Western diplomats say that some members of Syria's Assad regime are ready to reach out, but a dearth of visible leaders gives those advocating force the upper hand. The Hindu - 36 minutes ago From blunt and brutal physical assault to sophisticated technical barriers - and the more insidious corporate threat from within - the Indian press and media has been under attack over the last year. NDP supporters weren't the only ones wearing orange Monday night - the pollsters who boldly predicted a record showing for the party also had a lot on the line as they nervously watched early results trickle in. Jerusalem (CNN) -- As Palestinian political factions prepared Tuesday to formally sign a political reconciliation agreement in Cairo, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called on the Palestinian Authority to pull out of the ... 6abc.com - 14 minutes ago PARIS - May 3, 2011 -- French investigators have found and recovered the cockpit voice recorder from an Air France flight that plunged into the Atlantic Ocean almost two years ago, killing all 228 people on board, the agency that probes air accidents ... Reuters - 38 minutes ago Feb 15/16, 2011 - A riot in Benghazi is triggered by the arrest of human rights activist Fethi Tarbel, who has worked to free political prisoners, Quryna newspaper says. The Guardian - 1 hour ago The Sellafield nuclear site near where five men were arrested under the Terrorism Act. Photograph: Owen Humphreys/PA Counter-terrorism officers have begun questioning five men from east London alleged to have been filming near the Sellafield nuclear ... TOKYO May 3 (Reuters) - Workers at Japan's crippled nuclear plant began putting up equipment on Tuesday to allow the start of repairs to its cooling systems, key to bringing reactors under control after they were badly damaged in the March 11 quake and ... BBC News - 44 minutes ago A tornado has roared through the New Zealand city of Auckland, killing one person and injuring several more. It touched down at about 1500 (0300 GMT) in the city's Albany area and then moved south, felling trees and tearing roofs off houses. Osama bin Laden (L) sits with Al Qaeda's top strategist and second-in-command Ayman al-Zawahri in this 2001 file photo. By William Maclean, Security Correspondent LONDON (Reuters) - Evading capture will be the overwhelming priority for al Qaeda's ... AP As more questions are being asked how Pakistani officials missed that Usama bin Laden was living down the road from the country's military war college in a town filled with retired generals, former Pakistan president Pervez Musharraf ... CARLA Bruni is expecting a baby later this year, offering French President Nicolas Sarkozy a well-timed "paternity bounce" as he faces an uphill battle to persuade voters to re-elect him next northern spring. BBC News - 38 minutes ago Bahrain's justice minister has said 47 medical workers will be charged with acting against the state during the recent unrest in the Gulf kingdom. Sydney Morning Herald - 54 minutes ago Visitors stand underneath pictures of Jews killed in the Holocaust during a visit to the Hall of Names at the Yad Vashem Holocaust History Museum in Jerusalem. Voice of America - 1 hour ago Photo: AP An overview of Cambodia's 11th century Hindu Preah Vihear temple, about 245 kilometers (152 miles) north of Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Foreign minister "demands" Syrian government look into case of missing Al Jazeera English journalist Dorothy Parvaz. Iran's foreign minister wants the Syrian government to look into the case of an Al Jazeera English journalist who has been missing in ... It's a busy tech news day in South Korea. Fresh after the news that Google's office in Seoul got raided by the authorities comes word that North Korea has launched raids of its own - cyber attacks against its southern ... KAMPALA (Reuters) - William Garuhanga sits outside a hardware shop in Kampala's Nakasero market and rubs a small hole in his head that he has just about managed to seal with some cotton wool and sticky tape. LISBON, Portugal -- Hard-up Portugal is girding to learn the cost of an international bailout it requested to avoid bankruptcy, with officials and analysts fretting over the potentially ruinous consequences of ... The Guardian - 1 hour ago AP in Geneva Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi's alleged assets have been identified by the Swiss government, ready to be frozen. Photograph: Xinhua/Gamma-Rapho/Getty Images The Swiss government says it has identified potential assets to be frozen worth ... A silhouette of a Navy SEAL, part of USSpecial Forces. Photographer: Greg Mathieson/Mai/Mai/Time Life Pictures/Getty Images US Navy SEALs prepare for a night mission to capture Iraqi insurgent leaders ... The top intelligence overseers on Capitol Hill were notified that the administration believed it had found Osama bin Laden, and they were informed of a coming strike a full day before the helicopters landed in ... CHARLESTON, Missouri (Reuters) - The Mississippi River at Cairo, Illinois, had dropped about one foot by Tuesday morning, eight hours after the government blew open a levee to relieve flooding in Illinois and Kentucky, ... Priscilla Thurman, with her husband, Sgt. Shawn