Harriet Sherwood
JERUSALEM: The Hollywood producer behind box office hits including Fight Club, Pretty Woman and LA Confidential has...
Published 28 Nov, 2013 07:35am
JERUSALEM: Gaza is becoming uninhabitable as humanitarian conditions deteriorate rapidly following Egypt’s...
Published 24 Nov, 2013 07:49am
JERUSALEM: Two Palestinian human rights groups are calling on the international criminal court to launch an...
Published 06 Oct, 2013 07:12am
JERUSALEM: The Palestinians would abandon historic claims to land that is now in the state of Israel in the event of...
Updated 25 Aug, 2013 08:04am
JERUSALEM: Israel has been forced to issue a formal apology to Japan over offensive comments posted on Facebook by...
Updated 24 Aug, 2013 08:43am
JERUSALEM, July 27: Israel has frozen co-operation with the European Union on work in the Palestinian territories in...
Updated 28 Jul, 2013 08:17am
JERUSALEM: The first talks between Israeli and Palestinian negotiators for almost three years are scheduled to begin...
Updated 27 Jul, 2013 07:27am
JERUSALEM: The Palestinian leadership will put to a referendum any deal reached in US-brokered talks with the...
Updated 24 Jul, 2013 07:36am
LONDON: European governments have stepped up back-channel contacts with Hamas despite an official EU policy of...
Updated 14 Jul, 2013 09:37am
JERUSALEM: The British foreign secretary, William Hague, has warned of the risks of failure of the US-sponsored...
Published 26 May, 2013 10:16am
JERUSALEM: The Israeli government is to retroactively legalise four unauthorised settler outposts in the West Bank ...
Published 18 May, 2013 07:40am
JERUSALEM: Israel’s internal security agency has been authorised to demand “suspicious” foreign travellers ...
Published 26 Apr, 2013 06:36am
HEBRON: Palestinian protesters clashed with soldiers after thousands of mourners turned out for the funerals of a 64-year-old cancer-stricken prisoner and two teenage boys shot dead by the Israeli military, the latest
Published 06 Apr, 2013 08:22am
MANILA, April 5: Thousands of US and Filipino troops began annual military exercises on Friday that the Philippines said were vital to building its defence capabilities to face the rising threat of China.
Published 06 Apr, 2013 08:15am
JERUSALEM: Israel’s vaunted missile defence system is likely to leave the civilian population exposed to an incoming barrage of rockets in the event of a war as it is deployed to protect key strategic and military sites, according the country’s commander
Published 02 Apr, 2013 05:03am
GAZA CITY: In a crowded classroom in Gaza City, hands shoot in the air when teacher Moussa Ziara asks for a volunteer to come to the blackboard. The chosen boy carefully chalks a letter of the alphabet amid enthusiastic applause from his classmates
Published 14 Feb, 2013 09:11pm
Jerusalem: Binyamin Netanyahu cited “five central principles” for his new coalition government when he addressed subdued campaign activists shortly after it became clear that his party had taken a battering in the
Published 25 Jan, 2013 03:35am
THE European Union must ban produce from Israeli settlements in the West Bank from entering its markets in order to cut off “a vital source of revenue which allows settlements to thrive”, says a report by the Palestinian human rights organisation Al Haq.
Published 16 Jan, 2013 12:00am
JERUSALEM, Jan 3: Prominent members of Israel's ruling Likud party have proposed the annexation of part of the West Bank as the battle for rightwing votes intensifies before the general election in less than three
Published 04 Jan, 2013 03:29am
EVER since Mary and Joseph were turned away, the ancient biblical town of Bethlehem has had a bad press over its room availability. And this year is likely to be no better as it celebrates its first Christmas after the
Published 23 Dec, 2012 10:01pm
