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A three-member presidential council in Iraq approved amendments to a 2005 election law but pushed the date of the vote to March 7, officials said Wednesday. Amendments to a 2005 election law lingered in Baghdad for months as lawmakers debated...

Tayibe police officer Avner Dahari found guilty of fraud, breach of trust, abuse of office after prosecution proves he stole mobile phone from illegal Palestinian aliens he arrested. Second officer indicted acquitted Avi Cohen The Tel Aviv Magistrate's Court convicted...

Palestinian youngster arrested at checkpoint north of Jerusalem after Border Guard forces discover he was carrying two improvised pipe bombs. Sapper dismantles devices, man turned over for questioning Efrat Weiss   The young man arrived at the north Jerusalem checkpoint...

Bill passed by overwhelming majority will allow admission committees to filter candidates. MK Tibi calls bill 'embodiment of racism', 'law of white man's rule' Amnon Meranda The bill was unofficially dubbed the "High Court- Kaadan bypass law", after Arab citizen...

Hagai Aharon Hadash chairman does not exercise immunity, becomes defendant. Arab MK suspected of four separate counts of assault against prison service fighter, officer, policeman, and civilian. Barakeh in response: This is political persecution Avi Cohen Another member of Knesset...

The White House has been sitting on a preliminary review of the Fort Hood shooting since the end of November and refuses to share its contents with Congress, House Republicans say.  Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee have been pressing...

December 10 is known as International Human Rights Day, marking the anniversary of the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Genocide Conventions...In Darfur, the Congo and elsewhere in Africa, mass killings continue, with only minor and sporadic attention...

After Knesset votes in favor of pushing forward with bill calling for referendum on withdrawal from Israeli territories, residents of Golan Heights express satisfaction, say, 'MKs understand importance of Golan' Hagai Einav The Knesset's decision on Wednesday to advance a...

The ginger-colored mutt stranded alone atop the bombed-out ruins of her Baghdad home was reunited with her owners Wednesday after a night spent chained to a railing, bringing a few smiles after the Iraqi capital's latest day of sorrow. Continued...

William Rivers Pitt, t r u t h o u t Op-Ed A Washington-based lawyer and former political director for the Log Cabin Republicans named Christopher Barron filed papers last week to launch a group called "Draft Cheney 2012."