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Citizenship and Immigration Minister Jason Kenney announced today that Mahmoud Mohammad Issa Mohammad, a man convicted in a deadly attack on an Israeli plane in the 1960s, has been deported after more than two decades of legal wrangling. More...

Israeli airstrikes killed two Palestinian militants and a schoolboy in the Gaza Strip on Monday as Palestinian rocket squads barraged southern Israel in escalating fighting that has defied international truce efforts. More...

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — An Irish ship on Thursday dropped out of the pro-Palestinian flotilla planning to break Israel's blockade of Gaza, citing sabotage, and a U.S. ship declared it may set sail from a Greek port for Gaza without permission, activists said. Up to 400 international activists had...

Jerusalem (CNN) -- The Israeli foreign ministry on Sunday rejected as "ludicrous" suggestions that Israel and the United States were using economic pressure to force fiscally strapped Greece into preventing boats from participating in an international flotilla to Gaza. "Do these people have any...

CAIRO A state security court on Thursday sentenced an Egyptian businessman to 25 years in prison for spying for Israel, court officials said.The sentencing of Tareq Hassan, who owns an export-import firm, followed last week's arrest in Cairo of a dual Israeli-U.S. national for allegedly...

JERUSALEM – U.S. Congressman Gary Ackerman called on Egyptian authorities Wednesday to release a constituent and former intern whom Egypt accuses of being an Israeli spy. Ilan Grapel was arrested at a Cairo hotel last week and suspected of sedition and inciting Egyptians to clash with the...

Istanbul, Turkey (CNN) -- Turkey is no stranger to name-calling and over-heated rhetoric, especially in the final days before a national election. In the run-up to parliamentary elections on June 12, however, politics have taken an unexpected turn, as Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his...

Jerusalem (CNN) -- Israel and the United States on Monday blamed Syria for violent protests on the country's border with the occupied Golan Heights. The demonstrations were a provocation designed to draw international attention away from harsh reprisals against protesters in Hama and other...

Golan Heights (CNN) -- Israeli troops fired on protesters trying to cross the fortified border between Syria and the occupied Golan Heights on Sunday, with Syrian authorities reporting more than a dozen dead and hundreds wounded. The protests came on the anniversary of the 1967 Middle East War...

(CNN) -- On the first anniversary of the Israeli raid on a flotilla headed to Gaza, organizers of another flotilla planned for June held a news conference Monday that concluded with a minute of silence for the nine activists killed in that raid. The event was held on the Mavi Marmara, the ship...

Anti-Israel graffiti defacing the building that houses the Israeli Embassy in Ottawa was washed off on Wednesday. The overnight vandalism included two spray-painted messages that emblazoned the downtown tower where the Israeli Embassy is located, steps from Parliament Hill. One of the messages...

The Israeli navy intercepted an Egyptian-bound ship carrying a large delivery of weapons off the country's Mediterranean coast on Tuesday, saying the arms had been sent by Syria to Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip. The military said the cargo vessel "Victoria" initially departed from the...

-- Israel was silent Friday as a week of massive street protests engulfed the streets of Cairo and other Egyptian cities. Neither officials from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office nor the Israeli foreign ministry offered any public comment on the growing political instability in...

-- Israeli troops shot and wounded two Palestinian men who drove through a security checkpoint Sunday morning, an Israeli military spokeswoman said. The incident occurred near the near the village of Dahariya, in the southern West Bank. "Earlier this morning, a Palestinian vehicle burst...

http://cnn.com/video/?/video/world/2011/01/24/flower.lok.peace.talks.cnn -- Palestinian negotiators agreed to give up large swaths of East Jerusalem to Israel during negotiations dating back to 2008, the Al-Jazeera network said, suggesting Palestinians have been willing to offer much larger...

- Israeli soldiers shot and killed a Palestinian man at West Bank checkpoint Saturday, marking the second time in a week that soldiers have opened fire at that location. Meanwhile, two foreign workers at a kibbutz in the south were injured in the latest of a series of rocket attacks from Gaza...

-- Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak warned Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday against initiating "any new assault" on Gaza, state-run Nile TV reported. The warning came as the two Middle East leaders met in Egypt's Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh to discuss the stalled peace talks between Israel...

- Israeli authorities arrested last month two local staff members of the British Consulate-General in Jerusalem in connection with an alleged plan to fire a rocket into a Jerusalem stadium during a soccer game, a British Foreign Office spokesman said Monday. "We are aware of reports that they...

Israeli soldiers shot and killed a Palestinian man who approached a checkpoint with a glass bottle and did not stop, the Israeli military said. The man approached the soldiers at a checkpoint near Nablus in the West Bank from an unauthorized lane holding a gas bottle, according to the military...

An unidentified flying object was shot down in the skies above Israel's Dimona nuclear plant, pictured here in 2004. Jerusalem -- The Israeli Air Force shot down an unidentified flying object over the Dimona nuclear plant in the Negev Desert Thursday, the Israel Defense Forces said. The...