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September 19, 2012
12:39 pm

This Sept. 5, 2012 photo released by Harvard University shows a fourth century fragment of papyrus that divinity professor Karen L. King says is the only existing ancient text that quotes Jesus explicitly referring to having a wife (photo credit: AP Photo/Harvard University, Karen L. King)

Was Jesus a married man?

Harvard University professor says 4th-century fragment contains a quote of the father of Christianity referring to a wife by the name of Mary

By Rodrique Ngowi

September 19, 2012
12:28 pm

Haim Hefer (1925-2012) (photo credit: Chen Leopold/Flash90)

Papers usher in new year with a gruesome murder and the death of an Israeli icon

Returning from the Rosh Hashanah break, the news seems all too familiar

By Ron Friedman

September 19, 2012
12:13 pm

Syrian rebels take border crossing

Tal Abyad crossing with Turkey was the scene of fierce fighting Tuesday

September 19, 2012
11:29 am

Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Benny Gantz in action during a live fire exercise for battalion commanders taking place on the Golan Heights, September 4, 2012. The IDF began another large surprise exercise on September 19. (photo credit: Shay Wagner/IDF/Flash90)

Amid talk of military confrontation, IDF launches surprise exercise in the north

Chief of staff scrambles units from a range of corps, including reservists, to simulate response to a sudden attack on Israel

By Stuart Winer

September 19, 2012
10:53 am

Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. (photo credit: @khamenei_ir, Instagram)

Iran won’t be swayed by Western ‘anger’ or sanctions, Khamenei asserts

Iranian supreme leader blames ‘Zionist media’ for exaggerating effects of pressure on Tehran regime

By Gabe Fisher

September 19, 2012
10:23 am

Renegade Pakistani nuclear scientist Abdul Qadeer Khan (photo credit: AP)

Swiss nuke smugglers who aided CIA avoid more jail

Prosecution documents shed light on successful US operation to destroy smuggling network of Abdul Qadeer Khan, architect of Pakistan’s nuclear program

By Frank Jordans

September 19, 2012
9:49 am

Palestinians chant slogans against Prime Minister Salam Fayyad while protesting the high cost of living in the West Bank city of Hebron, September 10, 2012. (photo credit: Nasser Shiyoukhi/AP)

World Bank warns of Palestinian fiscal crisis, calls on donors to step up

In new report, organization says faltering PA economy hampered by Israeli limitations on freedom of movement in the West Bank

September 19, 2012
9:13 am

The cover of Charlie Hebdo's Wednesday issue, depicting an ultra-Orthodox man pushing a wheelchair-bound Muslim

French magazine publishes cartoons of Muhammad in ‘daring positions’

Cover of Charlie Hebdo, whose offices were firebombed last year for offending Islam, features ultra-Orthodox Jew pushing a crippled Muslim man in a wheelchair

By Stuart Winer

September 19, 2012
7:29 am

A chemical weapons stockpile (illustrative photo credit: CC BY jenspie3, Flickr)

Defected Syrian general: Damascus planned to send chemical weapons to Hezbollah

Adnan Sillu, formerly in charge of Syria’s chemical weapons stockpile, tells Times of London Assad has drawn up plans to gas rebels and civilians

By Joshua Davidovich

September 19, 2012
6:14 am

US Ambassador Dan Shapiro, in blue, visiting the Rafael arms manufacturer last year. (photo credit: CC BY-SA, US Embassy Tel Aviv, Flickr)

Israel now world’s 8th largest arms exporter

From the web Congressional paper finds Israel made deals worth over $10 billion between 2004 and 2011, UPI reports

September 19, 2012
5:50 am

A Syrian man walks by a house destroyed in a Syrian government bombing in Azaz, near Aleppo, August 24, 2012 (photo credit: AP/Muhammed Muheisen)

Amnesty blasts Syrian regime for indiscriminate shelling

Report by human rights group says Damascus targets civilians with air bombardments

September 19, 2012
3:55 am

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, right, and Iran's chief nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili during a meeting in Ankara, Turkey, Tuesday. (photo credit: AP/Yasin Bulbul, Prime Minister's Press Service)

As latest talks with Iran falter, a push for more meetings, harsher sanctions

P5+1 group set to meet on sidelines of UN meeting next week to discuss ways of breaking impasse

By Joshua Davidovich

September 19, 2012
1:46 am

Egyptian protesters run for cover from tear gas during clashes near the US Embassy in Cairo earlier this month (photo credit: AP/Khalil Hamra)

Despite anti-US unrest, Washington set to open tap for billions in aid to Egypt

Several protest move to funnel foreign aid to Cairo in wake of Islamist takeover

September 19, 2012
1:21 am

English police foiled a plot to carry out a major terror attack in Birmingham. (Illustrative photo: AP/Dave Thompson/PA)

Britain shocked by police officers’ killings

Two cops gunned down near Manchester, leading to calls for police force to be more heavily armed

September 19, 2012
12:56 am

In scenes reminiscent of the first intifada, masked Palestinians throw stones towards Israeli security forces in the Shuafat refugee camp on the outskirts of Jerusalem in September (photo credit: Suliman Khader/Flash90)

Fearing a third intifada, the IDF’s elite undercover unit steps up its training

Concern is growing that Palestinian public bitterness could turn very quickly against Israel, TV report says

By Ron Friedman

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