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All rights reserved. http://news.yahoo.com/world/mideast-conflict world Mideast Conflict en-us Tue, 09 Feb 2010 20:17:03 GMT 5 142 18 http://news.yahoo.com/world/mideast-conflict http://l.yimg.com/a/i/us/nws/th/main_142c.gif http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mideast/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100209/wl_mideast_afp/mideastisraelusmediaindustrynewspapersnytimes afp/20100209/mideastisraelusmediaindustrynewspapersnytimes AFP world Tue, 09 Feb 2010 20:17:03 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mideast/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100209/wl_mideast_afp/mideastisraelusmediaindustrynewspapersnytimes"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20100209/capt.photo_1265746587762-1-0.jpg?x=89&y=130&q=85&sig=HAylSyjo122I7SxY8pjXFg--" align="left" height="130" width="89" alt="New York Times executive editor Bill Keller, pictured in 2008, has rejected a call by the newspaper's ombudsman for the Jerusalem bureau chief of the Times to be reassigned because his son is serving in the Israeli army.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Scott Gries)" border="0" /></a>AFP - New York Times executive editor Bill Keller has rejected a call by the newspaper's ombudsman for the Jerusalem bureau chief of the Times to be reassigned because his son is serving in the Israeli army.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mideast/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100209/wl_mideast_afp/mideastisraelusmediaindustrynewspapersnytimes"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20100209/capt.photo_1265746587762-1-0.jpg?x=89&y=130&q=85&sig=HAylSyjo122I7SxY8pjXFg--" align="left" height="130" width="89" alt="photo" title="New York Times executive editor Bill Keller, pictured in 2008, has rejected a call by the newspaper's ombudsman for the Jerusalem bureau chief of the Times to be reassigned because his son is serving in the Israeli army.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Scott Gries)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mideast/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100209/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_israel_palestinians ap/20100209/ml_israel_palestinians AP world Tue, 09 Feb 2010 18:44:53 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mideast/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100209/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_israel_palestinians"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100209/capt.713bb067ed434d5bb3d4960fb151026a.mideast_israel_palestinians_jrl123.jpg?x=130&y=80&q=85&sig=kAEvo3cMk11W4SIowYImRA--" align="left" height="80" width="130" alt="Palestinian boys and youths throw stones at an Israeli Border Police jeep in Shuafat refugee camp in east Jerusalem, Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2010. Palestinians scuffled with Israeli security forces in the camp, after an arrest operation triggered clashes in the camp the day before. (AP Photo/Muammar Awad)" border="0" /></a>AP - The Israeli government has stepped in to save a house built illegally by Jewish settlers in a volatile Palestinian neighborhood in east Jerusalem, complicating already troubled U.S. efforts to renew Mideast peacemaking.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mideast/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100209/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_israel_palestinians"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100209/capt.713bb067ed434d5bb3d4960fb151026a.mideast_israel_palestinians_jrl123.jpg?x=130&y=80&q=85&sig=kAEvo3cMk11W4SIowYImRA--" align="left" height="80" width="130" alt="photo" title="Palestinian boys and youths throw stones at an Israeli Border Police jeep in Shuafat refugee camp in east Jerusalem, Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2010. Palestinians scuffled with Israeli security forces in the camp, after an arrest operation triggered clashes in the camp the day before. (AP Photo/Muammar Awad)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mideast/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100209/wl_mideast_afp/mideastconflictjerusalemdemo afp/20100209/mideastconflictjerusalemdemo AFP world Tue, 09 Feb 2010 16:10:36 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mideast/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100209/wl_mideast_afp/mideastconflictjerusalemdemo"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20100209/capt.photo_1265731804753-1-0.jpg?x=86&y=130&q=85&sig=AbFu9A2_23ymOAJQ8sefQA--" align="left" height="130" width="86" alt="A Palestinian youth is arrested by Israeli border policemen following clashes with Israeli forces at the Shuafat refugee camp in Jerusalem. Israeli security forces arrested nine Palestinians in a second raid in as many days in the refugee camp in mainly Arab east Jerusalem after youths hurled stones at them.(AFP/Menahem Kahana)" border="0" /></a>AFP - Israeli security forces on Tuesday arrested nine Palestinians in a second raid in as many days in a refugee camp in mainly Arab east Jerusalem after youths hurled stones at them.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mideast/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100209/wl_mideast_afp/mideastconflictjerusalemdemo"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20100209/capt.photo_1265731804753-1-0.jpg?x=86&y=130&q=85&sig=AbFu9A2_23ymOAJQ8sefQA--" align="left" height="130" width="86" alt="photo" title="A Palestinian youth is arrested by Israeli border policemen following clashes with Israeli forces at the Shuafat refugee camp in Jerusalem. Israeli security forces arrested nine Palestinians in a second raid in as many days in the refugee camp in mainly Arab east Jerusalem after youths hurled stones at them.