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As Secretary of State John F. Kerry resumes talks here Wednesday in the quest to create “two states for two people,” a vocal faction in Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government is, more openly than ever, opposing the very idea of a Palestinian state — and putting forward its own plans to take, rather than give away, territory.
Ministers in Netanyahu’s ruling coalition and leaders of his party, the Likud, are in revolt against the international community’s long-held consensus that there should be two states between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea. In the process, they are seeking to overturn the commitments of every U.S. president since Bill Clinton and at least four Israeli prime ministers, including the current one.
A Greater Israel? Faction says no to two-state solution, yes to annexing Palestinian areas
Toronto Mayor Rob Ford admits to smoking crack
Toronto Mayor Rob Ford has admitted to smoking crack cocaine, saying he had done so in a "drunken stupor".
Mr Ford made the confession to reporters at city hall on Tuesday, saying he had taken the drug about a year ago but was not an addict.
EU to fine Deutsche, JPMorgan and others in rate probe
EU antitrust regulators are set to fine six global banks including Deutsche Bank (DBKGn.DE), JPMorgan (JPM.N) and HSBC (HSBA.L) for suspected rigging of benchmark euro zone interest rates, a person familiar with the matter said on Tuesday.
The penalties, which will also target Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) (RBS.L), Credit Agricole (CAGR.PA) and Societe Generale (SOGN.PA), represent the first punishments meted out by Brussels in a global probe and are the latest costly payouts for an industry struggling to put past misdeeds behind it.
Ultra-Orthodox rabbi fails to stop prayer service at Western Wall
Up to 1,000 Jewish women worshiped at Jerusalem's Western Wall Monday despite attempts by a group led by a rabbi to block the service, officials said.
A demonstration called by an ultra-Orthodox rabbi against the Women of the Wall's prayer service failed after fewer people than expected showed up, The Jerusalem Post reported.
No arrests or violence were reported but Women of the Wall said on its Facebook page men and boys harassed one of the board members of the female group, which aims to allow women to pray freely at one of Judaism's most sacred sites.
Germany 'should offer Edward Snowden asylum after NSA revelations'
An increasing number of public figures are calling for Edward Snowden to be offered asylum in Germany, with more than 50 asking Berlin to step up it support of the US whistleblower in the new edition of Der Spiegel magazine
Heiner Geissler, the former general secretary of Angela Merkel's Christian Democrats, says in the appeal: "Snowden has done the western world a great service. It is now up to us to help him."
Nazi looted art 'found in Munich' - German media
A collection of 1,500 artworks confiscated by the Nazis in the 1930s and 1940s has been found in the German city of Munich, media reports say.
The trove is believed to include works by Matisse, Picasso and Chagall, the news magazine Focus reports. Some of the works were declared as degenerate by the Nazis, while others were stolen from or forcibly sold for a pittance by Jewish art collectors.
If confirmed, it would be one of the largest recoveries of looted art.
Germany: Huge WWII bomb forces mass evacuation
More than 20,000 people are being evacuated from their homes in the west German city of Dortmund as authorities prepare to defuse a massive bomb left over from World War II.
The 4,000-pound bomb was discovered after experts analyzed old aerial photographs while searching for unexploded ordnance dropped by Allied aircraft over Germany's industrial Ruhr region.
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