Israel-Palestinians deaths drop in 2007
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The number of people killed in Israeli-Palestinian violence dropped dramatically in 2007, according to a report from an Israeli human rights group released Monday.
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Seven Palestinians - at least five militants - are killed by Israeli troops in Israeli and Palestinian territory.
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The number of Iraqi civilian deaths at American checkpoints and in encounters with U.S. convoys has fallen sharply, from as many as eight a week a year ago to one a week last month, the U.S. military reported Thursday.
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JERUSALEM, Sept. 6 -- Israel's "frequent failure" to distinguish between military and civilian targets during the war in Lebanon last summer was the primary reason so many Lebanese civilians were killed in the bombing campaign, according to a Human Rights Watch report released Thursday.
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A series of crises, not a burst of goodwill, has made long moribund Israeli-Palestinian peacemaking possible again: economic meltdown in the West Bank and Gaza, plummeting popularity for Israel's prime minister after the war in Lebanon, President Bush's troubles in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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The number of children dying worldwide has dropped below 10 million a year for the first time, UNICEF said Thursday.
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Israel announced on Friday it was sharply reducing its military operations in the West Bank and Gaza Strip in response to efforts by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to end attacks on Israelis.
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Surveys released this week show that nearly 50 percent of Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip face dire poverty, while an increasing number of Israelis have also slipped below the poverty line.
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Seven and a half million people worldwide died from cancer in 2005 and the number of cases in the Middle East is expected to soar over the next 15 years, Moroccan news agency MAP quoted the World Health Organization as saying.
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The number of civilians killed in Iraq is continuing to fall, data published by Iraqi ministries suggest.
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Violent civilian deaths in Iraq in December were down 75 percent from a year ago, new figures released on Monday showed as Iraqis partied in the streets of some parts of the capital Baghdad to bring in the New Year.
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It's not just the failure of Condi Rice's summit. Many factors have made it less likely that Israelis and Palestinians will ever live side by side as separate nations
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In its year-end report, the leading Israeli human rights organization B'tselem noted a roughly 50 percent reduction in fatalities.
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Seven Palestinians, including four militants, die in Israeli raids in the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip, reports say.
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Israeli television said on Wednesday  that Palestinian President Yasser Arafat's health had  deteriorated.
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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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Israel announced on Friday it was  sharply reducing its military operations in the West Bank and  Gaza Strip in response to efforts by Palestinian President  Mahmoud Abbas to end attacks on Israelis.