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  • Kerry holds talks with Israeli and Palestinian officials Kerry holds talks with Israeli and Palestinian officials

    JERUSALEM - US Secretary of State John Kerry Thursday separately began meetings with Israeli and Palestinian officials but appeared doubtful about his success on getting the two warring sides back to peace negotiations. This is Kerry's fourth trip to the Middle East in as many months of his assuming the office of the top US diplomat. He was been trying to revive a peace process that has been ...

  • William Hague urges massive effort for Middle East peace

    William Hague has urged the US to make "the biggest effort in 20 years" to bring fresh impetus to the stalled Middle East peace talks as he reiterated warnings that the two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict was in danger of ...

  • Israels Hand in Guatemalas Genocide

    Former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon. (Photo credit: Jim Wallace of the Smithsonian Institution) At the height of Guatemala's mass slaughters in the 1980s, including genocide against the Ixil Indians, the Reagan administration worked with Israeli officials to provide helicopters that the Guatemalan army used to hunt down fleeing villagers, according to documentary and eyewitness ...

  • PM IAEA reports shows Iran’s expanding its nuclear program

    Following release of IAEA report, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu tells British Foreign Minister William Hague economic, diplomatic pressure has failed to stop Iran, presenting the "biggest challenge of our ...

  • Hague Time Running Out for a Two-State Solution

    British Foreign Secretary William Hague said on Thursday that peace between Israel and the Palestinian Authority is a "priority," warning that time was running out for a two-state ...

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Ice Age: The Meltdown [DVD]

Ice Age: The Meltdown [DVD]

Given the concomitant image on the cover of Time magazine of a polar bear standing sadly on a broken, floating chunk of a glacier, the rest of which has fallen watery victim to rising global temperatures, the computer-animated comedy Ice Age: The Meltdown was oddly we ... ...

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  • Israeli Cabinet to discuss new proposal on contentious draft reform

    JERUSALEM - An official Israeli committee on Thursday handed the government its proposal for ending a contentious system that grants Jewish ultra-Orthodox seminary students automatic exemptions from military service, setting the stage for what could become the first major conflict in the new Israeli coalition government. These exemptions have generated widespread resentment in a country where ...

  • Israeli officials may end military exemptions for students

    Israeli riot police arrest an ultra-Orthodox demonstrator on May 16, 2013 in Jerusalem, Israel. Tens of Thousands of ultra-Orthodox Israelis have clashed with police after gathering to protest against newly proposed government legislation that would see them drafted into the military. (Photo by Uriel Sinai/Getty Images) (Uriel Sinai, Getty ...

  • Israel says global pressure has no effect on Iran

    Israel's prime minister said Thursday that a new report by the U.N. atomic agency shows that international pressure is having no effect on stopping Iran's suspect nuclear ...

  • Boycotting Israel does not bring peace closer or benefit humanity

    Foreign Secretary William Hague should be applauded for signing an agreement to strengthen scientific cooperation between Britain and ...

  • Kerry urges Netanyahu Abbas to compromise for peace

    Kerry to Peres: This moment is critical for Israel, region The two met spoke in the evening after a long day of back-to-back meetings that included talks with Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas.It is likely that Kerry will meet Netanyahu again on Friday before departing for Ethiopia. Kerry is expected to meet Abbas again in Jordan on Sunday, ...

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