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Israel to build 850 homes in West Bank

AP - World News - Wed, 2024-11-27 20:46
JERUSALEM (AP) -- Israel's plans to build hundreds of new homes in Jewish West Bank settlements have put Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at odds again with Washington and the Palestinians, without appeasing settlers furious over the government's plan to dismantle an illegally built settler enclave....

Doctors administer oxygen to Mubarak overnight

AP - World News - Wed, 2024-11-27 20:46
CAIRO (AP) -- Hosni Mubarak's condition has deteriorated so much that doctors at the Cairo prison where he is serving a life sentence had to constantly administer oxygen to him overnight, security officials said Thursday....

Annan wants new strategy to end Syria conflict

AP - World News - Wed, 2024-11-27 20:46
UNITED NATIONS (AP) -- International envoy Kofi Annan is urging nations to unite behind a new effort to end the escalating Syrian conflict and says there should be "consequences" if his peace plan isn't implemented....

Surveillance ends at blind China activist village

AP - World News - Wed, 2024-11-27 20:46
BEIJING (AP) -- Suddenly the guard posts came down and the hired toughs who manned them melted away, restoring an air of freedom this week to a village that authorities turned into a prison to keep blind activist Chen Guangcheng under house arrest for nearly two years....

U.S. Attacks, Online and From the Air, Fuel Secrecy Debate

TruthNews.US - News - Wed, 2024-11-27 20:46
NY Times | "Keeping these programs secret may have a value," - Jack Goldsmith, law professor and Bush administration Justice Department official.

Greek extremist party member in TV assault

AP - World News - Wed, 2024-11-27 20:46
ATHENS, Greece (AP) -- Greece's election campaign turned ugly Thursday on live TV: The spokesman of the extreme-right Golden Dawn party, after trading insults of "commie" and "fascist," lunged at two female left-wing politicians on a mainstream morning talk show, throwing water at one and smacking the other three times across the face....

Afghan Children Dead After US Air Assault: Report

TruthNews.US - News - Wed, 2024-11-27 20:46
Common Dreams | "17 civilians have been killed in a NATO airstrike in eastern Afghanistan, according to a local official in Logar province."
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