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  • Syria asserts right to respond to Israeli violations

    They Syrian government has said that it holds the right to respond to any Israeli violation against its sovereignty. The Syrian foreign ministry, in a letter to the UN, Tuesday complained against the latest Israeli violation which took place earlier, Xinhua reported. The complaint was made in the wake of an Israeli military vehicle violating the cease-fire being observed between Israel and ...

  • U.S. condemns Hezbollahs intervention in Syrian conflict

    Beijing, May 21 (Xinhua-ANI): The United States on Monday denounced Hezbollah for siding with the Syrian government forces in their battle against the rebels in Syria's central city of al-Qussair. State Department spokesman Patrick Ventrell said his country condemned the "direct intervention" by the Shiite militant group in neighboring Lebanon, as its fighters were playing "a significant role" ...

  • Likud Punishes Feiglin Dismisses Him from Knesset Committee

    MK Moshe Feiglin (Likud) was dismissed on Tuesday from the Knesset’s Education Committee, a punitive action due to his recent decision to suspend his parliamentary ...

  • Israel warns Syria of ‘consequences’ if Golan fire continues

    An Israeli soldier from the Golani Brigade sleeps as others, seen through a black netting, pray close to the ceasefire line between Israel and Syria on the Israeli occupied Golan Heights, in this May 7, 2013 file picture. The Israeli military denied on May 21, 2013 a claim by Syria that its armed forces destroyed an Israeli vehicle on the Golan Heights. (BAZ ...

  • Experts tell Knesset c’tee Bridges in good shape

    Transportation and infrastructure professionals promised that no Israeli bridges are going to collapse, during a discussion on the subject in the Knesset's State Control Committee on Tuesday.The committee members and relevant government officials were discussing the bridges in the aftermath of a State Comptroller's Report on Netivei Israel, the Israel National Roads Company.Over ...

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The Grey [Blu-Ray]

The Grey [Blu-Ray]

After the deliberately cartoonish hyperbole of Smokin Aces (2006) and The A-Team (2010), director Joe Carnahan finally appears to be making good on the early promise he showed a decade ago with his sophomore film, the gritty police thriller Narc (2002). The Grey, which ... ...

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  • Secondhand smoke ups kids antisocial behavior risk

    Children that are exposed to secondhand smoke in early childhood are more likely to grow up to be physically aggressive and antisocial - regardless if they were exposed during pregnancy or their parents have a history of being antisocial - researchers at the University of Montreal published in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health.Researchers Dr. Linda Pagani and Caroline ...

  • Doctors bend on vacation pay to secure wage hike

    Despite the planned budget cuts, the country's public-sector physicians will receive their second salary increase this year as agreed upon in the labor agreement reached in August 2011 by the Treasury and the Israel Medical Association.IMA chairman Dr. Leonid Eidelman, who initially feared that the increase would be postponed to 2015, made the comments on Tuesday. The IMA had declared ...

  • Solar field set for Ben-Gurion’s Negev kibbutz

    The Negev Desert will soon become a little bit brighter with the announcement of two future solar fields, one of which will be built in David Ben-Gurion's former neighborhood.Shari Arison's Shikun Vebinui Group has teamed up with Chinese solar panel giant Suntech Power Holdings, Co. Ltd. to build 11 megawatts worth of photovoltaic panels in two Negev Desert plots. A 5- megawatt ...

  • Prosor Slams Erekat Over Apartheid Comments

    Erekat told a UN committee in New York on Monday that the Palestinian Authority would hold off on applying to UN agencies, as it is eligible to do since the General ...

  • Former Iranian President Barred from Elections

    Iran's moderate ex-president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani and a former government official, Esfandiar Rahim Mashaie, have been barred from contesting the June 14 presidential election, the interior ministry said Tuesday, according to ...

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