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Attacks on soldiers incredibly hard to prevent ex-MI6 chief warns as ministers say controls are difficult in a free society
Preventing the brutal killing of soldier would have been ‘incredibly hard’, a former MI6 chief warned as the security services face questions about its failure to intercept the ...
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Heathrow airport closed after smoking British Airways plane makes emergency landing
The plane was evacuated and none of the passengers or crew have been injured.Heathrow airport have confirmed that both runways had been closed as a result of an incident, which happened around 9am.Amateur video footage of the incident appears to show smoke coming from one of the aircraft engines. There was speculation that the aircraft had run into a flock of birds.The incident is not thought to ...
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Syria opposition struggles to forge transition plan before talks
George Sabra (L), a veteran Christian opposition figure and acting President of the Syrian National Coalition, speaks during the opening session of a meeting by members of the Syrian opposition in Istanbul May 23, ...
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IMF chiefs trial over payout resumes
Christine Lagarde, the head of the International Monetary Fund, is being questioning by French prosecutors in order to decide if she should be charged over a state payout to a well-connected entrepreneur during her time as finance minister. Lagarde has played ...
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Russia Serbia To Sign Strategic Agreement
Serbia and Russia are due to sign an agreement later in the day on strategic partnership. The document is scheduled to be signed by President Vladimir Putin and his Serb counterpart Tomislav Nikolic in the Black Sea resort of Sochi. Serbian media say the agreement calls on the bolstering of ties across a spectrum of areas, including business, trade, and infrastructure projects. It also ...
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Kazakh Journalist Jailed Over Unsanctioned Protest
ASTANA -- A court in Astana has sentenced a journalist to 15 days in jail for taking part in an unsanctioned protest. Berik Zhaghyparov's lawyer told RFE/RL that her client was sentenced late on May 23. Zhaghyparov pleaded not guilty, saying he was at the protest as an independent journalist to cover the event. Police detained Zhaghyparov along with several demonstrators. The ...
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Russian Far East Hit By Okhotsk Earthquake Tsunami Alert Lifted
A powerful earthquake has hit Russia's Far East region, sending tremors across the country and sparking a short-lived tsunami warning. The U.S. Geological Survey said the quake, whose epicenter was in the Sea of Okhotsk, east of the Russian coast and north of Japan, was a preliminary magnitude of 8.2. It struck at a depth of more than 600 kilometers below sea level. Minor tremors ...
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Kerry Initiative can create breakthrough in peace process
In a meeting with British Secretary of State Hague, President Peres says that though the process to renewing Palestinian-Israeli talks is long and hard, it is important to note positive developments in the ...
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Hague Israel losing support in UK because of settlements
After Steinitz questions whether Britain is still a friend of Israel, British foreign secretary says settlement activity causing support for Israel to wane in UK, other European ...
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Analysis Sinai is becoming a major threat to Egypt
kidnapped last week in the Sinai Peninsula . They were released unhurt after marathon negotiations that lasted until dawn Wednesday between a representative of military intelligence, a Salafi sheikh and a representative of the Swarka tribe, one of the largest in the peninsula.No one will guarantee it will be the last kidnapping. The official version is that no deal was struck, and it may ...
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Olmert W. Bank policies behind bad intl press
The government is at fault for its own negative image in the international press because of its policies in the West Bank, former prime minister Ehud Olmert said Thursday."I think it is inarguable that Israel's main problem isn't public diplomacy; it's first of all a policy problem," Olmert said. "We won't be able to convince the world we're right ...
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Nochi Dankner set to lose control of IDB
An agreement bondholders reached overnight on Thursday may oust Nochi Dankner from controlling IDB, the Israeli conglomerate that controls companies such as Cellcom and Shufersal.The bondholders from two tiers of the pyramid company, IDB Holdings and IDB Development, would merge the two companies and convert bonds to stocks, thus wresting control from Dankner. IDB Holdings bondholders would get ...
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Google mulls buying Waze presaging bidding war
Google Inc., maker of the Android operating system, is considering buying Israeli map-software provider Waze Inc., setting up a possible bidding war with Facebook Inc., people familiar with the matter said.Waze is fielding expressions of interest from multiple parties and is seeking more than $1 billion, said one of the people, who asked not to be identified because the talks are private. The ...
