- 14:42 20/01/2012 GORKI (Moscow Region), January 20 (RIA Novosti)
One of the central streets in the Palestinian city of Jericho has been named after Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas said on Friday.
- 15:14 10/10/2011
The Arab-Israeli conflict, or as it is often called, the Middle East conflict, has been one of the world’s longest-running conflicts. It has been dragging on for more than six decades. In spite of the collective efforts of the world community, a solution has yet to be found.
- 23:05 01/10/2011 MOSCOW, October 1 (RIA Novosti)
The United States Congress has blocked $200 million in aid for the Palestine following the request of the Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas to join the UN, the Independent daily said on Saturday.
- 12:13 30/09/2011 MOSCOW, September 30 (RIA Novosti)
The Palestinians are likely to receive observer status at the UN rather than full membership, Russia's UN envoy Vitaly Churkin said.
- 12:30 29/09/2011 GAZA, September 29 (RIA Novosti)
Eight out of the fifteen members of the UN Security Council are ready to support an independent Palestine joining the United Nations, Palestinian Foreign Minister Riyad al-Maliki said on Thursday.
- 12:59 27/09/2011 Andrei Murtazin, commentator on international affairs, exclusively for RIA Novosti
Palestine has applied for UN membership, but the United States will almost certainly veto its bid during the voting in the UN Security Council. For the umpteenth time now, the Palestinian-Israeli conflict goes back to the stage where the parties have to negotiate the beginning of negotiations.
- 16:59 23/09/2011 GAZA, September 23 (RIA Novosti)
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas will later on Friday formally submit an application for recognition of statehood to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, after his speech at the General Assembly, local media reported.
- 23:27 22/09/2011 UN, September 22 (RIA Novosti)
Russia will support a Palestinian bid for statehood at the UN, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has said.
- 14:03 22/09/2011 MOSCOW, September 22 (RIA Novosti)
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has said he will go ahead to request full membership in the United Nations on Friday, a senior Palestinian politician said, despite appeals not to from U.S. President Obama.
- 14:57 21/09/2011 MOSCOW, September 21 (RIA Novosti)
The Palestinian authorities will do everything possible to avoid escalating tensions with Israel even if their bid for statehood is rejected by the UN Security Council, Palestinian Ambassador to Russia Fayed Mustafa said on Wednesday.
- 14:51 20/09/2011 GAZA, September 20 (RIA Novosti)
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas will not meet Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu until he agrees to Palestinian terms for the peace process, senior Fatah official and Abbas aide Nabil Shaath told local media.
- 04:06 20/09/2011 GAZA, September 20 (RIA Novosti)
Saudi Arabia will donate $200 million to the Palestinian Authority (PA).
- 14:08 19/09/2011 TEL AVIV, September 19 (RIA Novosti)
Paris is to offer Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas a compromise plan for the Palestinian Authority to gain non-full UN member status, in a bid to avert a showdown that could kill off the faltering Middle East peace process, the London-based Arabic-language paper al-Hayat said on Monday.
- 20:57 13/09/2011 GAZA, September 13 (RIA Novosti)
Hamas lawmakers urged Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas on Tuesday to abandon his plans to ask the UN to recognize the independence of the Palestinian state.
- 12:32 13/09/2011 MOSCOW, September 13 (RIA Novosti)
Russia will back any Palestinian bid to achieve statehood at a UN vote, envoy Vitaly Churkin has said.
- 13:03 07/09/2011 BEIJING, September 7 (RIA Novosti)
China on Wednesday announced its support for Palestine's plans to seek full membership in the United Nations next month.
- 12:54 04/09/2011 GAZA, September 4 (RIA Novosti)
The Palestinian Authority confirms that it will seek recognition as a state at the United Nations, Palestinian chief negotiator Saeb Erekat told the Voice of Palestine radio station on Sunday.
- 18:02 15/05/2011
At least 100 Palestinians were wounded on Sunday in clashes with Israeli troops in different areas of the West Bank, the Palestinian satellite channel Al Aksa said.
- 10:16 10/05/2010
Israel planes destroyed two smuggling tunnels near the Gaza-Strip-Egyptian border in dawn attacks on Monday, al-Quds radio said, adding that there were no injuries
- 20:08 08/05/2010
The Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) has approved a U.S. proposal for indirect negotiations with Israel, sources in Ramallah said on Saturday.
- 23:50 02/05/2010
Israel and Palestine may restart indirect peace talks which had been stalled for over a year now.