Thurman, and kids, says she's concerned about his upcoming deployment. What's your take? CNN International - 6 hours ago By the CNN Wire Staff (CNN) -- Less than a week after an epic outbreak of violent weather ripped across the South, officials in Alabama are still tallying the dead and trying to restore power. By the CNN Wire staff Arkansas authorities found the scouts Tuesday after they went missing in the Ouachita National Forest. (CNN) -- A Boy Scout troop from Lafayette, Louisiana, which was missing after a weekend camping trip in an Arkansas national ... Los Angeles Times - 33 minutes ago Of all the US military families who have served in the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, few have done more than the Kellys. Marine Lt. This week, America got some exciting news -- in addition to the death of the world's most famous terrorist. It turns out the US has three more weeks than initially thought until the nation could default on its debt. Even before testimony got underway at the Rod Blagojevich corruption retrial, the former governor was handed a setback that could hamper his ability to claim he didn't commit crimes in office because his ... Wall Street Journal - 1 hour ago AP ALBANY, NY - New York's Senate Republicans promise to push legislation that would allow police to stop and ticket motorists for texting while driving. President Obama plans to meet with the Congressional Hispanic Caucus on Tuesday to discuss the flaws in the immigration system and how to address them. President Obama reported to the nation late Sunday night that Osama Bin Laden, mastermind of the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks, has been killed by US forces By Kim Tran | Email the author | 11:59am No one will ever forget the day terrorists hijacked ... MyStateline.com - 2 hours ago The heir to the British throne arrives in Washington, DC today for his first US visit since 2007. Later, Charles will take a tour of a DC farm that helps feed low-income people around the nation's capital. Fox News - 2 hours ago DONALD TRUMP: I am really honored, frankly, to have played such a big role in hopefully, hopefully, getting rid of this issue. Now, we have to look at it. As the broad sketches of the US government's raid on Osama bin Laden's hideout become common knowledge, newspaper teams are putting together richly-reported accounts of the tense moments inside the White House preceding bin Laden's death ... By Kimberly AC Wilson, The Oregonian But first, this is how we do it at the Pacific Northwest News: we scan loads of papers, television networks and Web sites around the region for articles you might enjoy and post snippets below (in italics). Mitt Romney has already changed the subject away from Osama bin Laden - and back to jobs and the economy. Romney was in Nashua, NH, on Tuesday, where he met with local business leaders ... The Associated Press - 1 hour ago WASHINGTON (AP) - When big news breaks, newspapers are in demand despite the immediacy of online news. Newspaper across the country including The New York Times, The Washington Post and The News & Advance in Lynchburg, Va. TOPEKA, Kan. -- Kansas legislators negotiating over a $14 billion budget saw progress Tuesday toward resolving differences between the House and the Senate, and state funding for arts programs appeared likely to ... Just hours after President Barack Obama announced that Osama bin Laden had been killed, he appeared on "Oprah." (EW.com) -- It was nothing more than a strange coincidence that just hours after President Barack Obama announced to ... Meeting with Middle East Envoy Tony Blair in Jerusalem, Netanyahu called on Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to "immediately cancel the reconciliation deal with Hamas and choose the path of peace with Israel." The Egyptian-brokered agreement, ... The Associated Press - 41 minutes ago Israel and Egypt imposed a blockade on Gaza in 2007 after Islamic Hamas militants seized control from the Western-backed Fatah. Israel can draw several lessons here: In order to kill enemy leaders while the world says nothing or lauds the killing, one needs to be a great power. Channel 6 News Online - 15 minutes ago On the other hand, Israel condemned Fatah for signing the deal. Furthermore, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu urged Abbas to cancel the deal before being officially launched on Wednesday. The Seattle Times - 1 hour ago Israel's Supreme Court has delayed a jail term for an ex-Israeli president convicted for sex crimes until after a hearing on his appeal. Ha'aretz - 3 hours ago By DPA Tags: Israel news Nazi Holocaust Germany Jewish World The lawyer for John Demajanjuk, the 91-year-old accused of being an accessory to 27900 Nazi death camp murders, demanded his client's acquittal Tuesday, telling a Munich court the case was ... Xinhua - 5 hours ago JERUSALEM, May 3 (Xinhua) -- Israel's former defense minister and army chief of staff Shaul Mofaz told local media Tuesday that the United States, in killing Osama bin Laden after a decade-long search rather than trying him in a court of law, ... The Australian - 2 hours ago Commentators suggested the US operation would allow Israel to carry out similar targeting killings or assassinations in foreign countries without receiving international condemnation. Bank Leumi Le-Israel Ltd. and Bank Hapoalim Ltd. dropped, pushing the Tel Aviv Banking Index (TABANK) to the lowest in almost two months, after central bank Governor Stanley Fischer warned rising home ... Moshe Landau was credited with guiding the fledgling nation of Israel through a deeply painful and ultimately cathartic tribunal after the 1961 capture and rendition of the fugitive German SS officer Adolf Eichmann by Israeli spies in Argentina. Straits Times - 2 hours ago PHOTO: AP JERUSALEM - THE 'brutality' of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's response to anti-government protesters will lead to the downfall of his regime, according to Israel's Defence Minister Ehud Barak. 