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  • Foreign policy impotence gripping U.S. Foreign policy impotence gripping U.S.

    In an article published May 15, 2013, American historical social scientist Immanuel Wallerstein wrote, "Nothing illustrates more the limitations of Western power than the internal controversy its elites are having in public about what the United States in particular and western European states should be doing about the civil war in Syria." Those limitations are palpable in both language and ...

  • Hezbollah says terrorist label would be big mistake

    Hezbollah's deputy chief said Friday that the European Union would be making a "big mistake" to label the Lebanese Shiite militant group as ...

  • IN PICTURES 25000 hasidim attend Belz wedding

    25,000 ultra Orthodox Jews attended one of the largest weddings Jerusalem has ever seen this week, when Belz Hasidic dynasty rebbe, Rabbi Tissachar ...

  • Google eyes Israeli mapping start-up Waze

    Waze, an Israeli mobile satellite navigation application, is seen on a smartphone in this photo illustration taken in Tel Aviv May 9, 2013. REUTERS/Nir ...

  • Palestinian kids swept up in wave of Israeli arrests

    Ahmed Jawabreh, 14, was arrested in the middle of the night for allegedly throwing stones at Israeli soldiers in the West Bank refugee camp where he lives and wasn't released for another 18 days. His was only one of a recent wave of arrests of Palestinian children by Israeli authorities, human rights groups ...

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Paranormal Activity 2

Paranormal Activity 2

It was inevitable that Paranormal Activity 2, the sequel to Oren Pelis near-brilliant low-budget horror phenomenon from last year, would be highly derivative since the materials appeal lies entirely in conveying old-school haunted house chills via the intimately f ... ...

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  • Hezbollah EU making big mistake

    Sheikh Naim Kassem told Al-Mayadeen TV Friday that such threats "do not concern" or worry the group. He did not elaborate.France this week joined an EU push to declare the group a terrorist organization amid frustration with Hezbollah's support for Syria's military.France's move could prove pivotal after Germany joined a British effort to name Hezbollah terrorist. The ...

  • Israeli-Palestinian problem at base troubles in Middle East says Jerusalem Patriarch

    "There is no doubt that the Palestinian problem is the focus of all conflict in the Middle East for the last one hundred years. This is the truth that we cannot circumvent," said Latin-rite Patriarch Fouad Twal of Jerusalem. Speaking at a conference in Beirut on Christians in the Middle East, sponsored by the World Council of Churches, the Patriarch said that the Israeli-Palestinian ...

  • Hezbollah EU Making Big Mistake

    Hezbollah's deputy chief says the European Union would be making a "big mistake" to label the Lebanese Shiite militant group "terrorist." Sheikh Naim Kassem told Al-Mayadeen TV Friday that such threats "do not concern" or worry the group. He did not elaborate. France this week joined an EU push to declare the group a terrorist organization amid ...

  • Soldier shortage Israel’s Army ‘half as big as it was 30 years ago’

    Special to WorldTribune.com TEL AVIV -- Israel’s military has reported a manpower shortage. Officials said the military, particularly the Army, was facing a growing gap in manpower requirements. They attributed the gap to a decreasing pool of conscripts as well as cuts in the defense ...

  • Syrian rebel groups plan to attack Hizbollah in Lebanon

    ISTANBUL // Syrian rebels are planning to attack Hizbollah in its Lebanese strongholds, in response to the Shiite militant group's growing combat role on the side of President Bashar Al Assad in the Syria conflict. Such attacks would mark a significant escalation and spread of what is fast developing into a highly sectarian, regional war. "It is really a question of when, not if, ...

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