(AFP/Menahem Kahana)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mideast/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100209/wl_mideast_afp/mideastconflictpeaceazerbaijan afp/20100209/mideastconflictpeaceazerbaijan AFP world Tue, 09 Feb 2010 15:41:34 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mideast/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100209/wl_mideast_afp/mideastconflictpeaceazerbaijan"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20100209/capt.photo_1265730015581-1-0.jpg?x=92&y=130&q=85&sig=MLTxz_xu222aF3ClLm8Exg--" align="left" height="130" width="92" alt="Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman speaks during a Yisrael Beiteinu party meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem. Indirect Middle East peace talks should begin soon, Lieberman said in the first public comment by an Israeli official on a US initiative.(AFP/Gali Tibbon)" border="0" /></a>AFP - Indirect Middle East peace talks should begin soon, Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman said on Tuesday in the first public comment by an Israeli official on a US initiative.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mideast/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100209/wl_mideast_afp/mideastconflictpeaceazerbaijan"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20100209/capt.photo_1265730015581-1-0.jpg?x=92&y=130&q=85&sig=MLTxz_xu222aF3ClLm8Exg--" align="left" height="130" width="92" alt="photo" title="Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman speaks during a Yisrael Beiteinu party meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem. Indirect Middle East peace talks should begin soon, Lieberman said in the first public comment by an Israeli official on a US initiative.(AFP/Gali Tibbon)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mideast/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100209/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_palestinians_security_challenge ap/20100209/ml_palestinians_security_challenge AP world Tue, 09 Feb 2010 15:14:30 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mideast/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100209/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_palestinians_security_challenge"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100208/capt.2b5d8fafc8bb4739b4bd165fc31c7f5c.aptopix_mideast_israel_palestinians_jrl125.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=hq9AAm1JLPBySMDqWklCjw--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="Palestinian security cadets train with fake guns during a drill at a training base in the West Bank city of Jericho, Monday, Feb. 8, 2010. The Palestinian government in the West Bank has announced plans to hold municipal elections on July 17. It will be the first election in the Palestinian territories since the Islamic militant Hamas wrested control of Gaza from Abbas in 2007, leaving him with only the West Bank. (AP Photo/ Tara Todras-Whitehill)" border="0" /></a>AP - The security men brandished their weapons and ordered the suspicious car to halt, forcing the occupants to get out and put their hands in their air. The suspects were quickly handcuffed, frisked and made to kneel on the ground as the vehicle was swept for explosives.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mideast/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100209/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_palestinians_security_challenge"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100208/capt.2b5d8fafc8bb4739b4bd165fc31c7f5c.aptopix_mideast_israel_palestinians_jrl125.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=hq9AAm1JLPBySMDqWklCjw--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="photo" title="Palestinian security cadets train with fake guns during a drill at a training base in the West Bank city of Jericho, Monday, Feb. 8, 2010. The Palestinian government in the West Bank has announced plans to hold municipal elections on July 17. It will be the first election in the Palestinian territories since the Islamic militant Hamas wrested control of Gaza from Abbas in 2007, leaving him with only the West Bank. (AP Photo/ Tara Todras-Whitehill)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mideast/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100209/wl_mideast_afp/mideastconflictunrefugeesjordan afp/20100209/mideastconflictunrefugeesjordan AFP world Tue, 09 Feb 2010 14:57:25 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mideast/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100209/wl_mideast_afp/mideastconflictunrefugeesjordan"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20100209/capt.photo_1265727370275-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=88&q=85&sig=6NC2PLFucpUuUHD4L8.XOA--" align="left" height="88" width="130" alt="A Palestinian woman looks out of her tent in Jabalia's Ezbet Abed Rabbo district, an area heavily hit during Israeli's war last winter. The cash-strapped UN agency for Palestinian refugees said it needs at least 100 million dollars this year to continue its services for millions of refugees in the Middle East.