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Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev (right) welcomes his Israeli counterpart, Shimon Peres, in Baku in June 2009. The Foreign Ministry rejected as "slander" a protest note given to its ambassador in Tehran, which complained about the alleged collaboration.
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Israeli soldiers stand at attention during an honour guard ceremony for Croatia's President Ivo Josipovic at the residence of Israel's President Shimon Peres in Jerusalem February 13, 2012. View Photo »
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I take a hard line on people who hurt women, especially sexually
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President Bashar Assad is a “murderer” without a future, President Shimon Peres said on Monday in the harshest public statement yet by an Israeli leader about the situation in Syria. Assad is killing men, women and children, and “it is forbidden for...
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Eric Alterman writes in The Nation that the casino magnate who has propped up Newt Gingrich’s campaign is the ultimate caricature of “the anti-Semitic clichés that have dogged the Jewish people throughout history.” And yet no one seems to have noticed.
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Croatia's President Ivo Josipovic, right, signs the guest book at the President's residence as Israel's President Shimon Peres stands neaby, before their talks at in Jerusalem, Monday, Feb. 13, 2012. Josipovic is on a three-day official visit to the... View Photo »
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Kenya got the backing of the top leadership of the State of Israel in its war to rid its territory of fundamentalist elements, with President Shimon Peres and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declaring that they will help Kenya in its struggles to secure its borders
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Last week, the PNA and Hamas signed a Qatar-brokered reconciliation agreement, after years of being divided, since Hamas ousted forces loyal to Fatah from the Gaza Strip in 2007. The move was also criticized by Netanyahu last week, who lashed at the...
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The series has hosted other world leaders, artists, athletes, and intellectuals, including Bill Clinton during the 2000-2001 school year, the prime minister of Israel, Shimon Peres, in 1996-1997, and New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani in 2002-2003. About...
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Shimon Peres (help·info) GCMG (Hebrew: שמעון פרס, born Szymon Perski on 2 August 1923) is the ninth and current President of the State of Israel. Peres served twice as Prime Minister of Israel and once as Acting Prime Minister, and has been a member of 12 cabinets in a political career spanning over 66 years. Peres was elected to the Knesset in... Full Article
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Croatia's President Ivo Josipovic, right, and Israel's President Shimon Peres, review a military guard of honor before their talks at the President's residence in Jerusalem, Monday, Feb. 13, 2012. Josipovic is on a three-day official visit to the Israel and the West Bank.
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Israel's President Shimon Peres, right, and United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon, second left, sit for breakfast together with aides at a Jerusalem hotel, Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2012. Ban Ki-moon is visiting the region in an effort to restart talks between Israel and the Palestinians.
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Israel's President Shimon Peres, left, and United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon are seen reflected in a door's mirror as they speak during a joint press conference at a Jerusalem hotel, Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2012. Israel's President Shimon Peres, right, and United Nations Secretary...
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Israel's President Shimon Peres, right, and United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon shake hands following a joint press conference at a Jerusalem hotel, Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2012. Ban Ki-moon is visiting the region in an effort to restarts talks between Israel and the Palestinians.
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HERZLIYA, ISRAEL - JANUARY 31: In this handout photo from the Israeli Government Press Office (GPO), Israeli President Shimon Peres (L) meets with President of the World Bank Robert Zoellick January 31, 2012 in Herzliya, Israel. Zoellick is visiting Israel and the Palestinian Authority...
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FILE - In this Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2012 file photo, Israel's President Shimon Peres gives a speech during the twelfth annual Herzliya Conference in Herzliya, near Tel Aviv, Israel. Peres reached out to the Iranian people with a message of peace from the podium of Israel's parliament...
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Salam Fayyad, left, Prime Minister of the Palestinian Authority, Shimon Peres, center, President of Israel, and Klaus Schwab, right, Founder and Executive Chairman of the World Economic Forum, shake hands prior to a plenary session at the 42nd Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum,...
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Salam Fayyad, left, Prime Minister of the Palestinian Authority, shakes hands with Shimon Peres, right, President of Israel, after a plenary session at the 42nd Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum, WEF, in Davos, Switzerland, Thursday, Jan. 26, 2012.
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Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad (L) looks on next to Shimon Peres, President of Israel, on January 26, 2012, during the World Economic Forum (WEF) in the congress center of the Swiss resort of Davos. Over four decades, the annual World Economic Forum in the Swiss ski resort of...
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Israeli President Shimon Peres meets with his Croatian counterpart Ivo Josipovic at the presidential compound in Jerusalem on February 13, 2012. The Croatian President is on an official visit to Israel and the Palestinian Territories.
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