Israel Hit by Worst Locust Plague Since 1950s
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Millions of locusts swarmed through Israel's Red Sea resort town of Eilat on Sunday, devouring crops and flowers in the country's south.
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GAZA CITY, June 19 -- At the Erez crossing between Israel and the Gaza Strip, a man with a three-day growth of beard and bluejeans raised his fist and let out a hoarse scream amid the stench and desperation of the dozens of men, women and children who have been gathered here for days, unable to go...
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The desert locust infestation that  descended on West and Central Africa this year is likely to  return in 2005 and officials will have to be better prepared to  avoid major damage to crops, experts said on Monday.
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Israeli air strikes killed 14 villagers   in south Lebanon on Tuesday as Arab nations demanded a swift   end to Israel's war with Hizbollah guerrillas that has cost   around 1,000 Lebanese and 101 Israeli lives in four weeks.
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Confidential Israeli report also warns of country becoming a &#39;pariah state&#39; like apartheid-era South Africa. Israel could one day become a &quot;pariah state&quot; like apartheid-era South Africa.
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An outburst of anti-Semitic violence has sent shock waves through Israel, but its roots lie in the influx of immigrants from the former Soviet Union
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JEBALIYA REFUGEE CAMP, Gaza Strip - Israeli troops struck deep inside the largest Palestinian refugee camp Thursday, battling masked gunmen in an unprecedented campaign to stop deadly rocket fire on Israeli towns. Twenty-three Palestinians were killed, the bloodiest single-day toll in fighting in 30 months...
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Israel fired missiles and sent tanks on a foray into Gaza on Wednesday, killing four Palestinians in the deadliest military action since Hamas militants took control of the coastal strip. At the same time, Israel allowed in a few sick and wounded Palestinians of the hundreds of people who fled the violence &#151; with many holed up for days at a fetid border passage with Gaza.
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Forty years later, defeats and disappointments continue to shape the lives of Palestinians and Israelis
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Swarms of pink locusts swept through Cairo on Wednesday in scenes that recalled the biblical plague of Egypt.
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Locust swarms infesting Mauritania and other African nations could develop into a full-scale plague without additional foreign aid, the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization said Thursday.
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Two reports released Tuesday show that poverty has steadily worsened in Israel and risen significantly in the Palestinian territories since fighting erupted four years ago
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In its harshest condemnation of Israel since last summer's war, Human Rights Watch charged that most of the Lebanese civilian casualties came from "indiscriminate Israeli airstrikes," according to a report to be released Thursday.
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ROME  - A UN food agency made another urgent appeal Friday for money to buy pesticides and crop-dusting aircraft to combat locusts devouring crops in northwest Africa.
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Tens of millions of locusts have descended on Cyprus and the island now has less than 10 days to act before the invasion turns into a self-perpetuating plague.
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One bee disease, called Israeli acute paralysis virus, seems strongly associated with the beekeeping operations that experienced big losses.
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The locust crisis that has devastated crops across West Africa may be even worse next year, experts warn.