Israeli Lions Symbols of Peace at Palestinian Zoo
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Shouts of joy from excited schoolboys greeted the arrival of an Israeli convoy on its entry to a Palestinian town where visitors from the Jewish state are usually soldiers searching for militants.
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Carel van Heerden feels no reason to apologise about his doomed lion-breeding business. &quot;Trophy hunters will always exist. We're taking the pressure off the rest of the roaming lions in Africa.&quot;
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Armed Palestinian police deployed across the northern Gaza Strip on Friday to prevent rocket fire on Israeli communities, raising hopes that the two sides have found a way to end more than four years of bloody conflict and resume peace talks.
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Pilgrims and a new Palestinian leadership celebrated Christmas in the town of Jesusâ birth with prayers for peace on Saturday, lifted by fresh hope following Yasser Arafat&#39;s death.
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Israeli army officials said that they had stopped most search-and-arrest operations against Palestinian militants and were easing security restrictions in the West Bank and Gaza Strip to allow Palestinians greater freedom to vote Sunday for a new president.
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The leaders and people of Israel and Palestine should honour the memories of Yasser Arafat and slain Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin by acting practically to achieve the &quot;peace of the brave&quot;, President Thabo Mbeki said on Friday.
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Israel praises the Palestinian Authority for deploying its forces to stop rocket attacks in Gaza.
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JERUSALEM -- Election front-runner Mahmoud Abbas marked the end of the 40-day Muslim mourning period for Yasser Arafat by asserting his commitment to a peace deal that would create a Palestinian state with Jerusalem as a capital.
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By Justin Huggler  In the heat of the Punjab plain, an Indian zoo is waiting for its collection of lions to die. The males have all been sterilised, to prevent them breeding. Once the Chhatbir zoo had more than 70 lions; today there are 21 left.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank  - Thousands of Palestinians  paid tumultuous homage to leader Yasser Arafat on Friday,  surging around the helicopter that flew his coffin home to the  West Bank in a chaotic scene of guns and tears.
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For most Israelis, Yasser Arafat's death opens up new hope for an end to the violence.
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Israeli army spotters have a new job: counting wild animals on both sides of the West Bank separation barrier to help naturalists assess the problems caused by the huge structure, an army publication reported.
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By Ben Lynfield | Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor. KHAN YUNIS REFUGEE CAMP, GAZA STRIP - The sights, sounds, and emotions in Gaza Sunday were those of war, not of the turning point toward peace
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SALFIT, West Bank  - Thousands of Palestinians  gathered at a West Bank park on Sunday, defying Islamic  militant disapproval, in the hope their pop idol would become  the first Palestinian to win an Arab song contest.
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The zoo has become a haven for Baghdad residents who are looking for a retreat from violence on the streets.
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CHARLOTTE, NC -- Charlotte&#39;s Palestinian community remembered Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat Saturday. The Palestine Right to Return Coalition held a memorial ceremony at Marshall Park in uptown Charlotte.
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Thousands of Palestinians, some wearing  mock suicide-bomber belts, lined Gaza roads Monday to welcome  home the remains of 15 gunmen handed over by Israel in a  gesture to help President Mahmoud Abbas shore up a cease-fire.