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WASHINGTON: US President Barack Obama has invited Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to visit the White House for talks on March 5, Obama's office said on Monday. The visit, which comes amid rising tensions with Iran, was arranged during a three-d
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President Shimon Peres visited Nazareth on Monday as part of an effort to reach out to the city's 80,000 Arab residents, and concluded the visit with a historic pledge to set up an institute of higher education - the first of its kind in the city. His vi
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US President Barack Obama has invited Prime Minister Benjamin Netnayhu to visit the White House on March 5. The invitation was passed along to Netanyahu by US national security advisor Tom Donilon, when the two met in Jerusalem. The prime minister is exp
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Dozens protested on Monday against President Shimon Peres' visit to Nazareth. The protestors waved Palestinian flags, denounced Peres and held a sign that read: "Peres get out of here," as his car drove by. Three demonstrators were arrested when clashes
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Some 60 people protested against President Shimon Peres' visit to the city. Some demonstrators were arrested when clashes broke out with the police. Several protesters waved Palestinian flags and carried signs calling on Peres to leave. (Hassan Shaalan)
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PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe turns 88 on Tuesday, creating his own piece of history as the second oldest head of State in the World after Israel's Shimon Peres who is 89, but largely ceremonial. Not only has he been blessed with many years of life, but Mugabe
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Notwithstanding threats of a protest by the Islamic Movement and the Balad party, President Shimon Peres will go ahead with his official visit to Nazareth, on Monday, as planned. It will not be the first time that demonstrators have sought to put a spoke
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You have to wonder how many times they're going to keep saying this, but NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen has once again assured Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu that NATO will not share information from its American-provided anti-mis
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TEHRAN - Iran's navy commander, Habibollah Sayyari, said on Saturday that Iran's warships passed through the Suez Canal and headed to the Mediterranean Sea, the official IRNA news agency reported. Admiral Sayyari said that "The strategic navy of the Isla
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Last Thursday, a terrible accident involving a Palestinian school bus and an Israeli truck killed eight children and left an additional 36 children injured; some of the victims suffered serious burns caused by a fire that broke out after the crash. As th
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ISTANBUL — Are you afraid of Iran yet? Shrill warnings of war or imminent apocalypse over Iran's nuclear program have never been so strident, or so ominous. More world news from the Christian Science Monitor A window is closing fast, the narrative goes,
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When police in Tbilisi discovered and defused a bomb on the car of an employee of the Israeli Embassy on February 13, it marked the second time in less than a month that the Jewish state's diplomats had become the target of an attack in the South Caucasu
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At the end of last week, the media were talking about which towns had good bomb shelters and air raid sirens and which didn't. The likelihood that Israel would soon be attacking Iran had begun to sink in. An antiwar demonstration was held across the boul
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NICOSIA – Perhaps the most striking element of the press conference Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu held here Thursday with Cypriot President Demetris Christofias was that Netanyahu did not mention Turkey once. Though the meeting that preceded the pres
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Are you afraid of Iran yet? Shrill warnings of war or imminent apocalypse over Iran's nuclear program have never been so strident, or so ominous. A window is closing fast, the narrative goes, to prevent a fanatical and suicidal religious regime from acqu
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Indian policy makers have always been wary of the security situation in the West Asian region, given the hard facts of the presence of a six million strong diaspora and their well-being, $40 billion remittances received from them, the region accounting f
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President Shimon Peres spoke to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Thursday and expressed sorrow over the death of eight Palestinians killed in a road accident north of Jerusalem. "The State of Israel will provide the victims with any medical aid nec
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The comments come as Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Wednesday unveiled new nuclear projects, including a fourth generation of domestically-made uranium enrichment centrifuges, showcasing Iran’s abilities to have mastered the nuclear fuel cycle,
About Shimon Peres
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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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Israeli President Shimon Peres (R), his Croatian counterpart Ivo Josipovic (C) and his wife Tatjana (L) listen to the national anthems during a welcoming ceremony at the presidential compound in Jerusalem on February 13, 2012. The Croatian President and his wife are on an official visit...
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Croatia's President Ivo Josipovic, left, and Israel's President Shimon Peres, right, meet 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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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 Israel and the West Bank.
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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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UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon (R) shakes hands with Israeli President Shimon Peres before their meeting on February 1, 2012 in Jerusalem. The UN chief called on Israel to create a 'positive dynamic' to help kickstart stalled talks with the Palestinians, as he arrived in Jerusalem to...
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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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UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon (L) listens to a question during a joint press conference with Israeli President Shimon Peres following their meeting on February 1, 2012 in Jerusalem. The UN chief called on Israel to create a 'positive dynamic' to help kickstart stalled talks with the...
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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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Israel's President Shimon Peres, left, and United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon, right, shake hands as they meet at a Jerusalem hotel, Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2012. Ban is visiting the region in an effort to restarts talks between Israel and the Palestinians.
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Israel's President Shimon Peres walks with U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon (centre, R) before their meeting in Jerusalem February 1, 2012.
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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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Israeli President Shimon Peres (R), his Croatian counterpart Ivo Josipovic (C) and his wife Tatjana (L) listen to the national anthems during a welcoming ceremony at the presidential compound in Jerusalem on February 13, 2012. The Croatian President and his wife are on an official visit...
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