough over persistent rocket fire from the territory.Israel reviews list of Palestinian prisoners as efforts on captured soldier progress The Standard-Times - 1 hour, 46 minutes ago
JERUSALEM Israel is reviewing the names of hundreds of Palestinian prisoners that Gaza militants want released in exchange for a captured Israeli soldier, security officials said yesterday, signaling a possible breakthrough in efforts to win the... Israel Given List of Palestinian Prisoners Arab News - Apr 08 4:09 PM
GAZA CITY/RAMALLAH, 9 April 2007 Israel is looking into a list of prisoners the Palestinians want freed in exchange for captured Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit, Palestinians and Israelis said. The list includes men who Israel says have blood on their hands. Prisoner swap with Israel could be close: Haniya aide AFP via Yahoo! News - Apr 07 12:32 PM
Palestinian prisoners and an Israeli soldier seized last June could be swapped soon if Israel cooperates on a list of names of detainees handed over to it for release from its jails, the spokesman for the Palestinian prime minister said on Saturday.Israel bargaining for soldier's release UPI - Apr 07 8:19 PM
Israel has received a list of prisoners Hamas wants released in exchange for a kidnapped soldier and is negotiating details, Haaretz reported Saturday.Captors of Israeli soldier have handed their demands to Israel, via Egyptian mediators Boston Herald - Apr 08 5:11 AM
RAMALLAH, West Bank - Israel is reviewing a list of hundreds of Palestinians prisoners that Gaza militants want released in exchange for a captured Israeli soldier, an official and media reports said Sunday,...Israel confirms progress in talks about release of Shalit IANS via Yahoo! India News - Apr 08 4:27 AM
Tel Aviv, April 8 (DPA) Israel confirmed reports Sunday about progress in its attempts to secure the release of Corporal Gilad Shalit, a soldier snatched by Palestinian militants almost nine months ago during a cross border raid from the Gaza Strip.Pope sees "signs of hope" for Israel-Palestine Reuters via Yahoo! UK & Ireland News - Apr 08 3:43 AM
Pope Benedict, in his Easter message, said there were "some signs of hope" in the dialogue between Israel and the Palestinian authority.Israel confirms progress in talks about release of Shalit Khaleej Times - Apr 08 6:37 AM
TEL AVIV/GAZA - Israel Sunday confirmed reports of progress in its attempts to secure the release of an Israeli soldier snatched by Palestinian militants almost ten months ago, and a spokesman for the Islamic Hamas movement said the ball is now in Israel s court .Adventures in Israel Detroit Free Press - Apr 08 12:45 AM
EIN GEDI, Israel -- It's not just mud. It's super healthy mud. The Ein Gedi spa is a do-it-yourself ritual of weird-smelling mineral baths, gloppy black mud and sulfur showers.Israel reviewing list of Palestinians prisoners ahead of possible swap Al Bawaba - Apr 08 7:23 AM
Israel is reviewing a list of hundreds of Palestinians prisoners that captors of an Israeli soldier want to release, an official and media reports said Sunday.Pope sees "signs of hope" for Israel-Palestine AlertNet - Apr 08 3:34 AM
Source: Reuters VATICAN CITY, April 8 (Reuters) - Pope Benedict, in his Easter message, said there were "some signs of hope" in the dialogue between Israel and the Palestinian authority. His ... Israel kills Palestinian militant AP via Yahoo! News - Apr 07 2:42 AM
An Israeli helicopter launched an airstrike along the Gaza Strip's border with Israel early Saturday, officials said, killing a Palestinian militant and wounding two others and further straining a fragile cease-fire.Israel given detainee list for prisoner swap Middle East Times - Apr 08 1:16 AM
JERUSALEM -- Israel has received a list of names of detainees the Palestinians want freed in exchange for a soldier abducted by Gaza militants last June, a senior official said Sunday.Abbas calls for end to rocket attacks into Israel IANS via Yahoo! India News - Apr 07 10:36 PM
Gaza City, April 8 (DPA) Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has called on security forces in the Gaza Strip to stop homemade rocket attacks by militants against Israel.Journey to Israel Star-Gazette - Apr 08 12:30 AM
