Persistent violence and a prolonged drought have plunged Somalia into its worst humanitarian crisis since civil war erupted two decades ago, with a third of its 10 million people needing relief aid, a United Nations report said Tuesday.
The Israel Security Agency (Shabak, or Shin Bet) issued a special report this month on the involvement of illegal migrant workers from the Palestinian Authority in terrorist activities.
Just a day before the beginning of Ramadan, the holy month of fast and prayer for Muslims, talks between meatplant workers, union representatives and company officials continued in earnest.
The Palestinian Authority is setting up a de facto state as a step to appeal to international courts to declare Israel an occupying power, according to James Hider,
Israeli Air Force planes bombed a smuggling tunnel along the Egyptian border at Rafiah early Tuesday morning as the government continued tit-for-tat retaliation against Arab terrorist attacks on southern Israel.
Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Salam Fayyad is set to reveal his plan for the infrastructure and economy of a PA state in Judea, Samaria and Jerusalem. According to Reuters,
The Arab League reacted with fury on this week to reports that a small group of Jews had prayed on the Temple Mount on Sunday. Secretary-General Amr Moussa termed the spontaneous prayer gathering “a violation of international law.â€
Israel’s Mossad secret service may have been behind the alleged hijacking of a Russian ship that reportedly sailed from Algeria with modern weapons headed for Iran, according to military journalist Arieh O’Sullivan, writing in The Media Line.
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu will make it clear in his discussions with US and European officials abroad that Israel will not accept any limitations on its sovereignty in Jerusalem,
Iraq on Sunday showed a video of what it said was a follower of late president Saddam Hussein's Baath party confessing to organising one of the truck bomb atatcks last week in which 95 people died.