- 12:47 02/05/2010
Palestinians' indirect talks with Israel with the U.S. mediation will start after the Arab Peace Initiative Committee and the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) approve their holding
- 16:20 24/03/2010
The Jerusalem Municipal Government approved on Wednesday the building of 20 new apartments for Jews in East Jerusalem.
- 01:44 19/03/2010
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon has condemned a rocket attack from the Gaza Strip which killed a civilian in Israel on Thursday, on the eve of the Middle East Quartet meeting in Moscow.
- 18:57 18/03/2010
A Thai worker has been killed by a Palestinian rocket attack in southern Israel, an emergency service source said.
- 17:30 17/03/2010
Russia has called on the Israeli and Palestinian sides in the Middle East conflict to exercise self-restraint and not to let the political situation escalate, the Foreign Ministry said on Wednesday.
- 01:27 09/03/2010
Israel and Palestinians have agreed to resume the stalled peace talks and started to discuss the details of four-month indirect negotiations mediated by the United States.
- 21:18 08/02/2010
Israel police injured dozens of Palestinians in violence that broke out after they raided a refugee camp on the edge of Jerusalem on Monday, a Palestinian news agency reported.
- 09:40 25/01/2010
The Palestinian National Authority will continue dialogue with the U.S. in regard to returning to the negotiation table with Israel, though regional peace talks are too early for the agenda, a PNA spokesman said on Monday.
- 10:44 16/11/2009
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has warned the Palestinian leadership that any move to unilaterally declare independence could lead to "one-sided steps on the part of Israel."
- 11:55 31/10/2009
Palestinians will not resume peace talks with Israel until it freezes settlement construction on the West Bank, a Palestinian official said on Saturday ahead of a meeting with the top U.S. diplomat.
- 10:37 09/07/2007
A group of about 30 Russian and CIS nationals is in the process of crossing the Erez checkpoint on the Israeli-Palestinian border to escape the violence-torn Gaza Strip, a RIA Novosti correspondent reported Monday.
- 12:25 02/07/2007
Israeli troops shot dead a field commander of a paramilitary group, with close ties to the Palestinian Fatah party, in the West Bank town of Jenin, local media said Monday.
- 09:56 29/06/2007
France's recently-elected leader will host talks with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in Paris Friday, to discuss the situation in the Palestinian territories.
- 13:47 27/06/2007
Israeli troops killed at least 10 Palestinians and wounded 45 in a firefight in eastern Gaza Wednesday morning.
- 09:54 27/06/2007
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov will meet with the leaders of Israel and the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) Wednesday to discuss ways of overcoming a violent confrontation between the radical Islamist group Hamas and the moderate Fatah movement.
- 22:13 26/06/2007
Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Tuesday Russia condemned the violence in the Gaza Strip and urged the world to join in efforts to help resolve internal Palestinian fighting.
- 21:41 25/06/2007
Palestinian and Israeli leaders, along with the King of Jordan and Egypt's president, have gathered for a four-party summit in Egypt to discuss ways of resuming the Middle East peace process.
- 16:38 24/06/2007
The Israeli Cabinet has agreed to transfer about $700 million previously held on frozen PNA accounts in the country to support Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in his standoff with Islamist militants, an Israeli radio station said Sunday.
- 12:50 21/06/2007
Israel has assisted in the evacuation of at least 100 Palestinian refugees from violence-torn Gaza to Egypt via Israeli territory, an army spokesperson told RIA Novosti Thursday.
- 11:45 21/06/2007
Israel's Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas will meet Sunday at the Egyptian resort of Sharm el-Sheikh, Israeli radio station Galei Tzahal said Thursday.
- 18:49 20/06/2007
A total of 69 Russians and seven Belarusians have been evacuated from the Gaza Strip via Israel and headed toward the Jordanian border, a RIA Novosti correspondent reported Wednesday.
- 16:37 20/06/2007
The first group of Russians evacuated from the volatile Gaza Strip, controlled by radical Islamist group Hamas, has reached Israel, a Russian Embassy spokesman said.
- 15:29 20/06/2007
Israel's ambassador to Russia said the international community should support Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, as his Fatah Party is the only group trying to achieve peace in the Palestinian territories.
- 14:10 20/06/2007
The first group of Russians and citizens of several other former Soviet republics is being evacuated from the volatile Gaza Strip into Israel.
- 09:35 20/06/2007
A group of Russian diplomats in Israel has left for the country's border with violence-ridden Gaza to help evacuate 141 Russian nationals stranded at the Erez crossing.
