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1999 May: Ehud Barak of the Labour Party is elected prime minister under the One Israel banner. 2000 July: The Camp David summit between Barak, and Yasser Arafat, the president of the Palestinian Authority, aimed at reaching a "final status" agreement, fails after Arafat refuses to accept a proposal drafted by the US and Israeli negotiators. September: Second initifada begins after Ariel Sharon, the Israeli opposition leader, visits the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. 2001 February 6: Sharon is elected the leader of the Likud party and refuses to continue negotiations with Arafat. June 1: A Hamas suicide bomber attacks a nightclub, killing 21 Israelis, mainly teenagers, and injuring more than 100. December: Sharon sends troops into Ramallah, shelling and surrounding the Palestinian Authority's West Bank headquarters; Arafat is unable to leave. 2002 March: Israeli army launches Operation Defensive Shield, the country's biggest military operation in the West Bank sinc...

A good number of countries is highly dependent on Electricity generated from Coal. South Africa is on the top of the countries which produces electricity from coal.  South Africa has been producing 93.00% of its total electricity demand from coal. Some other top countries those are using coal as source of electricity are: Poland    92%,     PR China    79%, Australia    77%, Kazakhstan    70%,    India    69%, Israel    63%, Morocco    55%,        Czech Rep    60%, Greece    52%,        USA    49%,        Germany    46%.

Any attack on Iran would lead to the destruction of Israel, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said during a visit to the Gulf Arab state of Qatar on Sunday. "The U.S. and the Zionist entity will not be able to hit Iran right now. This is a wish ... Any Israeli attack against Iran means the elimination of the Zionist entity from the world map," he told a news conference in Doha. He spoke in Farsi through an Arabic interpreter. Ahmadinejad, in Western allied-Qatar for talks with Qatari Emir Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani, has often called for the demise of the Jewish state. Iran does not recognize Israel, which it refers to as the Zionist regime. Israel, believed to be the only nuclear-armed country in the Middle East, regards Iran's nuclear programme as a threat to its existence and has not ruled out military action to prevent Iran from building an atomic bomb. International sanctions have been imposed on Iran to force Tehran to halt sensitive nuclear work. ...

US President Barack Obama has urged Israeli and Palestinian leaders not to let the chance of a permanent peace deal "slip away". "This moment of opportunity may not soon come again," he said, pledging US support for the new negotiations. Mr Obama spoke the day before a new round of direct talks between Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas was due to begin. Mr Obama spoke at the White House on Wednesday evening after meetings with Mr Netanyahu, Mr Abbas, Jordan's King Abdullah II and Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak. His remarks came on the eve of the first direct negotiations between Israeli and Palestinian leaders in 20 months, which he said were "intended to resolve all final status issues". Mr Obama said the goal of the talks, which are expected to last a year, was a permanent settlement that ended the Israeli occupation that began in 1967 and resulted in an independent, democratic  Palestinian state existing peace...