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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 ...

  • Cisco set to open new centre in Israel

    The US technology giant Cisco plans to open a new research and development center in Israel, the company's CEO John Chambers said during his meeting with Israel's Minister of Finance Yair Lapid. The new centre is expected to offer 100 jobs, to be added to about 2,000 employees already work at Cisco center in Israel, reported Xinhua. Chambers Tuesday said the new project, whose main focus is ...

  • Israel in top tier for combating human trafficking

    Israel, for the second year, received a "Tier 1" ranking for it's efforts to prevent human trafficking, prosecute offenders, and protect victims, according to this year's US State Department report on human trafficking, released on Wednesday by US Secretary of State John Kerry.From the legislative level down to non-profit organizations working with victims of sex and labor ...

  • Two U.S. men allegedly tried to make X-ray weapon to secretly harm foes of Israel

    Glendon Scott Crawford, 49, of Galway, N.Y., leaves the federal courthouse in shackles after being arraigned Wednesday June 19, 2013, in Albany, N.Y. Federal authorities accused Crawford and 54-year-old Eric J. Feight, of Hudson, N.Y. of assembling a portable X-ray weapon that they intended to use to secretly sicken opponents of Israel. Investigators said Crawford approached Jewish organizations ...

  • Men built X-ray gun to shoot Israel opponents – FBI

    Israel .An indictment charges 49-year-old Glendon Scott Crawford and 54-year-old Eric J Feight with conspiracy to provide support to terrorists with the weapon.Investigators have said Crawford approached Jewish organisations in 2012 looking for funding and people to help him with technology that could be used to surreptitiously deliver damaging and even lethal doses of radiation against those he ...

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A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010)

A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010)

Having already remade virtually all of the most venerable horror franchises of the 1970s and 1980s, Michael Bays Platinum Dunes production company has finally turned its attention to Wes Cravens innovative horror-fantasy hybrid A Nightmare on Elm Street ... ...

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