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Israeli and Palestinian leaders meet in Washington for the first direct peace talks in nearly two years and agree a framework for negotiations.
2 Sep 2010 at 6:46pm
An explosion rips through an offshore oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico, west of the site of the blast in April that caused a huge oil spill.
2 Sep 2010 at 5:32pm
The three Pakistan cricketers accused of corruption - Salman Butt, Mohammad Asif and Mohammad Amir - have been charged, and provisionally suspended, by the International Cricket Council.
2 Sep 2010 at 3:19pm
Ten election campaign workers have been killed in an air strike by Nato-led forces in Afghanistan, Afghan officials say.
2 Sep 2010 at 2:31pm
Areas along the US East Coast declare states of emergency as Hurricane Earl churns towards the region, forecast to brush land on Thursday night.
2 Sep 2010 at 10:08am
A tanker carrying 9m litres of diesel fuel runs aground in the Northwest Passage, off the coast of northern Canada.
2 Sep 2010 at 3:33pm
The German central bank calls on the country's president to dismiss one of its board members over comments he made about immigration and Jews.
2 Sep 2010 at 11:42am
The Philippines vows to probe claims that coffins of three of Hong Kong's eight victims of last week's hijacking in Manila were wrongly labelled.
2 Sep 2010 at 5:42am
ICRC increases its Pakistan floods appeal by $76m as it warns that only a fraction of humanitarian needs are being met.
2 Sep 2010 at 9:42am
Police in Spain arrest a Russian man wanted for questioning about a fire at a Russian nightclub that killed more than 150 people in 2009.
2 Sep 2010 at 9:15am
LA Times: World News
Israeli and Palestinian leaders meet in Washington and agree on fortnightly talks to work toward a peace deal even as the issue of settlement construction in the West Bank threatens to derail the effort.
Israeli and Palestinian leaders formally reopened peace talks Thursday by setting a work plan for the next year, but adjourned without progress on their conflict over Israeli housing construction in disputed areas, an issue that threatens to quickly undermine the negotiations.
2 Sep 2010 at 6:13pm
Officials say the bank is safe despite reports of massive losses.
Afghans on Thursday rushed to withdraw their savings from troubled Kabul Bank despite attempts by officials to reassure nervous depositors that their money was safe.
2 Sep 2010 at 4:29pm
The prime minister says he fully supports Foreign Secretary William Hague, who hired a young man as a top advisor and has denied an improper relationship with him.
British Prime Minister David Cameron gave his full backing Thursday to a top Cabinet minister who has denied rumors that he is gay and that he carried on a relationship with a young aide.
2 Sep 2010 at 2:57am
South Africa unions unhappy with government's wage offer
Public servants say a 7.5% increase is not enough. They march through Johannesburg in protest.
A strike by 1.3 million South African public servants threatened Thursday to drag on for a third week as unions signaled that they would reject the government's latest compromise offer, a wage hike that would be more than double the rate of inflation.
2 Sep 2010 at 5:58pm
Iran security forces in evidence ahead of pro-Palestinian rallies
Central Tehran is blanketed with security forces and the home of a reformist leader reportedly remains under siege by pro-government militiamen in apparent attempts to intimidate the opposition.
Iranian security forces patrolled central Tehran on Thursday and the home of a reformist leader reportedly remained under siege by pro-government militiamen in what appeared to be attempts to intimidate the political opposition ahead of rallies planned for Friday.
2 Sep 2010 at 3:14pm
Malaysia tackles national woes with ad campaign
The 1Malaysia campaign, promoting unity and national pride, comes as ethnic tensions have increased and the ruling party has seen its support decline. Many dismiss the effort as style over substance.
Malaysia's reputation as a moderate, progressive Muslim nation has been sullied by a string of embarrassing news stories involving church burnings, pig heads dumped in mosques, Muslim girls caned for premarital sex and an interminable sodomy trial of a senior political figure.
2 Sep 2010 at 5:23pm
West Bank city of Hebron could be powder keg as Mideast peace talks begin
Hebron, home to more than 150,000 Palestinians and 400 Jewish settlers, is often at the center of the storm, and it is once again. Residents are bracing themselves and warn violence could spread.
The fate of the U.S.-sponsored peace talks launched Thursday in Washington could hinge in part on how things play out in this hotly disputed West Bank city, where extremists on opposite sides suddenly find they share a common purpose: to sabotage the process.
2 Sep 2010 at 5:44pm
The government decrees that the now-'chaotic' call by thousands of men must instead be delivered by one muezzin broadcast over a system linking 4,500 mosques. 'It'll never work,' one veteran prayer caller says.
Sandals in alleys, keys scraping locks, the holy men are the first ones up, opening mosque doors and clicking on microphones, their cadences crackling across the sleepy city, summoning the faithful to another day of struggle and grace.
2 Sep 2010 at 2:00am
The attacks occur during a march by the religious minority through the streets of Lahore in a traditional mourning ceremony honoring a holy figure. Sunni Muslim groups have frequently targeted Pakistan's Shiites.
