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Full StoryIsraeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will hold talks with Barack Obama in Washington next week after White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel handed him a personal invitation from the U.S. president on Wednesday.
"On behalf of the president ... he has asked me to extend an invitation to you to come and visit him at the White House for a working meeting to discuss both our shared security interests as well as our close cooperation in seeking peace between Israel and its neighbors," Emanuel said after talks with the Israeli leader in Jerusalem.
Full StoryIsrael's navy will stop a flotilla heading for Gaza with 10,000 tons of supplies and pro-Palestinian activists intent on breaking a three-year blockade of Gaza, officials said Wednesday, in the first definitive Israeli pledge to stop the boats.
The officials said if the flotilla of eight ships does not turn back, the boats will be hauled to an Israeli port, the activists sent back to their countries and the supplies transferred to Gaza by land.
Full StoryIsraeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu left for Paris on Thursday on a trip that will also take him to Washington after he received a last-minute invitation for talks with U.S. President Barack Obama.
In Paris, Netanyahu will formally accept an invitation for Israel to join the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, a Paris-based group of 30 developed world nations.
Full StorySpeaker Nabih Berri snapped back at critics of the Hizbullah-Amal alliance who have accused "the Shiite couple" of launching war on families in last Sunday's municipal elections in the south and Nabatiyeh.
"Don't our candidates come from families?" Berri asked An Nahar newspaper.
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