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Israel is planning to attack Hezbollah arms depots and weapons manufacturing plants in Syria, the Kuwaiti newspaper Al Rai reported on Saturday.
The Lebanon-based Shi'ite militant group Hezbollah and the Syrian army have initiated significant levels of military cooperation in joint preparation for the possibility of a future armed conflict with Israel, the Kuwaiti daily al-Rai reported on Monday.
As he prepared to fly to Washington to renew peace talks with the Palestinians, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday that Israel had the chance to secure a stable peace that could endure for generations.
Arab League chief Amr Moussa said on Sunday he had little hope that direct peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians, which are due to start on Thursday, will be successful.
The Jerusalem Post is reporting that the U.S. warned Lebanon that if it did not prevent any recurrence of the border-fire incident that occurred earlier this month, the IDF would destroy the Lebanese Armed Forces within four hours.
The Israeli partners in a U.S.-led consortium developing a natural gas field off the Mediterranean coast say that up to 4.2 billion barrels of oil may lie under the seafloor in Israeli waters.
14 U.S. troops have been killed in action in eastern and southern Afghanistan over the past three days.
The Pentagon is contemplating an aggressive approach to defending its computer systems that includes preemptive actions such as knocking out parts of an adversary's computer network overseas - but it is still wrestling with how to pursue the strategy legally.
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin says that NATO officials have purposely deceived his government.
Putin also recently opened the Russian section of an oil pipeline that will boost oil exports to China from East Siberia.
China will hold live-fire naval exercises in the Yellow Sea this week, state media reported Sunday, after voicing opposition to similar war games to be staged there by the United States and South Korea.
Government anti-poverty programs that have exploded in size to meet the needs of recession victims now serve a record one in six Americans and are continuing to expand.
Mexico has become the latest nation to ban large cash transactions.
The number of homes in the $1-million-and-up slice of the market that have become bank owned has tripled during the last three years in Los Angeles County, and the trend has shown little sign of slowing.
U.S. families have $6 trillion less in housing wealth than they did just three years ago.
The percentage of income going to the top 10 percent of Americans is once again at record highs.
The Obama administration has not decided whether it should resurrect a popular tax credit for first-time homebuyers, Housing and Urban Development Secretary Shaun Donovan said on Sunday.
Consumer spending in the U.S. has turned into a tale of two cities in 2010, with an entire segment of consumers splurging confidently on the finer things in life, while another segment, concerned about unemployment and with little or no discretionary income, spends only on bare necessities.
Wheat prices are up nearly 55 percent since early June.
The Bank of Japan is to hold an emergency policy meeting Monday amid speculation it will implement additional easing measures to help the economy, which is being battered by a strong yen.
Is the Federal Reserve completely confused about what to do next?
The United States needs to stop printing money and take on austerity measures like the Europeans did, in order for the economy to recover, said billionaire investor Jim Rogers, chairman of Rogers Holdings.
Barack Obama recently made the following stunning comment during an interview with Brian Williams: "I can't spend all my time with my birth certificate plastered on my forehead."
A recent Department of Justice guide for investigators of criminal and extremist groups lists "constitutionalists" and "survivalists" alongside organizations like Al-Qaeda and the Aryan Brotherhood.
A leading think tank in the U.K. recommends that the government fight back against "conspiracy theories" by infiltrating Internet sites to dispute these theories.
One family in Florida received word last Friday that test results on the water in their swimming pool showed 50.3 ppm of 2-butoxyethanol, a marker for the dispersant Corexit 9527A used to break up and sink BP’s oil in the Gulf of Mexico.
Veteran chemist Bob Naman says that Corexit is still being sprayed in the Gulf, and that he found 13.3 parts per million in Cotton Bayou, Alabama.
Hurricane Earl strengthened into a category 3 storm as it lumbered across the Atlantic on Monday.
An Indonesian volcano, inactive for four centuries, erupted again on Monday, pitching ash 1.5 miles into the air and sending nearby residents scurrying from their homes.
A third earthquake in less than six weeks has hit Iran, killing at least three people and injuring 21. The 5.9-magnitude quake hit the city of Damghan in northern Iran, 175 miles east of Tehran, late Friday night. Fifteen villages were reportedly damaged.
Two massive sinkholes developed right in the middle of a central Florida subdivision on Saturday.
In Georgia, heavy rains are being blamed for a giant sinkhole that nearly swallowed part of a Sonic fast food restaurant.
Aid agencies are warning that 10 million people are already facing severe food shortages, particularly in the landlocked countries of Chad and Niger, after a drought led to the failure of last year's crops. As many as 400,000 children are at risk of dying from starvation in Niger alone, according to Save the Children.
Plagued by a free fall in carbon emissions prices and the perennial failure of Washington to pass any binding Cap and Trade Bill, it seems that the Chicago Climate Exchange is on its last leg, announcing that it will be scaling back its operations.
A recent Rasmussen poll found that 52 percent of Americans are concerned about the safety of vaccines as we approach the start of school and college terms, where many children and teenagers will be required to take shots before they can attend.
Family rights campaigners in the U.K. have called for a change in the law after it was revealed that girls as young as 12 can be given the cervical cancer vaccine without the consent of their parents.
A product survey conducted by The Independentfound that the toxic chemical bisphenol-A (BPA) is used in 18 on the 20 top-selling canned food products in the United Kingdom.
As technology continues to advance by leaps and bounds, many transhumanists are now proclaiming that a future where men have fully merged with machines is inevitable.
Could thorium solve our energy problems and supply very cheap energy for society for hundreds of thousands of years?
The output of a mysterious radio station in Russia, which has been broadcasting the same monotonous signal almost continuously for 20 years, has suddenly changed.
Israeli archaeologists unveiled a 2,000 year old cameo bearing the image of Cupid on Monday, which the Israel Antiquities Authorities said was among several items located in the City of David archaeological area in Jerusalem's Old City in the last 12 months.
Glenn Beck is trying to position himself as the new leader of the conservative Christian movement in America.
Conservative commentator Glenn Beck voiced sharper criticism of President Obama's religious beliefs on Sunday than he and other speakers offered from the podium of the rally Beck organized at the Lincoln Memorial a day earlier.
The Muslim center planned near the site of the World Trade Center attack could qualify for tax-free financing, a spokesman for City Comptroller John Liu said on Friday, and Liu is willing to consider approving the public subsidy.
On Tuesday, the Muslim Brotherhood-associated "Coordinating Council of Muslim Organizations" will bring 25-30 Muslim leaders of 20 national Muslim groups to attend a special workshop presented by the White House and U.S. Government agencies (Agriculture, Education, Homeland Security, Health and Human Services etc.) to provide the groups "funding, government assistance and resources."
Lastly, Sid Roth recently interviewed Dean Braxton about the time when he died for an hour and a half, went to heaven and actually talked directly with Jesus Christ.
