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RETROSPECT On February 8, 2005, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon met the newly elected Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in Sharm el Sheikh about a peace summit. At that time, Ariel Sharon had said "Israel has no intention to allow you [the Palestinians] to govern and control your destiny." The Palestinian leader proclaimed "the end of the intifada". A few days after a suicide was committed in Tel Aviv, then in August 2005, the IDF evacuated civilians and military forces from the Gaza Strip. |
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Egypt targets males' sexual stamina to encourage them to stop smoking By Nigel Rice for Guysen International News
Egypt has launched a novel campaign in an effort to encourage its male population to stop smoking, by targeting sexual stamina.
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Decision to upgrade Knesset members' flight accommodation receives mixed reaction By Sharon Bloch for Guysen International News |

A decision by Knesset Speaker Reuven Rivlin to upgrade flight accommodation of lawmakers traveling abroad has met with mixed reactions. Some Knesset members called the decision wasteful, saying at such times it is up to the Knesset members to set an example. Others accused Rivlin of offering favors with the hopes of garnering support to nominate him as the next president of Israel. > Read more
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Saving the Amazon rainforest By Blake Glick for Guysen International News |

By introducing different farming methods, the Brazilian government has succeeded in breaking the cycle of deforestation to create more pasture and has turned the Amazon’s biggest killer into its best defender. > Read more
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Iran arrests 7 , accuses them of espionage and anti-government activities By Nigel Rice for Guysen International News |