(AFP/File/Mohammed Abed)" border="0" /></a>AFP - The cash-strapped UN agency for Palestinian refugees said on Tuesday it needs at least 100 million dollars this year to continue its services for millions of refugees in the Middle East.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mideast/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100209/wl_mideast_afp/mideastconflictunrefugeesjordan"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20100209/capt.photo_1265727370275-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=88&q=85&sig=6NC2PLFucpUuUHD4L8.XOA--" align="left" height="88" width="130" alt="photo" title="A Palestinian woman looks out of her tent in Jabalia's Ezbet Abed Rabbo district, an area heavily hit during Israeli's war last winter. The cash-strapped UN agency for Palestinian refugees said it needs at least 100 million dollars this year to continue its services for millions of refugees in the Middle East.(AFP/File/Mohammed Abed)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mideast/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100209/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_jordan_un_palestinians ap/20100209/ml_jordan_un_palestinians AP world Tue, 09 Feb 2010 14:27:56 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mideast/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100209/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_jordan_un_palestinians"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100209/capt.9b92bd19d7e542ff8f021b82d565fe9d.mideast_jordan_u_n__palestinians_amm101.jpg?x=109&y=130&q=85&sig=1a5mlTo6nw7qy51g4uKzJA--" align="left" height="130" width="109" alt="New UNRWA Commissioner-General Filippo Grandi speaks during a press conference in Amman, Jordan, Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2010. Grandi appealed for an additional $100 million to meet operating costs and improve education, health and social services. (AP Photo / Nader Daoud)" border="0" /></a>AP - The head of the U.N. agency aiding Palestinian refugees is warning of a looming funding shortfall and appealing for another $100 million.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mideast/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100209/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_jordan_un_palestinians"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100209/capt.9b92bd19d7e542ff8f021b82d565fe9d.mideast_jordan_u_n__palestinians_amm101.jpg?x=109&y=130&q=85&sig=1a5mlTo6nw7qy51g4uKzJA--" align="left" height="130" width="109" alt="photo" title="New UNRWA Commissioner-General Filippo Grandi speaks during a press conference in Amman, Jordan, Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2010. Grandi appealed for an additional $100 million to meet operating costs and improve education, health and social services. (AP Photo / Nader Daoud)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mideast/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100209/wl_nm/us_palestinians_israel_abbas nm/20100209/us_palestinians_israel_abbas Reuters world Tue, 09 Feb 2010 06:46:38 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mideast/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100209/wl_nm/us_palestinians_israel_abbas"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20100209/i/r1797353254.jpg?x=130&y=90&q=85&sig=KCScPULFE59jh5VQbrVXKQ--" align="left" height="90" width="130" alt="Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas speaks during a news conference after talks with German Chancellor Angela Merkel at the Chancellery in Berlin February 1 , 2010. REUTERS/Thomas Peter" border="0" /></a>Reuters - Palestinian leaders have not set specific terms on which they would accept a U.S. offer to mediate indirect peace talks with Israel, and expect clarification on such talks in a week, President Mahmoud Abbas said on Tuesday.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mideast/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100209/wl_nm/us_palestinians_israel_abbas"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20100209/i/r1797353254.jpg?x=130&y=90&q=85&sig=KCScPULFE59jh5VQbrVXKQ--" align="left" height="90" width="130" alt="photo" title="Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas speaks during a news conference after talks with German Chancellor Angela Merkel at the Chancellery in Berlin February 1 , 2010. REUTERS/Thomas Peter" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (Reuters) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mideast/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100208/wl_nm/us_yemen nm/20100208/us_yemen Reuters world Mon, 08 Feb 2010 20:25:20 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mideast/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100208/wl_nm/us_yemen"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20100208/i/r2227433061.jpg?x=130&y=80&q=85&sig=Wq8VXm8F0SF.RrB3.a2obw--" align="left" height="80" width="130" alt="Members of Yemen's anti-terrorism unit fire their weapons during a training exercise near the Yemeni capital Sanaa, January 16, 2010. REUTERS/Khaled Abdullah" border="0" /></a>Reuters - The Yemen-based wing of al Qaeda called for a regional Muslim holy war and a blockade of the Red Sea to cut off U.S. shipments to Israel, a further sign of the group's ambitions to mount new strikes outside its base.