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WORLD & NATION UPDATE: ABROAD
Israel's Cabinet yesterday approved the release of some 200 Palestinian prisoners as a goodwill gesture to the government of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. Earlier this month, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert told Abbas he would free some of the 9,000...Tags: Robert Mugabe, National Government, Diplomacy, Satellite Technology, Space Programs
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Mahmoud Darwish, Palestinian poet and icon, dies
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip - Mahmoud Darwish, a Palestinian cultural icon whose poetry eloquently told of his people's experiences of exile, occupation and infighting, died Saturday in Texas. He was 67. The predominant Palestinian poet, whose work has been...Tags: Mahmoud Darwish, Texas, Poetry, Yasser Arafat
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Deaths elsewhere
MAHMOUD DARWISH, 67 Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish, whose prose gave voice to the Palestinian experience of exile, occupation and infighting, died Saturday. The predominant Palestinian poet, whose work has been translated into more than 20 languages...Tags: California, Mahmoud Darwish, National Government, Board of Directors, Poetry
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Palestinian poet and icon Darwish buried
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterDuring the six years he spent in an Israeli prison, Haidar Jaradat read one poem over and over: "My Mother," by Mahmoud Darwish. "I long for my mother's bread," it begins. "My mother's coffee/Her touch." "It brought me comfort and I thought about it a...Tags: Mahmoud Darwish, Poetry, Judaism, Yasser Arafat
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Gaza's flow of cash runs dry
The Associated PressA severe cash shortage gripped the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip on Monday as tens of thousands of people were unable to withdraw money from banks in the poverty-stricken Palestinian territory. Israel promised to transfer more money to Gaza today. But the...Tags: Terrorism, Ehud Barak, Civil and Public Service, Government, Heads of State
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WORLD & NATION: ABROAD
A U.S. scientist has discovered the globe's tiniest species of snake in the easternmost Caribbean island of Barbados, with full-grown adults typically stretching less than 4 inches long. S. Blair Hedges, an evolutionary biologist at Penn State...Tags: Television Industry, Animals, Police, Terrorism, Research
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Abbas: No asylum for Gaza supporters
RAMALLAH — Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Sunday refused to grant West Bank asylum to forces who fled weekend faction fighting in Hamas-ruled Gaza. Abbas ordered nearly 200 fighters back to Gaza from Israel, insisting a Fatah presence must...Tags: Migration
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West Bank: Abbas orders release of 200 Hamas activists
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has ordered the release of all Hamas activists detained in recent days by his security forces. His office says the order came late Thursday from Tunis, Tunisia, where the Palestinian leader is holding talks. Abbas'...Tags: Terrorism, Wars and Interventions
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Hamas retaliates with Fatah arrests
Hamas forces seized the leaders of Fatah in Gaza early Friday, Fatah officials said, upping the stakes in a week of tit-for-tat arrests between the bitter Palestinian rivals. Hamas security officers seized about 15 senior Fatah members from their homes,...Tags: Police, Terrorism, Police Arrests
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Abbas, Olmert to meet today
JERUSALEM Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert will meet today in Jerusalem, officials with the two leaders said yesterday. The meeting will be their first since Olmert, under a cloud of corruption charges,...Tags: Corporate Crime, Diplomacy, Ehud Olmert, Corrupt Practices, Peace Negotiations
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Palestinian poet was a political, cultural icon
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterMahmoud Darwish, whose poetry helped make him one of the leading cultural voices for the Palestinian experience, died Saturday in Houston of complications from open heart surgery. He was 67. A revered cultural icon in the occupied Palestinian territories...Tags: Mahmoud Darwish, Society, Poetry, Culture, Ceremonies
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Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish, 67
The Associated PressMahmoud Darwish, whose prose gave voice to the Palestinian experience of exile, occupation and infighting, died on Saturday in Houston. He was 67. The predominant Palestinian poet, whose work has been translated into more than 20 languages and won...Tags: Schools, Boxing, Ehud Barak, Civil Unrest, Government
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