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Palestinian leader Abbas meets China's Xi

Agence France-PresseMay 6, 2013 03:30
Chinese President Xi Jinping met with Palestinian leader Mahmud Abbas in Beijing on Monday, with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu due to follow him later this week. Abbas's three-day trip -- the first by a Middle Eastern leader since Xi took office in March -- ends Tuesday, overlapping with a five-day visit to China by Netanyahu that began in Shanghai on Monday and will end in the capital. Chinese state-run media have called Abbas' trip a state visit, while officials described Netanyahu's as an "official visit".

Palestinian leader Abbas meets China's Xi

Agence France-PresseMay 6, 2013 01:15
Chinese President Xi Jinping met with Palestinian leader Mahmud Abbas in Beijing on Monday, with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu due to follow him later this week. Abbas's three-day trip -- the first by a Middle Eastern leader since Xi took office in March -- ends Tuesday, overlapping with a five-day visit to China by Netanyahu that begins in Shanghai on Monday and ends in the capital. Chinese state-run media have called Abbas' trip a state visit, while officials describe Netanyahu's as an "official visit".

AFP 0500 GMT News Advisory

Agence France-PresseMay 2, 2013 01:45
Duty Editor: James Hossack Tel: +852 2829 6211 -- TOP STORIES -- + North Korea hands US citizen 15-year jail term + US charges three students over Boston cover-up + Indian spy dies after attack in Pakistani jail NKorea-US-diplomacy-trial,3rdlead SEOUL North Korea sentences a US citizen to 15 years' hard labour for "hostile acts" against the communist regime, ignoring pleas by Washington to free him on humanitarian grounds and threatening to stoke new tensions with the West.

Pentagon chief meets Netanyahu at end of Israel visit

Agence France-PresseApril 23, 2013 04:47
US Defence Secretary Chuck Hagel met Israel's Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday at the end of a three-day trip which saw him touting strong backing for Israel despite differences over Iran's nuclear project. With US-Israeli relations strained over questions about the imminence of the threat posed by a nuclear Iran and Hagel dogged by his past criticisms of Israel, the Pentagon chief has stressed his full-throated support for the Jewish state in his first visit as defence secretary.

Sirens sound as Israel remembers fallen soldiers, civilians

April 14, 2013 13:31
Israel was marking Memorial Day from sunset on Sunday, remembering fallen troops and civilian deaths in terror attacks. Minute-long sirens sounded nationwide at 8.00 pm (1700 GMT), marking the beginning of the memorial day. According to numbers published by the Defence Ministry, since the year 1860 -- when Jews founded the first neighbourhood in Jerusalem outside of the Old City and Israel considers the beginning of the Israel-Arab conflict -- 23,085 soldiers and members of the security forces died in the line of duty, including 92 in the past year.

Abbas blames Israel for prisoner's cancer death

April 2, 2013 04:45
Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas blamed the government of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday for the death of a prisoner suffering from terminal cancer. "The Palestinian presidency holds the government of Netanyahu responsible for the martyrdom of prisoner Maisara Abu Hamdiyeh today in the prisons of the Israeli occupation," Abbas spokesman Nabil Abu Rudeina said in a statement. na-jad-hmw/jad/kir

Israel-Turkey detente vital for Mideast peace: Kerry

March 23, 2013 21:15
Israel and Turkey's recent rapprochement is a vital factor in developing peace and stability in the Middle East, US Secretary of State John Kerry said. US President Barack Obama brokered the tentative reconciliation between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Friday during his visit to Israel. "The reconciliation between Israel and Turkey is a very important development that will help advance the cause of peace and stability in the region," Kerry said in a statement Saturday from the Jordanian capital Amman.

Kerry to meet Abbas, Netanyahu

March 23, 2013 12:00
US Secretary of State John Kerry will meet separately with Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Saturday in a push to revive talks between the sides. A senior US official said Kerry will meet Abbas at his Amman residence in the afternoon and then return to Jerusalem to speak with Netanyahu in the evening, "to continue the conversations they started with President (Barack) Obama and the secretary earlier this week."

Obama ends Middle East trip in 'spectacular' Petra

March 23, 2013 11:15
US President Barack Obama strolled among the ancient Jordanian ruins at Petra on Saturday, before heading home after a four-day Middle East tour dominated by his embrace of Israel. Obama flew by helicopter to view the rose-coloured stone ruins of the ancient Nabataean city, after winds from a sandstorm abated and allowed him to make the 55-minute trip across the rugged plains and mountains of Jordan.
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