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mideast/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100208/wl_nm/us_yemen"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20100208/i/r2227433061.jpg?x=130&y=80&q=85&sig=Wq8VXm8F0SF.RrB3.a2obw--" align="left" height="80" width="130" alt="photo" title="Members of Yemen's anti-terrorism unit fire their weapons during a training exercise near the Yemeni capital Sanaa, January 16, 2010. REUTERS/Khaled Abdullah" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (Reuters) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mideast/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100208/wl_nm/us_palestinians_israel nm/20100208/us_palestinians_israel Reuters world Mon, 08 Feb 2010 19:52:49 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mideast/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100208/wl_nm/us_palestinians_israel"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20100208/i/r3220599126.jpg?x=130&y=93&q=85&sig=Sz_zksdQiMsNANEO9s_xRg--" align="left" height="93" width="130" alt="A Palestinian stone-thrower (L) runs away from an Israeli border police officer during clashes in the Shuafat refugee camp in the West Bank near Jerusalem February 8, 2010. REUTERS/Ammar Awad" border="0" /></a>Reuters - More than a dozen people were injured when Israeli police confronted Palestinian protesters in a refugee camp at the edge of Jerusalem on Monday, violence stoked by rising tensions over a stalemate in peace talks.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mideast/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100208/wl_nm/us_palestinians_israel"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20100208/i/r3220599126.jpg?x=130&y=93&q=85&sig=Sz_zksdQiMsNANEO9s_xRg--" align="left" height="93" width="130" alt="photo" title="A Palestinian stone-thrower (L) runs away from an Israeli border police officer during clashes in the Shuafat refugee camp in the West Bank near Jerusalem February 8, 2010. REUTERS/Ammar Awad" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (Reuters) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mideast/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100208/wl_mideast_afp/mideastisraelpalestiniansgazaconflictun afp/20100208/mideastisraelpalestiniansgazaconflictun AFP world Mon, 08 Feb 2010 18:55:51 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mideast/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100208/wl_mideast_afp/mideastisraelpalestiniansgazaconflictun"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20100208/capt.photo_1265655114826-1-0.jpg?x=89&y=130&q=85&sig=l6HgVAfTvMp_2RURwFLqVQ--" align="left" height="130" width="89" alt="Israel's supreme court president, Dorit Beinish, seen here in 2006, came out in favour of a commission of inquiry into the Gaza war as called for by the United Nations in its Goldstone report.(AFP/POOL/File/Yonathan Weitzman)" border="0" /></a>AFP - Israel's supreme court president, Dorit Beinish, on Monday came out in favour of a commission of inquiry into the Gaza war as called for by the United Nations in its Goldstone report.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mideast/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100208/wl_mideast_afp/mideastisraelpalestiniansgazaconflictun"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20100208/capt.photo_1265655114826-1-0.jpg?x=89&y=130&q=85&sig=l6HgVAfTvMp_2RURwFLqVQ--" align="left" height="130" width="89" alt="photo" title="Israel's supreme court president, Dorit Beinish, seen here in 2006, came out in favour of a commission of inquiry into the Gaza war as called for by the United Nations in its Goldstone report.(AFP/POOL/File/Yonathan Weitzman)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mideast/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100208/ap_on_re_eu/eu_russia_israel_hamas ap/20100208/eu_russia_israel_hamas AP world Mon, 08 Feb 2010 17:25:16 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mideast/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100208/ap_on_re_eu/eu_russia_israel_hamas"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100208/capt.839d20cc492b4d89b8a3cea9d6bc098c.russia_hamas_mosb101.jpg?x=130&y=110&q=85&sig=6F2id40u4djKHvLr8NCW7w--" align="left" height="110" width="130" alt="Hamas militant group leader Khaled Mashaal shakes hands with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, right, during a meeting in Moscow on Monday, Feb. 8, 2010. (AP photo)" border="0" /></a>AP - The leader of Hamas said Monday he sees "no prospects' for a Mideast peace settlement, a stand that could reduce Russia's chances of holding a Middle East peace conference that includes the Palestinian militant group.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mideast/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100208/ap_on_re_eu/eu_russia_israel_hamas"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100208/capt.839d20cc492b4d89b8a3cea9d6bc098c.russia_hamas_mosb101.jpg?x=130&y=110&q=85&sig=6F2id40u4djKHvLr8NCW7w--" align="left" height="110" width="130" alt="photo" title="Hamas militant group leader Khaled Mashaal shakes hands with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, right, during a meeting in Moscow on Monday, Feb. 8, 2010. (AP photo)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mideast/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100208/wl_mideast_afp/mideastpalestinianpoliticsvote afp/20100208/mideastpalestinianpoliticsvote AFP world Mon, 08 Feb 2010 16:53:52 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mideast/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100208/wl_mideast_afp/mideastpalestinianpoliticsvote"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20100208/capt.photo_1265647980748-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=82&q=85&sig=LJ1knMaGM4JwcGd.dxy3Gg--" align="left" height="82" width="130" alt="Palestinians take part in a protest calling for the release of prisoners from Israeli jails in the West Bank city of Betunya. The Western-backed Palestinian Authority said it would hold local elections in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip on July 17.