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News in Brief Reconciliation talks between rival Palestinian factions Hamas and Fatah are progressing in Egypt, Palestinian sources said yesterday. Hamas deputy political bureau chief Musa Abu Marzouk met with Egyptian intelligence chief Omar Suleiman recently, though details of the meeting were not released. Abu Marzouk said Hamas and Fatah delegations would arrive in Cairo on October 25, before a meeting between representatives of 13 Palestinian factions, set for Cairo at a later date. (Avi Issacharoff) Prime Minister Ehud Olmert will meet today with parents of the Arab civilians killed in October 2000, along with representatives of the Higher Arab Monitoring Committee, the committee announced yesterday. The committee is expected to present Olmert with a petition signed by a quarter of a million Arab citizens demanding the establishment of a neutral committee with international members to investigate the October 2000 events. The petition states a "racist country" stood behind the crimes of October 2000, and the wound suffered by the Arab public is still bleeding. (Yoav Stern) Advertisement A group of Israeli doctors was blocked Wednesday from entering Gaza, even though the Israel Defense Forces had approved their entry a few days earlier. The members of Physicians for Human Rights were supposed to spend three days in Gaza offering medical services otherwise unavailable there. "The army told us we were denied entry for security reasons," said oncologist Dr. Abed A'baria, one of the nine Arab-Israeli doctors. Some $50,000 in medical equipment was also turned away. The IDF Spokesman said it was looking into the matter. (Fadi Eyadat) Hezbollah Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah reiterated his promise Wednesday to avenge the assassination of his deputy Imad Mughniyeh, for which he blames Israel. Mughniyeh, the Hezbollah operations chief, was killed by a car bomb in Damascus in February. Israel has denied involvement. The editor of the Lebanese newspaper Al Akhbar, Ibrahim al-Amin, quoted Nasrallah as saying, "We have not abandoned our commitment to avenge the assassination, nor have we abandoned the big surprise that awaits our enemies." (Haaretz Staff) The State Prosecutor told the High Court of Justice earlier this week that the decision to transfer Sergei's Courtyard to the Russian government had been approved in 2007, long before Ehud Olmert's government became a caretaker government. The state was responding to the Legal Forum for the Land of Israel's petition against handing the courtyard over to the Russians. The petitioners argued that Olmert's caretaker government was not authorized to transfer historical sites to foreign governments. The state responded that the structure and courtyard "had never belonged to Israel." (Tomer Zarchin) Police raided about 100 properties across Germany yesterday and seized material belonging to a right-wing youth group that officials said was neo-Nazi. The Interior Ministry said it believes the Heimattreue Deutsche Jugend (HDJ), which organizes camping holidays for children and young people, pursues unconstitutional aims. "Personal computers and written documents were confiscated and officials are combing through them. If they find proof of aggressive, anti-constitutional behavior, a ban may follow," said a ministry spokesman. (Reuters) Prosecutors investigating a Hungarian man wanted by Nazi hunters as a war criminal are considering expanding their investigation to Serbia. Efraim Zuroff, head of the Israeli office of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, claims that 94-year-old Sandor Kepiro took part in the killings some 1,200 Serb and Jewish civilians in Novi Sad, Serbia, in early 1942. But the Budapest Chief Prosecutor's Office has not uncovered evidence to charge Kepiro since beginning a probe in March 2007. So prosecutors are currently waiting for access to archival documents in Serbia which could shed new light on the 1942 events. (AP) A founding member of a left-wing terrorist group who later became a neo-Nazi was tried in Germany on Wednesday over charges that he published documents online denying the Holocaust. Horst Mahler - a founding member of the Red Army Faction in 1970 - is accused of regularly posting documents online between 2001 and 2004. Mahler has been charged with incitement and faces up to five years in prison if convicted. (AP) The Vatican Wednesday rejected charges that wartime Pope Pius XII had turned a blind eye to the Holocaust, saying it was a "black legend." An editorial in the Vatican newspaper defended Pius two days after the first Jew to address a Church synod, Haifa's Chief Rabbi Shear-Yashuv Cohen, told the gathering that Jews "cannot forgive and forget" Pius's silence. The Osservatore Romano called him a "man of peace" who tried to do his best during one of the most violent periods in history. (Reuters) Bookmark to del.icio.us   Produce problems Jordan Islamists protest imports of fruit grown on 'land taken by Zionists.' Payback time? America's opponents in the Mideast: Financial crisis is divine punishment.

Read & React Austrian far-right leader Joerg Haider dies in car crash Responses: 71 Livni tells residents of Acre: Don't take law into your own hands Responses: 286 2 Arab-owned homes torched, 12 arrested in Acre violence Responses: 151 Israel grants rare entry to cancer-stricken Iranian boy Responses: 116 Mideast Muslims hail U.S. financial crisis as divine punishment Responses: 67 More Headlines 22:38 Three Jewish rioters hurt, Arab home set ablaze as Acre violence resumes 15:56 Austria far-right leader Joerg Haider dies in car accident 21:14 Mideast Muslims: U.S. financial crisis is divine punishment 19:41 Jordan Islamists protest imports of fruit grown on 'land taken by Zionists' 19:42 Finance Minister: No Israel banks will collapse in global crisis 00:32 For U.S. Jewish groups, crisis means less in donations, more needy 21:51 Palestinian farmers, settlers clash near West Bank settlement of Yitzhar 23:20 Israel grants rare entry to cancer-stricken Iranian boy 08:03 Livni tells Acre residents: Don't take law into your own hands 13:55 Fatah welcomes Hamas assent of Egypt's reconciliation plan 21:24 Sarah Palin accused of improperly firing state worker Previous Editions Select Day 10 oct 09 oct 08 oct 07 oct 06 oct 05 oct 03 oct 02 oct 01 oct 30 sep 29 sep 28 sep

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