Jerusalem: A group of 37 Indians, including 10 women, who were to participate in a pro-Palestine global march to Jerusalem, have been detained by Lebanese authorities at Beirut port. Indian activists and journalists participating in the Global March to Jerusalem (GMJ), along with three Filipinos and one Iraqi have been asked not to leave the 246-seater boat which docked at Beirut on Wednesday at 9 am (IST). The GMJ's local...
06:02 AM, Mar 30, 2012
London: Britain's deputy prime minister accused Israel today of carrying out "deliberate vandalism" by continuing to build settlements on land the Palestinians hope will form part of a future state. In an escalation of Britain's previous condemnations of Israeli construction, Nick Clegg warned that continued settlement building is jeopardising prospects for a peace deal. "Once you've placed physical facts on the ground that makes it impossible to deliver something that...
08:57 AM, Jan 17, 2012
Jerusalem: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday charged that the Palestinians have no interest in restarting peace negotiations, suggesting that newly resumed contacts between the sides are producing little progress. Israeli and Palestinian negotiators began meeting in Jordan on January 3 in an attempt to find a formula to restart formal negotiations. Israeli-Palestinian talks have been stalled for more than three years over the issue of Israeli settlement construction....
07:57 AM, Jan 17, 2012
Ramallah: Israel has stripped Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas of VIP status and given him a watered-down travel permit that is valid for just two months, Palestinian officials charged on Sunday. The officials said that Abbas complained about the permit at an internal meeting of his Fatah Party last week. In a speech, Abbas said the new permit, similar to those required for Palestinian labourers entering Israel, was a reflection of...
10:24 AM, Jan 16, 2012
Paris: Palestinians raised their flag at the headquarters of the UN cultural agency in Paris on Tuesday as the agency's 195th member, a historic move and symbolic boost for their push for an independent state. Cheers rose as the red, black, white and green flag went up in pouring rain under the gaze of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and UNESCO Director-General Irina Bokova. She welcomed Palestine without mentioning the US...
01:07 AM, Dec 14, 2011
United Nations: The UN Security Council's admissions committee on Friday forwarded to the 15-nation body its report on the Palestinian request for full UN membership, the council president told. "We held a meeting of the committee on admissions and the committee approved the report and forwarded it to the Security Council the report on the admission of Palestine to the United Nations," said Portugal's UN Ambassador Jone Filipe Moraes Cabral,...
03:07 AM, Nov 12, 2011
Tel Aviv: Israel has refused to accept Unesco's decision to grant full membership to the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) and threatened retaliatory measures. The Israeli Foreign Ministry on Monday called Palestinian accession to the Unesco "a unilateral maneuver" that would threaten Arab-Israeli peace talks. The decision will not turn the Palestinian Authority into a legitimate State but will rather create additional obstacles to a resumption of the talks, the Israeli...
05:23 AM, Nov 01, 2011
Washington: The United States said on Monday it had stopped funding UNESCO, the UN cultural agency, following its vote to grant the Palestinians full membership. US State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland told reporters the United States had no choice but to halt funding because of US laws passed in the 1990s, saying Washington would not make a planned $60 million transfer that was due in November. "The United States ......
12:41 AM, Nov 01, 2011
Gaza: Gaza militants fired rockets at southern Israel on Monday, in violence that tested a shaky truce brokered by Egypt after a border flare-up that has claimed the lives of a dozen Palestinian gunmen and an Israeli civilian since the weekend. An Israeli military spokeswoman said four rockets slammed into the Ashkelon and Beersheba regions as darkness fell on Monday, while a fifth was intercepted by a missile defence shield...
12:29 AM, Nov 01, 2011
Paris: The United Nations' cultural agency granted the Palestinians full membership on Monday, a step forward in their long-running efforts to achieve recognition before the world as an independent state. The United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) became the first UN agency to welcome the Palestinians as a full member since President Mahmoud Abbas applied for full membership of the United Nations on September 23. A huge cheer...
11:40 PM, Oct 31, 2011
United Nations: UN Secretary General Ban Ki moon criticised Israel on Friday over reports that it plans to build 2,600 more housing units in East Jerusalem, saying further settlement activity was 'unacceptable'. "The Secretary General is deeply concerned at continued efforts to advance planning for new Israeli settlements in occupied East Jerusalem," Ban's press office said in a statement. "Recent developments in this regard have been unacceptable, particularly as efforts...
11:50 AM, Oct 15, 2011
United Nations: The UN Security Council on Wednesday took its first step on the Palestinian application to join the United Nations by handing it to a committee that will review and assess it in the coming weeks. The standing committee on the admission of new members to the world body is comprised of all 15 council members. Normally, the review period for a membership application is a maximum of 35...
02:07 AM, Sep 29, 2011
United Nations: The Palestinians' initiative to seek UN recognition as a state, which goes to the Security Council on Monday, faces an uphill struggle to secure the nine votes needed for approval. Without those votes in the 15-member body, the United States will be spared the embarrassment of having to veto the application, which would be a further blow to its floundering efforts to secure Middle East peace. As the...
02:57 AM, Sep 27, 2011
New York: External Affairs Minister SM Krishna has welcomed US top commander Mike Mullen's comments slamming Pakistan's ISI for its links with the Haqqani network. "Mike Mullen's comments on the Haqqani network being a front of ISI is a clear vindication of our stand that the ISI is responsible for terror. I am happy that Americans have now understood the connection between the ISI and terror," Krishna said. Speaking exclusively...
08:39 AM, Sep 25, 2011
New Delhi: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Saturday in his speech at the United Nation General Assembly (UNGA) said India wants to quicken the pace of its transformation in partnership with the international community. "A fast growing India can expand the boundaries for the global economy," he said, adding developing countries need investment, technology and market access for their products. Despite global headwinds, Indian economy has been expanding close to...
09:31 PM, Sep 24, 2011
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