Sandy Schmidt is a lifelong resident of Horseheads who is fulfilling a dream. She journeyed to Israel in late March and will report on her travels there this month in a series of stories in the Star-Gazette called Journey to Israel.My first Seder in Israel Star-Gazette - Apr 08 12:32 AM
Passover began at sundown Monday. It is a weeklong Jewish commemoration of the deliverance of the ancient Hebrews from slavery in Egypt. Horseheads resident Sandy Schmidt is spending much of April in Israel and writing about her trip for the Star-Gazette.Israel Gone, Yet Still in Gaza's Life ABC News - Apr 07 8:58 AM
Israel Says Gaza Is No Longer Occupied, but It Still Exerts Much Control Since 2005 WithdrawalPope sees 'signs of hope' for Palestine-Israel Gulf News - Apr 08 4:24 AM
Vatican City: Pope Benedict said in his Easter message on Sunday that there were "some signs of hope" in the dialogue between the Palestinian Authority and Israel.Israel doesn't want peace Haaretz Daily - Apr 08 12:35 AM
The moment of truth has arrived, and it has to be said: Israel does not want peace. The arsenal of excuses has run out, and the chorus of Israeli rejection already rings hollow.Israel confirms receipt of list of prisoners for swap Haaretz Daily - Apr 08 12:50 AM
Hamas has recently presented a list with the names of prisoners it wishes to see released in exchange for freeing Israel Defense Forces soldier Gilad Shalit. An Israeli source, who is involved with the negotiations, says the list has reached Israel.Israel gone, yet still in Gaza's life Boston Globe - Apr 07 9:27 AM
Raouf Ziara's love life is in Israel's hands. When Ziara, a 36-year-old officer in the Palestinian security forces, crossed from Gaza to Egypt in late March to visit his Egyptian wife, he had spent more than a month repeatedly trying to get through a border station that Israel only rarely allows to open.Ellison Says Israel Has No Attack Plans For Syria WCCO Minneapolis/St. Paul - Apr 07 4:19 PM
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert told a visiting group of U.S. lawmakers to relay to Syria that Israel had no intention of attacking it, according to one of the participants on the trip, Rep. Keith Ellison, D-Minn. More Political News Release 500 prisoners for soldier, Israel told Guardian Unlimited - Apr 08 6:04 PM
Hamas sends a list of Palestinian prisoners it wants released in return for the freedom of Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit.Prisoner swap with Israel could be close: Haniya aide Channel NewsAsia - Apr 07 1:00 PM
RAMALLAH, West bank : Palestinian prisoners and an Israeli soldier seized last June could be swapped soon if Israel cooperates on a list of names of detainees handed over to it for release from its jails, the spokesman for the Palestinian prime minister said on Saturday.Tennis / Israel stuns favorite Italy 3-0 to make World Group playoffs Haaretz Daily - Apr 07 5:05 PM
Israel stunned Italy over the weekend as it took an unassailable 3-0 lead in their Europe/Africa Zone Group 1 second-round tie to advance to the World Group playoffs.Ellison says Israel told lawmakers it has no plan to attack Syria WKBT La Crosse - Apr 07 6:57 PM
WASHINGTON Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert (EH'-hood OHL'-murt) wanted U-S lawmakers to tell Syria that Israel has no plan to attack it.Prisoner swap with Israel could be close: Haniya aide TODAYonline - Apr 07 12:45 PM
Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniya heads a meeting of the new Palestinian unity cabinet in Gaza City. Palestinian prisoners and an Israeli soldier seized last June could be swapped soon if Israel cooperates on a list of names of detainees handed over to it for release from its jails, the spokesman for the Palestinian prime minister said on Saturday.Israel Fires on Militants Planting Bomb, Killing One New York Times - Apr 07 5:48 PM
Israeli Army helicopters fired at Palestinian militants in the third Israeli military strike in Gaza in 10 days.Israel considers prisoner swap to win captive soldier s release Times Online - Apr 08 2:59 PM
To most Israelis, he s a ruthless killer who deserves to spend the rest of his life behind bars. To Palestinians, he s a hero who could emerge from prison to become their future leader.Hamas Cites Progress in Deal for Israeli Soldier New York Times - Apr 08 10:37 AM