(AFP/File/Abbas Momani)" border="0" /></a>AFP - The Western-backed Palestinian Authority said on Monday it would hold local elections in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip on July 17.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mideast/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100208/wl_mideast_afp/mideastpalestinianpoliticsvote"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20100208/capt.photo_1265647980748-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=82&q=85&sig=LJ1knMaGM4JwcGd.dxy3Gg--" align="left" height="82" width="130" alt="photo" title="Palestinians take part in a protest calling for the release of prisoners from Israeli jails in the West Bank city of Betunya. The Western-backed Palestinian Authority said it would hold local elections in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip on July 17.(AFP/File/Abbas Momani)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mideast/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100208/pl_afp/mideastussyriadiplomacy afp/20100208/mideastussyriadiplomacy AFP politics Mon, 08 Feb 2010 15:35:13 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mideast/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100208/pl_afp/mideastussyriadiplomacy"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20100208/capt.photo_1265643286114-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=peIAxfzFs.sVKPEmuZiNQw--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="Aaron David Miller, Public Policy Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson Center, leads a panel discussion in 2006, in Washington DC. Miller, who was a Middle East adviser in past US administrations, said Washington can achieve modest objectives with Syria, such as intelligence sharing, but he set expectations low.(AFP/Tim Sloan)" border="0" /></a>AFP - The Obama team may get modest benefits from ending a five-year chill with Damascus but will find it hard, if not impossible to peel Syria way from hardline ally Iran and break the Arab-Israeli stalemate, analysts said.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mideast/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100208/pl_afp/mideastussyriadiplomacy"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20100208/capt.photo_1265643286114-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=peIAxfzFs.sVKPEmuZiNQw--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="photo" title="Aaron David Miller, Public Policy Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson Center, leads a panel discussion in 2006, in Washington DC. Miller, who was a Middle East adviser in past US administrations, said Washington can achieve modest objectives with Syria, such as intelligence sharing, but he set expectations low.(AFP/Tim Sloan)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mideast/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100208/wl_mideast_afp/mideastconflictegyptarabisraelun afp/20100208/mideastconflictegyptarabisraelun AFP world Mon, 08 Feb 2010 15:33:39 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mideast/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100208/wl_mideast_afp/mideastconflictegyptarabisraelun"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20100208/capt.photo_1265640735111-1-0.jpg?x=88&y=130&q=85&sig=q6.70yHabvzhOXhS_BxyEA--" align="left" height="130" width="88" alt="Egyptian guards carry the body of a comrade who was shot during clashes with Palestinians at Rafah. The head of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA), Filippo Grandi, has urged Egypt and the Arab League to press Israel to allow reconstruction equipment into the blockaded Gaza Strip.(AFP/File/Mohammed Abed)" border="0" /></a>AFP - The head of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, Filippo Grandi, on Monday urged Egypt and the Arab League to press Israel to allow reconstruction equipment into the blockaded Gaza Strip.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mideast/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100208/wl_mideast_afp/mideastconflictegyptarabisraelun"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20100208/capt.photo_1265640735111-1-0.jpg?x=88&y=130&q=85&sig=q6.70yHabvzhOXhS_BxyEA--" align="left" height="130" width="88" alt="photo" title="Egyptian guards carry the body of a comrade who was shot during clashes with Palestinians at Rafah. The head of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA), Filippo Grandi, has urged Egypt and the Arab League to press Israel to allow reconstruction equipment into the blockaded Gaza Strip.(AFP/File/Mohammed Abed)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mideast/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100208/wl_mideast_afp/mideastconflictjerusalempolice afp/20100208/mideastconflictjerusalempolice AFP world Mon, 08 Feb 2010 15:02:46 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mideast/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100208/wl_mideast_afp/mideastconflictjerusalempolice"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20100208/capt.photo_1265617397397-2-0.jpg?x=130&y=84&q=85&sig=t22lOyg_HGfrB3gW8kdFYg--" align="left" height="84" width="130" alt="A general view shows the Palestinian Shuafat refugee camp behind Israel?s separation barrier in east Jerusalem, on December 31, 2009. Israeli security forces raided on Monday a Palestinian refugee camp in annexed east Jerusalem, arresting 11 people in what police said was an operation aimed at "putting order" in the area.