Israelis extend mixed welcome to Sudanese
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Israelis weigh concerns about their moral responsibility and the refugees' economic and demographic impact.
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Sudan gives a cautious welcome to a UN suggestion that it grant more autonomy to try to end violence in the troubled region.
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WASHINGTON - Under US encouragement and, in some cases, pressure, Israel has quietly taken steps aimed at strengthening the standing of Palestinian moderates and has agreed to consider others now after the death of the Palestinian leader, Yasser Arafat
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The recent rhetoric from the Middle East - hopeful and constructive from both sides of the divide - provides a glimmer of hope that Palestinians and Israelis may agree on new and peaceful borders in the coming new year.
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CAIRO, 12 October 2004 - For decades the Israelis have enjoyed a love affair with the unspoiled beauty and tranquility of Egyptian Sinai and its Red Sea resorts â-o near and yet so far from the crowded commercialism of Eilat.
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The extension of the African Union's mandate in Sudan's Darfur has been welcomed by all sides but tough negotiations on a transition to a UN peacekeeping force were set to continue.
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Sudanese hailed a New Year accord  ending a north-south civil war, but celebrations were tempered  by fear the fledgling pact may unravel under pressure from the  separate Darfur conflict in the west.
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Despite conflict, Israelis try to help Gazans to whom they have longstanding ties.
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Sudan has agreed to consider the asylum  claims of 76 Eritreans who forced a Libyan plane to land in  Sudan because they feared returning home, a U.N. official said  Saturday.  Libya had denied the Eritreans refugee status.
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KIRYAT SHMONA, Israel  - The hotels in northern   Israel have reopened. Travelers are slowly trickling back and   workers are patching up homes hit by Hizbollah rockets.
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Five years after he fled his razed Darfur village, and after jail spells in three countries, Ibrahim has found refuge in an unlikely place: a kibbutz in Israel.
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When Ali started blogging that he was  Sudanese and gay, he did not realize he was joining a band of  African and Middle Eastern gays and lesbians who, in the face  of hostility and repression, have come out online.
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Sudan on Thursday welcomed the re-election of President George W. Bush and expressed hope that ties with Washington, strained over the Darfur crisis which the United States called genocide, would be normalised.
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The Israeli public wants a tough response, and some fear another episode of brinksmanship is at hand
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Israel called up 15,000 reserve soldiers   but ruled out a full-scale invasion of Lebanon against   Hizbollah, as diplomatic divisions appeared to widen on Friday   over how to end the 17-day-old conflict.
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KARMIEL, Israel -- Fatina and Ahmad Zubeidat, young Arab citizens of Israel, met on the first day of class at the prestigious Bezalel arts and architecture academy in Jerusalem. Married last year, the couple rents an airy house here in the Galilee filled with stylish furniture and other modern gr...
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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.