The end of the filing period on Monday afternoon produced a pair of three-way races for the Forrest City School Board. Meanwhile, in other districts inside St. Francis County, there will be one race in Palestine-Wheatley, and no one filed for a board position in Hughes.
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert told Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Monday during their first meeting in Palestine that he hopes to begin negotiations soon on establishing a Palestinian state.
Jerusalem. August 07, 2007 - The two adversaries, Israel and Palestine, are wondering about Blair's intentions after the formalities of meeting Blair are over.
-- In an engaging recent presentation, Israeli human rights, Gaby Lasky, highlighted the ongoing challenges faced by Palestinians under Israeli occupation, and the effects on them of Israeli settler violence.
Lebanon's most senior Shiite Muslim cleric Tuesday called U.S. intervention in Lebanon part of a desperate attempt for victory in the region after its "failures in Iraq, Afghanistan and Palestine."
Top Israeli officials denied Tuesday that they are considering a Palestinian state occupying a territory equal to the entire West Bank.
Three Phillips County men and a Pine Bluff man are all being held in the St. Francis County Jail in connection with a July burglary at a home in Palestine.
He attended New Palestine High School and Brevard College in Merritt Island, Fla. He is survived by his mother, Michael Nugent, and stepfather, Kenneth Nugent, of New Palestine; his father, Stephen Crouch, and stepmother, Kathy Crouch, of Anderson.
When the Palestinians democratically elected a government that the Neo-Conservatives in the Bush Jr. administration and their Kadima/Likudnik confederates in Israel did not prefer, they jointly did everything humanly possible to destroy it.
CAIRO. Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak raised the possibility of a snap Palestinian election to overcome a deepening crisis since Hamas’ rise to power, according to remarks published yesterday.