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• Peres accuses Hamas of holding up Shalit deal
• Celtic fans urged to wave Palestinian flags at match against Tel Aviv club
• U.S. Defense chief: New troops to arrive in Afghanistan in weeks
• Germany shouldn't have tried 'Ivan the Miserable'
• Ahmadinejad: Israel can't do 'damn thing' to stop Iran nuclear program

Peres accuses Hamas of holding up Shalit deal Posted: 02 Dec 2009 10:38 AM PST President Shimon Peres accused Hamas on Wednesday of holding up a deal for the release of Gilad Shalit, amid reports that talks have hit a snag over 50 prisoners whom Israel refuses to free in return for the abducted Israeli soldier. ...

Celtic fans urged to wave Palestinian flags at match against Tel Aviv club Posted: 02 Dec 2009 09:37 AM PST Scottish trade unions called on supporters of Celtic soccer club to wave Palestinian flags at their Europa League home match on Wednesday against Hapoel Tel Aviv in "solidarity with suffering Palestinians". ...

U.S. Defense chief: New troops to arrive in Afghanistan in weeks Posted: 02 Dec 2009 09:04 AM PST The first deployments of a 30,000-strong "surge" announced by President Barack Obama will start arriving in Afghanistan in 2-3 weeks, U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said on Wednesday. ...

Germany shouldn't have tried 'Ivan the Miserable' Posted: 02 Dec 2009 08:24 AM PST From its very beginnings, West Germany never enjoyed remembering, and its first chancellor, Konrad Adenauer, built his political career, and indeed his country's power, on defying the outside world's accusations, making out that the Germans were only victims. So who was guilty? Hitler and his gang, of course, and they had vanished a few years before. So that's all there was to the matter. ...

Ahmadinejad: Israel can't do 'damn thing' to stop Iran nuclear program Posted: 02 Dec 2009 08:18 AM PST Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Wednesday Israel could not do a "damn thing" to stop the Islamic state's nuclear program, which the West suspects is a front to build bombs. ...

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