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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel announced Wednesday his intention to halt new residential construction in West Bank Jewish settlements for 10 months as part of an effort to revive stalled Middle East peace talks, but a top Palestinian official said the plan was not enough.

RAMALLAH: Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has said presidential and legislative elections scheduled for January will be postponed, confirming that he has accepted advice not to hold the vote.

It was he who brought up the idea of a threefold federation Israel, Palestine and Jordan.

A government spokesman says new German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle will make a two-day trip to Israel next Monday to meet with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman.

OTTAWAa 'Richard Colvin at age 40 now holds the dubious and unlikely title of "whistleblower." It's a label the 15-year veteran of Canada's foreign service, currently the deputy head of security and intelligence in Canada's embassy in Washington, might find fatal to his career.

With U.S. diplomacy seemingly going nowhere, Palestinians are exploring desperate and at best symbolic measures to press a demand for a state that even firm believers in peace among them fear may never emerge.

The collapse of the Palestinian Authority, Israel's negotiating partner, was raised as a possibility on Monday, as several aides to its president, Mahmoud Abbas, said that he intended to resign and forecast that others would follow.

What does Mahmoud Abbas want from us? He should stop crying and start talking. Even Benjamin Netanyahu, born in the rightist camp, has promised him a state; and Shaul Mofaz, the horror of Palestinians, is willing to hand over, on credit, 20 percent of the West Bank.

Ramallah, Nov 9 The Israeli occupation forces arrested 14 people in several cities and hamlets in the West Bank, while the Jerusalem municipality threatened on Monday to demolish the headquarters of a Palestinian women organization.

Wednesday, 11 November 2009, 9:28 am Press Release: United Nations New York, Nov 10 2009 12:10PM Terming Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas' announcement that he will not run for re-election "a loud and clear wake-up call," a senior United Nations official today called on Israel to freeze all settlement activity in the occupied Palestinian ...

PARIS: Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu held talks Wednesday in Paris with French President Nicolas Sarkozy focusing on Iran and the crisis in the Middle East peace process.

"President Arafat is a symbol of the Palestinian revolution, and I cannot come to Ramallah without reading the fatiha over his tomb," says Ismail, who lives in a village 50 kilometres away.

RAMALLAH, West Bank: Hundreds of Palestinians gathered in the West Bank town of Ramallah on Monday to express support for President Mahmoud Abbas days after he said he would not seek re-election in January.

Marking the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, Palestinian demonstrators breached Israel's concrete barrier near the West Bank city of Ramallah on Monday.

The US Army psychiatrist who shot 13 people at America's biggest base had being trying to leave the military for six months and had complained of anti-Muslim discrimination from comrades, his family told The Times today.

JERUSALEM - By saying he wants to step down as president, Mahmoud Abbas has highlighted a deep Palestinian despair rooted in decades of failed peace initiatives and fruitless violence.

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said on Wednesday the future of Jerusalem must be on the agenda of any Middle East peace talks, as the Palestinians again took Israel to task over Jewish settlements in the city's Arab eastern sector.

The rumours have been flying around for a week or so now. However, it is now official : The Shin Bet and Israel Police have arrested an American-born Jewish settler who is allegedly behind an unprecedented series of deadly terror shootings and bombings spanning over a decade, in which two Palestinians were killed and Israel Prize Laureate Prof.

Photograph: Dan Balilty-Pool/Getty Images Hillary Clinton , the US secretary of state, sought to deflect the anger and disappointment of pro-western Arab states today after backing Israel 's position that it did not need to freeze settlement activity as a prelude to resuming peace talks with the Palestinians.

RAMALLAH: Palestinian security forces have foiled a lone Jewish gunman's attempt to infiltrate Al-Aqsa Mosque on Sunday.