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  • Iran executes two alleged spies

    Iranian authorities have executed two men after they were charged and convicted for spying Israel and the United States. Iran has repeatedly accused Israel and the U.S. of carrying out covert intelligence operations following ongoing pressure on the country over its nuclear programme, which the Western nations suspect as being used to build an atomic weapon, despite Tehran's insistence that the ...

  • Egyptian Police Block Israel Border Crossing in Fury at Kidnapping

    CAIRO Egyptian police enraged by the kidnapping of seven of their colleagues by Islamist gunmen in the Sinai Peninsula blocked a commercial border crossing with Israel on Sunday, security sources said. Police have been blocking another border post, the Rafah crossing into the Gaza Strip, since Friday to press the government of Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi, who belongs to the Muslim ...

  • Netanyahu Takes Aim at Weapons Leakage in Syria

    JERUSALEM Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu held out the prospect on Sunday of further Israeli strikes inside Syria, pledging to act to prevent advanced weapons from reaching Hezbollah and other militant groups. Although Israel has not publicly taken sides in the civil war between Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and rebels trying to topple him, Western and Israeli sources say it has ...

  • Israel to keep preventing arms transfer to Hezbollah

    Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said his government remains committed to prevent transfer of the advanced weaponry to Lebanese militant group Hezbollah. "We are acting in accordance with the policy we had set to prevent as much as possible the transfer of advanced weapons to Hezbollah and terror elements," reported Xinhua citing Netanyahu as saying Sunday. "The Israeli ...

  • Israel Palestinians still arguing over public image

    JERUSALEM (AP) — A new Israeli report into the death of a Palestinian boy during a fierce gunbattle in the Gaza Strip more than a dozen years ago has reignited an emotional debate over who killed him — and how the incident has shaped perspectives of the Mideast conflict.Israel says a French TV report in 2000 that claimed Israeli forces killed the boy is misleading, provides no ...

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And Everything Is Going Fine [Blu-Ray]

Spalding Gray made his living talking about his own life, so it is only appropriate that And Everything Is Going Fine, Steven Soderberghs documentary about/tribute to the late actor/writer/monologuist, allows Gray to speak of his life and its signific ... ...

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  • Erekat throws his weight behind Kerrys bid to revive talks

    Chief negotiator tells UN in New York settlement freeze, release of prisoners not conditions to resume talks, but obligations Israel must fulfill; says Palestinians exerting "every possible effort" to ensure ...

  • Min. to add 1000 kindergarten assistant jobs

    The Education Ministry plans to open between 600 to 1,000 additional kindergarten assistant positions for three- and four-year-olds, Education Minister Shai Piron announced Monday morning at a meeting of the Knesset Education, Culture and Sports Committee.The positions will be dedicated to people completing their national service.During the meeting, which was aimed at formulating objectives ...

  • Activists say 30 Hezbollah fighters Syrians killed

    AMMAN - About 30 fighters from the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah and 20 Syrian soldiers and militiamen loyal to President Bashar Assad were killed in heavy fighting with rebels in the town of Qusair, Syrian activists said on Monday.Opposition sources and state media gave sharply differing accounts of the outcome of Sunday's ferocious battles in the town, long used by rebels as a supply ...

  • Obama concerned over Hezbollah militants in Syria

    WASHINGTON - US President Barack Obama told his Lebanese counterpart on Monday he was concerned about Lebanese Hezbollah militants fighting in Syria to support Syrian President Bashar Assad, the White House said.Obama and Lebanese President Michel Suleiman spoke by telephone the same day Syrian activists said about 30 Hezbollah fighters and 20 Syrian soldiers and militiamen loyal to Assad ...

  • Syrian rebels target Hezbollah militia

    NEW: Obama stresses his concern to the Lebanese president over Hezbollah's "active and growing role" Across Syria, at least 62 people have died in violence Monday, opposition says Qusayr is strategically valuable to rebels and government forces Israeli vehicle reportedly seized; Israel calls claim "cheap ...

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