UN Security Council Calls For An End
The United Nations Security Council has passed a resolution urging an end to illegal Israeli settlements after the US refused to veto it. The Egyptian-drafted resolution had been withdrawn after...
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Egypt Delays UN Motion On Israel As Trump Intervenes
Egypt has delayed a UN vote on a text condemning Israeli settlements in occupied territory after Israel asked Donald Trump to intervene. Israel contacted the US president-elect's transition team...
Egypt Delays UN Resolution On Israel As Trump Raises Concerns
Egypt has suddenly delayed a vote on its UN resolution condemning Israeli settlements in the West Bank as Donald Trump made his opposition clear. A US official told the BBC that it had been...
Trump Joins Fight Against UN Vote
The Israeli government reached out to President-elect Donald Trump for help in pressuring the Obama administration to veto a UN Security Council resolution condemning settlement activity, a senior...
Egypt Delays U.N. Vote On Settlements After Trump, Israel Urge U.S. Veto
Egypt postponed a U. N. Security Council vote on Thursday on a resolution it proposed demanding an end to Israeli settlement building, diplomats said, after Israel's prime minister and U.S....
UNSC To Vote On Ending Israeli Settlement Activity
The United Nations Security Council is due to vote on a draft resolution that would demand Israel "immediately and completely cease all settlement activities in the occupied Palestinian territory,...
Obama, Trying To Protect Legacy, Unlikely To Act On Mideast Peace
U. S. President Barack Obama, keen to preserve his legacy on domestic health care and the Iran nuclear deal, is not expected to make major moves on Israeli-Palestinian peace before leaving office,...
Tens of Thousands Flee Israel Fires
Tens of thousands of people are being evacuated as wildfires rage through parts of Israel's third largest city of Haifa. The fires follow a two-month drought and are being fanned by strong winds in...
Germany-Israel Alarm As US White Supremacists Rise
German Chancellor Angela Merkel's government is concerned that white supremacists in the United States are being emboldened by the election of Donald Trump and is watching developments closely. The...
Israel’s Muezzin Bill Seeks ‘Judaisation of Jerusalem’
A pre-dawn muslim call to prayer has provoked the main backlash from Israeli Jews Palestinian politicians in Israel have found an unexpected ally inside the government against a new bill banning...
Netanyahu Calls For Restraint After Donald Trump Win
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called for ministers to refrain from commenting on Donald Trump's presidency after right-wing politicians said his election win put an end to a two-state...
Donald Trump’s Victory Promises To Upend the International Order
President elect Donald Trump's victory has got the world talking Donald J. Trump’s stunning election victory on Tuesday night rippled way beyond the nation’s boundaries, upending an international...
World Resigned, But Wary of Unpredictable Donald Trump
American allies woke up to Donald Trump's victory early Wednesday deeply unsettled, questioning whether the US will remain a stalwart partner and a stable pillar of the international order. Trump...
The Many Troubles That Awaits Next US President
POTUS 45 won't have much time to celebrate. After a bruising brawl of a campaign, the next US commander in chief will inherit a world with the toughest array of foreign policy challenges in decades....
Israel Freezes Ties With Unesco For ‘denying Jewish Holy Sites’
Israel has frozen co-operation with the UN's cultural agency, accusing it of denying Judaism's connections to the religion's holiest sites. Its education minister said a Unesco draft decision...
Leaders Laud Peres At Jerusalem Funeral
World leaders have hailed the vision of the late Israeli leader, Shimon Peres, as he is laid to rest three days after he died at the age of 93. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu described him...
Leaders Hail Legacy of Former Israeli Leader
Media captionShimon Peres was considered the last of Israel's founding fathers World leaders have hailed the vision of the late Israeli leader, Shimon Peres, as he is laid to rest three days after he...
Thousands To Pay Final Respects To Israel’s Shimon Peres
Thousands of people are expected to pay their final respects to former Israeli Prime Minister and President Shimon Peres, who died at the age of 93. His coffin will lie in state in front of the...
Former Israel President Shimon Peres Dies
Former Israeli PM and president, Shimon Peres, has died aged 93. He suffered a stroke two weeks ago and his condition improved before a sudden deterioration on Tuesday. Mr Peres, who was one of the...
UN Chief Calls Netanyahu Ethnic Cleansing Comment Outrageous
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Thursday called Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's insistence that Palestinians want the "ethnic cleansing" of Jews in the West Bank "unacceptable and...