Lebanon's Hariri keen on improving ties with Syria
AFP - Tue Dec 8, 9:58 am ETLebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri said Tuesday his government was keen on improving its ties with Syria, strained since the killing of his father Rafiq Hariri in 2005.
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Suspected Lebanese arms dealer agrees to detention
WFMJ Youngstown - Mon Dec 7, 4:53 pm ETPHILADELPHIA (AP) - A Lebanese man won't fight detention on charges he came to Philadelphia to buy a cache of missiles and machine guns. An indictment last month says Dani Tarraf hoped to ship the weapons to "the Resistance" in Iran or Syria.
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Supermodel Gisele Bundchen gives birth to baby boy
EARTHtimes.org - Wed Dec 9, 12:16 pm ETLos Angeles - Supermodel Gisele Bundchen has given birth to a baby boy, People Magazine reported Wednesday. This is Bundchen's first child, but the second for her husband, quarterback Tom Brady, who has a 2-year-old son with actress Bridget Moynihan....
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Iran accuses U.S., Israel of kidnapping
UPI - Tue Dec 8, 6:18 pm ETTEHRAN, Dec. 8 (UPI) -- The United States and Israel kidnapped an Iranian atomic scientist and a senior Defense Ministry official, Foreign Minister Manoucher Mottaki charged Tuesday.
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EU raids pharmaceutical firms in 'cartel' investigation
EARTHtimes.org - Wed Dec 9, 12:01 pm ETBrussels - European Union investigators on Wednesday raided the offices of a number of pharmaceutical companies, suspecting them of breaking EU rules on fair business. The European Commission said in a statement that officials started surprise inspe...
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NASA's new WISE 'eye' to search heavens for undiscovered objects
EARTHtimes.org - Wed Dec 9, 11:47 am ETWashington - NASA's newest eye to be launched Friday is a satellite equipped with unprecedented infrared sensitivity to scope out cosmic objects unseen by other cameras. The Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, is to launch between 1409 an...
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German minister under pressure over new Kunduz report - Summary
EARTHtimes.org - Wed Dec 9, 11:46 am ETBerlin - German Defence Minister Karl Theodor zu Guttenberg came under renewed pressure Wednesday over the government's knowledge of civilian victims of a botched airstrike in Afghanistan. News magazine Stern reported Wednesday that Guttenberg, who b...
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Jordan's king appoints new prime minister - Summary
EARTHtimes.org - Wed Dec 9, 11:46 am ETAmman - Jordan's King Abdullah II on Wednesday picked up renowned economist Samir Refai as new prime minister and assigned him the duty of overseeing the next general elections, according to a royal court statement. Earlier Wednesday, the monarch acc...
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BACKGROUND: Who are the Israeli settlers?
EARTHtimes.org - Wed Dec 9, 10:16 am ETJerusalem - Nearly half a million of Israel's 7.5-million population live in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem, but they live there for vastly different reasons. Although under international law all settlements are illegal, in Israel many peo...
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Israeli settlers step up fight against West Bank freeze - Feature
EARTHtimes.org - Wed Dec 9, 10:16 am ETTel Aviv - For Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the 10-month freeze on construction in West Bank settlements, which he announced on November 25, is a move that will hopefully rekindle peace talks with the Palestinians suspended one years ag...
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Israel gives initial OK to Jerusalem referendum
Salon.com - Wed Dec 9, 10:09 am ETParliament has approved a plan to let Israelis vote on returning land in Jerusalem, Golan Heights
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Iran levels kidnapping charges against U.S., Saudis
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette - Wed Dec 9, 12:26 am ETBEIRUT -- Iran's top diplomat yesterday accused the United States and Saudi Arabia of having kidnapped one of its nuclear scientists.
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Jordanian king asks Samir Refai to form new cabinet - Update
EARTHtimes.org - Wed Dec 9, 9:02 am ETAmman - Jordan's King Abdullah on Wednesday asked Samir Refai to form a new cabinet after accepting the resignation of Prime Minister Nader Dahabi, a royal court statement said. Refai, a former royal cabinet minister, is son of the current speaker of...
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Brussels grants 1.5 billion euros to clean energy projects
EARTHtimes.org - Wed Dec 9, 9:02 am ETBrussels - The European Union's executive on Wednesday granted over 1.5 billion euros (2.2 billion dollars) in aid to 15 experimental clean energy projects. The decision is part of a package of measures designed to fight the European recession and co...
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Iran releases three Belgians detained for illegal entry
EARTHtimes.org - Wed Dec 9, 7:31 am ETTehran - Iran released three Belgian nationals who had been detained for two months on charges of having illegally entered the country for collecting information, Tehran media reported Wednesday. The three Belgians were handed over to the Belgian amb...
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Bam has become a handi-wipe for Islamo-thugs
New York Post - Tue Dec 8, 6:06 pm ETIt took our sworn enemies hardly any time at all to deliver a bloody and bombastic response to President Obama’s meek speech on US foreign policy in Afghanistan. Within 48 hours of Bam’s December 1 state address about bolstering US forces in the drug...
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Syria's Assad: Israel not 'ready' for peace
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