Majority of seculars believe civil servants must not voice controversial political opinions, while religious and haredi Israelis object to restriction on rabbis’ freedom of speech
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Tehran, Iran (CNN) — Any indictment handed down by a U.N.-backed court looking into the 2005 killing of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri will be “null and void,” Iran’s supreme leader said Monday. “This court is a kangaroo court, and every verdict it issues is rejected,” Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said after a meeting with the emir of Qatar, Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani. The…
Continue reading …No Retaliation From North Korea-The North Korean government has already answered the issue about retaliation. It says that it won’t retaliate South Korea despite of its provocation wherein it held live-fire artillery drills on the same island that was shelled by Pyongyang’s forces last month. But this was contrary to what has been reported last No Retaliation From North Korea is a post from: Daily World Buzz
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Funny man Jack Black talks about his latest role as the over-sized hero in a new movie adaptation of ‘Gulliver’s Travels.’ (Dec. 20)
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Photo courtesy Sabine Bungert via Beauty and the Bike project. Girls who walked or biked to school in a recent Spanish study performed better at school in verbal and math skills then their cohorts who rode the bus or rode a car, according to this story from Reuters News . And the longer the girls in the study commuted, the better they performed – regardless of how much other exercise and sports activity they reported. What is interesting is that improved test results didn’t hold… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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BAGHDAD – Disputes between parties over how posts in Iraq’s new government will be distributed may delay the expected formation of a new government. The disagreements are the latest snag after months of delays to put together a government after inconclusive parliamentary elections in March left politics deadlocked. Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki’s advisers Ali al-Dabbagh and Ali al-Moussawi insisted that at least some of the new Cabinet will be presented to parliament Monday as originally promised. Parliament spokesman Omar al-Mashhadani, however, said the…
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Photo: Thinkstock If you live in a town where Big Box retailers are the go-to destination for holiday shopping, Greenopia’s 2010 Guide to the Greenest Retailers is for you. The online directory has released their annual research-based list of the greenest retailers, ranking Walmart , Best Buy, Office Depot ,
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Those cursed limited supplies of the Nexus S have forced the Carphone Warehouse and Best Buy’s UK outlets to push back the phone’s retail debut by a couple of days . The Gingerbread flagship will now be sailing in on the 22nd of December and even then it’ll be available only in “key” stores. Online purchases are encouraged, with an “instant ship delivery” getting the phone out to your nearest Carphone Warehouse branch for collection. Pre-orderers should presumably be getting their handsets on Wednesday too, while the
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The European Union has agreed to ban Ivory Coast’s Laurent Gbagbo over disputed elections, a diplomat has told the BBC….
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Heavy rain has brought record floods to one region in northwestern Australia, while storms battered Melbourne in the southeast. And despite the summer season, there are prospects for a white Christmas in the mountains in Victoria. (Dec. 20)
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