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January 24th, 2016 
Awake Goy Israeli settlers have taken over two Palestinian houses in the south of the occupied West Bank, claiming they had bought them despite the Palestinian law banning such transaction.
“A group of dozens of settlers accompanied by rabbis broke into a building on Shuhada Street,” activist Jawad Abu Eisheh told AFP of the Thursday incident in the city of al-Khalil (Hebron).
There were Palestinians living in other houses in the building at the time of the forced entry, which sparked clashes with the locals.
Israeli forces also turned up at the scene and deployed sound grenades to protect the settlers against the protesters. A number of Palestinians suffered injuries during the confrontation and were taken to hospital.
Israeli Immigration Minister Ze’ev Elkin praised the invasion as a “determined move” to expand the Israeli presence in the city, calling on fellow Minister for Military Affairs Moshe Ya’alon “to give the settlers all the help he can, and not give in to the pressures” of the Palestinians.
The occupied territories have witnessed a rise in settler violence against Palestinians in recent months.
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Published time: 22 Jan, 2016 12:22
The brother of Aleksandr Litvinenko says the UK government had more motivation to kill him than Russia did, despite a British public inquiry which concluded that President Putin “probably” approved the assassination.
Maksim Litvinenko, Aleksandr’s younger brother who lives in Rimini, Italy, responded to the Thursday report by saying it was “ridiculous” to blame the Kremlin for the murder of his brother, stating that he believes British security services had more of a motive to carry out the assassination.
“My father and I are sure that the Russian authorities are not involved. It’s all a set-up to put pressure on the Russian government,” Litvinenko told the Mirror, adding that such reasoning is the only explanation as to why the inquiry was launched 10 years after his brother’s death.
He called the British report a “smear” on Putin, and stressed that rumors claiming his brother was an enemy of the state are false. He added that Aleksandr had planned to return to Russia, and had even told friends about the move.
Litvinenko went on to downplay his brother’s alleged role as a spy, working for either Russia or MI6, adding that the Western media is to blame for such characterization.
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Published time: 22 Jan, 2016 00:01
Weeks remain before warmer weather reactivates the trails that brought over 1 million migrants into the EU last year. With officials unable to agree on a common policy, their rows are no longer behind closed doors, but are being played out in public.
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- Wednesday 20 January 2016
The share of income going to the top one per cent is higher than ever Getty Images
Less than one per cent of the wealth created since 2000 has gone to the poorest 50 per cent of the world’s population, new research has revealed.
The finding comes as the world’s richest business leaders and most powerful heads of state gather in Davos for the start of the annual four-day summit.
Fifteen years into the millennium, the evidence suggests the world’s rich are only getting richer, while the least well-off half of the world remain in borderline poverty.
WASHINGTON (JTA) — A top U.S. negotiator with Iran said enduring the tension the talks engendered between the Obama administration and Israel and the Jewish community was very painful.
“For me personally, one of the most difficult parts was the tension with this beloved country and its people,” Wendy Sherman, who led the U.S. team in the talks between Ian and six major powers leading to the sanctions relief for nuclear rollbacks deal.
“So having the dissension and the difficulties that we had in this process — and with the American Jewish community of which I consider myself a part — was very, very painful,” she said Tuesday at the Institute for National Security Studies in Tel Aviv, according to Defense News.
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Speaking to Israeli reporters, the Palestinian president claimed that his office in Ramallah communicated with the PM’s office several times, sans American mediation, even trying to arrange a meeting between the two leaders. Speaking to Israeli reporters on Thursday, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said that for the past two months his office and Prime Minister Netanyahu’s office have been communicating in an attempt to arrange a meeting, but that Netanyahu did not respond to the latest message.
“There have been talks between my office and Netanyahu’s office and the US was not in the picture at all,” Abbas said Thursday. “Among other things, there were talks about a meeting between us.” The Prime Minister’s Office rejected the claims, saying: “This is not true. This is an attempt by Abbas to avoid his responsibility for the lack of negotiations. Today as well, in Davos, Netanyahu called for Abbas to come and negotiate without preconditions.”
According to the Palestinian president, it was agreed that the sides will appoint two representatives each, who will coordinate the meeting. “I agreed, and haven’t heard any response from Netanyahu ever since,” Abbas claimed.
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(JTA) — Slovenia’s largest supermarket chain reportedly has backed off a decision to stop selling Israeli produce.
The Mercator chain placed a new order for fruit from Israel, including pomelos and avocados, two days after announcing that it would remove Israeli products from its shelves, Ynet reported Thursday.
The Israeli Foreign Ministry summoned Slovenia’s ambassador over the issue before Mercator reportedly changed its decision. A similar decision was rescinded in 2014.
The Slovenian Embassy in Israel said in a statement, according to Ynet: “There is no Slovenian boycott on Israeli products. The agreements between the European Union and Israel are the basis of Israel’s special status in its relations with Slovenia as well. The government of Slovenia has not held stocks in Mercator since 2014. The ties between Israel and Slovenia have always been good and are characterized by vast cooperation, mostly in the fields of economics, science, research, advanced technologies, and tourism.”
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Bahraini people stage fresh anti-regime protests
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