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PA security man found dead in Ramallah
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Jerusalem Post by Khaled Abu Toameh - February 6, 2013 - 1:00am The body of a Palestinian security officer was discovered on Tuesday in his apartment in Ramallah. The officer, Hassan Jalayta, 40, from Jericho, had been summoned for questioning by his commanders. Jalayta left his family home in Jericho on Tuesday morning and was supposed to report for questioning, but did not show up, a Palestinian Authority security source said. The source did not say why the officer, who worked for the Preventive Security Service, had been summoned for questioning in Ramallah. |
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Israel's Netanyahu hits snags in building team
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Associated Press by Josef Federman - February 5, 2013 - 1:00am As Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu prepares to take office for a third time, his attempts to form a new coalition government have gotten off to a rocky start. |
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Finance minister: PA budget $3.6 billion for 2013
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Ma'an News Agency February 5, 2013 - 1:00am The Palestinian Authority government is working on a draft budget of $3.6 billion for 2013, set for approval by the end of the month, the PA finance minister said Tuesday. The budget contains a number of measures to try and reduce the budget deficit and increase revenues, Nabil Qassis told Ma'an. “We decided to adopt a united taxation system in attempt to limit tax evasion. In addition, we raised taxes on car imports and purchase, and these procedures are expected to yield $50 million a year,” he said. |
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A time to dream in Washington, D.C.
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Daily Star by Rami Khouri - (Opinion) February 6, 2013 - 1:00am We will find out in coming months whether the second term of the Obamaadministration will herald any significant changes in |
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Gaza rights groups question police use of force
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Ma'an News Agency February 6, 2013 - 1:00am Human rights groups in the Gaza Strip are calling for authorities to investigate police use of force against civilians after the death of a suspected drug trafficker last week. Atiya Suleiman Qishta, 41, was killed on Saturday after he was shot in the back by an anti-drug unit of the Gaza police force. Police sources told the Palestinian Center for Human Rights that eight officers laid an ambush for the car as part of an attempted drug bust, but when Qishta stepped out of the vehicle he refused police orders to stop and attempted to flee. |
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Ahmadinejad: Iran already a nuclear state, but has no intention of launching attack on Israel
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Haaretz by Jack Khoury - February 6, 2013 - 1:00am Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says that while Iran is already a nuclear state, it has no intention of attacking Israel. |
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Obama's Israel visit may mark rebirth of 'centrality' of the Palestinian conflict
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Haaretz by Chemi Shalev - (Opinion) February 6, 2013 - 1:00am As George Mallory famously said about Mount Everest, President Obamais going to visit Israel, first and foremost, “because it’s there.” After the heaps of criticism and mounds of condemnation hurled at him for avoiding Israel after his Cairo speech and throughout his first term, there was no way that Obama was going to let Air Force 1 enter Middle East air space wit |
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Argentine foreign minister accuses Israel of giving 'ammunition to anti-Semites,' sources say
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Haaretz by Barak Ravid - February 6, 2013 - 1:00am Argentine Foreign Minister Hector Timerman accused Israel of giving "ammunition to anti-Semites who accuse Jews of dual loyalty" as part of an exceptionally harsh dressing down of Israel's ambassador Dorit Shavit, sources say. The incident was sparked by Israel's efforts to obtain explanations about an agreement Argentina and Iran signed around two weeks ago. |
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Burden of proof
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Daily Star (Editorial) February 6, 2013 - 1:00am Tuesday’s news, that Bulgaria is investigating Hezbollah’s possible responsibility for a deadly bombing there last year comes at a critically important time for the party. |
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Israel boosts defences along Syria, Lebanon borders
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Reuters by Ari Rabinovitch - February 6, 2013 - 1:00am Israel has deployed a third Iron Dome missile defence system near its northern borders with Syria and Lebanon, security sources said on Tuesday. The Iron Dome systems have been deployed alongside a U.S.-supplied Patriot battery, which has been stationed in the north for years, as Israel is on the alert for weapons leaking out of the Syrian civil war that could be turned on the Jewish state. Two Iron Dome batteries, which use radar-guided interceptor missiles to shoot down short-ranged rockets, had already been deployed there. |