Hamas militants said they sent Israel a list of people they want released in exchange for freeing Cpl. Gilad Shalit.Sale of leavened bread protested in Israel UPI - Apr 08 3:34 PM
About 500 Orthodox Jews gathered outside of the Haredi Rabbinical Court in Jerusalem to protest the sale of leavened bread during Passover.Israel in deadly air raid against Gaza militants TODAYonline - Apr 07 9:15 AM
Relatives of Fuad Maaruf mourn during his funeral in the northern Gaza Strip on 07 April 2007. Israel has launched an air strike against suspected Gaza militants, killing one and wounding two, as it made good on threats to get tough over persistent rocket fire from the territory.Captors of Israeli soldier make demands AP via Yahoo! News - Apr 08 5:32 AM
Israel is reviewing a list of hundreds of Palestinians prisoners that Gaza militants want released in exchange for a captured Israeli soldier, an official and media reports said Sunday, in a sign of potential progress in the 10-month standoff over a deal.Israel fires into Gaza, Abbas urges rocket halt Reuters via Yahoo! News - Apr 07 12:52 PM
Israeli helicopters fired into the Gaza Strip on Saturday, killing a Palestinian militant, in what residents said was the fiercest exchange between Israeli forces and militants since a November truce.Second Cup Cafe: Israel & New Breed CBS News - Apr 06 4:30 PM
Israel and New Breed is a group of musicians and singers who fuse gospel, jazz and Latin into a brand of contemporary Christian music designed to cross cultural boundaries.Israel 'has Shalit exchange list' BBC News - Apr 07 9:01 PM
Palestinian militants holding an Israeli soldier hand over a list of prisoners they want freed, officials say.Progress on possible Mideast prisoner swap AFP via Yahoo! News - Apr 08 3:59 AM
Israel and the Palestinians inched closer towards ending a long-running crisis over a soldier captured by Gaza militants after Israel confirmed on Sunday it had received a list of detainees the Palestinians want freed in exchange.Israel in deadly air raid against Gaza militants Middle East Times - Apr 07 1:57 AM
AIR STRIKES: Palestinian militants from Islamic Jihad take part in an armed exercise in Gaza April 6, 2007. Israel launched an air strike against suspected Gaza militants April 7, as it made good on threats to get tough over persistent rocket fire from the territory.Hamas gives prisoner list for Israeli soldier swap Reuters via Yahoo! News - Apr 08 5:03 AM
Hamas has handed over the names of Palestinian prisoners it demands Israel release in exchange for an Israeli soldier seized by Gaza gunmen 10 months ago, the Islamist group said on Sunday.Berlin march blasts anti-Semitism, but real goal is to condemn Israel JTA - Apr 07 1:16 AM
A demonstrator with a poster of Ayatollah Khomeini at the Al Quds parade, Nov. 13 in Berlin. A Berlin parade supposedly slamming anti-Semitism is used as a veiled opportunity to condemn Israel.Israel strikes into Gaza, Abbas urges rocket halt Reuters via Yahoo! News - Apr 07 11:22 AM
Israeli helicopters fired into the Gaza Strip on Saturday, killing one Palestinian militant in what local residents said was the fiercest exchange between Israeli forces and militants since a November truce.Soldier s captors break deadlock with Israel by listing demands The Buffalo News - Apr 08 6:52 AM
RAMALLAH, West Bank After months of deadlock, the captors of an Israeli soldier handed over the names of Palestinian prisoners they want freed in exchange for the hostage, a senior Palestinian official said Saturday.Israel Kills Palestinian Militant AP via Yahoo! Asia News - Apr 06 10:51 PM
An Israeli helicopter launched an airstrike along the Gaza Strip's border with Israel early Saturday, killing a Palestinian militant and wounding two others, officials said.Israel Reviews List of Palestinian Prisoners for Soldier Swap Voice of America - Apr 08 5:52 AM
Israeli officials say they are reviewing a list of hundreds of Palestinian prisoners that Gaza militants want released in exchange for a captured Israeli soldier.Israel considering prisoner list for exchange deal EuroNews - Apr 08 11:23 AM