Iran announced it had arrested seven suspects Sunday involved in initiating anti government protests. Iranian state media also alleged some of the suspects were hired by U.S. intelligence agencies, and worked for a U.S. funded radio station. Not details were given of the identities of the suspects or where they are being held. > Read more
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Evacuation of Beit Yonathan in Silwan, east Jerusalem delayed (Guysen.International.News)
The Jerusalem Municipality on Monday canceled the distribution of evacuation orders for Jewish inhabitants in a residential building located in the heart of an Arab neighborhood in East Jerusalem, after police said they were not informed.
Last week Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat bowed to pressure from legal officials and ordered the municipality to begin preparations for the evacuation and sealing of the building known as "Beit Yonatan." In a letter to State Prosecutor Moshe Lador, Barkat pledged to enforce the court order to evacuate the structure, though he added that he was doing so under protest.
Inspectors were meant to arrive in the neighborhood of Silwan on Monday to issue the evacuation orders, but police said that this type of activity must be coordinated with them.
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Egypt security forces arrest Muslim Brotherhood leaders (Guysen.International.News)
The No. 2 leader of Egypt's opposition Muslim Brotherhood and two other top figures have been arrested by police in a dawn sweep that also grabbed 10 senior members across five provinces, police and members of the group said.
Police arrested the newly elected deputy leader, Mahmoud Ezzat, and two other members of the top level Guidance Council, Essam el-Erian and Abdul-Rahman el-Bir
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Court frees two foreign activists, allows them to appeal deportation (Guysen.International.News)
The Supreme Court on Monday released on bail two foreign activists arrested late Sunday near Ramallah, after prosecutors said Immigration Authority officials erred during their arrest.
The two activists are Spaniard Ariadna Jove Marti and Australian Bridgette Chappell, members of the leftist International Solidarity Movement. They have been in Israel since August and have lived in El-Bireh, a suburb of Ramallah, in Area A under full Palestinian Authority control.
The two were ordered to pay NIS 3,000 bail apiece, instead of the NIS 25,000 that the prosecutor had originally requested, were told they copuld not return to the Palestinian territories, but that they could file an official appeal over their deportation.
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Haifa District Court judge's car torched (Guysen.International.News)
The car of Haifa District Court Judge Moshe Gilad was torched early Monday morning by unknown arsonists near his Acre residence. Nobody was wounded in the incident which has all the markings of yet another attack upon one of Israel’s judges.
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A suspected explosive device under truck entering Ashkelon was a tracking system (Guysen.International.News)
Security forces breathed a sigh of relief after a suspected explosive device rigged underneath a truck turned out to be a tracking device. Earlier, police forces were alerted following reports of an explosive device found under a fuel truck at the entrance to the Eilat-Ashkelon Pipeline Company's facility in Ashkelon, where large stores of gas and fuel are kept. Police sealed off the area.
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Israel issues Palestinian expert a six month travel ban, fearing he may harm state security (Guysen.International.News)
Israel has imposed a travel ban on a Palestinian expert on Israeli land confiscations in the West Bank and east Jerusalem.Khalil Tufakji has been banned from traveling outside Israel and the West Bank for six months. He said he was informed of the matter when summoned to police headquarters in Jerusalem.
He called it "one of the ongoing Israeli violations against Palestinians in Jerusalem."Israel's Shin Bet internal intelligence agency recommended the ban because Tufakji's departure from Israel might harm state security.
The ban is in effect until Aug. 2.
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Iran says it started producing drones that can reach Israel (Guysen.International.News)
Iran's state TV says the country has launched two production lines of unmanned aircraft, or drones.
The Monday report quoted Iran's defense minister, Gen. Ahmad Vahidi, as saying the planes will be able to carry out surveillance as well as attack tasks with high precision.
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Iran plans to build ten new uranium enrichment facilities in the next year (Guysen.International.News)
Iran plans to build 10 new uranium enrichment facilities during the next Iranian year, its atomic energy chief was quoted as saying. Ali Akbar Salehi's statements on Sunday evening came after President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad instructed Iran's Atomic Energy Organization to start work on producing higher-grade nuclear fuel for a Tehran reactor
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Australia tightens immigration rules (Guysen.International.News)
Australia tightened its migration rules Monday in favor of English speakers and professionals, saying the country has been attracting too many hairdressers and cooks and too few doctors and engineers.
Immigration Minister Chris Evans blamed the overrepresentation of lower skilled immigrants on a system put in place by Prime Minister John Howard, whose government lost power in 2007 elections.
"Under the Howard government, we had a lot of cooks, a lot of hairdressers coming through," Evans told reporters. "We were taking hairdressers from overseas in front of doctors and nurses — it didn't make any sense."
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Costa Rica elects first female President (Guysen.International.News)
Costa Rica's governing party candidate swept to an election victory Sunday night that will make her the first woman president in this Central American nation.
Laura Chinchilla had 47 percent of the vote with nearly all the votes counted. The closest contender, Otton Solis of the Citizens Action Party, had 25 percent. He and the other main rival quickly conceded defeat.
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Female candidate in upcoming Iraqi elections shot dead (Guysen.International.News)
A woman planning to stand in Iraq's March 7 general election was gunned down on Sunday in the restive northern city of Mosul, police said, just days before campaigning is officially due to start.
Suha Abdul Jarallah, a candidate on the list of former Prime Minister Iyad Allawi, was shot dead as she left a house in the Ras al-Jadda neighborhood in central Mosul
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Dead and wounded in power plant explosion in the U.S. (Guysen.International.News)
Connecticut emergency official says some people have died in an explosion at a power plant in Middletown.
Betsy Hard, deputy commissioner of the state Department of Emergency Management and Homeland Security, tells The Associated Press that she does not know how many people have died, or how many were injured in the explosion Sunday
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| 19:12 |
Iran tests radar evading aircraft (Guysen.International.News)
Iran has successfully tested a radar-evading aircraft, a commander said on Sunday, in the country's latest announcement of technological advances as it marks the anniversary of the 1979 Islamic revolution. Air Force official Aziz Nasirzadeh said the radar evading aircraft called Swordfish was test flown, the Fars news agency said. “We are evaluating data from the test flight and will go into production after completing additional tests,” he said.
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Two foreigners involved in protests against security fence arrested by Israeli security forces (Guysen.International.News)
The Israeli army says its forces entered the West Bank and arrested two pro-Palestinian activists from Spain and Australia. Sunday's raid marks only the second time troops have seized foreigners there on suspicion their visas had expired.The activists are members of the International Solidarity Movement. The group is involved in protests against Israel's West Bank separation barrier.The activists' lawyer, Omer Shatz, says he believes his clients were targeted because of their political activity.
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Israel to inaugurate electric grid for cars with dozens of recharging stations (Guysen.International.News)
The California-based company Better Place developers of a new electric vehicle say Israel is on schedule to inaugurate a revolutionary electric car grid by next year, with dozens of recharge stations and thousands of cars on the road.
The company says between 70 to 100 recharge stations will open by 2011
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Pakistan military say they seized Taliban stronghold (Guysen.International.News)
Pakistani security forces seized a key Taliban stronghold located in the north west, an area the government had declared free of militants, but continues to experience violence.
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PM Netanyahu and Transport Minister Katz to present transport plan to cabinet (Guysen.International.News)
The government will invest approximately $13.6 million to expand roads and railway tracks throughout the country over the coming decade. The plan, dubbed "Israel's routes" is to be presented to the cabinet on Monday by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Transportation Minister Yisrael Katz.
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32,000 Israeli Toyota owners to be called to fix faulty accelerator pedals (Guysen.International.News)
Toyota in Israel said Sunday that there are more than 32,000 Israeli car owners who need have a faulty accelerator pedal fixed.
The importers are currently drawing up a list of all the models and chassis numbers of the cars affected, and will recall the vehicles once the relevant parts arrive from abroad.
Union Motors, Israel's official Toyota importer, have pledged that relevant garages will be open for extended hours in order to facilitate the repair process
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Nepal TV exec killed in drive by shooting on streets of Katmandu (Guysen.International.News)
A television executive who owned Nepal's first cable TV company was shot to death in a busy neighborhood in the country's capital on Sunday, police said.Jamin Shah was gunned down by two men on a motorcycle who targeted his car on a busy road. He died of his injuries shortly after arriving in hospital.
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