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Barcelona's Argentinian striker Lionel Messi told a group of children with disabilities that "hard work and sacrifice" took him to where he is today, rather than a natural talent to play soccer during a meet and greet session Tuesday in Bangkok.
Argentinian soccer star Lionel Messi, visited Jerusalem's Wailing Wall alongside fellow Argentinian player Javier Mascherano and Gerardo Martino during the second and final day of a "peace tour" that Barcelona made through Israel and the West Bank in the Middle East in an effort to bring Israelis and Palestinians closer together.
Only a day after the United Nations overwhelmingly recognized Palestine as a sovereign state, Israel approved the building of settlements in a contested area east of Jerusalem.
The United Nations voted overwhelmingly to recognize Palestine as a non-member observer state.
One Palestinian is dead and 19 are wounded after Israeli soldiers fired on a group of Gazans who approached the border.
Israel and Hamas have agreed to a ceasefire, ending eight days of the fiercest rocket attacks between the Gaza Strip and Southern Israel in nearly four years.
Israel is preparing its troops for a ground invasion of the Gaza Strip, as the current exchange of rockets between the two neighboring lands enters its second week.
There are murmurings of inevitable war, as the current exchange of rockets between Israel and the Gaza Strip heads into its second week.
The hacker collective Anonymous has launched more than 44 million cyberattacks against websites of the Israeli government.
Fighting continues in the Gaza Strip, as Israeli and Palestinian forces hammer each other with rockets.
