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00 am (0800 GMT) on Thursday, ripping through a crowded market in Mussayib, 60 kilometers (35 miles) south of Baghdad. The explosions left at least three men killed and 28 people wounded, including two women and two children, AFP quoted...

Bibi�s Bathosphere Thursday, November 26, 2009 The media circus around the negotiations between Hamas and Israel on the prisoner swap to free the Israeli soldier, Gilad Shalit, grinds on and on, defying any vestige of proportionality.

The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) has announced that restrictions on the West Bank's population in the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt) will be eased during the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha between 26 November and 2 December. According to the IDF,...

We sought to change this situation," he said during a visit of the Knesset's Internal Affairs Committee at a Beersheba prison. (Ilana Curiel)  

IsraelNN.com) Speaking Thursday morning, Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman said he could "guarantee" that arch-terrorist Marwan Barghouti would not be released from prison in any deal to exchange terrorists for kidnapped IDF soldier Gilad Shalit. "We have no intention to free...

Labor disputes have been declared in several sectors of the economy. Shay Niv 26 Nov 09 11:24 Histadrut chairman Ofer Eini yesterday carried out his threat from two weeks ago, and declared a labor dispute at the local authorities. He...

Channel 3 highlighted those travels in a newscast this week, asking if the expenses were worthwhile...Most, he says, were made in his role as an Airports Council International official or associated with the airport's $1 billion expansion. A recent Seattle...

The report said a presidential decree last year placed controls on transferring property in areas inhabited by Kurds. Also in 2008 security forces killed three Kurds celebrating the Kurdish Nowruz new year. In 2007, security forces fired at Kurdish crowds...

IsraelNN.com) The Interior Ministry has forwarded to all towns in the non-Jewish sector their monthly support payments, on the eve of a major Muslim festival. The money was forwarded in order to enable the local authorities to pay their workers...

Justice Minister Yaakov Neeman announced on Thursday morning that he will recommend that Yehuda Weinstein be appointed as next attorney-general. On Sunday Neeman will request of the government to approve the nomination. The cabinet will have a week to raise...