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Palestinian rivals agree to form unity government
(Reuters)
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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(AP)
AP - Israeli prime minister: Palestinian reconciliation deal abandons 'way of peace.'
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Israel condemns Palestinian reconciliation deal
(AP)
AP - Israel's prime minister says it will be impossible to hold peace talks if the Palestinians go through with a new reconciliation deal.
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HRW calls for Palestinian residency rights
(AP)
 AP - A Gaza-born woman recently sneaked into her native land through a smugglers' tunnel because the legal route was blocked. A car mechanic who settled in the West Bank 15 years ago to raise a family lives in fear of deportation because his ID card says he's originally from Gaza.
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Palestinian rivals hold unity talks in Qatar
(AP)
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.
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Israeli prospector says natural gas found offshore
(AP)
AP - American and Israeli gas prospectors say they have discovered a large amount of offshore natural gas in Israeli waters near the Lebanese border.
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Top Hamas member leaves Syria because of uprising
(AP)
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.
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Bahrain opposition launch week-long rally for reform
(Reuters)
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.
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Palestinians: Home sprayed with 'Death to Arabs'
(AP)
 AP - Palestinians say extremist Jews have scrawled their home in a West Bank village with offensive graffiti in retaliation for an upcoming demolition of a wildcat Jewish outpost.
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Bahrainis hold independent dialogue over political crisis
(Reuters)
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.
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Palestinians call for PM's fall over taxes
(AP)
 AP - Hundreds of Palestinian protesters have called for their prime minister's resignation over recent tax and price increases.
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Israeli Defense minister implies a strike on Iran nuclear program is near
(The Christian Science Monitor)
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.
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Bahrain police break up opposition protest in capital
(Reuters)
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.
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Israel: New subsidies don't apply to settlements
(AP)
 AP - New financial incentives designed to lure Israelis to poorer, outlying areas have been revised to exclude West Bank settlements, officials said Thursday.
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Bahrain revisited by head of unrest report
(AP)
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.
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Palestinians throw shoes, stones at U.N. convoy
(Reuters)
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.
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Turkey and Hamas grow close
(AP)
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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Israelis decry Palestinian praise of killer
(AP)
 AP - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's latest complaints about Palestinian "hate speech," after relatives of the killer of a Jewish settler family praised him in a phone call to the official Palestine TV, spotlight the intense animosity and mutual distrust that have blocked peace talks for years.
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Bahrain boils as uprising nears 1-year mark
(AP)
 AP - It's usually well after midnight before Bahrain takes a breather.
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4 Hezbollah members to be tried in Lebanon killing
(AP)
AP - The special court investigating the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri said Wednesday it will try four Hezbollah members indicted in the case in absentia.
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