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Roseanne Barr, Future 'Dancing' President?

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"I am running for President of the United States," Roseanne Barr announced during her appearance on the Tonight Show, Thursday. It was reported that she initially made this claim in May 2010, but now she is also considering being the prime minister of Israel.

Mubarak trial wrenches emotions of Egyptians

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Many Egyptians struggled with torn emotions on Thursday as they reviewed images splashed over newspapers and repeated on television of their octogenarian former president, a day after he went on trial following 30 years at the helm.
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Former CIA official sees terrorism-cyber parallels

Different wars for different times. Cofer Black, a former top CIA counterterrorism official, said on Wednesday he sees parallels between the terrorism threat that emerged before the September 11 attacks a decade ago and the emerging cyber threat now.
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Israel Forcing Villagers to Pay for Their Own Eviction

Call it dictatorial or simply ironic, the residents of a Bedouin village in Israel's Negev desert are facing peculiar circumstances, where they are being forced to pay for the government expenses involved in demolishing their own homes!
Nochi Dankner, chairman and controlling shareholder of IDB Holding, poses in his office in Tel Aviv

Is Israel Inc. Too Powerful?

It took a two week-long cottage cheese rebellion to get Israelis to question the power of the country's tycoons.
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Trial of Egypt's Mubarak to be held in Cairo

The trial of Hosni Mubarak and others over their involvement in killing protesters will be held in Cairo next week, a senior official said on Thursday, ending talk it could be moved to a resort where the former president is hospitalised.
Police continue their investigations on the Utoeya island in the Tyrifjorden lake

Norway Mass Killer Says U.S. Has 'Jewish Problem,' Rants Against Hitler

Norwegian mass killer and right-wing extremist Anders Behring Breivik's manifesto "2083: A European Declaration of Independence" which supports cultural conservatism is under close scrutiny to figure this perpetrator's theories which distance itself equally from Nazis as well as Jews.
Israeli President Shimon Peres

Assad Must Go: Israel?s Peres

Peres, who has now real power in Israeli government but nonetheless is widely regarded as the country?s number one political voice, made his comments during an unprecedented news chat with about 30 Arab media members.
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Fitch reiterates warning on U.S. credit rating

Fitch Ratings on Monday reiterated its view that if the U.S. debt ceiling is not raised prior to August 2, the agency will place the U.S. AAA rating on what it terms ratings watch negative, meaning it could downgrade it within three to six-months.

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