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Hamas on Thursday released a British reporter held in its Gaza enclave, the only foreigner to be arrested in the territory since the Islamist group seized power in June 2007. The journalist and filmmaker Paul Martin was handed over to a delegation from the British consulate and driven in an armoured vehicle to the Erez crossing with Israel.

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Last week, the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas banned men from working in women's beauty salons in the Gaza Strip. Hamas says the ban is purely for security reasons despite recent moves to push more religious legislation in the enclave. Male hairdressers are determined to get their scissors back to work again.

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An Israeli supermarket chain is using the alleged assassination of a Hamas commander in Dubai by a hit squad from the Mossad intelligence agency as the basis of a marketing campaign. The Almost Free Warehouse chain shot the television advertisment on Wednesday under the slogan: "Eliminate the prices." Images and soundbites.

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US Vice President Joe Biden calls for both sides to come to the table for peace talks, and cautions Israel to take Palestinian concerns into account

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Secretary of defense meets with crown prince in Abu Dhabi, pushes for sanctions against Iran

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U.S. Vice President Joe Biden meets with Palestinian leaders as tensions mount over Israel's announcement of new homes planned in Jerusalem.

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The parents of a pro-Palestinian activist killed by an Israeli bulldozer have filed suit against the Defense Ministry. Arguments were heard Wednesday in a Haifa court over the death of Rachel Corrie. (March 10)

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A Mt. Lebanon couple says their daughter was permanently disabled after getting vaccinated and now their case is going to the Supreme Court; KDKA's Brenda Waters reports.

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U.S. Vice President Joe Biden had hoped to promote a restart of talks between Israel and the Palestinians. But his visit to the region was being clouded by word that Israel was to build 1,600 more homes in disputed east Jerusalem. (March 9)

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The U.S. and Israel take a hard line on Iran's nuclear program, and press for peace with Palestinian/Israeli talks

A fourth person carrying an Australian passport has been named as a suspect in the murder of a Palestinian commander in Dubai.

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U.S. Envoy to the Middle East George Mitchell met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on the day when the Palestine Liberation Organization agreed to indirect talks with Israel. Sarah ...

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Three Palestinians were injured in clashes with Israeli soldiers in the West Bank village of Burin, medics said. The clashes began when Jewish settlers tried to bathe in a cistern that villagers use for water. (March 6)

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Clashes erupted Saturday in the West Bank between Palestinians and Israeli soldiers injuring one policeman and three Palestinians. Jon Decker reports.

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Expatriate Iraqis in Lebanon, Syria and Jordon cast their votes early for the upcoming election in Iraq.

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The U.S. is hoping to restart stalled negotiations between Israelis and Palestinians.

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Mosab Hassan Yousef, who helped Israel's security forces kill and arrest members of Hamas, is probably marked for death. He should be keeping silent. But he's got a story to tell, one he delivers in his new book, 'Son of Hamas.' (March 3)

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Arab foreign ministers agreed on Wednesday to back one last round of indirect Palestinian-Israeli talks despite scepticism over Israel's readiness to revive peace efforts, Arab League chief Amr Mussa said. The move, which was swiftly welcomed by Israel, came after months of US-led shuttle diplomacy, with Arab foreign ministers insisting the talks should conclude within four months.

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International police still on the hunt for hit squad that allegedly killed Hamas leader

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French coast faces monster flooding; Palestinian Cabinet moves weekly meeting to Hebron, Israel

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Jordan on Monday dismissed posthumous video claims by a double-agent who killed seven US intelligence officers that Amman was involved in the assassination of two Hezbollah and Al-Qaeda commanders. Humam Khalil Abu-Mulal al-Balawi, in a video made before his suicide attack, accused his home country of involvement in the killings of Al-Qaeda in Iraq leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi and Lebanese Hezbollah commander Imad Mughniyeh. Video of Balawi. Duration: 00:34

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Seventeen people including two Israeli policemen were wounded in clashes at Jerusalem's flashpoint Al-Aqsa mosque compound on Sunday, after police entered to arrest Palestinians who hurled rocks at visitors they believed were Jewish extremists. 

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Israeli police said they entered the compound of the al-Aqsa mosque, after a group of Palestinians hurled stones at tourists at the holy site.

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Palestinian prime minister prays at disputed holy site; fire destroys factory in Bangladesh

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Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak say there is a race against time if international powers wish to prevent Iran from developing a nuclear weapon. Deborah Lutterbeck reports.

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The head of the Lebanese Hezbollah movement, which shares Tehran's vision of a world without Israel, travelled to Damascus for talks with allies Syria and Iran, the SANA news agency said on Friday. Hassan Nasrallah attended a dinner banquet in Damascus on Thursday hosted by President Bashar al-Assad in honour of his visiting Iranian counterpart, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad meets with Lebanon's Hezbollah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah in Damascus.

Three Australians linked to the murder of a Hamas commander after their identities were apparently stolen say they fear for their safety.

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Angered by an Israeli plan to include two West Bank shrines in a national heritage plan, Palestinians on Thursday clashed with Israeli soldiers in Hebron. Jon Decker reports.

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The son of a man who helped found the Palestiniam militant group Hamas is claiming that he was a long-term spy for Israel in a new book and punching a hole in the groups meticulously groomed image of secrecy and discipline. (Feb. 25)

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Mounting diplomatic fury over the killing of a top Hamas commander in a Dubai hotel reached Australia on Thursday (February 25), with Israel's ambassador summoned over the use of Australian ...

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Electronic surveillance is a key tool in Dubai's public safety arsenal. Thanks to its CCTV cameras, police were able to record the moves of the alleged hit squad responsible for the murder of a Hamas militant last month. Some suggest that it is this technology that may have caught out an organisation as secretive as the Mossad. Duration: 02:09.

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International hunt for at least 20 suspects in sophisticated assassination of known terrorist leader

Australia is being dragged into the assassination of a senior Hamas commander in Dubai.

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Palestinians have been disputing Israel's move to designate two historic West Bank shrines as national heritage sites. Street clashes and warnings from Palestinian officials continued for a third day Wednesday. (24 February 2010)

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Police on Wednesday widened their search in the hunt for the killers of a top Hamas militant in a luxury hotel, saying 15 new Western passport holders are now suspects, with the total number sought now 26.

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Mahmud al-Mabhuh worked in the shadows in the two decades before he was found dead in Dubai last month, but details about his early years in the Gaza Strip chart his emergence as a top Hamas militant. Duration: 01:55.

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They may be trapped inside the Palestinian enclave of the Gaza Strip, but for a handful of stargazers, the sky is now the limit. With a telescope, budding astronomers are able to look beyond the problems on the ground, and learn about the world beyond their borders. Duration: 01:55

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The family of Hamas commander Mahmud al-Mabhuh, whose murder last month has kicked off a diplomatic storm, say they have long worried for the militant's safety and expected him to end up one day as a "martyr". In an interview with AFPTV at their home in the refugee camp of Jabaliya in northern Gaza Strip, Mabhuh's parents and brother point the finger at Mossad, the Israeli spy service, as those behind the assassination in Dubai in January. Duration: 01:21