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22:56
A protester is arrested in the demonstration outside Yitzhak Teshuva's house (Ch. 10)
21:42
Close to 1,000 protesting cost of living in Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, and Be'er Sheva (Haaretz)
20:42
Syria: Gunmen abducted the elderly father of Deputy Foreign Minister Faisal Mekdad (AP)
19:57
Yacimovich: If we find ourselves on the eve of a peace treaty we will join the government (Ch. 10)
19:02
Tzipi Livni: No peace agreement can be reached with the Palestinians (Army Radio)
19:00
A brawl in Taybe ends in a 5 wounded persons, one with a gunshot wound in his chest (Haaretz)
18:48
Egypt's opposition attacks Brotherhood-backed NGO draft law (Reuters)
18:37
Syria's Assad tells the Argentine daily Clarin: We cannot negotiate with fragmented rebels (Haaretz)
18:21
Police arrest two in a violent demonstration in Jerusalem involving rock throwing (Haaretz)
17:21
Armed groups bomb Libyan military posts in Benghazi (Reuters)
16:58
Egypt blocks Gaza border, Hamas calls continued closure 'unjustified' (Reuters)
16:14
Syria rebels capture several pro-Assad villages in center of country (DPA)
15:19
Eight killed, ten policemen kidnapped in Iraq (Reuters)
14:19
Pakistan court extends former military ruler Musharraf's detention (DPA)
13:03
Israel Nature and Parks Authority official attacked trying to stop illegal hunting (Army Radio)

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