Top Headlines
13/06/2011
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- Erdogan wins third term with nearly 50 percent of vote (Jerusalem Post, 13/6)
- Abbas says prefers talks with Israel over UN vote on Palestinian state (Haaretz, 13/6)
- Impasse as Hamas rejects Fatah’s nomination for prime minister (Independent, 13/6)
- Syrian force brought death and destruction to rebel town (Times, 13/6)
- Bedouin children hope their West Bank school will be spared Israel’s bulldozers (Guardian, 13/6)
- Syrian troops bombard border town (Guardian, 13/6)
- David Mamet launches tirade against ‘antisemitism’ of British writers (Observer, 12/6)
- This much I know: Tony Blair (Observer, 12/6)
- Syrian troops accused of firing on locals trying to flee Jisr al-Shughour (Guardian, 11/6)
- Iran claims agent infiltrated opposition and foreign intelligence units (Guardian, 10/6)
- Tel Aviv’s Gay Pride parade draws thousands to the city (Guardian, 10/6)
- Israel’s right to exist does not mean its government can act with impunity | Peter Beaumont (Guardian, 10/6)
- Lower intermediate: Marathon brings fun to all corners of Gaza (Guardian, 10/6)
- Israel launches campaign before Palestinian statehood vote (Guardian, 10/6)
- Syria: mass grave discovered in northern town (Daily Telegraph, 13/6)
- Syria’s ‘Butcher of Hama’ living in 10 million Mayfair townhouse (Daily Telegraph, 13/6)
- Assad’s tanks move in on Syria’s exodus town (Sunday Telegraph, 12/6)
- Syrian troops launch attacks on rebel stronghold (Independent, 13/6)
- Thousands flee Syria across Turkish border (Independent on Sunday, 12/6)
- Israel’s diplomatic drive to block Palestinian UN bid (Independent, 11/6)
- Hopes for democracy fade as civil wars grip the Arab world (Independent on Sunday, 12/6)
- Iranian security forces attack protestors on anniversary of disputed election (Times, 13/6)
- AKP sweeps to third term in Turkey (Financial Times, 13/6)
- Syrian tanks take Jisr al-Shughour (Financial Times, 13/6)
- Syrian troops defect as shelling drives thousands to Turkey (Sunday Times, 12/6)
- Army defied Netanyahu’s call for raid on Iran (Sunday Times, 12/6)
- Thousands of Syrian refugees in Turkey (Financial Times, 12/6)
- Stanley Fischer running for head of IMF (Financial Times, 12/6)
- Hamas reject Fayyad as Palestinian premier (Scotsman, 13/6)
- Turkey returns ruling AK party (Scotsman, 13/6)
- Syrian forces put down mutiny to re-take town in ‘hostile’ province (Scotsman, 13/6)
- Syrians flee army set on revenge (Scotland on Sunday, 12/6)
- ‘Mass grave found in Syria’ (Sun, 13/6)
- Syrian forces take border town as inhabitants flee (Reuters, 13/6)
- Israel’s Fischer challenges Lagarde for IMF head (Reuters, 12/6)
- Syrian forces attack town as refugees flee to Turkey (Reuters, 12/6)
- Syrian army regains restive town (BBC Online, 13/6)
- Turkey PM to ‘build consensus’ after poll win (BBC Online, 13/6)
- Palestinian faction Hamas rejects Fatah nominee for PM (BBC Online, 13/6)
- Turkey’s dilemma over Syrian unrest (BBC Online, 12/6)
- Will Isarel ever return to 1967 borders? (BBC Online, 12/6)
- Kazakh candidate withdraws, but Israeli joins IMF race (BBC Online, 12/6)
- Syria: Middle East media ponder foreign intervention (BBC Online, 10/6)
- Syrian troops retake key town from rebels (Sky News Online, 13/6)
- Protesters In Damascus ‘Defy Crackdown’ (Sky News Online, 12/6)
- Syria: Assad’s Fight To The Death (Sky News Online, 10/6)
- U.S. pressuring Netanyahu to accept Obama’s peace plan (Haaretz, 13/6)
- As Syrian refugees flow into Turkey, Ankara still stands by Damascus (Haaretz, 13/6)
- Most Latin American nations re-thinking PA’s UN bid (Jerusalem Post, 13/6)
- Syrian troops storm northwestern town (Jerusalem Post, 13/6)
- Erdogan’s party wins 3rd term (Ynetnews, 13/6)
- Anti-Israel protest in Sweden (Ynetnews, 13/6)
- Egypt arrests Israeli ‘spy’ (Ynetnews, 13/6