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December 20, 2008, 5:04 PM (GMT+02:00)
Former prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu, energized by more than two years in opposition, is launching his Likud party into Israel's general election campaign with a new look and a new top echelon. <br/><span class="debka">debka</span><span class="file">file</span>'s political sources report he is remolding it into a center-right party with a new ...</br/>
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October 11, 2005, 2:02 PM (GMT+02:00)
Ibrahim Jaafari's government in Baghdad has issued arrest warrants for 27 senior officials, members of the preceding interim government headed by Iyad Allawi.<br/>They are suspected of embezzling $ 1.3bn dollars of military procurement funds. Among the suspects are the former defense minister General Hazem Shaalan, who denies the ...</br/>
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February 13, 2005, 5:53 PM (GMT+02:00)
Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani's United Iraqi (Shiite) Alliance of 16 parties pulled ahead of the pack in Iraq's first democratic election, earning 48% and a block of 132 seats in the new national assembly - but not an absolute majority. In an earlier report published on February 4, <span class="debka">debka ...</span>
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February 4, 2005, 7:51 PM (GMT+02:00)
<em>By Thursday night, February 3, 15% of the 8 million ballots (representing a 57% turnout according to official figures) cast in Iraq's January 30 general election for 275 national assembly seats had been counted.</em> <br/>Although it is early days for extrapolation, <span class="debka">debka</span><span class="file">file</span>'s Iraq specialists list six interesting ...</br/>
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January 31, 2005, 1:15 AM (GMT+02:00)
Iraq's epic general election for a 275-member national assembly Sunday, January 30, was a success by the very fact of its taking place. Despite the violence leading up to the event and promised bloodbath, a surprising number of Iraqis were not intimidated and turned out in larger or smaller ...
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June 9, 2004, 4:34 PM (GMT+02:00)
The UN Security Council resolution that stamped Iraq's provisional government with international approval threatens to confront that government with its first crisis. The Kurds are threatening to walk out, dismayed by the omission from the text of any reference to the interim constitution which enshrined Kurdish autonomous rule in ...
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November 12, 2003, 1:47 PM (GMT+02:00)
The Palestinian legislative council set their faces to confirm the new cabinet presented by Ahmed Qureia Wednesday out of a sense of fatalism. Many lawmakers openly called it "Arafat's government", deeply disturbed by the control he retained over Palestinian security forces and the presence of former administration members accused ...
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September 2, 2003, 12:18 AM (GMT+02:00)
Israeli governments have never formulated any clear, consistent policy towards the country's Arab citizens, who today number some 1.3 million, representing one fifth of the population. This evasiveness is reflected in the justice meted out by the judicial system to the members of this minority. Many Israel Arabs ...
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January 20, 2003, 12:50 PM (GMT+02:00)
Israel's Labor Party, whose walkout from Ariel Sharon's national unity government on October 31 forced the early election taking place in eight days time, has fallen victim to its own stratagem. The historic party, at the head of which David Ben Gurion founded the state of Israel in ...
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November 8, 2001, 10:56 AM (GMT+02:00)
A glance at the website of Yasser Arafat's Fatah faction kills stone dead the renewed, stepped up efforts by U.S. and European mediators to end more than 13 months of Israeli-Palestinian bloodshed and prod both sides into returning to the negotiating table.The site, edited by two of ...
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