Israel strike cripples business
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About 400,000 public sector workers are on strike in Israel,  crippling business around the country.
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Israel's latest and most advanced spy satellite - Ofeq 6 - has been destroyed during launch.
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Israeli opposition to the prime minister's Gaza withdrawal plan raises safety concerns.
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Unpaid employees in the Palestinian prime minister's office on Wednesday joined a widespread strike that is challenging the survival of the Hamas-led government.
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Unity that had developed in the Palestinian territories following the death of President Yasser Arafat was shattered when gunmen opened fire on Palestinian leaders Sunday.
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Three Palestinians have been wounded in another Israeli air strike on the Jabaliya refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip. The camp is the focus of a massive Israeli operation in Gaza that has killed more than 100 Palestinians in less than two weeks.
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Ariel Sharon, the Israeli prime minister, suffered a massive blow to his project to withdraw from settlements in the Gaza Strip last night when his party refused to allow him to invite new partners into the government who might have backed his plans.
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Israel's labor unions staged a  nationwide general strike on Tuesday, grounding all  international air traffic, paralyzing financial markets and  public services and even preventing burial of the dead.
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Supermarkets may be hit by strike action from a major food supplier embroiled in a pay dispute.
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Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon is desperately trying to save his government after he sacked his main coalition partner yesterday.
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BEIRUT -- A racket filled the air outside Mohammed Jassar's shop in a swath of Beirut devastated in this summer's war with Israel. Hammers delivered a cadence to the clamor of bulldozers, saws and drills trying to rebuild. The noise was almost as loud as the invective these days in Lebanese...
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Some kibbutzes are on the verge of collapse as they cope with debt and attrition.
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A general strike in Greece against a government pension reform cripples the nation's transport  and public services.
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Israel&#39;s main labor unions launched a nationwide general strike on Tuesday, grounding all international air traffic, paralyzing most public services and even preventing burial of the dead.
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The company's development group has been hit with layoffs.
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The leader of a Palestinian militant group and two of his lieutenants have been wounded in an Israeli air strike on a car in the southern Gaza Strip, witnesses and medical sources said.
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Israel&#39;s main labour unions launched a nationwide general strike on Tuesday, grounding all international air traffic, paralysing most public services and even preventing burial of the dead.