Islamist group Hamas has handed over a list of Palestinian prisoners it wants freed in exchange for Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit.Israel in deadly air raid against Gaza militants TODAYonline - Apr 07 1:45 AM
An Israeli helicopter fires a flare over the northern district of Gaza City in 2006. Israel launched an air strike against suspected Gaza militants, killing one and wounding two, as it made good on threats to get tough over persistent rocket fire from the territory.Efforts to Free Israeli Soldier Progress ABC News - Apr 08 11:43 AM
Israel Reviews List of Palestinian Prisoners As Efforts on Captured Soldier ProgressUCF looks to add control with Israel Orlando Sentinel - Apr 08 3:09 AM
For each of UCF's first three seasons under Coach George O'Leary, one of the most interesting positions to watch has been quarterback. Israeli students planning national strike UPI - Apr 08 11:34 AM
Student groups at colleges and universities across Israel were set to strike this week to fight increases in the cost of higher education.Merkel: E.U. committed to Israel JTA - Apr 08 1:46 PM
Before you continue... Help us understand our readers. Please register. It's free and fast!Temple B'Nai Israel celebrates Passover The Victoria Advocate - Apr 06 10:50 PM
The highlight of the Jewish Passover is the Seder supper, celebrated at Temple B'Nai Israel in Victoria on Friday evening. Families gathered for the supper and ceremonies around three tables filled with an array of food and drinks.Sale of Leavened Bread Protested in Israel RedNova - Apr 08 5:12 PM
About 500 Orthodox Jews gathered outside of the Haredi Rabbinical Court in Jerusalem to protest the sale of leavened bread during Passover. Police blocked the protestors, who are from the Haredi sect of Judaism, from marching toward the center of the city.S.Korea issues travel warning on Israel, Palestine People's Daily - Apr 06 11:51 PM
South Korea on Saturday issued a travel warning for Israel and Palestinian areas in case of potential kidnappings of foreign nationals.Israel says hopes to keep Lebanon border calm Tiscali - Apr 07 12:42 AM
"We do not want to cause an escalation, but the Israel Defence Forces will have to respond where dangerous shooting takes place," the Defence Ministry said in a statement after Defence Minister Amir Peretz discussed the incident with top generals.Temple Israel students prepare for Passover Pocono Record - Apr 06 9:49 PM
Tuesday, March 20, all of the students at Temple Israel of the Poconos Religious School were able to create their own matzoh covers to use at their Passover family seder dinners.Major cleric: US, Israel incline towards collapse IranMania.com - Apr 07 12:35 AM
LONDON, April 7 (IranMania) - Substitute leader of Tehran Friday Prayers Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati said the era of US and Israel is gone and they incline towards collapse, IRNA reported.Hope springs eternal at Easter The Enid News & Eagle - 31 minutes ago
Hope was a precious commodity in Israel a couple of millennia ago. This nation that had been exiled, enslaved and then brought home to the promised land was now straining under the yoke of Roman rule.Israel Reviews List of Prisoners in Exchange for Captured Soldier Josh Pringle 580 CFRA News Talk Radio - Apr 08 6:43 PM
Copyright ©2004 580 CFRA & CHUM RADIO OTTAWA. CHUM Limited Privacy Brochure . All rights reserved. Please visit other CHUM sitesIsrael stalls US arms sales to Saudis: report AFP via Yahoo! News - Apr 05 2:27 PM
Israel has stalled a US plan to sell advanced weaponry, including satellite-guided arms, to Saudi Arabia, US media reported Thursday.Report: Israel tries to scuttle deal AP via Yahoo! News - Apr 05 2:25 PM
Israel has pressed the United States not to offer a major weapons deal to its Gulf Arab allies for fear it would damage Israel's military deterrent in the Middle East, Israeli government officials said Thursday.Mideast rivals move closer to prisoner swap Middle East Online - Apr 08 4:14 PM
Israel receives list of several hundred prisoners Palestinians want freed in exchange of Gilad Shalit.Israel given list for hostage exchange Worcester Telegram & Gazette - Apr 08 1:46 AM
RAMALLAH, West Bank - After months of deadlock, the captors of an Israeli soldier handed over the names of Palestinian prisoners they want freed in exchange for the hostage, a senior Palestinian official said yesterday.Hamas gives prisoner list for Israeli soldier swap Stuff - Apr 08 10:12 AM
