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Facing an annual Jewish emigration rate of 0.5 percent and an Arab population growing at 14 percent, Nazareth Illit Mayor Shimon Gapso has decided to build a new Hareidi-religious neighborhood with 3,050 housing units in the coming year. Six-hundred families have already signed up for the initiative, called Har Yona Gimel, which received the backing of Interior... [read full story]
SYDNEY (Reuters) - After months of political haggling the Australian government will unveil its revised carbon trading laws this week, with a vote expected by the year's final day of parliament on Thursday.
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's Labour Party has slashed the main opposition Conservative Party's opinion poll lead to six points, giving the government its best showing in almost a year as voter confidence in the economy recovers.
CARACAS (Reuters) - Oil-exporting Venezuela is in recession, its socialist President Hugo Chavez said on Saturday, adding that the capitalist system of measuring economic growth was established in the United States.
TEHRAN (Reuters) - A reformist former vice president, who was arrested after Iran's disputed election in June, has been sentenced to six years in jail, a newspaper reported on Sunday. Mohammad Ali Abtahi, one of dozens of...
