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  • Israeli PM says sanctions on Iran should increase despite newly elected moderate president

    Israel has warned the international community not to ease sanctions on Iran following the election of a moderate president. Israel said Iran's nuclear efforts remain firmly in the hands of the country's extremist ruling clerics. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu issued the warning a day after Hasan Rowhani won the presidential election in Iran. According to news24, although Rowhani is ...

  • Obama and Putin Continue to Disagree on Syria

    Putin and Obama did not try to disguise the fact they are estranged on Syria and cannot agree on Assad's fate -- but appeared keen to keep flagrant differences on the vicious civil war from sinking wider U.S.-Russia ...

  • Erekat Israel Declared the Death of the Two-State Solution

    The PLO’s chief negotiator, Saeb Erekat, accused the Israeli government on Monday of officially having declared the death of the "two-state ...

  • G8 protesters carry a fabric banner depicting Israeli airstrikes on Gaza

    LONDON - G8 protesters in London carried a fabric banner depicting Israeli airstrikes on Gaza during G8 summit demonstration.57 demonstrators who had been arrested by British riot police Tuesday during a G8 demonstration in London are still under interrogation in London.During anti-G8 summit protests in London, demonstrators carried a fabric banner depicting Israeli airstrikes on Gaza.The ...

  • Record Number of Births at Beer Shevas Soroka Hospital

    The birthing center at Be'er Sheva's Soroka Medical Center faced the ultimate test Sunday and Monday, as a record 58 births stretched resources to the limit. The average daily birth rate at the hospital is 35 – the number of beds in the medical center's sparkling new Saban Maternity Center. But Soroka Maternity Director Professor Moshe Mazor explained that over the past 24 ...

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Melinda and Melinda

Melinda and Melinda

In the liner notes on the back of the Criterion Collection laser disc of Annie Hall (1977), which, along with Manhattan (1979) marked the pinnacle of Woody Allens unique filmmaking achievement, cowriter Marshall Brickman recalls a conversation he had with Allen. Brickman was ... ...

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  • Clinton Donates $$500K from Speech Back to Peres Center

    Former U.S. President Bill Clinton decided to donate the $500,000 he was paid for his speech on Monday evening back to the Peres Academic Center at which he ...

  • Israeli minister pushes for organ donor initiative

    Israeli Health Minister Yael German is pushing for a new measure under which Israeli citizens would become potential donors by default after their deaths, the Ha'aretz daily reported on Monday.The initiative is aimed at addressing the increasing need of organs for transplantation.Dvora Szerer, spokesperson for the National Transplant Center, told Xinhua that the minister and the Center are ...

  • Doubts in Israeli about Rouhanis ability to change

    Israeli analysts are doubtful that Iran's president-elect, Hassan Rouhani, a moderate cleric, can bring any changes to the country's foreign policy, mainly its nuclear stance.The experts believed in Iran, the person in charge is not the president but Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, so even if Rouhani claims to be a moderate, it will not affect the country's core ...

  • Excerpts Lebanon polarised by Hizbollah win in Syria. US. blaclists

    Excerpts: Lebanon polarised by Hizbollah win in Syria.US. blaclists Hezbolla fundraisers June 12, 2013 +++SOURCE: Jordan Times 12 ...

  • In Jerusalem Barbra Streisand speaks out for Israeli women

    By Allyn Fisher-Ilan, Reuters JERUSALEM - American entertainer Barbra Streisand on Monday took a swipe at Orthodox Jews in Israel who compel women to sit in the back of buses and assault them for following religious rituals traditionally reserved for ...

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