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| Palestinians take step toward unity
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Tue, 07 Feb 2012 00:15:02 GMT
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| The Mainstreaming of Hamas Continues as Palestinian Unity Gains Steam
(Time.com)
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 20:30:00 GMT Time.com - Hamas vows to give Palestinian moderate leader Mahmoud Abbas the running room to see what talks can produce |
| Hamas and Fatah overcome key roadblock to reconciliation
(The Christian Science Monitor)
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 19:00:30 GMT The Christian Science Monitor - The two feuding Palestinian factions took an important step toward reconciliation today, agreeing that Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas would lead an interim powersharing government with Hamas. |
| Palestinians move toward end of political rift
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Mon, 06 Feb 2012 15:05:01 GMT
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| Palestinian rivals agree to form unity government
(Reuters)
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 14:33:38 GMT Reuters - The leaders of rival Palestinian factions Fatah and Hamas signed a deal in Qatar on Monday to form a unity government of independent technocrats for the West Bank and Gaza, headed by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. |
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Mon, 06 Feb 2012 13:53:46 GMT AP - Israeli prime minister: Palestinian reconciliation deal abandons 'way of peace.' |
| HRW calls for Palestinian residency rights
(AP)
Sun, 05 Feb 2012 16:00:01 GMT
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| Palestinian rivals hold unity talks in Qatar
(AP)
Sun, 05 Feb 2012 14:39:37 GMT AP - The Palestinian president and the head of rival Hamas resumed talks Sunday over efforts to move along a reconciliation pact that remains stalled after nearly a year. |
| Israeli prospector says natural gas found offshore
(AP)
Sun, 05 Feb 2012 10:57:44 GMT AP - American and Israeli gas prospectors say they have discovered a large amount of offshore natural gas in Israeli waters near the Lebanese border. |
| Top Hamas member leaves Syria because of uprising
(AP)
Sun, 05 Feb 2012 10:30:45 GMT AP - Hamas officials say a senior member of the Palestinian militant group has left Syria because of the government's crackdown on an uprising there. |
| Bahrain opposition launch week-long rally for reform
(Reuters)
Sun, 05 Feb 2012 10:20:19 GMT Reuters - Bahraini opposition parties, launching a week-long 'sit-in' for political reforms at a mass rally, swore on Sunday to take their campaign to the centre of last year's democracy protest in the capital Manama. |
| Palestinians: Home sprayed with 'Death to Arabs'
(AP)
Sun, 05 Feb 2012 08:29:26 GMT
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| Bahrainis hold independent dialogue over political crisis
(Reuters)
Sat, 04 Feb 2012 19:51:15 GMT Reuters - Bahrainis of different political stripes faced off in a rare forum on Saturday to try to bridge deep rifts against a backdrop of continued disturbances outside the Gulf Arab state's capital. |
| Palestinians call for PM's fall over taxes
(AP)
Sat, 04 Feb 2012 12:27:10 GMT
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| Israeli Defense minister implies a strike on Iran nuclear program is near
(The Christian Science Monitor)
Fri, 03 Feb 2012 17:45:06 GMT The Christian Science Monitor - Tensions between Israel and Iran are on the rise after a group of top Israeli leaders engaged in a round of saber-rattling on Thursday and Iran’s Supreme Leader answered on Friday with a pledge to "remove" Israel. |
| Bahrain police break up opposition protest in capital
(Reuters)
Thu, 02 Feb 2012 21:21:35 GMT Reuters - Anti-government protesters clashed with Bahraini police in Manama on Thursday, a rare protest in the capital as majority Shi'ite Muslims try to sustain pressure for more reforms ahead of the February 14 anniversary of a pro-democracy uprising. |
| Israel: New subsidies don't apply to settlements
(AP)
Thu, 02 Feb 2012 18:44:44 GMT
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| Bahrain revisited by head of unrest report
(AP)
Thu, 02 Feb 2012 14:52:59 GMT AP - Senior members of Bahrain's ruling family have met with the head of an independent inquiry that called for reforms in the violence-wracked Gulf nation. |
| Palestinians throw shoes, stones at U.N. convoy
(Reuters)
Thu, 02 Feb 2012 13:21:48 GMT Reuters - Dozens of Palestinians threw shoes, sticks and stones at U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon's convoy as it crossed into the Gaza Strip Thursday, protesting against what they saw as a slight against Palestinians jailed in Israel. |
| Turkey and Hamas grow close
(AP)
Thu, 02 Feb 2012 11:46:25 GMT AP - Ties between Turkey, NATO's biggest Muslim member, and Hamas, the Islamic militant group that says Israel should not exist, are blossoming. |
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| Word of the day |
Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day for February 06, 2012 is:
propinquity • \pruh-PING-kwuh-tee\ • noun
1 : nearness of blood : kinship 2 : nearness in place or time : proximity
Examples:
Many of the retirement community's residents cite the propinquity of the area's various cultural offerings as a significant reason for their choice of the facility.
"Canada was faced with the overwhelming propinquity of the United States; it was just next door -- for almost nine thousand kilometres." -- From Derek Lundy's 2011 book Borderlands: Riding the Edge of America
Did you know?
"Propinquity" and its cousin "proximity" are related through the Latin root "prope," which means "near." That root gave rise to "proximus" (the parent of "proximity") and "propinquus" (an ancestor of "propinquity"). "Proximus" is the superlative of "prope" and thus means "nearest," whereas "propinquus" simply means "near" or "akin," but in English "propinquity" conveys a stronger sense of closeness than "proximity." (The latter usually suggests a sense of being in the vicinity of something.) The distinctions between the two words are subtle, however, and they are often used interchangeably. "Propinquity" is believed to be the older of the two words, first appearing in English in the 14th century; "proximity" followed a century later.