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Britain Royals Hold Tiny Private Christening for Prince George

Just 21 guests were invited to the christening of Britain’s Prince George on Wednesday, a sign of how much his parents intend to guard the privacy of a baby born to be king. Prince William, whose mother Diana was killed in a car crash in Paris in 1997, hounded by paparazzi, and his wife Kate…

By Reuters Oct 23, 2013 | 2 min read
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Nir Barkat Wins Jerusalem Reelection Vote

The Israeli mayor of Jerusalem won re-election on Wednesday in a hotly contested race that dealt a political blow to his challenger’s main backers, former Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman and the ultra-Orthodox Shas party. Lieberman, a legislator whose far-right Yisrael Beitenu party is allied with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud, is embroiled in a corruption…

By Reuters Oct 23, 2013 | 2 min read
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Greece Votes to Cut State Funding To Far-Right Golden Dawn Party

Greek lawmakers voted to cut off state funding to the far-right Golden Dawn party early on Wednesday, the latest effort by the government to clamp down on a party it has branded a “neo-Nazi criminal gang”. Golden Dawn had steadily risen on the back of an anti-austerity and anti-immigrant agenda to become Greece’s third-most popular…

By Reuters Oct 22, 2013 | 2 min read
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Saudi Arabia To Make ‘Major Shift’ In Relationship With the United States

Upset at President Barack Obama’s policies on Iran and Syria, members of Saudi Arabia’s ruling family are threatening a rift with the United States that could take the alliance between Washington and the kingdom to its lowest point in years. Saudi Arabia’s intelligence chief is vowing that the kingdom will make a “major shift” in…

By Reuters Oct 22, 2013 | 5 min read
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Qatar Offers Palestinian Authority $150M in Debt Relief

Qatar has agreed to provide $150 million in debt relief to the Palestinian Authority, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said on Monday as he announced that Israeli-Palestinian peace talks are intensifying. Speaking after he briefed Arab states about the direct peace negotiations, which resumed on July 29 with a goal of reaching an agreement…

By Reuters Oct 21, 2013 | 2 min read
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Netanyahu Hopes To Dim World Optimism on Iran

Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday will seek to dim the optimism after nuclear talks with Iran, cautioning that Tehran is strengthening its strategic regional position by calling the shots in Syria as President Bashar al-Assad’s puppet master. In talks with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry in Rome on Wednesday, Netanyahu is expected to argue…

By Reuters Oct 21, 2013 | 3 min read
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Hamas Claims Responsibility for Tunnel From Gaza to Israel

Hamas Islamists in the Gaza Strip claimed responsibility on Sunday for a tunnel that Israel said was found beneath the heavily fortified Israel-Gaza frontier. A website for a Hamas radio station called al Aqsa said the group’s armed wing was responsible for what it called the “Khan Younis Tunnel,” named for a part of the…

By Reuters Oct 20, 2013 | 2 min read
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Livni To Fight Netanyahu’s Cabinet To Negotiate on Jerusalem

Israel’s chief peace negotiator will seek to block a proposal introduced by members of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s cabinet to make it tougher to negotiate with the Palestinians over Jerusalem, one of her aides said on Sunday. The motion won preliminary cabinet approval, but the aide said that Livni, who is also Israel’s justice minister,…

By Reuters Oct 20, 2013 | < 1 min read

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