AFP - Some Palestinians have taken up arms and others attend peace talks in their decades-long struggle, but Nadim Khoury has found a third route to statehood -- the brewing of delicious local beer.
AFP - Jews and Arabs clashed for a fourth consecutive night Saturday in the northern Israeli city of Acre leaving at least three people injured in hospital, radio reports said.
AFP - Mahmoud Abbas arrived in Damascus on Saturday for talks with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on efforts to reconcile the Palestinian president's Fatah party and the rival Islamist movement Hamas.
Fatah group mulls talks with Hamas
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Reuters - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah faction is considering a request to meet with Hamas officials for the first time in months, Fatah officials said Saturday.
US enemies in Mideast gloat over financial crisis
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AP - America's opponents in the Middle East are gloating over the financial meltdown in the United States, painting it as divine retribution for past misdeeds against Muslims and the last gasps of a dying empire.
AFP - Palestinian officials are compiling a register of residents in a northern Lebanon refugee camp to crack down on Islamist militants and to prevent unrest, one of them said on Saturday.
Palestinians raid Hamas "bomb factory" in Hebron
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Reuters - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas's security forces raided a Hamas bomb factory and arrested 11 members of the rival Islamist faction in the West Bank city of Hebron on Friday, a senior police officer said.
AFP - Palestinian police found a Hamas-run bomb factory in the West Bank town of Hebron on Friday and arrested 11 people, a security official from the rival Fatah faction said.
AFP - Two people were wounded on Friday in a bomb attack targeting an Islamist militant in a Palestinian refugee camp in southern Lebanon, a Palestinian official said.
AFP - Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas is examining a proposal made by the Islamist movement Hamas for Egyptian-mediated reconciliation talks to take place later this month, a top aide said on Friday.