'I think that Assad is approaching the point ... Shma - 4 hours ago Observing Yom Ha'atzmaut, or Israel Independence Day, provides the same opportunities. Sh'ma invited a rabbi, a publisher, an academic, and an activist to speak about how they personally observe the day and how we might re-envision the holiday for ... AFP - 12 hours ago TOKYO - Israel's Teva Pharmaceutical Industries has decided to buy Japan's third-largest generic drug company Taiyo Pharmaceutical Industry for about $500 million, the Nikkei newspaper said Tuesday. TEL AVIV (MarketWatch) - Israeli stocks fell for a sixth session on Tuesday, hurt particularly by IsraelChemicals Ltd. as well as weakness in banking and technology shares. Jewish Telegraphic Agency - 1 hour ago TORONTO (JTA) -- Canada's staunchly pro-Israel prime minister, Stephen Harper, was re-elected by a wide margin. Harper, who heads the Conservative Party, has gone from heading two successive minority governments to a healthy majority. Press TV - 4 hours ago Israel has reportedly conducted security maneuvers in a coastal airport amid fresh reports about Tel Aviv's plan for launching a new war. AFP - 16 hours ago WASHINGTON - The US Supreme Court agreed Monday to hear an appeal over whether an American born in Jerusalem can list Israel as his place of birth in his passport. Ari and Naomi Zivotofsky filed a lawsuit in 2004 after State Department officials ... Mangalorean.com - 5 hours ago New Delhi, May 3 (IANS) Israel's Agriculture and Rural Development Minister Orit Noked Tuesday urged India to eliminate barriers to ease regulations for trade in agricultural goods. Israel and Mexico have the highest rate of child poverty among the 35 member countries of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), with more than a quarter of children living in poor households, ... Broadway World - 1 hour ago An affectionate paean to Smalltown, USA of a bygone era, Meredith Willson's "The Music Man" follows fast-talking traveling salesman Harold Hill as he cons the people of River City, Iowa into buying instruments and uniforms for a kids' band he vows to ... Ynetnews - 4 hours ago The activists drew a swastika on a flag of Israel and set it on fire during the two-minute siren honoring the six million Jews murdered by the Nazis during World War II. The protestors marched on the main intersection of the ultra-Orthodox Geula ... Other investors in this latest round were VC funds, Gemini Israel Funds, and Lightspeed Ventures. This is Schmidt's second investment in Eyeview and brings his total investment in the company to $1.5 million, according to Israeli business daily, ... Shma - 4 hours ago The founding myth of the Herut movement, which in 1973 evolved into the Likud and, with a plurality of Knesset seats in 1977, facilitated Menachem Begin's ascendancy to the position of Prime Minister of Israel, was that in its pre-state form — as the ... Spicezee - 1 hour ago `Celebrating India in Isreal` opened April 30 in Tel Aviv with a gala reception by Indian ambassador Navtej Sarna, the Israel embassy here said. Israel`s Finance Minister Yuval Steinitz was the chief guest. This is the first cultural festival of India ... FrontPage Magazine - 9 hours ago As everyone knows, Israel is the one nation on earth whose right to exist is being constantly questioned and challenged. It is the disproportionate target of the United Nations Human Rights Council which devotes the majority of its sessions to ... The delegitimization campaign against Israel has traveled beyond the borders of Arab states and the Third World to Western European societies, and it's even finding a beachhead in North America. Even within the Jewish community there are increasing ... Aljazeera.net - 3 hours ago Just as the United States and Israel conveniently omit the structural violence their policies directly or indirectly produce in the region, so do the dictators and their advocates. For they too tend to forget or overlook the structural violence to ... Ynetnews - 6 hours ago Bank of Israel has estimated that the inflation over the coming 21 months will reach 3.2%, surpassing the government's target inflation rate of 1%-3%. As per the estimation, the inflation will reach the target range only in the second half of 2012. ... Egyptian Finance Minister Samir Radwan has been quoted as saying that the 1979 Israel-Egypt peace treaty does not obligate his country to sell natural gas to the Jewish state. 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