The Jerusalem Post
Teenager dies of wounds sustained in Beit Hagai attack
By MARGOT DUDKEVITCH
Avihai Levy, 17, killed in Friday's shooting attack at the Beit Hagai intersection.
Location of Friday's shooting attack near Beit Hagai, in which a resident of the settlement was killed, and another two wounded
Aviad Mansour, critically wounded in Friday's shooting attack at a hitchhiking station near the Beit Hagai settlement in the South Hebron Hills, died Sunday morning at the Hadassah-University Hospital in Ein Karem – the second fatality of the attack.
Doctors said over the weekend that Mansour was fighting for his life. Both of his legs had already been amputated.
Mansour, 16, a resident of a the South Hebron Hills settlement of Otniel, had been repeatedly shot in the legs and abdomen when terrorists passing the hitchhiking post opened fire on the boys about to hop into a car from Beit Hagai.
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Bethlehem handover to PA next week
By MARGOT DUDKEVITCH
Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz on Thursday ordered the army to prepare to handover additional West Bank cities to Palestinian Authority security control next week.
According to Mofaz, the security establishment should be prepared to hand over Bethlehem next week, followed by Kalkilya the week after.
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Egypt is playing with fire
By URI DAN
In the extensive maneuvers conducted by the Egyptian Army from time to time, Israel is not designated explicitly as the foe, but all the characteristics attributed to "the enemy" by the Egyptian General Staff are remarkably similar to those of Israel and its armed forces.
In fact, Egypt's land and air forces, equipped with the latest American weapons, constitute the greatest potential threat to Israel. It is therefore of vital importance not to change the peace agreement between Israel and Egypt signed by Menachem Begin and Anwar Sadat at the White House in March 1979. The agreement guaranteed that the Sinai Desert given up by Begin would remain demilitarized; and that Egypt would be permitted to deploy a limited number of troops only, in the Suez Canal area far from Israel's border.
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Israel apologizes to New Zealand
By JPOST.COM STAFF
New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark announced Sunday morning that Israel had formally apologized for a diplomatic ordeal that had upset the relations between the two countries, after Israeli officials admitted that Mossad agents had fraudulently obtained a "very small number" of New Zealand passports.
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Hamas: We want piece of Gaza pie
By MATTHEW GUTMAN
GAZA CITY
Hamas and the Palestinian Authority could be headed toward a turf war over the Gaza Strip territory Israel is to evacuate later this summer, as PA officials have rejected Hamas demands for influence over the territory.
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Time's short for Gaza hothouses
Time is running out to find buyers for the Gaza settlers' hothouses. Israel wants to sell them to the Palestinians intact rather than dismantling them, warned Nigel Roberts, director of the World Bank in Gaza and the West Bank.
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Settlers in hotel: We reached a deal
By YAAKOV KATZ AND JPOST STAFF
Right-wing activists holed up inside the Palm Beach Hotel in Gush Katif claimed they had reached an agreement Saturday night with the IDF and the police allowing the sides to back down from a possible confrontation and raid of the compound.
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PA arrests 10 Fatah gunmen in Jenin
By KHALED ABU TOAMEH
Palestinian police officers hold their guns as they take cover during clashes with gunmen in Jenin on Friday.
The Palestinian Security forces arrested 10 Fatah gunmen over the weekend on suspicion of participating in an armed attack on a PA police station in Jenin.
One policeman was killed when scores of Fatah gunmen launched an attack on their station on Thursday night, using automatic rifles and pistols. The victim was identified as Ziad al-Bazour, 26, of the village of Raba in the Jenin area.
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Stunning poll win for Iran hardliner
By ORLY HALPERN
A former Revolutionary Guard and hardline conservative won the Iranian presidential elections, causing shockwaves in his country and around the world.
Garnering the votes of the poor and disenfranchised, the 48-year-old Teheran mayor Mahmoud Ahmadinejad steamrolled his rival, the pragmatist and politically savvy cleric, Hashemi Ali Rafsanjani, and won the presidency by a landslide on Friday. Announced on state television, the results gave Ahmadinejad 61.6 percent of the vote over Rafsanjani's 35.9 percent. The rest of the ballots were deemed invalid.
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Hillel tries to help Israelis celebrate Judaism
The University of Haifa will be the fourth Israeli campus with a Hillel branch.
