• Unemployed Jordanians deceived into donating their organs Ali, a 30-year-old Jordanian father of three, was without a job and desperate. A friend convinced him that selling one of his kidneys could improve conditions for his family and also save someone's...
• Israel Defense Forces official: Israel needs better PR While General Staff opposes external probe of Operation Cast Lead in Gaza, IDF official tells Ynet more should be done on PR front. 'We can explain better to the world and to ourselves what we are...
• Journalist vows to follow up on 'Israel organ theft' (Press TV) -- Six weeks after he caused a political storm over his article on alleged Israeli organ thefts, the Swedish journalist behind the controversy says he will not quit the story despite...
• Iran to allow inspectors into newest nuclear plant Experts will inspect Iran's new uranium enrichment plant on Oct. 25, UN atomic watchdog head Mohamed ElBaradei said on Sunday, praising Tehran's shift "from conspiracy to cooperation" but warning...
• Freedom: Iran activist sentenced to death for election protests The first death sentence has been passed against a defendant accused of involvement in the mass protests in Iran against President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's disputed re-election, prompting fears of a...
• Hamas bans women from riding motorbikes Move 'to preserve citizen safety' is latest sign of Islamisation campaign in GazaHamas, the Palestinian Islamist movement, has banned banning women in Gaza from riding on motorbikes.The ban, posted...
• This is a PSYOP story: Anti-Semite Iran President Has Jewish Roots Related: Irony of ironies: Is Ahmadinejad Jewish?Iran’s President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, joins a long list of figures in history whose possible Jewish ancestry has caused shock and surprise,...
• Israeli official cancels UK visit on fears of arrest (Press TV) -- Israeli vice Prime Minister Moshe Ya'alon has canceled a planned trip to Britain over fears of being arrested there, Israeli sources have said. Ya'alon was invited to London to attend a...
• UK troops tortured Iraqi detainees, Inquiry finds (Press TV) -- British troops have violated international law in Iraqi prisons on numerous occasions through the "banned interrogation methods," a public inquiry reveals. The yearlong inquiry into the...
• Is Yemen Chewing Itself to Death? Yemenis chew khat leaves, a mild narcotic, in the capital Sana'a By 4 in the afternoon, most men walking the streets of Sana'a are high, or about to get high — not on any sort of manufactured narcotics, but on khat, a shrub whose young leaves contain a...
• Israel to fight rising suicide among its youth (Press TV) -- Israel's Education Ministry plans launching a 'pilot program' to fight the growing rate of suicide among Israeli schoolchildren and teenagers. The 'national plan for preventing suicide'...
• Iraq postpones release of the shoe thrower of Baghdad who offended George W Bush Iraq delayed the release from prison of the man who threw his shoes at former president George W Bush on his final visit to the country.
Muntazer al-Zaidi, the television reporter jailed for...
• Iraqi shoe thrower offered cars, homes and a wife Muntazer al-Zaidi, the Iraqi journalist who famously threw his shoes at George W Bush in a fit of rage, has been inundated with offers of cars, wives and money in the run up to his release from...
• Rights Group Says Majority of Gaza War Dead Were Palestinian Civilians (VOA) -- An Israeli human rights group says more than half of the Palestinians killed during Israel's offensive in the Gaza Strip were civilians, including 252 under the age of 16.The B'Tselem...
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