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...Prime Minister Ehud Olmert condemned the rampage as "an act of senseless murder" and called for Dawyyat's family home in an Arab neighborhood on the slopes of East Jerusalem to be bulldozed as punishment. In the past, courts have ruled that razing homes of any Israeli resident is illegal - although the tactic has often been used in retaliation for terror attacks perpetrated by Palestinians from the West Bank and Gaza, Dawyyat was an Arab citizen of Israel. Police say they will stop attempts by Palestinian militants to politicize Dawyyat's funeral by banning all but close family from attending...
...can’t help but smile as T-Pain’s “Get Low” blasts from the Western-themed sports bar across the street from my apartment. Sitting in a sticky, hot room listening to music a few months past its prime, I might as well be at a Harvard dorm party...
...Sarkozy is due to travel to Ireland on July 11 to hear firsthand the concerns of Irish voters, but beyond that there is little he can do until October, when Irish Prime Minister Brian Cowen tells the other E.U. leaders whether a second Lisbon Treaty referendum is possible...
...Malaysia's Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi on Sunday denied any link between the sodomy charge and Anwar's political comeback. But there's no question Abdullah's government is increasingly under fire. In recent weeks, cuts in fuel subsidies have sent usually quiescent Malaysians to the streets in protest and more citizens are criticizing the government's race-based affirmative-action system, which gives Malays privileges in everything from university places to government contracts. The ruling coalition has lost its usual cohesion. The Sabah Progressive Party, a tiny member of the coalition, called in mid-June for a parliamentary...
Jamila market had become an abandoned dusty lot as the blasts of missiles, mortars and gunfire rattled the surrounding buildings in Baghdad's Sadr City. That was two months ago, at the height of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's military campaign in the fiercely hostile Sadr City district of Baghdad. Today, Jamila Market is teeming with life. Vendor after vendor hawks piles of watermelons, cabbages, tomatoes, mint leaves and other foods. Shops along the walls behind the market sit with doors swung open, their display windows inviting shoppers to buy suits, purses, shoes, and cosmetics...