(AFP/File/Ahmad Gharabli)" border="0" /></a>AFP - Israeli security forces Monday raided a Palestinian refugee camp in annexed east Jerusalem, arresting 11 people in an operation police said was aimed at putting "some order" in the area.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mideast/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100208/wl_mideast_afp/mideastconflictjerusalempolice"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20100208/capt.photo_1265617397397-2-0.jpg?x=130&y=84&q=85&sig=t22lOyg_HGfrB3gW8kdFYg--" align="left" height="84" width="130" alt="photo" title="A general view shows the Palestinian Shuafat refugee camp behind Israel?s separation barrier in east Jerusalem, on December 31, 2009. Israeli security forces raided on Monday a Palestinian refugee camp in annexed east Jerusalem, arresting 11 people in what police said was an operation aimed at "putting order" in the area.(AFP/File/Ahmad Gharabli)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mideast/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100208/wl_nm/us_palestinians_israel_jerusalem nm/20100208/us_palestinians_israel_jerusalem Reuters world Mon, 08 Feb 2010 14:42:19 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mideast/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100208/wl_nm/us_palestinians_israel_jerusalem"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20100208/i/r3172374298.jpg?x=130&y=97&q=85&sig=1_N5PK3CImaO2a6rk6OWxw--" align="left" height="97" width="130" alt="A Palestinian youth prepares to hurl a stone at Israeli border police vehicles in the Shuafat refugee camp in the West Bank near Jerusalem February 8, 2010. The Palestinian refugee camp on the edge of Jerusalem erupted in violence on Monday after Israeli police carried out a raid to arrest tax evaders and Palestinians responded by throwing stones. REUTERS/Ammar Awad" border="0" /></a>Reuters - A Palestinian refugee camp on the edge of Jerusalem erupted in violence on Monday after Israeli police carried out a raid to arrest tax evaders and Palestinians responded by throwing stones.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mideast/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100208/wl_nm/us_palestinians_israel_jerusalem"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20100208/i/r3172374298.jpg?x=130&y=97&q=85&sig=1_N5PK3CImaO2a6rk6OWxw--" align="left" height="97" width="130" alt="photo" title="A Palestinian youth prepares to hurl a stone at Israeli border police vehicles in the Shuafat refugee camp in the West Bank near Jerusalem February 8, 2010. The Palestinian refugee camp on the edge of Jerusalem erupted in violence on Monday after Israeli police carried out a raid to arrest tax evaders and Palestinians responded by throwing stones. REUTERS/Ammar Awad" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (Reuters) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mideast/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100208/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_israel_foreigners_arrested ap/20100208/ml_israel_foreigners_arrested AP world Mon, 08 Feb 2010 14:14:05 GMT AP - A pro-Palestinian organization says Israel's Supreme Court has ordered the release of two of its activists who were arrested in a West Bank raid. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mideast/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100208/wl_mideast_afp/mideastconflictwbankdemoarrest afp/20100208/mideastconflictwbankdemoarrest AFP world Mon, 08 Feb 2010 13:50:55 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mideast/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100208/wl_mideast_afp/mideastconflictwbankdemoarrest"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20100208/capt.photo_1265636988890-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=1jHGngpF9yU8ncIamrqlTw--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="Israeli soldiers on patrol in the West Bank city of Hebron in August. Israel's Supreme Court ordered authorities to release two foreign activists seized in a Palestinian-controlled part of the West Bank, their lawyer said.(Hazem Bader/AFP/File)" border="0" /></a>AFP - Israel's Supreme Court on Monday ordered authorities to release two foreign activists seized in a Palestinian-controlled part of the West Bank, their lawyer said.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mideast/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100208/wl_mideast_afp/mideastconflictwbankdemoarrest"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20100208/capt.photo_1265636988890-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=1jHGngpF9yU8ncIamrqlTw--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="photo" title="Israeli soldiers on patrol in the West Bank city of Hebron in August. Israel's Supreme Court ordered authorities to release two foreign activists seized in a Palestinian-controlled part of the West Bank, their lawyer said.(Hazem Bader/AFP/File)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mideast/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100208/ap_on_re_eu/eu_russia_hamas ap/20100208/eu_russia_hamas AP world Mon, 08 Feb 2010 13:07:04 GMT AP - The leader of the Palestinian militant group Hamas is visiting Moscow as Russia seeks to expand its role in Middle East peacemaking.