Archive for 2007

Nadav Shragai
Between stretching plastic sheets over the windows and placing buckets exactly under the leaks in the roof, settlers at a contested house between Kiryat Arba and Hebron are trying to maintain some sort of normal routine.
For humanitarian reasons, the Israel Defense Forces were willing to allow them to renovate the...
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By Joshua Mitnick - TEL AVIV — About 40 Jews who left Iran in secret arrived in Israel yesterday — one of the largest such defections — and got a Christmas present of $10,000 per person from U.S. evangelicals.
The number of Iranian-Jewish emigrants to Israel more than tripled to 200 in 2007,...
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By Joshua Mitnick - TEL AVIV — About 40 Jews who left Iran in secret arrived in Israel yesterday — one of the largest such defections — and got a Christmas present of $10,000 per person from U.S. evangelicals.
The number of Iranian-Jewish emigrants to Israel more than tripled to 200 in 2007,...
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Iranian defense minister says Moscow to deliver state-of-the-art air defense missile system capable of intercepting ballistic missile warheads at range of over 90 miles
Russia is to supply Iran with new S-300 air defense systems, Defense Minister Mostafa Mohammad Najjar said Wednesday, a sign of growing military cooperation between Moscow and Tehran.
''The...
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Russian police are hunting a "werewolf boy" - who snarls and bites - after he escaped from a Moscow clinic just a day after being rescued from the wild.
Doctors expressed shock saying he was found living with a pack of wolves in a remote forest in the Kaluga region of central Russia....
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WASHINGTON - Former FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover had a plan to suspend the rules against illegal detention and arrest up to 12,000 Americans he suspected of being disloyal, according to a newly declassified document. 
Hoover sent his plan to the White House on July 7, 1950, less than two weeks after the...
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By Sarah Thomsen
If you're ticketed by Green Bay police, you'll get more than a fine. You'll get fingerprinted, too. It's a new way police are cracking down on crime.
If you're caught speeding or playing your music too loud, or other crimes for which you might receive a citation, Green Bay police officers will ask for your...
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BY RODOLFO R. ROMAN
In Bal Harbour, the baby Jesus statue is back where it belongs.
And just to make sure the statue doesn't go missing again, Jesus, Mary and Joseph will be equipped with GPS tracking devices.
For six years, Dina Cellini has put up a Nativity display in Bal Harbour's Founders Circle. But earlier...
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by Daniel Pipes
"If I were a Muslim I would let you know," Barack Obama has said, and I believe him. In fact, he is a practicing Christian, a member of the Trinity United Church of Christ. He is not now a Muslim.
But was he ever a Muslim or seen by others as a...
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CBNNews.com - Approximately 65,000 tourists are expected to visit Bethlehem this Christmas season.
One of the main attractions besides being the birthplace of our Lord Jesus is a four-story Christmas tree.
Click on the media player for a Newswatch clip on the site.
Locals lit the tree during a ceremony held in Manger Square, which faces the...
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