Aid Ships Israeli authorities have warned that they would block a contingent of aid ships carrying construction materials and humanitarian supplies for the people of Gaza. “Ships that make their own way to Gaza don’t do anything to help the people there,” Yigal Palmor, a spokesman for the Israeli Foreign Ministry, claimed on Tuesday. Israeli authorities said the cargo vessels would... 

Palestinian hospital officials say 15 people were wounded in overnight Israeli airstrikes in the Gaza Strip. The airstrikes came after the Israeli military reported that Palestinian militants on Tuesday had blown up a donkey cart filled with dynamite near the concrete wall that separates Gaza from Israel and fired several mortar rounds into Israel. No Israelis were injured. Officials at the hospital... 

The former director of B’nai Brith Quebec has pleaded guilty to child pornography charges after agreeing to a plea bargain. The former director of B’nai Brith Quebec, Bill Surkis, has pleaded guilty to child pornography charges after agreeing to a plea bargain. Surkis and his wife made a brief appearance at the Montreal courthouse Wednesday morning. In return for a guilty plea to charges... 

A generic photo of an old man An elderly man was surrounded by seven young black men who punched him and demanded money as he left a Glen Burnie barber shop. Suzanne Collins reports police arrested all of them as they ran toward a nearby light rail station. At the Headquarters Barber Shop in Glen Burnie, Tommy and Earl are still shaken. Their 72-year-old customer was attacked in the parking lot by... 

This is great, and Missouri isn’t the only State doing this. What this bill will do is tell the Federal Government that citizens of Missouri will NOT be bound by any law the Federal Government makes which is unconstitutional (like Obamacare, for example). It would allow Federal taxes to be drawn into the State’s Treasury and given to the Federal Government based on how well the Feds perform... 

Egyptian Army Egyptian military forces on Sunday concluded maneuvers in the Sinai Peninsula that simulated an invasion of southern Israel. Dubbed “Badr-2010,” the exercise featured an armed crossing of the Suez Canal followed by a deep thrust into “enemy territory,” reported the Middle East News Agency (MENA). The only “enemy” territory west of the Suez Canal is... 

Lebanese earlier this week celebrated the 10th anniversary of Israeli troops' withdrawal from southern Lebanon. The Lebanese army fired anti-aircraft guns on Israeli warplanes Wednesday after what it said were repeated violations of Lebanese airspace, state media reported. According to the National News Agency of Lebanon, the army opened fire after Israeli planes entered Lebanese airspace for a... 

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Venezuela President Hugo Chavez has little room to critique Arizona's new immigration law given the country's own record of human rights violations, experts told FoxNews.com. On the heels of Mexican President Felipe Calderon’s speech slamming Arizona’s immigration law, Cuban leaders and Venezuela’s president are adding to the chorus and calling the law ‘racist and xenophobic”... 

In the annals of CIA sub­terfuge, this is a weird one: A spe­cial ops unit pitched the idea of try­ing to dis­credit Sad­dam Hus­sein as a gay pedophile before the 2003 inva­sion, reports the Wash­ing­ton Post. The idea was to cre­ate a phony home video pur­port­ing to show Sad­dam hav­ing sex with a teenage boy. Supe­ri­ors even­tu­ally shot it down, though the unit did make a fake... 

Got a pot belly? The risk of dementia and Alzheimer's is higher, say scientists Having a ‘pot belly’ in middle age raises the risk of Alzheimer’s and other forms of dementia in later life, warn researchers. A new study shows people with large stomachs by the time they reach their 50s are significantly more likely to have smaller brains. Those with the biggest girths had a lower... 

Archeologists have unearthed 57 ancient Egyptian tombs, most of which hold an ornately painted wooden sarcophagus with a mummy inside, Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquities said Sunday. The oldest tombs date back to around 2750 B.C. during the period of Egypt’s first and second dynasties, the council said in a statement. Twelve of the tombs belong the 18th dynasty which ruled Egypt during... 

Australia’s government said on Monday it had ordered the expulsion of an Israeli diplomat over the use of fake passports in the assassination of a top Hamas militant in Dubai in January. Foreign Minister Stephen Smith said a police investigation had left no doubt Israeli intelligence services had been behind the forgery of four Australian passports used by suspects in the killing of Mahmoud al-Mabhouh... 

Although most polls show that the American public is in favor of offshore oil drilling, the Obama administration is ready to ban it. Although most polls show that the American public is in favor of offshore oil drilling, the Obama administration is ready to ban it. Meanwhile, according to an editorial in the Washington Times on March 18, 2010, Russian will be erecting oil derricks very close... 

Russian warships Flagships of three Russian fleets have united in Russia’s Far East for the large-scale naval exercises in the Sea of Japan in June, a Pacific Fleet spokesman said on Wednesday. The flagship of the Black Sea fleet, the Moskva missile cruiser, arrived at a naval base near Vladivostok on Wednesday and teamed up with the flagship of the Northern Fleet, the Pyotr Veliky nuclear-powered...