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A prominent dovish Israeli professor who was wounded by a pipe bomb outside his Jerusalem home warned Friday that the attack against him underscored the collapse of the rule of law in the occupied territories.
Police believe the bomb was placed at his doorstep by right-wing Jewish extremists angered by Professor Zeev Sternhell's outspoken views against the... |
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 Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad reinforced his position towards the international pressure to stop nuclear proliferation saying there is no turning back for his country."They should know that the Iranian nation has already entered the phase of nuclear enrichment at industrial level and there was no way to withdraw even one...
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 Terrorists never cease to amaze when it comes to inventiveness and targets, the last attack leaving a sour taste behind. At least 25 people were killed when a suicide bomber detonated his lethal charge at a funeral in Fallujah, 69 kilometers west off Baghdad, national media informed. Meanwhile, bomb attacks continue throughout Iraq, one...
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Military equipment and funds from the United States will give a boost to the Lebanese army in a short period, a military source said.The Beirut government asked the US to help its army and send aid, consisting of 280 million dollars in assistance, which would be a considerable backing. In previous years the aid was almost seven times...
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 Six police officers along with the chief of Yahyakhail district police were killed Thursday after a bomb was detonated by remote control, official sources informed. The incident occurred in the south- astern province of Paktika, as the policemen were inspecting a weapon cache. Taliban insurgents triggered the powerful blast from...
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 Hundreds of Qassam missiles launched from the Gaza Strip caused panic among the residents of southern Israeli territories, thousand fleeing the ravaged regions.In response, Israel initiated several airstrikes against Hamas key positions and leaders, as the battle moved on the ground Thursday, 33 Hamas officials being arrested in the West...
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 At least three people were wounded Wednesday after a bomb went off in a city 17 kilometers east of Beirut, local police reported.About ten kilos of explosive were planted near a building in the center of Aley according to preliminary reports, the powerful blast seriously affective the integrity of the construction. This is the third...
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 The International Atomic Energy Agency said its knowledge of Iran’s nuclear programme is starting to diminish, as the southwestern Asian country continues to forbid the access of UN inspectors to its nuclear facilities.Even so, IAEA received news that 13 uranium enrichment cascades are being build in the Iran since members of the...
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 Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, NATO Secretary-General expressed his confidence that all member countries of the military alliance will extend their peacekeeping missions in Afghanistan despite the high number of victims.“We have a long term military and political commitment in Afghanistan and it is very important that we can see this mission...
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 Fighting continues with even more intensity in the war-torn Iraq, dozens of people being killed only Wednesday, among them nine soldiers belonging to the US peacekeeping mission.More than 20 Iraqi citizens were killed in the Diyala province when a suicide bomber detonated his deadly charge in Mendily. The blast also wounded 25 other...
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 About 15,000 Palestinians fled the crowded Nahr el-Bared refugee camp (about 40,000 refugees) on Wednesday after a fragile truce stopped the fighting between the Lebanese army and Fatah al-Islam, a Sunni Islamist militant group.The al Qaeda-inspired militants took up residence in the camp last year with the declared intention of fighting...
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