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Concern as Beirut Civil Defense chief detained by Syrian intelligence Palestine

Concern as Beirut Civil Defense chief detained by Syrian intelligence

Neither Fatah nor Hamas: Arab News/YouGov poll shows Palestinians want nothing to do with their leadership LONDON: A new Arab News/YouGov survey has identified a broad sense of despair among many Palestinians who feel trapped between an Israeli government they believe has no interest in forging peace and a Palestinian leadership…
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May 12, 2023
Senate panel OKs rail-safety bill; railroad vows to help homeowners affected by Ohio derailment Palestine

Senate panel OKs rail-safety bill; railroad vows to help homeowners affected by Ohio derailment

A Senate committee on Wednesday approved a rail-safety bill introduced after the derailment of a freight train in East Palestine, Ohio, but its fate remains uncertain due to significant Republican opposition. The bill would increase inspections of trains carrying hazardous materials, require the use of technology to detect track defects,…
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May 11, 2023
Norwegian foreign ministry makes substantial updates to policy on Israel, Jerusalem and Palestine state Palestine

Norwegian foreign ministry makes substantial updates to policy on Israel, Jerusalem and Palestine state

(May 3, 2023 / JNS) The Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs conceded last November to the pro-Israel NGO With Israel for Peace (Med Israel for fred, or MIFF) that capital cities are not subject to recognition by other countries. At some point following a March 7 letter from MIFF, Norway…
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May 4, 2023
Israel drags region into violence, instability with Al-Aqsa assaults: Palestinean Presidency Palestine

Israel drags region into violence, instability with Al-Aqsa assaults: Palestinean Presidency

The spokesperson of the Palestinian presidency Nabil Abu Rudeineh said that Israeli authorities are dragging the region into a square of violence, escalation, tension and instability through its insistence on continuing the policy of collective punishment, killing, assaults on Al-Aqsa Mosque and settler terrorism. Abu Rudeineh added that the storming…
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April 26, 2023
Storer H. Rowley: Violence casts a shadow over holidays in the Holy Land. Will it fuel a new intifada? Palestine

Storer H. Rowley: Violence casts a shadow over holidays in the Holy Land. Will it fuel a new intifada?

Holy days in the Holy Land should be sacred refuges from escalating tensions and violence, but ironically, they are often just the opposite, producing some of the brutal hell that especially torments Israelis and Palestinians in the Middle East. The rare, peaceful confluence of Ramadan, Passover and Easter this past…
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April 12, 2023
A truck overturned while carrying toxic soil from the East Palestine chemical spill: report Palestine

A truck overturned while carrying toxic soil from the East Palestine chemical spill: report

40,000 pounds of contaminated soil being transported away from East Palestine, Ohio was spilled in the eastern Ohio county of Columbiana at 1 PM on Monday, according to several local news sources. The spill occurred as a truck driver, 74-year-old Phillip Falck of McDonald, Penn., was driving a vehicle full of…
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April 11, 2023