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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. ...

  • Rockets Hit Hezbollah Stronghold in Beirut

    Two rockets have hit a Shi'ite Muslim Beirut district that is home to Lebanon's Hezbollah militant group, driving home the risk that Syria's civil war could spill into its fragile neighbor. The Sunday attack was the first to apparently target Hezbollah's southern Beirut stronghold since the outbreak of the two-year conflict in Syria, which has sharply heightened Lebanon's own sectarian ...

  • Kerry Hopeful on Palestinian Economic Plan

    U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry says an economic plan to revive the ailing Palestinian economy could expand output by up to 50 percent in the next three years. The top U.S. diplomat, speaking Sunday at the World Economic Forum in Jordan, said the plan could also cut unemployment by almost two-thirds and average wages could jump 40 percent. But he said improvements depend on parallel ...

  • Accept two-state solution Palestinian leader urges Israel

    Palestinian Chief Negotiator Saeb Erekat Sunday urged Israeli President Shimon Peres to convince the Israeli government with a two-state solution. "I heard some remarks by Peres that he supports the two-state solution, he should convince (Israeli) Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with the solution that entails creating a Palestinian state at the borders of 1967," Erekat told Xinhua on the ...

  • Hezbollah leader vows victory in Syria

    The leader of the Lebanese Shia militant Hezbollah movement, Hassan Nasrallah, has promised his supporters of victory in Syria, where they are backing President Bashar al-Assad. Syrian rebels in the besieged town of Qusair say they are under heavy bombardment from Hezbollah combatants. Qusair is important for the Syrian government because it links the capital, Damascus, with the Alawite ...

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Jarhead

Jarhead

Sam Mendes Jarhead, based on the bestselling memoir by Anthony Swofford, is set in 1990 during the Gulf War, but it is not particularly about the Gulf War. In fact, it is not really about war itself, which is a topic too obviously enormous and complex for any one movie to try to ta ... ...

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  • Israel drills unconventional warfare

    Amid mounting tensions with Syria, Israel's military and rescue forces on Sunday launched a nationwide drill aimed at testing their readiness to cope with an unconventional weapons attack on the home front.The four-day exercise, named "Steadfast Home Front 1," simulates hundreds of missiles -- some armed with chemical warheads and fired from neighboring foes Syria, Lebanon, Gaza ...

  • Rockets hit Hizbollahs Beirut stronghold with warning Keep your hands off Syria

    ISTANBUL // Two rockets hit Hizbollah's stronghold in southern Beirut yesterday, marking a dangerous new phase in Syria's civil war. The attack on the Beirut suburb of Chiyah was limited in scale - four Syrian labourers were wounded and some windows were smashed - but its implications could be far reaching. It was the first time the Hizbollah-dominated area has been attacked, ...

  • Analysis Elections as political valium

    marathon meeting Sunday night of the Peri Committee , which is the successor of the Kadima- led Plesner Committee, which tried to fix the mess left by the Tal Committee a decade earlier.The Peri Committee ministers fought over very divisive issues like how to compel Arabs to do national service, how to punish haredi draft-evaders and what impact expanded haredi service should have on the ...

  • Teacher smoking rooms to close in 200 schools

    Starting this fall, 200 schools will open without smoking rooms for the teachers, according to the Education Ministry, which announced the pilot project on Sunday.In addition, these schools are to offer smoking-cessation courses for those who want to kick the habit.The ministry called the decision a "revolution" that will bar smoking completely in 200 schools around the country. ...

  • Health Min. sets out to strengthen public medicine

    Health Minister Yael German said Sunday during the first session of the National Health Council under her chairmanship that despite the serious deficit status of the public medical system, she will insist that service to the patients be improved, with more respect and compassion."We want to put the patient - the customer - in the center."German, a former mayor of Herzliya who has ...

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