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Israel set to challenge Goldstone Gaza report

Israel was set to submit its rebuttal on Thursday to a United Nations reports accusing it of having committed war crimes in Gaza last winter. Though the Israeli response has been kept under wraps, it is expected to list the essential flaws in the report and explain why the report is biased against Israel and tainted with many problems. [...]

Israeli Withdrawal from Ghajar Fought By Villagers, MKs

Several Knesset Members will visit Ghajar on Sunday, to support the town’s wish to stay united – in Israel and not in Syria.

Pakistani Christian Sentenced to Life under ‘Blasphemy’ Law

A young Christian shopkeeper was sentenced to a life term in prison and fined more than $1,000 last week following a dubious conviction of desecrating the Quran, according to Pakistan’s National Commission for Justice and Peace.

A conviction for blaspheming Muhammad (Section 295-C) is punishable by death under Pakistani’s notorious blasphemy laws. Widely condemned by the international community as easily invoked to settle personal enmities, Pakistan’s blasphemy laws have come under review in recent months, but to no avail.

U.S. envoy fails to lure Abbas back to Mideast peace talks

President Barack Obama’s Mideast envoy failed Friday to lure Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas back to peace talks with Israel, as Abbas stuck to his insistence that an Israeli settlement freeze come [...]

‘We are going to have a much different Congress next year’

Analysts say Brown’s Massachusetts victory symptom of deeper [...]

Boehner: Health Care Bill ‘Not Quite As Dead as I Want It’

Two days after Scott Brown won a special Senate election in Massachusetts, vowing to vote against the Democrats’ health care bill in the Senate, House Minority Leader John Boehner said the bill that passed the House in November was "dead" but "maybe not quite as dead as I want [...]

Topic of terrorism emerge anew in election year

Topic of terrorism emerge anew in election year Ben Feller Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON Terrorism is creeping back to the forefront of the American mindset, creating an election year issue for emboldened Republicans and forcing President Barack Obama [...]

Brown heads to Washington after upset Senate win

Brown heads to Washington after upset Senate win Glen Johnson Associated Press Writer BOSTON Massachusetts Republican Scott Brown, whose surprise win in the race to fill the late Sen. Edward M. Kennedy’s seat created the sonic boom heard [...]

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