Top Headlines
16/08/2011
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- PM: I’m willing to go to Ramallah to talk with Abbas (Jerusalem Post)
- Report: Shalit talks renewed in Cairo (Ynetnews)
- Syrian regime continues crackdown on protests (Financial Times)
- Judge takes Mubarak trial off TV (BBC Online)
- Assad escalates attacks on cities to quell dissent (Independent)
- Israel approves 277 new homes in West Bank settlement (Independent)
- Anger as judge bans TV from Mubarak trial (Times)
- Assad rejects secret plan for a handover (Times)
- Iran snipers in Syria as part of crackdown (Telegraph)
- Tony Kushner: ‘At first I was horrified’ (Guardian)
- Israel go-ahead for West Bank settler homes dents peace hopes (Guardian)
- Tarzan and Arab: the Gaza artists determined to make it against all odds (Guardian)
- Syria using Iranian snipers as violent crackdown continues (Scotsman)
- Syria unrest: Palestinian refugees flee camp, says UN (BBC Online)
- Judge ends TV cover of Mubarak case, angering opponents (Reuters)
- Israel to build 277 homes in Ariel settlement in West Bank (Reuters)
- U.S. Senator seeks to cut aid to elite IDF units operating in West Bank and Gaza (Haaretz)
- Expert committee appointed by Israel’s social protesters to present findings in ten days (Haaretz)
- Over 5,000 Palestinians flee Syria refugee camp in Latakia (Haaretz)
- Israeli strikes kill one gunman, wound five others (Jerusalem Post)
- UN says thousands flee Palestinian refugee camp in Syria (Jerusalem Post)
- Barak supports Egypt’s maneuvers in Sinai (Jerusalem Post)
- Palestinian rocket fired from Gaza explodes near Beersheba (Jerusalem Post)
- IDF recommends release of Fatah prisoners (Ynetnews)
- Rocket explodes near Beersheba; no injuries (Ynetnews)