Three bomb blasts tore through a Shiite Muslim procession Wednesday in Pakistan's second-largest city, Lahore, killing at least 28 people and wounding 200 others, authorities said.
2 Sep 2010 at 2:00am
Iraqi politicians, security officers and civil servants, as well as a senior U.S. military officer, speak of daunting and dangerous challenges.
In a crystal-chandeliered palace once occupied by Saddam Hussein, American and Iraqi leaders gathered Wednesday for the latest ceremony to herald an independent, democratic Iraq.
2 Sep 2010 at 2:00am
Electronic Intifada
Why Israel imprisoned my best friend
And just as Israel has gradually increased restrictions of where we can go, the boundaries of what is permissible to do as a Palestinian have narrowed markedly. We have reached a point where peaceful protest is unacceptable to the Israeli state and military legislation has been constructed to criminalize and throw in jail anyone who dares to publicly voice dissent. Mohammed Khatib comments.
2 Sep 2010 at 1:22pm
"Solidarity with the entire Palestinian people"
The BADIL Resource Center for Palestinian Residency and Refugee Rights recently published Rights in Principle -- Rights in Practice, which examines a rights-based approach to crafting durable solutions for Palestinian refugees. The Electronic Intifada contributor Adri Nieuwhof interviews BADIL director Ingrid Jaradat Gassner on the organization's work and the new book.
2 Sep 2010 at 1:04pm
"Bureaucratic weapons worse than bombs"
Firas al-Maraghi from the Palestinian neighborhood of Silwan in occupied East Jerusalem has been on hunger strike outside the Israeli embassy in Berlin since 26 July. Al-Maraghi is striking in protest of the Israeli Ministry of Interior's refusal to include his German-born daughter and wife on his Jerusalem residency permit. Bridget Chappell interviews al-Maraghi for The Electronic Intifada.
1 Sep 2010 at 7:50pm
Bedouin's legal fight threatens Jewish state
Nuri al-Uqbi's small cinderblock home in a ramshackle neighborhood of Hura, a Bedouin town in Israel's Negev desert, hardly looks like the epicenter of a legal struggle that some observers say threatens Israel's Jewish character.
1 Sep 2010 at 7:45pm
Lifta's legacy under threat
There are few villages in historic Palestine which invoke the memories of the Nakba (the 1948 dispossession of the Palestinian people) as does Lifta. However, Lifta's architectural legacy is under threat as Israel moves to Judaize the formerly pluralistic Palestinian village.
1 Sep 2010 at 5:27am
What the wall has done
Israel began constructing the wall in June 2002 following its invasion of cities in the West Bank, which it dubbed "Operation Defensive Shield." The immense scale of the 2002 invasion -- characterized by the destruction of Palestinian civilian infrastructure, mass arrests, assassinations and massacres -- ensured that the construction of the wall would commence with as little resistance as possible. Jamal Juma' comments.
31 Aug 2010 at 10:56am
Diana Buttu: direct talks bound to fail
As US officials arrived in Jerusalem last week to meet with Palestinian Authority and Israeli government officials, The Electronic Intifada interviewed Ramallah-based lawyer and former PLO advisor Diana Buttu about this week's US-brokered direct talks between the two parties.
30 Aug 2010 at 5:25pm
"Solidarity tastes different inside prison"
"My human dignity, basic human rights and constitutional rights are suffering from basic violations. I still have no permit to meet my lawyers without being recorded." The Electronic Intifada publishes an edited excerpt from a 7 August 2010 letter written by Ameer Makhoul from Israeli prison.
30 Aug 2010 at 3:02pm
"Once winter's over, the sun will shine"
When Israel's construction of the wall began in their village May 2008, the people of Nilin embarked on a campaign of unarmed grassroots resistance against the theft of their land. They have followed a philosophy of direct action, cutting through the electronic fence and razor wire on an almost weekly basis. Jody McIntyre interviewed Mohammed Amireh, a leader of the Nilin Popular Committee Against the Wall and Settlements for The Electronic Intifada.
30 Aug 2010 at 10:04am
Art as resistance: "Against the Wall" reviewed
London-based journalist and photographer William Parry's Against the Wall serves as both a political and aesthetic document, perhaps exemplifying the German philosopher Walter Benjamin's famous thesis that "[t]here is no document of culture that is not at the same time a document of barbarism."
30 Aug 2010 at 9:07am
Google: World News
Israeli-Palestinian talks: no breakthroughs, but a way forward - Christian Sc...
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Christian Science Monitor
The Israeli, Palestinian leaders agree to meet again in less than two weeks and to work on a 'framework agreement for permanent status.' Israeli-Palestinian talks: Secretary of State Hillary Clinton (top r.) and Special Envoy George Mitchell (bottom r. ...
Small gains made in Mideast peace talksUSA Today
Middle East talks begin with work planLos Angeles Times
PM, Abbas agree: Deal within a yearHa'aretz
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2 Sep 2010 at 7:05pm
Afghans pull money from troubled Kabul Bank - Los Angeles Times
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Los Angeles Times
Afghans on Thursday rushed to withdraw their savings from troubled Kabul Bank despite attempts by officials to reassure nervous depositors that their money was safe. ...
