Labour Backs Knesset Dissolution
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Bbc News
June 24, 2008 - 4:14pm

Israel's Labour party is to support a motion to dissolve parliament that could bring down embattled Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's government. The bill will have its first reading on Wednesday. It would have to be put to a further two parliamentary votes before it can be passed. Mr Olmert is under investigation for alleged corruption and Mr Barak has previously called for his resignation. The Labour party is Mr Olmert's main coalition ally.

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Cameras Emerge As A Tool In A Conflict Over Land
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The New York Times
by Isabel Kershner - June 24, 2008 - 4:12pm

The conflict between Arabs and Jews over grazing land and water wells in the ancient, arid hills south of Hebron in the West Bank has a distinctly biblical feel, like the flimsy tent encampments and dank caves in which some local Palestinian farming families dwell.

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Remarks En Route Berlin, Germany
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Department Of State
by Secretary Condoleezza Rice - June 24, 2008 - 4:10pm

SECRETARY RICE: Good morning, everybody. QUESTION: How are you?

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A State Department Press Release features Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice’s remarks prior to the Berlin Conference held earlier today (1). The ceasefire between Hamas and Israel is reportedly broken as Palestinian rockets from Gaza land in southern Israel (4) and two Palestinians are killed in the West Bank (11). The suicide of an Israeli policeman at French President Nicolas Sarkozy’s departure ceremony mars his visit after a productive meeting with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas (5). Progress on security assistance reported at the Berlin conference (6), but challenges remain (7).

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