(1) Until his return to Brazil in 1985, Niemeyer worked in Israel, France and north Africa, designing among other buildings the University of Haifa on Mount Carmel; the campus of Constantine University in Algeria (now known as Mentouri University); the offices of the French Communist party and their newspaper l'Humanité in Paris; and the ministry of external relations and the cathedral in Brasilia.
(2) A Palestinian delegation was to hold truce talks on Sunday in Cairo with senior US and Egyptian officials, but Israel has said it sees no point in sending its negotiators to the meeting, citing what it says are Hamas breaches of previous agreed truces.
(3) He fashioned alliances with France in the 1950s, and planted the seeds for Israel’s embryonic electronics and aircraft industries.
(4) This is the first archaeological evidence of operative dentistry in ancient Israel, as well as the earliest date for this specific treatment in the world.
(5) Officials in Israel, using intermediaries in Europe, tried to reach out to Ayatollah Khamenei, via Khatami.
(6) The supporters – many of them wearing Hamas green headbands and carrying Hamas flags – packed the open-air venue in rain and strong winds to celebrate the Islamist organisation's 25th anniversary and what it regards as a victory in last month's eight-day war with Israel.
(7) This is what President Carter did when he raised the spectre of terminating US military assistance if Israel did not immediately evacuate Lebanon in September 1977.
(8) It said: “We will be seeking to inform and encourage dialogue about Israel and the Palestinians in the wider cultural and creative community.
(9) Israel’s president has told his Mexican counterpart that he was “sorry for the hurt” over a tweet in which the prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, appeared to praise Donald Trump’s plans to build a wall on the US-Mexican border.
(10) As long as Israel refuses to cease settlement activities and to the release of the fourth group of Palestinian prisoners in accordance with our agreements, they leave us no choice but to insist that we will not remain the only ones committed to the implementation of these agreements, while Israel continuously violates them,” Abbas said.
(11) Abe Foxman, director of the Anti-Defamation League, a vigorous defender of Israel, called the speech “ill-advised”.
(12) Israel has complained in recent weeks of an increase in stone throwing and molotov cocktail attacks on West Bank roads and in areas adjoining mainly Palestinian areas of Jerusalem, where an elderly motorist died after crashing his car during an alleged stoning attack.
(13) The announcement comes amid mounting frustration in the international community over Israel’s continued settlement activity, regarded by many countries as illegal.
(14) Other Hamas demands include the rebuilding of Gaza international airport, which Israel destroyed in 2001 , the release of prisoners and the reopening of the “safe passage” to the West Bank.
(15) Egged on by Israel, Trump has threatened to tear up Obama’s landmark 2015 nuclear deal with Iran.
(16) We studied the incidence and mortality of stroke in northern Israel to determine possible reasons for the differences previously found in mortality from this condition between the sex and ethnic groups in Israel as a whole.
(17) In an article for the Nation, Chomsky courts controversy by arguing that parallels drawn between campaigns against Israel and apartheid-era South Africa are misleading and that a misguided strategy could damage rather than help Israel's victims.
(18) Israel's control of a huge swath of the West Bank is costing the Palestinian economy $3.4bn (£2.1bn) a year, or 35% of its GDP, according to a report from the World Bank .
(19) The disease has been confined to sub-Saharan Africa, until it recently appeared in epizootic form in Egypt and in Israel.
(20) They are also deeply disappointed in the lack of pressure exerted on Israel by the US.
Levant
Definition:
(a.) Rising or having risen from rest; -- said of cattle. See Couchant and levant, under Couchant.
(n.) The countries washed by the eastern part of the Mediterranean and its contiguous waters.
(n.) A levanter (the wind so called).
(a.) Eastern.
(v. i.) To run away from one's debts; to decamp.
Example Sentences:
(1) "There is a huge media campaign to distort the real image of the Iraqi revolution, by claiming that it is led by the Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIS)," Salim tells Mona: ...but the truth is that all the Iraqi resistance factions have taken part in the revolution including Islamic factions.
(2) President Obama announced on Friday that in the "days ahead" he will decide on a package of military and diplomatic options to halt the rapid advance of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (Isis) , as the jihadist army's march from Syria through Sunni Iraq has upended Obama's achievement of extricating the US military from the Iraq conflict.
(3) The troops, drawn from US special operations forces, will assist the Iraqi military to develop and execute a counter-offensive against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (Isis).
(4) Searches of their homes revealed images of Islamic propaganda on both of their computers, including images of Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (Isis) flags and martyr literature.
(5) Western officials fear JFS will not only dominate the jihadi landscape in the Levant following the defeat of Isis, but may also provide a springboard for al-Qaida to launch strikes into Europe, should the group change its current strategy.
(6) With a better head-to-head record against Madrid, Atlético can now clinch the domestic crown by winning two of their remaining three games at Levante, at home against Málaga, and then at Barcelona on the last day of the season, 18 May.
(7) "In reality, the invasion and occupation of Iraq had been a disaster long before the recent gains made by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (Isis).
(8) Supporters of the Islamic State (Isis), previously known as the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant, dismissed the story as propaganda based on a fake document – though residents of Mosul, as well as Kurdish officials, insisted it was true.
(9) "Isil members managed to kidnap the Turkish consul and 24 of his guards and assistants," a police colonel told AFP, referring to the jihadist group the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, also known as Isis .
(10) The players know each other, they’re two teams with a special rivalry but that rivalry has to remain positive.” But Diop, who launched into a dance routine in May 2014 when playing for Levante in response to racist chanting from Atlético Madrid fans, insisted Suárez should have been sent off as well.
(11) Shiraz Maher, a senior fellow at the International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation, which monitors overseas fighters, said the two had been members of the extremist group the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant which has been involved with clashes with the al-Nusra Front.
(12) Navas joined Madrid in a £7m move from Levante last year and is regarded as a fine shot-stopper but vulnerable to crosses and, at 6ft, shorter than most of the goalkeepers in the Premier League.
(13) Analysts say JAN now appears to be in competition with the "Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant," which controls parts of northern Syria.
(14) Results: [Celta 1 - 3 Atlético], [Real Madrid 6 - 2 Málaga], Getafe 0-1 Valencia, Granada 3-0 Osasuna, Sevilla 1-2 Real Sociedad, Levante 2-3 Rayo, Deportivo 2-0 Espanyol, Zaragoza 1-2 Athletic, Barcelona 2-1 Valladolid, Mallorca v Betis tonight Latest La Liga table .
(15) Khan, with school friend Nasser Muthana and a third man named as Abdul Raqib Amin, from Aberdeen, appear in a recruitment video for the terrorist group Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (Isis).
(16) As it stands, Atletico are still top despite their defeat at Levante last week after they were let off the hook by Barcelona and Real Madrid, who also dropped points last week.
(17) But while his team-mates were largely scattered around the top flight, he was exiled to Levante.
(18) There was fighting with militants of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant along the road to Latakia, the Syrians said, and it was too dangerous to travel.
(19) The 25-year-old was an unused substitute in Saturday’s Primera Division win over Levante on his return from international duty, while reports in Spain said he also sat out training on Monday.
(20) Marcelo fired Real ahead in the 27th minute at the Bernabéu when he exchanged passes with Ronaldo and blasted the ball past Rubén in the Levante goal.