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  • Irish suspects feature prominently on Dubai Most Wanted list Irish suspects feature prominently on Dubai Most Wanted list

    Ireland continues to suffer from its false implication in the high profile assassination of a militant in Dubai more than three years ago. Hamas commander Mahmoud Al Mabhouh was on a visit to the UAE on his way to China from Damascus. Twenty seven suspects were named by Dubai Police and it soon became apparent most of them were carrying passports belonging to citizens of other countries. ...

  • Hezbollah Chief Confirms Syria Presence

    The chief of Lebanon's Hezbollah says his group will not stand by while the neighboring government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is attacked. Hassan Nasrallah said in a speech Saturday Hezbollah was fighting in Syria to protect Lebanon from the threat of radical Islamists. It was the first time Nasrallah has publicly confirmed Hezbollah's fighting presence in Syria. The ...

  • Syrian opposition slams Hezbollah involvement in conflict

    A Syrian opposition group on Saturday condemned the involvement of the Lebanese Hezbollah group in the country's civil conflict, saying that Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah's recent comments overtly defended his group's backing to the Syrian army.In a phone interview with Xinhua, Munther Khdam, spokesman of the oppositional National Coordination Body, dismissed ...

  • Hezbollah Syrian troops advance in border town of Qusair

    Syrian Arab Republic The strategic Syrian border town of Qusair is coming under heavy bombardment from the regime's army and Hezbollah militants from Lebanon. Rebels fighting to topple president Bashar al-Assad are largely surrounded in the town, which is near both the Lebanese border and Syria's capital Damascus. They say additional tanks and artillery have been deployed around ...

  • Video Nasrallah says Hezbollah will bring victory in Syrian conflict

    Hezbollah leader Nasrallah says that the group's fighters are in Syria alongside President Assad's forces and says they will fight until they ...

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Grand Illusion (La grande illusion)

Grand Illusion (La grande illusion)

Digitally restored for its 75th anniversary theatrical re-release, Jean Renoirs masterpiece Grand Illusion (Le grand illusion) remains a monumental humanist work that does what all great works do: It transcends the specifics of its time and place and speaks to us in a ... ...

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  • Kerry urges Abbas to resume peace talks with Israel source

    The United States Secretary of State John Kerry is urging Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to resume direct peace talks with Israel, a well-informed Palestinian source said Saturday.The source, which spoke on condition of anonymity, told Xinhua that during their meeting held on Thursday in the West Bank city of Ramallah, Kerry presented to Abbas his plan on resuming direct talks with ...

  • Hezbollah Commits Full Fight to Keep Assad in Power

    BEIRUT, Lebanon ...

  • Hezbollah promises ‘victory’ in Syria conflict

    Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah on Saturday vowed "victory" in Syria, where militants of his powerful Lebanese Shiite movement are fighting alongside regular troops against rebels trying to topple the ...

  • Hezbollah Syria push for gains in rebel stronghold

    seize more rebel territory in the border town of Qusair on Saturday, sources on both sides of the conflict said.Rebels fighting to topple President Bashar Assad said additional tanks and artillery had been deployed around opposition-held territory in Qusair, a Syrian town close to the Lebanese ...

  • Netanyahu will not freeze West Bank settlements

    Is Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu nearing his second declaration in four years on a building freeze in the West Bank in order to facilitate the renewal of peace talks with the Palestinians? The answer is probably ...

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