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A nuclear reactor in Japan was forced to shut down due to infiltration of enormous swarms of jellyfish near the power plant.

Egyptians are protesting military trials this week, with the largest protest slated to erupt Friday.

A powerful Egyptian leader claims that the September 11th terrorist attacks were made in the USA and the Holocaust is a lie, in a recent interview with The Washington Times.

Germany’s Parliament will debate the government’s controversial plan to sell sale of 200 Leopard II battle tanks to Saudi Arabia.

A swarm of jellyfish blocks the water supply which is used as a coolant at the Orot Rabin nuclear power plant in Hadera, Israel.

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Russia is slated to support Palestine in its bid for recognition as a member state at the United Nations, according to one Palestinian official.

A new Gallup Poll indicates that a majority of Jewish-Americans continue to approve of President Barack Obama.

Today, the Liberty Bell that hangs at the Liberty Bell Center on Market Street in Philadelphia will be symbolically tapped as per the tradition on every Independence Day.

Huge blast sent flames shooting into the sky when Saboteurs bombed an Egyptian natural gas pipeline on the Sinai Peninsula on Monday, an AFP report said.

NASA space shuttle Atlantis is set to liftoff on the final flight of the shuttle program, STS-135, a 12-day mission to the International Space Station. The launch is currently targeted for July 8 at 11:26 am EDT.

American media has largely forgotten Khaled Said's face in its retelling of the Arab Spring narrative.But Said's face-- pictures of it before and after it was bashed in by Egyptian police-- spurred on the revolution that toppled President Hosni Mubarak.

Alexandria's Criminal court postponed a verdict in the murder trial of Egypt's revolutionary icon, Khaled Said, today.

They're all a Twitter about the flotilla.

According to Iran's state-run news agency IRNA, five monkeys are currently undergoing tests, and one will be selected for the flight on board a Kavoshgar-5 rocket, as part of the space program, potentially alarming Israel and its Western allies concerned over the progress of Iran's missile arsenal and nuclear arms.

The Swastika, a traditional symbol of Nazi power has been outlawed in Germany.

A scandal has sent eight under-22 players home before the football tournament in Argentina.

Iran test-launched a spate of new missiles that can hit Israel and US installations in the Middle East

The Gaza Flotilla planned for this week is slated to set sail from Greece this Thursday or Friday.

Israel has backed down from its threat to ban journalists covering the pending flotilla to Gaza from entering the country for a decade.

Despite the escalation of long-running tensions over settlements and a flotilla to deliver aid to Gaza, Israel has recently taken measures to woo Paris and other key votes at the UN.