Russia on Monday voiced support for Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, urging the emergency government to take necessary steps to normalize the current situation, Xinhua reported on June 19.
Popularity: 7% [?]
June 19, 2007Russia on Wednesday denounced as “exceedingly cruel†the death sentences passed by a Libyan court on six foreign medics convicted of deliberately infecting hundreds of Libyan children with the virus that causes AIDS, the Reuters news agency reported.
Popularity: 3% [?]
December 20, 2006Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Monday that he would soon visit Iran and Russia to discuss the situation in the Middle East, the Kuwaiti news agency KUNA reports.
Popularity: 5% [?]
November 27, 2006Russia’s Central Muslim Board Chairman Talgat Tajuddin has urged Palestinian and Israeli secular leaders and clergy to sign a 40-year peace deal, with Russian religious leaders posing as guarantors, Interfax news agency reports.
Popularity: 2% [?]
November 7, 2006A Russian tourist, who tried to take picture against backdrop of Azrieli Towers in Tel Aviv was pounced by security personnel, accused of spying, planning terror attack for Hezbollah. Security personnel searched Ekaterina Kopilov’s belongings, interrogated her, and squeezed every bit of desire to return for another vacation in Israel, Ynetnews.com website reports.
Popularity: 2% [?]
Moscow welcomes an agreement between radical Palestinian organization Hamas and the moderate Fatah party to form a new national unity government, a Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman is quoted by RIA Novosti news agency.
Popularity: 2% [?]
Russia urges Israel and Palestine for the quickest ceasefire, the Russian Foreign Ministry’s press office quoted by RIA Novosti said Sunday.
The Israeli troops have been conducting an operation in the Gaza Strip in the last few days to prevent Palestinian rocket fire on Israel. Dozens of people have been killed in the course of the operation.
Popularity: 1% [?]
Avigdor Lieberman, Israel’s hardline new minister for strategic affairs, has said the Jewish state should use the same methods in Gaza that Russia had in Chechnya, the AFP news agency reports.
Israel should operate in the Gaza Strip “like Russia operates in Chechnya,†Lieberman, local media quoted the leader of the ultra-nationalist Yisrael Beitenu party as saying during a meeting of Israel’s security cabinet. He spoke Wednesday after at least six Palestinians, including three militants, were killed and dozens injured in a major Israeli incursion in northern Gaza that the Jewish state said was aimed at stopping rocket fire.
Popularity: 1% [?]
November 2, 2006
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