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Israeli soldiers arrest Palestinian deputy PM: wife CNEWS.canoe.ca August 19, 2006 RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) - Israeli soldiers arrested the Palestinian deputy prime minister early Saturday, the army said, the highest-ranking Hamas official to be arrested in a seven-week-old crackdown against the ruling Hamas party. Troops burst into the home of Nasser Shaer - considered to be relatively pragmatic - around 4:30 a.m. and took him away, the deputy prime minister's wife, Huda, said. Palestinian Deputy Prime Minister Nasser Shaer leaves the local hospital, in the West Bank town of Ramallah Monday, Aug. 7, 2006. (AP Photo/Nasser Shiyoukhi) She...

Last Update: 20/12/2004 21:46 MKs okay preliminary reading of bill to make Peres deputy PM By Gideon Alon and Mazal Mualem, Haaretz Correspondents Shimon Peres speaking in the Knesset on Monday, ahead of a vote on a bill that would allow him to become deputy prime minister. (AP) The Knesset on Monday passed the preliminary reading of a bill aimed at allowing Shimon Peres to become a second deputy prime minister, thereby meeting Labor's demands for joining a coalition government under Prime Minister Ariel Sharon. The draft was approved by a vote of 56 to 34. A senior government official...