New Delhi, May 31: The CPM is going where the Indian government has not gone for a long time, by sending a gift of Rs 1 crore to the people of Palestine.
NAHR AL-BARED. LEBANESE ground troops, backed by artillery, tightened the noose yesterday around Islamist militants holed up inside a Palestinian refugee camp, where the humanitarian situation was described as desperate.
History : Formed about two years ago as a splinter group from the Popular Resistance Committees. Aims : Liberation of Palestine and creation of an Islamic state.
Not far from my balcony overlooking the Mediterranean lies a sunken French submarine. It sits on the bottom of the sea just to the left of the blossoming purple jacaranda tree which stands opposite my bedroom window. It was sunk in 1941 when a disguised Royal Navy vessel slunk up the coast of Lebanon from Palestine and discovered two U-boats of the Vichy French fleet trying to make it home after ...
The Norwegian government decided Thursday to provide 70 million Norwegian krone (about 11.7 million U.S. dollars) in aid to the Palestinian unity government, said reports from Oslo.
On April 17, the Palestinian Prisoner Day passed off quietly, probably with deliberate forgetfulness across the Arab world. But not in Palestine, of course. There, the day was commemorated through many events.
After days of relative quiet, Lebanese troops fought much of the day to seize positions that had been occupied by the Fatah al Islam militants.
CQPolitics.com reported that “The Assault on Reason,” the latest book by former Vice President Al Gore , was listed by Amazon.com on Friday afternoon as its fourth best-selling book. Which political figure had the next best-selling book on Amazon?
The Iraq war has shifted the United States' focus away from what is a larger crisis in the Middle East: The continuing violence and unrest between Israel and Palestine, two members of Vermont's Washington delegation said. ... - By DANIEL BARLOW Vermont Press Bureau
PENDLETON, Ind. -- A victory would have been enough. Just ask any of the Yorktown baseball players. But to beat New Palestine, a perennial state power, the No. 4 team in Class 3A by 10-run rule, that'd be a dream come true.