Topic: Middle East
Israeli soldiers shot and killed two Palestinians on Sunday at an army check post near the occupied West Bank city of Nablus after they tried to stab a soldier, the military said. The killings brings to four the number of Palestinians shot dead by Israeli forces in the West Bank over the weekend, the first Palestinian fatalities since clashes with ...
Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, locked in a tight battle with his main rival to form Iraq's next government, called on Sunday for a manual recount of votes cast in the country's March 7 polls. His demand was rejected by the country's election commission and slammed as a "clear threat" by the Iraqiya bloc that is neck-and-neck with ...
KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza (Reuters) - United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon Sunday urged Israel to end a three year-long blockade of the Hamas-run Gaza Strip and called on Palestinians to heal their political rifts. Ban's visit to the blockaded territory follows a trip made by the European Union's foreign policy chief, Catherine Ashton, who entered the coastal enclave last ...
