Wednesday, 01 May 2013 07:00
Syria's opposition has denounced what it called "threats" from the head of Hezbollah, and warned against any intervention by the movement or by Iran, which backs the Lebanese group, in the Syrian conflict.
Middle East

Syria's opposition has denounced what it called "threats" from the head of Hezbollah, and warned against any intervention by the movement or by Iran, which backs the Lebanese group, in the Syrian conflict.

A senior Qatari official has said Israel and the Palestinians could trade land rather than conform exactly to their 1967 borders in what appears to be a softening of Arab states' stance on the 2002 peace plan.

US Secretary of State John Kerry has held talks with Arab League officials as he pursues painstaking efforts aimed at revitalising the Middle East peace process.

The speaker of Iraq's parliament has said the government should resign and hold early elections after a string of attacks ripped through the country.

A blast near Syria's interior ministry has rocked the central Damascus district of Marjeh killing 13 people and injuring over 70 others, state television said, just a day after the country's prime minister survived a car bomb attack.

An Israeli airstrike has killed a Palestinian man and wounded another in the Gaza Strip, medics said, in what appeared to be the first such attack since a ceasefire ended an eight-day war last November.

Syrian Prime Minister Wael al-Halqi has survived a bomb attack that targeted his convoy in central Damascus, Syrian state media report.

Five car bombs have exploded in public areas in predominantly Shia cities and districts in central and southern Iraq, killing 25 civilians and wounding 97, officials said.

Iraq has suspended the licences of 10 satellite television channels, including Al Jazeera, for promoting violence and sectarianism, a senior official at the country's media watchdog has said.

Israel's air force has carried out three strikes in the Gaza Strip, witnesses have said.
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The Tangled Tango |
| Will Durst | |
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The State of Whom? |
| Uri Avnery | |
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Media Responses to Obama's Speech |
| Stephen Lendman | |
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The Evil of Humanitarian Interventionism |
| Jacob Hornberger | |
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Hezbollah and the Syrian Pit |
| Franklin Lamb | |
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Bhopal gas disaster - WikiLeaks reveal US role |
| Proloy Bagchi | |
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Educational Apartheid & Social Inequity |
| Gideon Polya | |
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America's Greatest Challenge |
| Timothy V. Gatto | |
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Remembering Perot: Last Chance for Americans against Globalization |
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