GAZA: Hamas has handed over the names of Palestinian prisoners it demands Israel release in exchange for an Israeli soldier seized by Gaza gunmen 10 months ago, the Islamist group said.The Middle East's Leading English Language Daily Arab News - Apr 08 4:05 PM
GAZA CITY/RAMALLAH, 9 April 2007 Israel is looking into a list of prisoners the Palestinians want freed in exchange for captured Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit, Palestinians and Israelis said. The ...Israelis consider prisoner release for captive soldier The Herald - Apr 08 2:31 PM
Israel is reviewing the names of hundreds of Palestinian prisoners whom Gaza militants want freed in exchange for a captured Israeli soldier, signalling a possible breakthrough in efforts to win his freedom.Pope Mourns 'Continual Slaughter' In Iraq KGO-TV Bay Area - Apr 08 2:52 PM
On Christianity's most joyous day, Pope Benedict XVI declared, "In the Middle East, besides some signs of hope in the dialogue between Israel and the Palestine Authority, nothing positive comes from Iraq."US holds key to Syria-Israel peace Gulf News - Apr 06 2:59 PM
Why should Israel defer her own lofty national interest, ie peace with its neighbours, for its relations with a foreign country?" asks Amos Uz in Yediot Aharnot, summing up the position of the Israeli government on the present relations between Damascus and Washington.Gaza: Israel Kills Militant in Battle New York Times - Apr 07 5:02 AM
Israeli helicopters fired into the Gaza Strip, killing one Palestinian militant in what residents said was the fiercest exchange between Israeli forces and militants since a November truce.Reconstruction's strange bedfellows / Sectarian divisions erode in the rubble of Lebanon San Francisco Chronicle - Apr 08 3:49 AM
Abdullah Hassan Nasrallah proudly displayed a check for $11,000 to repair his home, which was damaged in last summer's war between Israel and Hezbollah. The money came not from the elected Lebanese government in Beirut, nor Jihad al Binaa, Hezbollah's... Israel stalls US arms sales to Saudis AFP via Yahoo! News - Apr 05 7:56 AM
A worried Israel has stalled a US plan to sell advanced weaponry, including satellite-guided arms, to Saudi Arabia.Rep.: Israel Said No Syria Attack Plan The San Francisco Examiner - Apr 07 4:23 PM
(AP Photo Hussein Malla). Syrian President Bashar Assad meets on Wednesday, April 4, 2007 with U.S. House speaker Nancy Pelosi at Ash-Shaeb presidential palace in Damascus.Alteon expands agreement with Biorap Technologies News-Medical-Net - Apr 08 2:59 PM
Alteon has announced that it has entered into an expanded licensing agreement with BioRap Technologies, the commercialization arm of the Rappaport Family Institute for Research, Technion University, Israel, for all diagnostic devices or products for predictive purposes in vascular or cardiac diseases, including diagnostic assays for the measurement of the haptoglobin protein (Hp).Peace With Israel: Arab Position Is Straightforward Arab News - Apr 07 4:10 PM
Those of us who have worked for a Palestinian state, and will continue to do so as long as there is breath in our bodies, can surely be forgiven for being cautious over an apparent new peace plan for the Middle East. So many such plans have come and gone over the last twenty or thirty years leaving few footprints in the sand.Israel fires into Gaza; Abbas urges restraint The Peninsula - Apr 07 5:44 PM
Gaza Israeli helicopters fired into the Gaza Strip yesterday, killing a Palestinian militant, in what residents said was the fiercest exchange between Israeli forces and militants since a November truce.Hamas gives list of prisoners for Israeli soldier swap Gulf News - Apr 08 1:43 PM
Gaza: Hamas has handed over the names of Palestinian prisoners it demands Israel release in exchange for an Israeli soldier seized by Gaza gunmen 10 months ago, the Islamist group said yesterday.Possible Shalit-Palestinian prisoner swap 'begun': Barghuti AFP via Yahoo! News - Apr 07 8:51 AM
