Top News on Google Middle East: Jews are building homes
Editors Note: On January 30, 2015, we searched for Middle East News on Google News. The following stories came up. The first item was that Israelis are planning to build 450 housing units in four small settlements not far from Jerusalem. This was condemned by the “internationally community”. The items below that which reported Islamic violence and intolerance were not as significant and did not draw international condemnation.
UK condemns Israeli government plan for more housing tenders in West Bank
Jerusalem Post Israel News
– 18 minutes ago
The United Kingdom on Friday condemned the Israeli government’s decision to issue new tenders for 450 housing units in areas that lie beyond the 1967 Green Line.
Opinion:Israel issues tenders for new settler homes ahead of electionThe Star Online
In Depth:US says Israeli settlement unit tenders will ‘inflame tensions’Haaretz
UN asks Iran help restore calm in Lebanon
Tehran Times
– 1 hour ago
TEHRAN – The UN Special Coordinator for Lebanon Sigrid Kaag called on Iran to contribute to the restoration of peace to Lebanon after an Israeli airstrike on a Hezbollah convoy sparked …
Over 50 killed in Pakistan Shia mosque attack (Roundup)
Business Standard
– 1 hour ago
More than 50 people were killed and around 50 others injured Friday when a suicide bomber ripped through a Shia mosque in Pakistan’s Shikarpur district, media reports said.
Two children killed in clashes in Sinai a day after bombs kill 30
Telegraph.co.uk
– 23 minutes ago
Two children were killed in the crossfire on Friday as the Egyptian army fought an insurgency in northern Sinai against militants loyal to Islamic State.
Proof is in the footage: Iran’s missiles destined for Eastern Seaboard?
OneNewsNow
– 13 minutes ago
Verifying what conservatives in Washington have been saying all along, a video recently acquired by an Israeli news agency is being used as proof that Iran is more than on its way to developing and delivering a nuclear warhead with the Eastern Seaboard’s …
The Return of Anti-Semitism
Wall Street Journal
– 2 hours ago
Last Tuesday, a group of Holocaust survivors, by now gaunt and frail, made their way back to Auschwitz, the West’s symbol of evil—back to the slave-labor side of the vast complex, with its mocking inscription Arbeit Macht Frei (“Work makes you free”), and …
Top officer killed as Iraq Kurds repel major IS attack
Zee News
– 3 hours ago
Kirkuk: Iraqi Kurdish forces repelled a major attack by the Islamic State group in Kirkuk province that killed a top officer Friday, while violence elsewhere left at least 19 dead.
Analysis – Yemen: Downhill Rapidly
HSToday
– 23 minutes ago
Of the more than 70 Al Qaeda franchises, the Yemen-based Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) has been one of the most effective.
Next round of Syria talks in Moscow in a month: Delegate
Ahram Online
– 23 minutes ago
The next meeting between some Syrian opposition figures and the Damascus government in Moscow will take place in about a month, Qadri Jamil, a participant in this week’s consultations, said on Friday.
Jihadists Secretly Join Exodus to Europe Amid Syrian Humanitarian Crisis
Sputnik International
– 5 hours ago
Jihadists are taking advantage of the humanitarian crisis in Syria and its porous 899-kilometer border with Turkey to travel to Europe alongside refugees fleeing the conflict.