Palestine
Obama urges Israel to make peace with Palestine
Ruth Pollard Appealing to Israel's younger generation, US President Barack Obama urged them to look at the world through Palestinian eyes and push their political leaders to take a risk and make peace with their...
UN rebuffs Israel to recognise Palestine
Paul McGeough NEW YORK: Despite US and Israeli opposition, the United Nations implicitly recognised Palestine as a state on Thursday, voting overwhelmingly to designate it a ''non-member observer state'' - the...
Palestine pursues Britain on UN vote
JERUSALEM: Britain has a ''historic responsibility'' to support an imminent Palestinian attempt to upgrade its status at the United Nations, a Palestinian official said.
Settlements block the road to peace in latest Israel-Palestine talks
Ruth Pollard Five more sessions of talks between Israel and the Palestinians have ended without progress.
Gingrich blasted over Palestine call
Simon Mann WASHINGTON: Newt Gingrich has repeated a claim that Palestinians are an ''invented'' people with no clear right to their own state, clashing with key rival Mitt Romney in the latest public debate...
US cuts UN funds on Palestine vote
Edmund Sanders, Jerusalem A decision by UNESCO to admit Palestine as a member state sets off a confrontation between the US and the UN.
Rudd dodges Palestine question, pushes peace talks
Daniel Flitton Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd has left open the question of Australian support for a Palestinian state joining the United Nations, but warned time is running out for a lasting settlement to the bitter...
Israel urged not to take out ire on Palestine in UN bid
Harriet Sherwood, Jerusalem Israel has been urged to refrain from taking punitive measures against the Palestinians if they press ahead with their bid to win recognition of a Palestinian state at the UN.
US pressures Britain on Palestine vote
Jon Swaine, New York and Adrian Blomfield, Jerusalem Britain is coming under growing US pressure to oppose a Palestinian bid for statehood at the United Nations on Friday.
Israel ups ante over Palestine
Jason Koutsoukis JERUSALEM: The Israeli deputy Foreign Affairs Minister, Danny Ayalon, has warned that a Palestinian push for full membership of the United Nations in September would set the stage for ''confrontation...
Obama pledges aid for Palestine
President Barack Obama pledges $US400 million in new aid for the Palestinians.
EU threat to recognise Palestine as a nation
JERUSALEM: Europe's foreign ministers have threatened to recognise an independent Palestinian state if Israel continues to refuse to halt the building of Jewish settlements on Palestinian territories.
Brazil angers US and Israel with its pro-Palestine move
Adrian Blomfield JERUSALEM: Brazil has been accused of undermining the Middle East peace process after it formally recognised Palestinian statehood in the West Bank and Gaza.
British move on Palestine
GAZA CITY: Britain is preparing to confer diplomatic status on the Palestinian delegation in London for the first time, renewing fears in Israel that Europe is moving closer to recognising an...
Gloom over mid-east talks greets Kerry
Ruth Pollard Jerusalem: The US Secretary of State, John Kerry, and Britain's Foreign Secretary, William Hague, were due to arrive in Jerusalem on Thursday in a further attempt to renew talks between Israel and...
Israel rocked as Hawking joins boycott
Isabel Kershner Stephen Hawking has pulled out of a high-profile conference to be held in Jerusalem in June to support an academic boycott of Israel, conference organisers and the university said on Wednesday.
Israel seeks US visa waiver exemption
Bob Egelko The US allows inhabitants of 37 countries to enter without a visa, as long as they extend the same privilege to US citizens.
Israel blames Hezbollah after shooting down drone
John Davison The Israeli air force has shot down a drone from Lebanon off the northern coast of Israel in an incident described by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as "extremely grave".
Russia heard US Boston bomb suspect 'jihad' call
Eileen Sullivan and Matt Apuzzo Russian authorities secretly recorded a telephone conversation in 2011 in which one of the Boston bombing suspects vaguely discussed jihad with his mother, officials say.
Australia to take part in World War I centenary service
Nick Miller, London AUSTRALIA will join the leaders of India, Canada and Britain in Glasgow next year at a ceremony to mark the centenary of the start of the First World War, according to a leaked report.
