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UN Nuclear Chief: ‘Essential and Urgent’ to Resolve Iranian Nuclear Stand-Off
JPost - The UN nuclear chief told Iran on Monday it was "essential and urgent" for it to address concerns about suspected atomic bomb...
French City Bans Street Traffic Through Yom Kippur, Angering Residents
JTA - The French city of Metz closed a street to vehicular traffic for the High Holidays season, provoking angry reactions from some Muslims. Rabbin...
IDF Officer Who Struck Danish Citizen Reaches Plea Deal
Ynet - Lt.-Col Shalom Eisner, the IDF officer who was suspended from duty after he was filmed striking a foreign peace activist from Denmark with his M-16 rifle...
House GOP Leader Supports Syria Strike
Weekly Standard - Speaker of the House John Boehner says that he'll support President Obama's "call for action" in Syria: "The use of these weapons has...
Ban Ki-moon: UN Syria Strike Must be Approved by UN
AP - UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Tuesday warned that any "punitive" action taken against Syria for an alleged chemical weapons attack last month would...
Israeli Police Arrest Sheikh Raed Salah for Incitement Over Al Aqsa Mosque
Jerusalem Post - Israeli police have arrested the head of the Islamic Movement's Northern Branch Sheikh Raed Salah on suspicion of incitement. Police said the...
Obama Extends Rosh Hashana Greetings to 1,000 Rabbis on Annual Conference Call
JTA - President Obama reflected on the High Holidays and offered New Year's greetings in a conference call with nearly 1,000 rabbis. Obama in the call...
Israel, PA Meet for 6th Round of Negotiations
Jerusalem Post - With all eyes focused on Syria and how the US will respond to Syrian President Bashar Assad's apparent use of chemical weapons, Israeli...
PA Agreed to Stop Lobbying International Institutions in Exchange for Prisoner Release
Ynet - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas addressed Monday the circumstances of the deal that was made with Israel in order to renew the peace talks between the...
Former SS Officer in German Court on Murder Charges
BBC - Former SS officer Siert Bruins, 92, has appeared in court in Germany accused of murdering a Dutch resistance fighter some 70...
Obama Prepares for Week of Lobbying Congress to Back Syria Strike
WSJ - The White House is girding for more than a week of battle with Congress over President Barack Obama's plan to launch limited...
Obama to Seek Congressional Approval for Syria Strike
Independent - Pulling back from the brink, a lonely President Barack Obama said last night that he would attempt to wrest authorisation from the US...
Obama: Syrian Chemical Attack Threatens Israel, Jordan
JPost - WASHINGTON - US President Barack Obama said on Friday the chemical weapons attack in Syria threatened US allies Israel and Jordan and said...
America Prepared to Act Alone to Punish Syria
Fox News - President Obama signaled Friday that the U.S. could act alone to punish Syria for a chemical weapons attack last week, saying the...