Afghans Pull Money From Weakened BankNew York Times
Kabul Bank Customers Crowd Branch Seeking Withdrawals as Managers ReplacedBloomberg
Petraeus Plans for Start of US Withdrawal from Afghanistan Next YearVoice of America
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2 Sep 2010 at 4:46pm
Foxed by Blair's lack of regret - The Guardian
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The Guardian
Your editorial (2 September) attributes three election victories to Tony Blair, but it's more accurate to give him two. By the 2005 election he was deeply unpopular and his campaign had to be rescued by Gordon Brown. A lot of humility is called for on ...
Review & Outlook: Tony Blair on the PanicWall Street Journal
Propping up a prime ministerBBC News
Tony Blair memoir: I'd do Iraq again, and I considered firing Gordon BrownChristian Science Monitor
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2 Sep 2010 at 6:06pm
No guarantee I'll back Coalition: Katter - The Australian
Telegraph.co.uk
The Australian
Independent MP Bob Katter explains his policy wish-list to reporters at Parliament House in Canberra. Picture: Kym Smith Source: The Australian INDEPENDENT Bob Katter warns a wish-list of demands sent to Julia Gillard and Tony Abbott should not be ...
RPT-Australia PM commits to tighter gambling rulesReuters
Rudd twists Katter's arm to back LaborSydney Morning Herald
Independent Sides With Australia Labor PartyWall Street Journal
New York Times -NEWS.com.au -ABC Online
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2 Sep 2010 at 7:50pm
In Denying a Sex Scandal, a British Minister Focuses Attention on the Issue -...
Telegraph.co.uk
New York Times
LONDON ? In a country that is no stranger to sex scandals in politics, the latest flare-up has been one of the strangest of all. John Giles/Press Association, via Associated Press BritishForeign Secretary William Hague, left, ...
Britain's David Cameron defends Cabinet member in scandalLos Angeles Times
William Hague finds judgment questioned as Fleet Street digs inThe Guardian
William Hague showed 'poor judgment' over hotel roomTelegraph.co.uk
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2 Sep 2010 at 7:05pm
Manila to probe Hong Kong hostage coffin 'mix-up' - BBC News
Northwest Asian Weekly
BBC News
The Philippines says it will investigate claims that coffins of three of Hong Kong's eight victims of a bus hijacking were wrongly labelled. The pledge comes after Hong Kong's officials said the mix-up was discovered at a morgue after the coffins had ...
Philippine authorities hope hostage re-enactment provides cluesGulfNews
5-member body starts 3-day probe of hostage dramaInquirer.net
Hong Kong police inspect Manila hostage busNorthwest Asian Weekly
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2 Sep 2010 at 6:09am
North Korea Appears Ready to Extend Dynastic Rule - New York Times
The Chosun Ilbo
New York Times
SEOUL, South Korea ? Kim Jong-il, the North Korean leader, is expected to convene a rare congress of the ruling Workers' Party in coming days to pave the way for his son to succeed him, a feat of political engineering that would be a ...
China calls for compromise on NKorea talksThe Associated Press
Hu Jintao 'Declined Invitation to N.Korea'The Chosun Ilbo
South Korea's Top Nuclear Negotiator Leaves For USRTT News
Xinhua -UPI.com -Asia Times Online
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2 Sep 2010 at 6:25pm
Religious Minorities Suffering Worst in Pakistan Floods - TIME
Globe and Mail
TIME
A policeman removes his motorcycle from the scene as angry protesters burn a vehicle during reaction over after bomb attack during a Shi'ite Muslim procession in Lahore September 1, 2010. ...
Pakistani Officials Caution Against Large Outdoor Religious CeremoniesVoice of America
Pakistan Shiites mourn those killed in triple bombThe Associated Press
Pakistan mourns as Lahore toll upBBC News
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2 Sep 2010 at 7:09pm
Seven die in Mozambique food rioting - Financial Times
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Financial Times
The first food riots since the 2007-08 crisis have left seven people dead and at least 280 injured in Maputo, the Mozambican government said on Thursday. The unrest in the country's capital followed the government's ...
At least 1 dead in second day of Mozambique riotsCNN International
Shots heard in Mozambique capitalBBC News
Mozambique price riots continueAljazeera.net
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2 Sep 2010 at 4:45pm
Germany Must Consider How It Makes Bank Appointments - Wall Street Journal
The Guardian
Wall Street Journal
The decision by Germany's central bank to request that one of its governors be sacked after broadcasting racially-charged views sets the stage for a messy legal struggle on contract law, free speech and a subject many in Berlin heartily ...
A Messenger Is Denounced, but His Book Grips GermanyNew York Times
Fischer applauds German central bankHa'aretz
Bundesbank pushes to dismiss board member SarrazinInternational Business Times
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2 Sep 2010 at 5:55pm