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Israel near bottom of BBC poll ranking countries
Israel placed near the bottom of a BBC poll released Thursday ranking the world's most positively viewed countries.Some 26,000 people from 25 countries around the world were asked if they viewed a list of 16 countries and the European Union as having a "mainly positive" or "mainly negative" influence in the ...
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Muslim writer touts Israeli tolerance of minorities
British author Dr. Qanta Ahmed spoke on Wednesday at the Menachem Begin Heritage Center in Jerusalem about the difficulties for minorities in Islamic societies and how Israel is the only country in the Middle East that tolerates them.The event was organized by Alan Schneider, director of the B'nai B'rith World Center in Jerusalem, and cosponsored by the Ecumenical Theological ...
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UK Israel agree to expand scientific cooperation
Britain and Israel have signed a memorandum of understanding to expand their scientific cooperation - despite calls in Britain for an academic boycott of this country. It was signed in Jerusalem on Thursday by Science, Technology and Space Minister Yaakov Peri and British Foreign Secretary William Hague.British Ambassador Matthew Gould and HU president Prof. Menahem Ben-Sasson, along with ...
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Star Catcher Astrology for the week of May 24 2013
GEMINI (AIR) MAY 21 - JUNE 21 Your mind is working overtime and you are so highly charged right now that it may be difficult for you to unwind enough to sleep. Rather than working things out in your mind, write them down and give your hard disc a breather. This is the week for taking care of personal business and for putting your own needs first. Someone from your past is seriously ...
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Israel backing Hungary to chair Holocaust forum
The Foreign Ministry is backing Hungary's quest to assume the chairmanship of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance in 2015, Hungarian prime ministerial chief adviser Zsigmond Perenyi ...
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Shalom Zemach Committee protocols to be published
Energy and Water Minister Silvan Shalom announced on Thursday that he has decided to publish, in the near future, all of the protocols of the Zemach Committee, which made recommendations this fall about natural gas export quantities."I studied the issue at length since I took office and after talks with the Justice Ministry, I reached the conclusion that we must increase transparency ...
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Walking buses Parents bring kids to school on foot
Every Tuesday and Friday - barring inclement weather - groups of children mill their way through the streets of Binyamina together, with a parent acting as their "driver" for their "walking bus" to school."It's like a big caterpillar, a lot of legs and a lot of kids," Orit Yoav, one of the parents leading the project at Amirim elementary school in ...
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Engine fault forces BA plane to land
London - British Airways said on Friday that a plane travelling from London to Oslo was forced to make an emergency landing after a fault in one of the ...
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Heathrow closes both runways
London - Both runways were closed at London's Heathrow airport on Friday, a spokeswoman said, after a British Airways plane reportedly had to make an emergency ...
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Attacker was one of their own
Investigators have not found any link between the London attack and Nigeria's own Islamist insurgency, which is based in the north of that West African country. The Adebolajos were a Christian family, and their surname suggests they are members of the Yoruba community from the mainly Christian ...
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Hundreds mourn young tornado victim
This undated handout photo provided by Brandie Candelaria shows Antonia Candelaria. Candelaria was killed when a tornado struck Plaza Towers Elementary School in Moore, Texas on Monday, May 20, 2013. (AP Photo/Courtesy of Brandie ...
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US expects up to 11 hurricanes in 2013
MIAMI - The 2013 Atlantic hurricane season could be ';extremely active'; and spawn 13 to 20 tropical storms, seven to 11 of which are expected to become hurricanes, the U.S. government's top climate agency predicted on ...
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Silicon Valley's Expo ambitions
Moffet Field, a fairly unknown former military airbase in Silicon Valley near Mountain View and Sunnyvale, may become the centerpiece of the 2020 World Expo if Governor Schwarzenegger and other advocated of a California bid get their way.
California wants one of its cities to host the 2020 World Expo, the event is a seminal one on the world calendar and is expected to draw in over 70 million visitors to Shanghai, the city currently hosting the exhibition, which last six months. Read more
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