Precision Bomb Used to Hit UN Bunker

Seeded on Fri Sep 29, 2006 5:42 PM EDT (Reuters)

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Israel used a precision-guided bomb to launch a direct hit on four U.N. peacekeepers killed in southern Lebanon last July, the United Nations said on Friday of its probe into the incident.

politics, israel, lebanon, un, middle-east, war, precision-guided-bomb

Israelis, Palestinians team up to make fatter fish

Seeded on Tue Sep 26, 2006 3:12 PM EDT (Reuters)

Researchers in Israel, the Palestinian territories and Germany are pursuing a project to transform female freshwater fish into males, a sex change they hope will put bigger fish on the dinner table.

science, palestinian, west-bank, fish, israeli

A Million Unexploded Bomblets in South Lebanon

Seeded on Tue Sep 26, 2006 2:55 PM EDT (BBC News)

Up to a million cluster bomblets discharged by Israel in its conflict with Hezbollah remain unexploded in southern Lebanon, the UN has said.

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LOEWENSTEIN: My Israel Question

Seeded on Fri Sep 15, 2006 7:37 AM EDT (CounterPunch.org)

How often do we hear that the Left is infected with a vicious Jew-hatred? And how often do Jews tell each other that every criticism of Israel is driven by a pathological rejection of Israel's right to exist? I'm here to tell those Jews that it's time to stop living like it's …

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Dubai's Ruler Accused of Slavery

Seeded on Thu Sep 14, 2006 6:31 PM EDT (BBC News)

Dubai's ruler has been accused of enslaving thousands of young children for camel races in a class-action lawsuit filed in the US.

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Scientist: Men Are Smarter than Women

Seeded on Sat Sep 9, 2006 10:05 AM EDT (Live Science)

Men are smarter than women, according to a controversial new study that adds another cinder to the fiery debate over whether gender impacts general intelligence.

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UN denounces Israel cluster bombs

Seeded on Wed Aug 30, 2006 5:22 PM EDT (BBC News)

The UN's humanitarian chief has accused Israel of "completely immoral" use of cluster bombs in Lebanon. UN clearance experts had so far found 100,000 unexploded cluster bomblets at 359 separate sites, Jan Egeland said.

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