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Barcelona footballer Lionel Messi placed a wish in Jerusalem’s Western Wall today as he and his team-mates completed a two-day “peace tour” of Israel and the West Bank  that included a training clinic for young Palestinians in Hebron and meetings with the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem.

Israel’s cabinet today approved a new national priorities plan, which will see preferential funding going to outposts in the occupied West Bank, which just a few months ago, even the Israel government considered to be illegal.

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Britain will close its embassy in Yemen today amid heightened security fears after Interpol warned countries around the world to be on their guard following a series of prison breaks believed to be linked to the al-Qa'ida terror network.

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British Embassy in Sana'a will be closed on Sunday and Monday as a 'precautionary measure'

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Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah appeared in public for the first time in almost two years today, declaring his continued support for Palestinians to ecstatic cheers from a Beirut crowd.

There is little that is more quintessentially British than the proms, but on Thursday the Royal Albert Hall will hear a youth orchestra from the Occupied Territories, which has been asked to perform alongside Nigel Kennedy. The Palestine Strings travelled to London today.

Maisah Sobaihi is the only South Arabian woman ever to appear at the Edinburgh Festival, whose shoe focuses on what it means to be a woman in Saudi.

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Thousands have gathered in two Muslim Brotherhood camps despite warnings to abandon the protest