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Kadima members have approved in a show of hands vote the appointment of Acting Prime Minister Ehud Olmert as temporary party chairman, barring an improvement in the condition of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon. http://www.worthynews.com/zone/ynetnews-co...201092,00-html/

There was concern Sunday, January 15, over the health situation of an evangelist in Ethiopia, who was nearly killed by an angry mob in the latest of a series of Muslim militant attacks against the African nation's evangelical Christians, a religious rights group said. http://www.worthynews.com/zone/worthynews-...t-injured-html/

Defense minister instructs army, police to 'act with determination' against rioters in Hebron; police to deploy another 250 officers Monday; 7 settlers arrested throughout day, senior officer says most protesters are teens. http://www.worthynews.com/zone/ynetnews-co...200700,00-html/

Thirty Canadian Christians have chosen to immigrate to Israel and settle in a small community near the Green Line and not far from the West Bank town of Jenin, Israel's leading newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth reported Sunday. http://www.worthynews.com/zone/ynetnews-co...200445,00-html/

A Taliban bomb attack on a Canadian military convoy killed a Canadian diplomat and at least two Afghans in the heart of the southern Afghan city of Kandahar on Sunday, officials said. http://www.worthynews.com/zone/news-yahoo-...e_dc-printer-1/

A Taliban bomb attack on a Canadian military convoy killed a Canadian diplomat and at least two Afghans in the heart of the southern Afghan city of Kandahar on Sunday, officials said. http://www.worthynews.com/zone/news-yahoo-...E0BHNlYwN0bWE-/

Iran said Sunday it would sponsor a conference to examine the scientific evidence supporting the Holocaust, an apparent next step in hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's campaign against Israel and a move likely to deepen Tehran's international isolation. http://www.worthynews.com/zone/abcnews-go-...int-id-1508084/

Drug use, weight problems and parenthood have been taking their toll on the military in the past three years, since the war on terror began, according to newly released Pentagon data. http://www.worthynews.com/zone/usatoday-co...s_x-htm-csp-34/

Sheik Jaber Al Ahmed Al Sabah, the Kuwait emir who survived a 1980s assassination attempt and a decade later escaped Iraqi troops invading his oil-rich Persian Gulf state, died Sunday and was replaced by the crown prince. http://www.worthynews.com/zone/news-yahoo-...emir-printer-1/

Sheik Jaber Al Ahmed Al Sabah, the Kuwait emir who survived a 1980s assassination attempt and a decade later escaped Iraqi troops invading his oil-rich Persian Gulf state, died Sunday and was replaced by the crown prince. http://www.worthynews.com/zone/news-yahoo-...E0BHNlYwN0bWE-/

The chief judge in Saddam Hussein's trial has submitted his resignation, a court official said Saturday, but it wasn't immediately clear if the decision had been accepted. http://www.worthynews.com/zone/foxnews-com...181675,00-html/

U.S. Ambassador John Bolton has complained to U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan about an annual U.N. event where a map of pre-1948 Palestine, an area that now comprises the state of Israel, is displayed. http://www.worthynews.com/zone/ynetnews-co...200093,00-html/

U.S. President George Bush, speaking at a Washington press conference with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, said that Iran was secretly working to acquire nuclear weapons, and warned that Teheran was moving closer to its stated agenda of trying to destroy Israel. http://www.worthynews.com/zone/ynetnews-co...199937,00-html/

The next government will attempt to strike a final-status peace deal with the Palestinians in order to set Israel's permanent borders and put an end to terror, Knesset Member Shimon Peres said in a business convention in Tel Aviv Friday. http://www.worthynews.com/zone/ynetnews-co...200088,00-html/

Today, according to Pakistani military sources, U.S. aircraft attacked a compound known to be frequented by high level al Qaeda operatives. Pakistani officials tell ABC News that al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri, Osama bin Laden's top lieutenant, may have been among them. http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/print?id=1504096

Three Qassam rockets were fired from Gaza toward the western Negev area Friday. http://www.worthynews.com/zone/ynetnews-co...199893,00-html/

Three Qassam rockets were fired from Gaza toward the western Negev area Friday. http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3199893,00.html

Three Qassam rockets were fired from Gaza toward the western Negev area Friday. http://www.worthynews.com/zone.cgi?http://...3199893,00.html

The federal government posted the first budget surplus for December in three years as corporate tax payments hit an all-time high, helping offset a record level for spending, the Treasury Department reported Thursday. http://abcnews.go.com/Business/print?id=1498870

Oil-rich Venezuela, having recently helped Argentina to pay off its debt to the International Monetary Fund, is floating the idea of a new "Bank of the South" that would offer no-strings loans in competition to the U.S.-backed IMF. http://www.washtimes.com/functions/print.p...12-102116-7651r

The practical implementation of the floating nuclear power plant project will start in 2006, read an official statement of the Russian Federal Agency for Atomic Energy — Rosatom — that was published on Thursday, Jan. 12. http://mosnews.com/money/2006/01/13/floatingnuclear.shtml

There is a new breed of weaponry fast approaching — and at the speed of light, no less. They are labeled "directed-energy weapons," and they may well signal a revolution in military hardware — perhaps more so than the atomic bomb. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10805240/?GT1=7538

British scientists are seeking permission to create hybrid embryos in the lab by fusing human cells with rabbit eggs. If granted consent, the team will use the embryos to produce stem cells that carry genetic defects, in the hope that studying them will help understand the complex mechanisms behind incurable human diseases. http://www.worthynews.com/news/guardian-co...3605168553400l/

British scientists are seeking permission to create hybrid embryos in the lab by fusing human cells with rabbit eggs. If granted consent, the team will use the embryos to produce stem cells that carry genetic defects, in the hope that studying them will help understand the complex mechanisms behind incurable human diseases. http://www.worthynews.com/news/guardian-co...685534,00-html/

British scientists are seeking permission to create hybrid embryos in the lab by fusing human cells with rabbit eggs. If granted consent, the team will use the embryos to produce stem cells that carry genetic defects, in the hope that studying them will help understand the complex mechanisms behind incurable human diseases. http://www.worthynews.com/zone/guardian-co...685534,00-html/