As Hillel prepares to open its newest Israel branch at the University of Haifa this fall, it has found itself answering the question of what an organization that promotes being Jewish does in an already Jewish land. The answer, says Rabbi Yossi Goldman, Associate Vice President for Israel, is easy: the very same thing.
"Our goal is always to maximize the number of Jewish students doing 'Jewish' with other Jews," said Goldman. "We are in a Jewish state but for many in our society Judaism has ceased to be meaningful."
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Philadelphia Inquirer
3 Boys Found Dead
By Dwight Ott, Adam Fifield and Kristen A. Graham
Inquirer Staff Writers
The father of one of the three boys missing since Wednesday in Camden discovered his son and two friends dead last night in the trunk of a car in the yard where they were last seen alive.
For two days, authorities from two states scoured the Cramer Hill section of the city and the banks of the Delaware River for Anibal "Juni" Cruz, 11; Daniel "Danny" Agosto, 6; and Jesstin "Manny" Pagan, 5. Relatives, neighbors, and people who never had met the boys joined the search, which drew national attention.
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Will they fit?
Simple math: Parkway has no room for 1 million people.
By Larry Eichel
Inquirer Staff Writer
It remains to be seen whether a million people will try to attend the Live 8 concert, as city officials have predicted.
But if they all show up at the same time, they won't fit.
There's simply no way that a crowd that size can be squeezed onto the Benjamin Franklin Parkway between the Art Museum steps and JFK Plaza, also known as LOVE Park.
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Parents: School mishandled acts of violence
Valley Forge Military Academy says it did not, as the mothers claim, discourage them from going to police about attacks on their sons.
By Barbara Boyer
Inquirer Staff Writer
A former cadet at Valley Forge Military Academy said he was hit with the butt of a rifle in what other cadets called "butt hitting time" during repeated attacks over a four-day period in April.
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The New Zealand Herald
Israeli government apologises to New Zealand
Helen Clark
26.06.05 5.20pm UPDATE
Israel has apologised for the spy scandal and has promised it will take steps to ensure no similar incident happens again.
Prime Minister Helen Clark today said she was pleased New Zealand and Israel would now be able to resume friendly diplomatic relations.
The relationship has been frosty since Israel refused to apologise for what Miss Clark described as "utterly unacceptable" behaviour surrounding two alleged Mossad agents, Uriel Zoshe Kelman and Eli Cara, who were arrested in March 2004 and charged with trying to fraudulently obtain New Zealand passports.
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Goff calls for united front to halt Zimbabwe tours
Phil Goff
26.06.05
By Jonathan Milne
The Government has sought Britain and Australia's support to stamp out the International Cricket Council's stubborn endorsement of the Zimbabwe regime.
Foreign Affairs Minister Phil Goff expected to be in talks late last night with his Australian counterpart Alexander Downer and New Zealand Cricket boss Martin Snedden.
The question of whether the New Zealand team tours Zimbabwe is fast escalating into an international diplomatic stoush.
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Kerre Woodham: Cricket could be the key
26.06.05
Yet again, the New Zealand cricketers have been put on the spot over whether to tour Zimbabwe. Martin Snedden has told the players they will face no financial penalty if they bail from the tour, and Helen Clark is refusing, quite rightly, exhortations from the Greens that the cricketers be prevented from going.
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Mugabe unmoved by criticism
26.06.05
Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe yesterday defended his Government's crackdown on what it calls illegal settlements - a drive that has left thousands homeless and drawn condemnation from the West.
Two children were crushed to death this month during the campaign critics say has exacerbated an economic crisis, marked by severe food and fuel shortages, unemployment of about 70 per cent and inflation of over 140 per cent. But Mugabe repeated it was part of a bid to fight crime and clean up cities.
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Iran's Ahmadinejad urges reconciliation after polls
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad waves to his supporters. Picture / Reuters
26.06.05
TEHRAN - President-elect Mahmoud Ahmadinejad yesterday urged Iranians to put aside their differences after winning a divisive presidential run-off which split the country broadly along class lines.
"Today is a day when we have to forget all our rivalries and turn them into friendships," Ahmadinejad said in comments broadcast on state radio, his first since being declared winner of yesterday's election.
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It's winter with a twist
26.06.05
By Adrienne Kohler
Tornadoes cut a swathe through Auckland yesterday, uprooting trees and lifting roofs off houses while torrential rain flooded properties and roads, and created havoc on Auckland's Southern Motorway.
The chaos was the result of an intense two-hour thunderstorm that hit around 11am, causing flash flooding throughout the city.
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