Egypt has given Israel a list of Palestinian prisoners to free in exchange for a soldier captured by militants in a cross-border raid last June, the Palestinian information minister said Saturday.Israel fires into Gaza, Abbas urges rocket halt Tiscali - Apr 07 7:12 PM
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas called on members of his presidential guard and national security forces to step up efforts to prevent the rocket fire so "that our people can lead a safe life".In the news Tiscali - Apr 08 2:20 PM
JERUSALEM - Ultra Orthodox Jewish Klezemer band members play music and dance as they march next to the walls of Jerusalem old city during the Jewish Passover celebration, April 8 2007 in Jerusalem, Israel.Israeli soldier captors make demands Deutsche Welle - Apr 08 8:37 AM
Palestinian militants have delivered a list of prisoners, thought to number more than 1,000 names, to Israel via Egypt that they want to be released in exchange for the captured Israeli soldier Corporal Gilad Shalit.Israeli soldier's captors make demands for release CTV.ca - Apr 08 5:18 AM
An Israeli soldier may be one step closer to being released, with word Sunday that Israel is reviewing a list of hundreds of Palestinian prisoners the captors want released as part of an exchange deal.Captors of Israeli soldier make demands AngolaPress - Apr 08 10:22 AM
RAMALLAH, West Bank 04/07- Israel is reviewing a list of hundreds of Palestinians prisoners that Gaza militants want released in exchange for a captured Israeli soldier, an official and media reports said Sunday, in a sign of potential progress in the 10-month standoff over a deal.Vocal ensemble Chanticleer takes a Mass-ive step Reuters via Yahoo! News - 41 minutes ago
Contemporary composers are often recruited to write new music for celebrated San Francisco-based vocal ensemble Chanticleer.DEBKA file DEBKAfile - Apr 08 9:04 AM
According to DEBKA file s intelligence sources, the controversial head of MK Balad, the radical Arab National Party and a Protestant Christian, secretly left Israel some weeks ago. Members of his family have just joined him at his undisclosed destination.Israel objection stalls U.S. arms sale to Saudis: paper Reuters via Yahoo! News - Apr 05 4:22 AM
Objections by Israel are delaying Bush administration plans for a major arms sale to Saudi Arabia and other Gulf allies aimed at deterring Iran, The New York Times reported on Wednesday.Hamas gives prisoner list for Israeli soldier swap AlertNet - Apr 08 5:04 AM
Source: Reuters (Adds comments by Abbas aide, paragraphs 12-13) By Nidal al-Mughrabi GAZA, April 8 (Reuters) - Hamas has handed over the names of Palestinian prisoners it demands Israel release in exchange for an ... Pope mourns Iraq's 'continual slaughter' USA Today - 1 hour, 26 minutes ago
In an Easter litany of the world's suffering, Pope Benedict XVI lamented that "nothing positive" is happening in Iraq and decried the unrest in Afghanistan and bloodshed in Africa and Asia.Easter celebrated with worship, whiskers, wild weather USA Today - 51 minutes ago
Christians around the world chanted, drummed and bagpiped at Easter sunrise services Sunday, but Americans also did something else: They shivered.How mufti gave charity to jihad radio The Australian - Apr 08 7:00 AM
WEEKS after the Israel-Hezbollah war in Lebanon last year, Australia's mufti Taj Din al-Hilali was being chauffeured around the troubled Middle East nation in a black Mercedes Benz.Major cleric says US, Israel incline towards collapse Islamic Republic News Agency - Apr 06 5:31 AM
Ayatollah Jannati - Friday Prayers Substitute leader of Tehran Friday Prayers Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati said the era of US and Israel is gone and they incline towards collapse.Pope: 'How much suffering' in the world CNN.com - 2 hours, 19 minutes ago
VATICAN CITY (AP) -- Pope Benedict XVI decried suffering in much of the world in his Easter message, lamenting that "nothing positive" is happening in Iraq and voicing worry over unrest and instability in Afghanistan and bloodshed in parts of Africa and Asia.Gilad Shalit was seized by Palestinian fighters on June 26 last year [EPA] Aljazeera - Apr 08 2:57 AM
Israel has been given a list of prisoners that Palestinian fighters want freed in exchange for the release of an Israeli soldier seized last June, according to the Palestinian information minister.
