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Gaza’s Hamas rulers on Saturday executed a Palestinian convicted of collaborating with Israel and two others deemed complicit in murder, the interior ministry said. The ministry said in a statement that the three men were hanged in a “security centre”

(AP) Activists: 43 killed in ongoing Syria offensivesBy ZEINA KARAMAssociated PressBEIRUTSyrian government shelling and offensives against rebel-held towns killed at least 43 civilians across the country on Saturday, activists said, as the U.S. posted online satellite images of troop deployments

Talk about a “War on Women”: this past week, the White House welcomed members of Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood, the radical Islamist organization whose Freedom and Justice Party won the largest number of seats in that country’s parliamentary elections and which

Gunter Grass, the German Nobel laureate, was quoted on Wednesday in the German Sueddeutsche Zeitung stating that Iran is not the nuclear threat we should be worried about. The real nuclear threat, he wrote, is Israel: “Israel’s atomic power endangers

A Chinese shipping vessel was hijacked by pirates Friday in the Gulf of Oman, south of Iran, state media said, citing China’s embassy in Iran. The cargo ship was hijacked Friday morning near the Iranian port of Chabahar, according to

A US Navy F-18 jet crashed into a low-rise apartment building in Virginia on Friday triggering an inferno, US media reported, with emergency responders rushing to the scene. The two crew members successfully ejected from the jet which crashed into

Israel restricted access to its territory from the West Bank on Friday ahead of the Jewish Passover holiday, the military said, as police tightened security after a rocket attack on Eilat. Checkpoints would be closed to general traffic but “persons

The hacking group Anonymous said Friday it would continue targeting China, after announcing it had hacked hundreds of Chinese websites to protest against Internet censorship in the country. Most of the sites Anonymous China claimed to have hacked were working

(AP) Board seeks Marine’s dismissal in Facebook caseBy JULIE WATSONAssociated PressCAMP PENDLETON, Calif.A military board has recommended dismissal for a Marine sergeant who criticized President Barack Obama on his Facebook page, including allegedly putting the president’s face on a “Jackass”

This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com. Russia plans to flatten Georgia if Israel attacks Iran Syria crisis worsens as April 10 ‘peace deadline’ approaches Euro crisis worsens again as Spain’s bond yields rise Russia plans to flatten Georgia if Israel

Fighting raged on Friday between army deserters and forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad, monitors said, as activists called for massive protests in support of arming the rebellion. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said that fierce battles were taking

Malawi’s President Bingu wa Mutharika died early Friday, hours after the 78-year-old suffered a heart attack, a hospital source in the capital Lilongwe said.Mutharika was reported by state radio to have been airlifted to South Africa in the early morning

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta has spent about $17,000 to reimburse the Treasury for frequent travel to his California home, trips that cost the government some $860,000 because he is required to fly in military jets, the

(AP) Coast Guard fires on Japanese ghost shipBy MARK THIESSEN and RACHEL D’OROAssociated PressOVER THE GULF OF ALASKAThe U.S. Coast Guard unleashed cannon fire Thursday at a Japanese vessel set adrift by last year’s tsunami, stopping the ship’s long, lonely

A rocket attack was launched at one of Israel’s major cities on Thursday.  Eilat, one of Israel’s vacation spots and a prime location for visitors during Passover, which begins tomorrow, was targeted in the attack. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned:

Iran has banned the Reuters news agency for calling Iranian women training in martial arts “assassins” in a report.  A spokesman for the Ministry of Culture said, “The decision was taken following the production of a video clip by this

Two days before Christmas 2011, while everyone was lost in the hustle and bustle of the season and making a last dash for gifts, U.S. District Judge George B. Daniels declared that Iran was “legally responsible for damages to hundreds

(AP) Rocket hits Israeli city near Egypt borderBy TIA GOLDENBERGAssociated PressJERUSALEMA rocket fired from Egypt’s Sinai desert hit a southern Israeli resort city early Thursday, police said, raising new concerns about militant activity in the mountainous peninsula. Prime Minister Benjamin

This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com. Female suicide bomber attacks Somalia’s National Theatre Spain is in ‘extreme difficulty’ and threatens renewed euro crisis Financial pundits worry about end of quantitative easing Greece may have to cancel Olympics participation Female suicide

Thai police have arrested four suspects in connection with a series of devastating bomb blasts in the insurgency-plagued deep south, an official said Thursday. The car bombings in two southern cities on Saturday killed 15 people and wounded hundreds more

(AP) Syrian troops attack Damascus suburbBy BASSEM MROUEAssociated PressBEIRUTSyrian troops launched a fierce assault on a Damascus suburb Thursday, days ahead of a deadline for a U.N.-brokered cease-fire, with activists describing it as one of the most violent attacks around

Iraq’s fugitive Vice President Tariq al-Hashemi has accused Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki’s Shiite government of waging a systematic campaign against Sunni Arabs in Iraq. In an interview with the pan-Arab Al-Jazeera network aired late on Wednesday, Hashemi said the accusations