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Palestinian security forces have mounted a huge operation in the West Bank to catch the killers of four Israeli settlers shot on Tuesday.
Dozens of members of Hamas, which said it carried out the attack, have been arrested.

The killings came ahead of the first direct talks between Israeli and Palestinian leaders in two years.

Officials are gathering in Washington for discussions, before the Israeli and Palestinian leaders meet on Thursday.

US, Palestinian and Israeli officials have said they will not allow the attack, near Hebron, to undermine the talks.

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon condemned the killings as a “blatant attempt” to undermine the upcoming negotiations.
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Former British prime minister Tony Blair said on Wednesday he could have not have imagined what he called the “nightmare” that unfolded in Iraq but still did not regret joining the U.S.-led invasion.

In a political memoir Blair echoed previous statements that the 2003 invasion was justified because Saddam Hussein posed a threat and could have developed weapons of mass destruction.

The self-penned volume “A Journey” was published on the day the United States formally ended combat operations in Iraq after a conflict that claimed more than 100,000 deaths, most of them civilians.

Blair, 57, said he felt “desperately sorry” for the lives cut short, but said the mistaken belief that Saddam was hiding weapons of mass destruction was an “understandable error.”
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Israel’s defense minister said on Wednesday the Jewish state would be willing to hand over parts of Jerusalem in peace talks with the Palestinians to be launched by President Barack Obama.

A flare-up of violence in the Palestinian West Bank and a deadlock over Jewish settlements there loom as potential deal-breakers for Obama, who will host Israeli and Palestinian leaders for dinner at the White House in Washington.

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أعلنت ايران انها ستنتج خلال عام الوقود النووي الذي يحتاجه مفاعل يستخدم في الاغراض الطبية في طهران بعد أيام من بدء الجمهورية الاسلامية تحميل الوقود في أول محطة لتوليد الكهرباء تعمل بالطاقة النووية‮. ‬ونقلت وكالة أنباء الجمهورية الاسلامية الايرانية عن علي أكبر صالحي رئيس هيئة الطاقة الذرية الايرانية قوله في مقابلة مع قناة تليفزيون العالم الحكومية‮  ‬ان طهران أنتجت حتي الان‮ ‬25‮ ‬كيلوجراما من اليورانيوم المخصب بدرجة نقاء‮ ‬20‮ ‬في المائة لمفاعل طهران.

 
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أعلن رئيس المنظمة الايرانية للطاقة الذرية علي أكبر صالحي ان بلاده ستنتج خلال عام من الان الوقود النووي الذي يحتاجه مفاعل طهران.

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بعد سبع سنوات من الغزو الأمريكي للعراق‏,‏ يلقي الرئيس الأمريكي باراك أوباما خطابا للأمريكيين خلال ساعات يعلن خلاله انهاء الحرب في العراق و تحويل مهمة الجيش في البلاد الي تدريب و مساعدة نظيره العراقي‏.‏
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التقي إيهود باراك وزير الدفاع الاسرائيلي سرا يوم الاحد الماضي بمحمود عباس الرئيس الفلسطيني في عمان بعد لقائه بالعاهل الاردني الملك عبدالله الثاني في اليوم نفسه‏.

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Vice President Joe Biden landed in Baghdad on Monday to mark the official end of the US combat mission in Iraq after seven years of fighting that has seen more than 4,400 American soldiers killed.

Biden arrived in the capital at around 6:00 pm (1500 GMT), one day before a speech by President Barack Obama will signal the end of the American military’s combat operations in Iraq.

The three-day visit also comes as Iraq wrestles with political animosities that have seen no new government formed since an inconclusive general election almost six months ago, causing alarm in Washington.

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A senior rabbi from a party within Israel’s coalition government has called for Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas to “vanish from our world”.

Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, spiritual leader of Shas, spoke out as Middle East talks are poised to begin in Washington.

The United States condemned the remarks as “deeply offensive”.

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Seven American service members were killed Monday in two separate roadside bomb attacks in southern Afghanistan, NATO said.

No details were given of the attacks, although eyewitnesses in the southern city of Kandahar said an armored U.S. Army Humvee hit a roadside bomb in the early afternoon. Several bodies were seen being removed from the vehicle, which was set on fire by the blast.

The deaths bring to 14 the number of U.S. troops killed in action in eastern and southern Afghanistan over the past three days.

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