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Israeli police fatally shoot Palestinian | Antiwar Newswire : "Israeli police say an officer in Jerusalem has fatally shot a Palestinian man who allegedly tried to harm police with his car. The fatal shooting occurred during a botched robbery. But it comes after a string of attacks against Israelis by Palestinians who have used bulldozers to try to run them over. Police spokesman Shmuel Ben Ruby says police were responding to a robbery at a clothing store on Saturday. He says when police arrived, the man and a woman tried to flee in the car they were using to smash the store. Ben-Ruby says the man tried to run over an officer, who opened fire and fatally shot the man. The woman, who is an Israeli, was arrested. No other details were immediately available."

كونا : Israeli forces injure Palestinian child E. Rafah - الدفاع والأمن - 14/03/2009 : "GAZA, March 13 (KUNA) -- A Palestinian child was injured after being caught in Israeli fire Friday at Eastern Rafah, said Palestinian medical sources on Friday. Director of Ambulance and Emergency Services in the Palestinian Ministry of Health, Moawiya Hasanain said that Israeli tanks positioned at Eastern Rafah, struck fire in the direction of Salah Abu Sanima (13 years old) leading to his injury. The boy was carried by an ambulance to Al-Shaheed Abu Yousif Al-Najjar Hospital in the area, Hasanain said, describing his injuries as mid-threat. (end) mzt.sd KUNA 140000 Mar 09NNNN"

Report: U.S. officials urge Obama to engage Hamas - Haaretz - Israel News A group of former senior American officials and one current adviser are calling on U.S. President Barack Obama to talk with Hamas in an effort to disarm the group and persuade it to join a peaceful Palestinian government, according to a report published Saturday on the Boston Globe. According to the Boston Globe, the bipartisan group includes economic recovery adviser Paul A. Volcker and former national security advisers Brent Scowcroft and Zbigniew Brzezinski, who are said to have made their recommendation in a letter handed to Obama before he took office. "I see no reason not to talk to Hamas," Scowcroft, who was national security adviser to President George H.W. Bush, told the Boston Globe.

U.S. citizens critically hurt at West Bank protest - Haaretz - Israel News : "U.S. citizens critically hurt at West Bank protest By The Associated Press and Haaretz Service Tags: Na'alin, Bil'in, Israel news Palestinian sources said that an American citizen, in his thirties, had sustained critical wounds during an anti-separation fence protest in the West Bank on Friday, Army Radio reported. Peace activists with the International Solidarity Movement said Tristan Anderson, of the Oakland, Calif. area, was struck in the head with a tear gas canister fired by Israeli troops. The military and the Tel Aviv hospital where Anderson was taken had no details on how he was hurt. Protesters who were at the scene said that Anderson was standing by the side of the road when soldiers fired at him, and not near the hub of the clash. They added that there was no one in his vicinity that could have been perceived as a threat to the soldiers."

BBC NEWS | World | Africa | Water pipe sparks Ethiopian conflict Some 70,000 people have fled their homes in a remote part of southern Ethiopia, after a deadly conflict broke out between rival groups - apparently triggered by the construction of a new borehole. The BBC's Elizabeth Blunt has been to visit the affected areas. Wamo Boru and his family used to live in Kafa, one of the many small ethnic Borana communities scattered across the arid borderlands of southern Ethiopia and northern Kenya. The hard red earth shows through the thin grass of the sun-baked landscape, a wide expanse of thorny scrub, flat-topped thorn-trees and tall red anthills. The Borana lead a hard life, especially in the past year or two, when rains have been poor. But the community had its livestock - cattle and camels and goats - and was expecting to have a better water supply when the Oromia regional government finished work on a new borehole in the area. But at the beginning of February they had - quite ...

Iraq shoe thrower sentenced to three years in jail | Antiwar Newswire : "BAGHDAD, March 12 (Reuters) - An Iraqi reporter who hurled his shoes at former U.S. President George W. Bush was convicted of attempting to assault a foreign leader on Thursday and jailed for three years, dismaying many Iraqis who regard him as a hero. Muntazer al-Zaidi, 30, who pleaded not guilty to the charge, told the Baghdad court: "What I did was a natural reaction for the crimes committed against the Iraqi people." Outside the courtroom, Zaidi's sister Ruqaiya burst into tears when she heard the verdict, shouting: "Down with Maliki, the agent of the Americans". Zaidi earned instant worldwide fame in December when he threw his shoes at the visiting U.S. leader, who spearheaded the 2003 invasion to oust Saddam Hussein, and called him a dog at a news conference. Dhiaa al-Saadi, the...