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  • France rules out Iran joining in Syria peace talks

    ABU DHABI - France's foreign minister on Saturday ruled out Iran taking part in a proposed Syria peace conference, saying Tehran was involved in the conflict and had no desire for peace.Laurent Fabius will host Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and US Secretary of State John Kerry at a dinner on Monday to discuss how to nudge Syrian President Bashar Assad and the Syrian opposition ...

  • Jewish candidate for NY mayor confuses his city

    Anthony Weiner, a Jewish-Democrat candidate running for Mayor of New York this year appeared confused over which city he was running for after mistakenly uploading a picture of the Pittsburgh skyline onto his campaign website.The site featured a banner image of a city skyline from Pittsburgh before he rushed to fix it later on Friday, ...

  • Hezbollah Syrian government forces push for advance in Qusair

    BEIRUT (Reuters) - Syrian government forces and the Lebanese guerrilla group Hezbollah launched a fierce campaign to seize more rebel territory in the border town of Qusair on Saturday, sources on both sides of the conflict ...

  • Israeli expert says Syria cyberattack foiled

    The attack took place just after Israel bombed a military complex near Damascus. Israel refuses to comment on the strike but officials at the time said Iranian missiles set for Hezbollah were hit. Syria has said that it would keep all options on the table for its ...

  • Why Washington and Tel Aviv Want Hezbollah to Keep Fighting in al-Qusayr

    Why Washington and Tel Aviv Want Hezbollah to Keep Fighting in al-Qusayr Franklin Lamb Homs Province, Syria During a tour of some of the neighborhoods in Homs, Syria's third largest city after Aleppo and Damascus, with a pre-conflict population of approximately 800,000 (nearly half Homs residents have fled over the past two years) located maybe about 22 miles NE of the current ...

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The Limey

Steven Soderbergh is a tough director to put your finger on. He exploded onto the scene in 1989 with the indie groundbreaker "sex, lies, and videotape," and his career since then has been a journey of stylistic experimentation across numerous genres. In 1998, he made a bold move toward the mainstream with the uniformly excellent "Out of Sight," in which he energized what could have been a routine ... ...

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  • Abbas Two states side by side still possible

    Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas said Saturday that peace with Israel is still possible, and that the Palestinians "want to have two states living side by side," Palestinian news agency Ma'an reported.Speaking at the opening session of the World Economic Forum on the Middle East and North Africa at the King Hussein Convention Center at the Dead Sea, Abbas referred to ...

  • Syrian hackers attempted to attack Haifas water supply

    Syrian web activists loyal to the regime of Basher Assad launched a failed cyber attack on Haifa's water supply system, a senior scientist and web expert revealed on Saturday. Professor Yitzhak Ben Yisrael, Chairman of the National Council for Research and Development, said that members of the Syrian Electronic Army attempted to damage computers controlling the water system this month, in ...

  • EU must urge Israel to curb settlements in W. Bank

    RAMALLAH, West Bank - A group of 80 international aid agencies urged the European Union on Saturday to follow through on pledges it made last year to back Palestinian communities seen as vulnerable to Israeli settlement expansion in the occupied West Bank.Not enough action has been taken since EU foreign ministers last May urged Israel to ...

  • Palestinian-Israeli peace deal still possible Abbas

    Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas speaks at the World Economic Forum, held at the King Hussein Bin Talal Convention center, in Southern Shuneh, 55 kilometers southeast of Amman, Jordan, Saturday, May 25, 2013. (AP Photo/Raad ...

  • Gaza exports have plummeted under Israeli blockade

    The sun rises as fishermen ride a boat at the seaport of Gaza City on Wednesday. Israel has enforced a strict naval blockade off Gaza's coast, putting an end on exporting anything from Gaza by sea and only very limited exports are allowed by ...

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