Israel has given the green light for the construction of a further 300 homes in a West Bank settlement.The number of eviction incidents has risen sharply since a new Israeli government, with even stronger opposition to a 2-state solution, took office in March. And the Israeli defense force are ready to use almost anything to back their governments orders, including special anti-riot measure called ‚Skunk‘.

US Secret Service spokesman Max Milien says that at about 7am smoke was seen coming out of a mechanical room cupboard on the first floor.

Many Saudi Arabians have abused the law to exploit and harass workers sponsored by them. Thousands of workers from the Indian subcontinent, among them hundreds of Keralites, the Philippines and Indonesia are in Saudi Arabian prisons because of fraudulent reporting of jumping sponsorship.

Esfandiar Rahim Mashaei, a protégé of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, and former President Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, both signed up at the end of a five-day period for registration on Saturday, shocking their opponents who had bet on their preferred candidates being the only ones running in the June 14 election.

The epicentre of the earthquake was located some 20km deep inside the earth, some 207km to the northeast of Ras Al Khaimah, according to the NCMS. Tremors were, however, not felt anywhere in the UAE.

For more than two decades, under the cover of this fiction, Palestinians have engaged in internationally-sponsored ‘peace talks’ and other forms of dialogue, only to watch as Israel has continued to occupy, steal and colonise their land, and to kill and maim thousands of people with impunity.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has found himself wrapped in a blanket of controversy over his posh in-flight sleeping arrangements. It comes after reports that he and his wife had a $127,000 bedchamber custom-built for a flight to London.

The sum was tagged onto the $300,000 cost of chartering an El Al Boeing 767 to fly the couple to former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher’s funeral last month, Israel’s Channel 10 television reported. Netanyahu’s aides and bodyguards were also present on the flight.

David Sal Silva, the 33-year-old father of four young children, died on May 9, shortly after a group of police officers beat him severely with batons.

Iran’s Supreme National Security Council Secretary Saeed Jalili, who is the country’s chief nuclear programme negotiator, confirmed his intention to run for presidency and filed an appropriate application on Saturday, May 11.

However Jalili made no comments regarding his political preferences.

Jean-Claude Mignon, President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), will make an official visit to Turkey on May 13-15.

One way to make a problem go away — at least temporarily — is to ignore it. It‘s also the way to make problems grow over time.

This may be the first time since Confederation that land has been given back to the Kahnawake Mohawks. The First Nation is in the preliminary stages of filing a 40,000 acre land claim with the federal government that dates back to the 17th century.