- 20:06 19/06/2007
- 19:33 19/06/2007
Russian citizens awaiting evacuation from the Gaza Strip will not be able to leave before Wednesday, the Russian Embassy in Tel Aviv said Tuesday.
- 13:12 19/06/2007
The Russian Embassy in Israel said local authorities could open a border checkpoint with Gaza to allow Russian nationals to leave the area hit by recent violence between rival Palestinian factions.
- 12:28 19/06/2007
The Russian Embassy in Israel said local authorities could open a border checkpoint with Gaza to allow Russian nationals to leave the area hit by recent violence between rival Palestinian factions.
- 11:59 19/06/2007
- 09:59 19/06/2007
The United States will restore aid to the Palestinians in full and reestablish contacts with their new emergency government, the secretary of state said.
- 16:34 18/06/2007
Israel has resumed fuel deliveries to the Gaza Strip after a one-day suspension following the territory's takeover by the radical Palestinian group Hamas, an Israeli newspaper said Monday.
- 13:03 18/06/2007
The Russian Embassy in Israel said Monday it was getting ready to evacuate Russian nationals from the Gaza Strip following the reopening of a checkpoint on the Israeli border.
- 10:41 18/06/2007
Israel's Prime Minister pledged to help Palestinians on the West Bank improve their living conditions in a move to support the "moderate" PNA administration led by Mahmoud Abbas, an Israeli newspaper said Monday.
- 17:50 17/06/2007
A quartet of mediators in the Middle East conflict agreed Sunday that the Palestinian leader's decision to dissolve a coalition government and form an emergency Cabinet is legitimate, a joint statement said.
- 14:30 17/06/2007
Israel has suspended fuel supplies to filling stations in Gaza, currently controlled by the radical Islamic movement Hamas, amid a violent factional conflict in Palestinian territories, the Yedioth Ahronoth paper said Sunday.
- 12:49 17/06/2007
Israel's premier has said a new Palestinian government without the radical Islamic movement Hamas is a partner, which raises hopes for further peace talks.
- 18:50 15/06/2007
New Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad, a former finance minister appointed earlier by the president, will discuss Friday the formation of a new Cabinet, a presidential aide said.
- 16:22 15/06/2007
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Friday he did not rule out that United Nations peacekeepers could be sent to the Gaza Strip if all sides to the conflict agree.
- 15:33 15/06/2007
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has postponed his official visit to Moscow, scheduled for next week, due to escalating tensions in the region, a source close to the president said Friday.
- 15:11 15/06/2007
Islamist militant group Hamas, which has gained full control of Gaza after six days of bloodshed, declared an amnesty Friday for all its Fatah prisoners, including the Palestinian pro-presidential group's commanders.
- 12:24 15/06/2007
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas declared a state of emergency and dissolved the government after six days of bloody gun battles, in which Hamas fighters wrested control of key Fatah strongholds in Gaza.
- 18:59 14/06/2007
Hamas fighters took control of the city of Rafah in southern Gaza on Thursday, after crushing resistance from pro-presidential Fatah, local eyewitnesses said.
- 16:05 14/06/2007
Fighters of Islamist group Hamas made key gains in furious gunbattles gripping Gaza, seizing the main security stronghold of rival pro-presidential group Fatah in Gaza City.
- 15:53 14/06/2007
Mahmoud Abbas, the leader of the Palestinian National Authority (PNA), plans to visit Moscow next week, a presidential spokesman said Thursday.
- 12:19 14/06/2007
Foreign ministers of Arab League countries will hold an emergency session in Cairo Friday on the situation in Palestinian territories and Lebanon, the secretary general of the 22-nation bloc said Thursday.
- 12:17 14/06/2007
- 22:15 13/06/2007
- 17:35 13/06/2007
At least 12 people were killed and 50 wounded when Hamas militants blew up the headquarters of the supporters of the pro-presidential Fatah movement in the south of Gaza, local radio said Wednesday.
- 17:01 13/06/2007
At least 12 people were killed and 50 wounded when Hamas militants blew up the headquarters of the supporters of the pro-presidential Fatah movement in the south of Gaza, local radio said Wednesday.
- 16:22 13/06/2007
Four international mediators in the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians will gather for their next meeting in Cairo June 26-27, Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Wednesday.
- 12:27 13/06/2007
Israel does not intend to interfere in the internal Palestinian conflict but is urging the West to think about deploying a multinational peacekeeping force in Gaza, the Israeli prime minister said Wednesday.
- 16:50 06/06/2007
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