Shimon Peres

Turkey will continue its efforts against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who has never been "any friend of ours," the nation's president said on May 19. 

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Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic says that he has invited citizens of Serbia to "an internal dialogue on Kosovo and Metohija."

The reason is "not to leave this burden to the descendants."

President Barack Obama was seen impatiently waiting for former President Bill Clinton who was delaying their departure back to the United States on Air Force One at Ben Gurion Airport in Tel Aviv after attending the funeral of former Israeli President Shimon Peres.

I first met the late Shimon Peres more than 12 years ago. Israeli disengagements on Gaza were just a theoretical construct under discussion then. I was there to find a way to privatize the peace process. 

Shimon Peres was laid to rest on Sept. 30 in a ceremony attended by dozens of world leaders, including Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas, in a final tribute to former Israeli President and Nobel Peace Laureate Shimon Peres in Jerusalem. 

Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic will attend the state funeral of Israel's former President Shimon Peres.

Nikolic's cabinet announced this on Thursday.

Israel's former President Shimon Peres has died aged 93, it has been reported on Wednesday.

The Nobel Peace Prize winner and one of the last surviving founders of the modern Israeli state died about two weeks after suffering a stroke.

Israeli ex-president and Nobel Peace Prize winner Shimon Peres died on Sept. 28, some two weeks after suffering a major stroke, triggering an outpouring of grief for the beloved elder statesman.

One of Israel’s defining political figures and a Nobel peace prize laureate died at the age of 93, two weeks after having a stroke. Shimon Peres had twice served as prime minister of Israel and later as the country’s ninth president. He had been seriously ill on a respirator in an Israeli hospital near Tel Aviv and died after his condition deteriorated sharply.

Former Israeli president and Nobel Peace Prize winner Shimon Peres, 92, was hospitalized Jan. 14 for cardiovascular problems and is in stable condition after a medical procedure, his spokesman said.

The elder statesman, who has towered over Israeli politics for decades, was hospitalized near Tel Aviv "after experiencing chest pains," the spokesman said in a statement.