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The Palestinian Authority has officially launched its bid to become a full member of the United Nations, using its campaign to denounce what it sees as the United States' double standards.

The events of 9/11 seem very clear to most people in the world. Nineteen terrorists were able to get through airport security, hijack four passenger airliners and fly them into targets to cause maximum devastation to New York and Washington DC. However to some, the reaction of the United States in the aftermath of 9/11 does not add up, raising suspicions of an 'inside job.'

As Tel Aviv refuses to apologise for the deadly Israeli raid on a Gaza-bound Turkish-flagged protest flotilla that killed nine pro-Palestinian activists last year, Turkey is "totally suspending" all trade, military and defence industry ties with Israel, the Turkish prime minister said.

The Israeli government is finding itself in an increasingly difficult position after, in addition to being faced with internal and external protests, Turkey has announced its intention to expel the Israeli ambassador and to suspend all remaining military agreements with Israel after details emerged of a United Nations report into last year's deadly raid on a Gaza-bound flotilla.

Tensions between Israel and Egypt refuse to die down as on Friday hundreds of Egyptians protested outside the Israeli embassy in Cairo to call on the government to expel Israel's ambassador following last week border's incident in which five Egyptian policemen were killed by the Israeli Defence Forces (IDF).

Concern about the further decline of Israeli-Palestinian relations once again emerged after Gaza-based militants fired a fresh volley of rockets into Israel despite an informal ceasefire brokered by Egypt between the Jewish state and Islamist Hamas, following three days of violence.

Violence and tensions between Israel and Palestinian militants are taking an alarming turn after Gaza militants launched barrages of rockets into Israel, while Israeli aircraft struck targets in the territory.

Hopes for a untied Palestinian leadership were recently reignited after a surprise agreement was signed just a few months ago, but recent events prove dissentions are still very much in the way.

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Following Israel's announcement that the government had approved the construction of more settlers' homes in east Jerusalem, EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton on Friday expressed her "deep regret" over Israel's latest move.

The first day of the trading week in the Middle East did prove that the economic crisis, is clearly affecting the region as stock markets in Dubai and Egypt dropped about four per cent, while in Israel the market plunged by seven per cent, which analysts say is a consequence of the downgrade of the debt rating in the U.S.

Despite Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announcing this week he agreed to meet up with some of the protesters to talk about their demands in more depth, protests against the rising cost of food, educations, the rise of taxes and the increasing gap between the rich and the poor.

The UK is at the greatest risk of terrorism of any Western economy, according to research.

Israel has dismissed suggestion that it publicised a controversial letter which ended the Presidential campaign of Senator David Norris.

The Independent reported that according to an Israeli television channel, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is prepared to base talks for a Palestinian state on the 1967 truce lines.

As Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is facing the strongest wave of protests since he took office, he was forced to announce that members of his government would meet protesters to try and calm public discontent.In the last two weeks, tens of thousands of Israelis have taken to the streets to demonstrate against the rising living costs, putting pressure on Netanyahu and asking for reforms.

Since Palestinian leaders have announced they will launch a Palestinian statehood bid in September at the United Nations Security Council, governments from all around the world have reacted to the decision, sometimes in a surprisingly passionate manner.

Gaza's Hamas government Tuesday executed a Palestinian father and son convicted of spying for Israel in defiance of President Mahmoud Abbas, who by law has final say in implementing such rulings.

An Arab League decision to ask the UN to recognize a Palestinian state along the pre-1967 lines would not serve the peace process, the US said on Thursday.

The Arab League will submit to the United Nations a request for recognition of a Palestinian state, Secretary General Nabil al-Arabi said on Thursday in Doha.The Arab peace initiative committee "has decided to submit a call to the member states of the United Nations to recognise a Palestinian state," Arabi told a news conference after a meeting of the committee in the Qatari capital, the AFP reported.It would "move to present a request for full membership of a Palestinian state ...

The situation in Libya will be the first item on U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton's packed agenda during her latest around-the-world diplomatic tour, it appears.

The Israeli parliament has passed a controversial law that will punish any Israeli individual or organisation boycotting West Bank settlements.

Israeli soldiers Wednesday killed a young Palestinian man while looking for an activist of the Islamic Jihad Movement at a refugee camp in the West Bank's north, Palestinian security sources told the Associated Press.

Dozens of containers of gunpowder seized from an Iranian cargo ship in 2009 exploded on Cyprus' main naval base Monday in a massive blast that killed 12 people, wounded 62 and wrecked a major power station, causing extensive blackouts.

our female activists from Wales detained as they entered Israel to visit the West Bank town of Bethlehem could be deported today.The women were detained as part of a so-called "flytilla" protest after they landed at the country's Ben Gurion Airport along with eight other British nationals on Friday.

Huge blasts rocked the main Greek Cypriot naval base at Zygi in the south of the Mediterranean island early on Monday leaving 12 dead and many injured, a defence ministry spokeswoman said.

Israeli police have confirmed that an estimated 200 pro-Palestinian activists were kept from boarding flights to Israel overnight and no incidents were reported at Ben-Gurion International Airport outside Tel Aviv, Israel police said yesterday.

On July 5 the South African media watchdog, the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA), unequivocally dismissed all complaints relating to a radio advert on 5fm that called for the boycott of Israel and compared Israel to Apartheid South Africa.

The Israeli Government has warned it is determined to prevent provocations at Ben Gurion Airport as some 500 activists are expected to land in Israel in coming days.Despite the Israeli government's warning, they maintain their aim is to visit Bethlehem and allow visitors into Palestinian villages where entry is restricted.

Israel's Public Security minister Yitzhak Aharonovitch on Tuesday slammed the hundreds of pro-Palestinian activists who plan to flood Tel Aviv's Ben Gurion airport this week as "hooligans" who would be barred entry.