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U.S. presses Netanyahu on settlements

Sep. 1, 2009
Both sides say that the U.S. and Israel are near an agreement on a halt to expanding Israeli settlements.
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Netanyahu: Illegal settlements will go

Netanyahu: Illegal settlements will go

JERUSALEM, June 1 (UPI) -- Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu says there will be no new Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank and illegal outposts there will be dismantled.

Poll: Americans oppose Israeli settlements

COLLEGE PARK, Md., April 29 (UPI) -- The majority of Americans say they think Israel should not build settlements in the Palestinian territories, a poll indicates.

Most West Bank settlements may be illegal

JERUSALEM, Jan. 30 (UPI) -- A secret Israeli database recently obtained by the media indicates nearly 75 percent of Israeli settlements in the West Bank were set up illegally.

UPI Poll: Few support Israeli settlements

WASHINGTON, Dec. 15 (UPI) -- Less than one-quarter of U.S. respondents to a UPI-Zogby International poll said they deem Israeli settlements on the Palestinian West Bank as necessary.

Jordan blasts Israeli settlement expansion

AMMAN, Jordan, June 26 (UPI) -- Jordan Sunday blasted reported Israeli plans to expand Jewish settlements in the Jordan Valley and the northern Dead Sea shores.

Militants fire rockets at Gaza settlements

GAZA, April 30 (UPI) -- Palestinian militants continued Saturday firing homemade mortar shells at Jewish settlements in the Gaza Strip, Israeli Radio reported.

PA warns of buying settlements' equipment

GAZA, March 15 (UPI) -- A Palestinian Authority official Tuesday warned Palestinian businessmen against purchasing technological equipment from Israeli settlements in Gaza.

Israeli fire wounds Gaza schoolchildren

GAZA, Dec. 12 (UPI) -- Seven Palestinian children were injured Sunday when an Israeli army tank fired two shells near an elementary school in southern Gaza.

PA slams Israel for expanding settlements

GAZA, June 16 (UPI) -- Palestinian Authority officials Wednesday criticized Israel's decision to expand several West Bank Jewish settlements and for Jewish settlers from Gaza.

Israeli, U.S. officials talk of separation

WASHINGTON, March 2 (UPI) -- U.S. officials in Washington met with a visiting Israeli delegation to discuss Israel's plan for unilateral separation in the occupied territories.
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Lori Anne Madison, 6, competes in Scripps National Spelling Bee
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Lori Anne Madison, 6, of Woodbridge, Virginia, spells out the letters in her word as she competes during the opening round of the Scripps National Spelling Bee, May 30, 2012, in National Harbor, Maryland. Madison, the youngest known qualifier in the history of the contest, correctly spelled the word "dirigible*", a lighter-than-air aircraft, to advance. UPI/Mike Theiler