Demographic report: Israel has 7.2 m. residents
Monday, December 31st, 2007 | Post a comment
A crowd of Israelis in a rally. Israel in 2007 is a country of some 7.2 million residents.
Photo: Ariel Jerozolimski
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Israel: No Peace Until Militants Stopped
Monday, December 31st, 2007 | Post a comment
A Palestinian man walks with a donkey with the Dome of the Rock Mosque in the Al Aqsa Mosque compound in the background, in Jerusalem’s Old City Sunday Dec. 30, 2007. Days after two Israeli hikers were gunned down in the West Bank, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on Sunday warned the Palestinians that Israel would not carry out any peace moves until they cracked down on militant groups. (AP Photo/Alvaro Barrientos)
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France to boycott Syria over Lebanon crisis
Monday, December 31st, 2007 | Post a comment
CAIRO (AFP) – France will have no more contact with Syria until Damascus shows willingness to let Lebanon end its long-running political crisis and find a new president, President Nicolas Sarkozy said on Sunday.
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Israel says finds explosive chemicals in EU aid bags
Monday, December 31st, 2007 | One comment
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israel said on Saturday it had recently seized a truck carrying chemicals used to make explosives hidden in bags marked as European Union aid for the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip.
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LA gang F13 accused of targeting blacks
Sunday, December 30th, 2007 | Post a comment
LOS ANGELES – In a murderous quest aimed at “cleansing” their turf of snitches and rival gangsters, members of one of Los Angeles County’s most vicious Latino gangs sometimes killed people just because of their race, an investigation found.
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Program allows Jews to give immigration a chance
Sunday, December 30th, 2007 | Post a comment
The Jewish Agency will introduce a “trial immigration” program to Jews from abroad, as part of a broader strategy to make the move less intimidating for potential immigrants from the West.
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Bin Laden Issues Warning on Iraq, Israel
Sunday, December 30th, 2007 | 7 comments
CAIRO, Egypt (AP) – Osama bin Laden warned Iraq’s Sunni Arabs against fighting al-Qaida and vowed to expand the terror group’s holy war to Israel in a new audiotape Saturday, threatening “blood for blood, destruction for destruction.”
Anti-Semitism
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Sarkozy, in Egypt, offers French nuclear assistance to Cairo
Saturday, December 29th, 2007 | Post a comment
France stands ready to help Egypt develop civilian nuclear technology, French President Nicolas Sarkozy told an Egyptian newspaper ahead of meetings in Egypt with President Hosni Mubarak.
Fervent Heat
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Uruguayan president signs law legalizing gay couples
Saturday, December 29th, 2007 | 3 comments
MONTEVIDEO, Dec. 27 (Xinhua) – Uruguayan President Tabare Vazquez on Thursday signed a law that legalizes civil unions for homosexual couples, which is the first nationwide law of its kind in Latin America.
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Bhutto’s Party Rejects Al-Qaeda Claim as Riots Spread
Saturday, December 29th, 2007 | Post a comment
Dec. 29 (Bloomberg) — The Pakistan Peoples Party rejected government claims that a Taliban commander linked to al-Qaeda was behind the assassination of its leader Benazir Bhutto, as the death toll from rioting rose to 38.
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