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  • Major General Finn appointed to top UN role in Jerusalem Major General Finn appointed to top UN role in Jerusalem

    18 June 2013 150 United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon announced the appointment today of Major General Michel Finn, of Ireland, as head of Mission and Chief of Staff of the Jerusalem-based UN Truce Supervision Organization (UNTSO), the first such operation the world body set up almost 60 years ago. "Major General Finn succeeds Major General Juha Kilpia of Finland, who will ...

  • Police arrest Jew Arabs involved in Temple Mount fight

    A Jewish man and two Islamic religious officials were arrested by Jerusalem police on Thursday after the former was determined to have instigated a shoving match atop the Temple Mount complex. The Jewish suspect was alleged to have physically assaulted an official from the Waqf religious trust, Israel Radio ...

  • States key witness in Bar Noar murder case escapes

    The state's key witness in the Bar Noar murder case slipped out of the bedroom window of his safe house late Wednesday night and disappeared without a trace, sending police scrambling across the Tel Aviv area to find him.National Police Commissioner Yohanan Danino has appointed a committee of inquiry to examine how the man managed to slip away from the police officers securing the safe ...

  • UN Israel tortures detained Palestinian children

    World body's children's rights agency says IDF troops use Palestinian children as human shields and informants, citing fourteen such cases in past three years; Foreign Ministry slams report as "recycled old ...

  • MK urges Arab League to admit ethnic cleansing

    On the United Nations World Refugee Day, Member of Knesset Shimon Ohayon (Yisrael Beytenu) called on the Arab League to "own up to its role in the ethnic cleansing of the Jewish population from most of the Middle East and North Africa.""The Jews of Arab countries, starting in 1947, were used as weapons by the Arab League against the establishment of the Jewish State," MK ...

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We Need to Talk About Kevin

We Need to Talk About Kevin

Lynne Ramsays We Need to Talk About Kevin is the second film this year to deal with the aftermath of an adolescent boys massacre of his fellow students, but it differs sharply from Shawn Kus Beautiful Boy, which was more of a straightforward psych ... ...

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  • Russia to Honor S-300 Missile Defense Sale to Syria But . . .

    Russia says it will honor its contract to sell its powerful S-300 ant-missile defense system to Syria. But Moscow has yet to set an actual timeline on delivery of the goods. Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov ...

  • Court Awards Damages to Hebron Mother Over False Arrest

    The Jerusalem Magistrate’s Court has awarded thousands of shekels in damages to a Hevron mother after her false arrest by police. On Thursday, the court ordered Jerusalem police to pay Anat Cohen a total of NIS 9,000 in damages, a sum which included her legal fees. Cohen was taken into custody by Jerusalem police because she was waving a sign at her son’s IDF military swearing-in ...

  • Iran Neighbor Accepts First Israeli Ambassador

    The Central Asian state of Turkmenistan, which shares a 1,000 kilometer border with Iran, has accepted the credentials of the first ever Israeli ambassador to the country, state media said Wednesday. President Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov received the ambassadorial credentials of senior Israeli diplomat Shemi Tzur, the government ...

  • Jewish Group Responds to Little Jewboy From Gestapo Attack

    The Simon Wiesenthal Center condemned the verbal attack on Jewish journalist Flor Mizrachi Angel, labeled "That little Jewboy from the Gestapo" by the Governor of Panama, Omaira Mayin Correa.Mayin Correa’s insult, aired ...

  • EMC in talks to buy ScaleIO for $250m

    Scalio Inc. is in talks to be acquired by EMC Corporation (NYSE: EMC) or its subsidiary VMware Inc. (Nasdaq: VMW) although there may also be competition from several rival computer giants. The amount of any acquisition is believed to be between $200 and $250 million. This is a relatively high amount for a company that was founded in 2010 and has only 20 employees at its Palo Alto headquarters ...

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