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Hezbollah won't cooperate with Hariri tribunal (AP)

Yahoo/Mideast - September 3, 2010 - 9:56am

AP - Hezbollah's leader said Friday he will not respond to a U.N.-appointed prosecutor's demand for the group to hand over all information relevant to the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri.

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Israeli, Palestinian leaders face critics of talks (AP)

Yahoo/Mideast - September 3, 2010 - 9:11am

AP - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu returned Friday from the resumption of Mideast negotiations in Washington to confront internal opposition to his peace moves, just as his Palestinian counterpart faced harsh criticism for agreeing to the talks at all.

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Blasts rip through possible Hezbollah weapons site (AP)

Yahoo/Mideast - September 3, 2010 - 9:05am

AP - Explosions ripped through a building Friday in southern Lebanon that might have been used to store weapons by the militant group Hezbollah, security officials said.

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Iranians rally on al-Quds day

Al Jazeera English - September 3, 2010 - 8:51am

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad addresses thousands in Tehran, saying that Middle East peace talks are doomed to failure.

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Yale lending name to racist conference

Electronic Intifada Palestine - September 3, 2010 - 8:43am

A conference last week, sponsored by Yale Initiative for the Interdisciplinary Study of Antisemitism, raises questions about the Initiative's commitment to fighting all forms of bigotry. Instead of connecting the threads between different kinds of hatred, the conference provided a platform for anti-Arab and anti-Muslim speakers. For a center created to promote the critical study of one form of racism, it is unconscionable that it would indulge speakers who spread another. Yaman Salahi comments.

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Experts Fear Mideast Talks Are Too Ambitious

New York Times - September 3, 2010 - 8:40am

Some veteran peace process practitioners say Israel and the Palestinians should first aim for a partial solution because the gaps between the positions are too wide.

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Iran's Ahmadinejad calls on Palestinians to fight on (Reuters)

Yahoo/Mideast - September 3, 2010 - 8:08am

Reuters - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad urged Palestinians to keep up their armed struggle against Israel a day after Israeli and Palestinian leaders agreed to continue talks on a U.S.-backed peace deal.

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Ahmadinejad says Mideast peace talks 'doomed' (AFP)

Yahoo/Mideast - September 3, 2010 - 7:30am

AFP - Hardline Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad told a pro-Palestinian rally on Friday that revived Middle East peace talks are "doomed" to fail, as Islamist militiamen stopped one of his arch rivals from attending the annual march.

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Kabul Bank run may pose more immediate threat than Afghan Taliban

Christian Science Monitor (Terrorism/Security) - September 3, 2010 - 6:26am

The Kabul Bank is a bedrock for a stable Afghan society. Its collapse could spell disaster for the country already battling a resurgent Afghan Taliban.

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Muslims hold mass prayers at Jerusalem mosque (AFP)

Yahoo/Mideast - September 3, 2010 - 6:00am

AFP - Tens of thousands of Muslims poured into the heavily guarded Al-Aqsa mosque compound in Jerusalem for the last Friday prayers of Ramadan as Palestinians protested over newly relaunched peace talks.

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Arab League chief wants to give peace talks a chance (AFP)

Yahoo/Mideast - September 3, 2010 - 5:34am

AFP - The Arab League's secretary general Amr Mussa said on Friday negotiations between Israelis and Palestinians should be given a chance, but wondered whether Israel was ready for "real peace."

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Mideast leaders to hold bimonthly peace talks (AFP)

Yahoo/Mideast - September 3, 2010 - 4:54am

AFP - Israeli and Palestinian leaders have cleared the first hurdle in what promises to be difficult negotiations, vowing to try to settle core differences within a year and meet every two weeks.

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Lebanon complains to UN about Israel 'spy ring' (AFP)

Yahoo/Mideast - September 3, 2010 - 3:35am

AFP - Lebanon has filed a complaint with the United Nations over what it says is an Israeli spy ring in the country, giving a list of 141 suspected agents, a diplomat said on Friday.

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Iran Guards stop opposition leader from joining mass rally (AFP)

Yahoo/Mideast - September 3, 2010 - 3:23am

AFP - Islamist militiamen and elite Revolutionary Guards surrounded the home of Iranian opposition leader Mehdi Karroubi on Friday to prevent him from joining a government-sponsored rally that last year saw opposition protests, his website said.

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Mideast people 'capable of removing' Israel: Ahmadinejad (AFP)

Yahoo/Mideast - September 3, 2010 - 2:42am

AFP - Hardline Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Friday that the people of the Middle East are "capable of removing the Zionist regime from the world scene" in an annual Palestinian solidarity day address in Tehran.

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Mideast peace talks are 'doomed': Ahmadinejad (AFP)

Yahoo/Mideast - September 3, 2010 - 1:24am

AFP - Direct peace talks which Israel and the Palestinians relaunched in Washington on Thursday are "stillborn and doomed", hardline Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad told an annual Palestinian solidarity rally in Tehran.

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Netanyahu, Abbas Are Talking, Now What?

NPR/Middle East - September 3, 2010 - 1:00am

President Obama brought two key players together this week to talk about Mideast peace: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas. Robert Malley of the International Crisis Group talks to Steve Inskeep about both sides' motivation to sit down to try to work out a peace agreement.

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Attackers Strike Home of Iranian Opposition Leader

New York Times - September 2, 2010 - 11:20pm

Attackers smashed windows and damaged security cameras at the home of Mehdi Karroubi a day before a rally that the authorities worry might reignite antigovernment protests.