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In what expelled Jewish residents of the area are calling the "ultimate insult," Hamas has turned the former Jewish capital of the Gaza Strip into a terror training camp and has used the territory to launch rockets into Israel, World Net Daily has learned. http://www.worthynews.com/zone.cgi?http://...3171005,00.html

Time magazine's annual "Person of the Year" for 2005 may not be a person at all. http://www.worthyweirdandwacky.com/zone/re...A-TIME-DC-html/

A woman receiving treatment for diabetes at a state-run hospital in eastern India lost one of her eyes after ants nibbled away at it, officials said on Tuesday. http://www.worthyweirdandwacky.com/zone/re...A-ANTS-DC-html/

Italian police arrested four street cleaners Monday as they tried to pocket hundreds of euros scooped from Rome's famed Fountain of Trevi. http://www.worthyweirdandwacky.com/zone/re...UNTAIN-DC-html/

A Chinese university has set up a special "anger management" room for students to let off steam, apparently to avoid students taking to the streets in protest or taking their own lives. http://www.worthyweirdandwacky.com/zone/re...-ANGER-DC-html/

pastor said he will camp on his church's roof until he collects 500 donated turkeys for needy families. Pastor David Martin of the Pitcairn Assembly of God has been on the roof, camping in a tent, since Monday. http://www.worthyweirdandwacky.com/zone/ne...orld-headlines/

A private Swiss museum has paid 2.54 million Swiss francs for a gold Patek Philippe pocket watch, considered one of the most important watches made in the 20th century, Christie's auction house said. http://www.worthyweirdandwacky.com/zone/st...2a4560,00-html/

Beijing authorities on November 4 ordered a Chinese legal firm to suspend activities for a year, hours after top lawyer Gao Zhisheng filed court documents in defense of Pastor Cai Zhuohua. http://www.worthynews.com/christian-persec...iled-china.html

Denied permits and ordered not to worship in public or at home, churches in East Bekasi, West Java, have taken temporary refuge in a Social Affairs Agency office. http://www.worthynews.com/christian-persec...-indonesia.html

For Ishaya Kpotun Shaba of Niger state in north-central Nigeria, the past four years have been a jumble of tears and pain. He has not set his eyes on his daughter, Saratu, since she was abducted in December 2001 at age 19 by extremists bent on converting and marrying her to a Muslim. http://www.worthynews.com/christian-persec...grab-niger.html

In a short meeting that lasted about twenty minutes, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and newly elected Labor Party chairman Amir Perez have agreed that the government will be dissolved and that general elections will be held for the Knesset. Labor is at present part of the governing coalition. http://www.worthynews.com/zone.cgi?http://...030107&fid=1725

The car-body count dropped dramatically in France toward the end of last week. So vast was the orgy of auto incineration—more than 1,000 vehicles burned night after night as gangs ambushed firefighters and police, raging against French government and society—that when "only" 15 cars were torched one night in the administrative department of Seine-St-Denis, where the violence began, the head of the National Police said that things there had returned to "normal." http://www.worthynews.com/zone.cgi?http://.../site/newsweek/

Iran began converting a new batch of uranium at a key nuclear facility yesterday, rejecting international pleas to suspend such work and dismissing a new offer -- sponsored by Russia -- that was designed to ease tensions over the country's nuclear ambitions, U.S. and European officials said. http://www.worthynews.com/zone.cgi?http://...1602295_pf.html

They said the satellite would be purely scientific. But a month after its launch - and only weeks after the Iranian president said Israel should be wiped off the map - the head of Iran’s space program now says the Sina-1 satellite is capable of spying on the Jewish state. http://www.worthynews.com/zone.cgi?http://...3170444,00.html

A delivery of 500,000 rifle bullets is expected to reach the Gaza strip in the coming days, perhaps even as soon as Thursday, through the Rafah border crossing, Palestinian sources have told Ynet. http://www.worthynews.com/zone.cgi?http://...3170449,00.html

General elections should be held as soon as possible, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon told Shimon Shiffer from Israel’s leading newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth. http://www.worthynews.com/zone.cgi?http://...3170623,00.html

In interview with British Jewish website, Ken Livingstone answers critics on range of issues, from his clashes with Board of Deputies of British Jews to his views on Israel; says, ‘I think Zionism is like every other form of nationalism. It can be inspiring or it can have a dark side; it’s perfectly valid to question creation of Israel. http://www.worthynews.com/zone.cgi?http://...3170452,00.html

House and Senate negotiators have struck a tentative deal on the expiring Patriot Act that would curb the FBI's investigative power and require the Justice Department to more fully report its secret requests for information about ordinary people. http://www.worthynews.com/zone.cgi?http://...,175747,00.html

The CIA has concluded that Cuban President Fidel Castro suffers from Parkinson's disease and could have difficulty coping with the duties of office as his condition worsens, an official said Wednesday. http://www.worthynews.com/zone.cgi?http://...=cnn_topstories

A tentative agreement to renew the Patriot Act this week teetered late Wednesday without explicit support of the lead Senate negotiator, as Democrats complained that the draft wouldn’t sufficiently curb the FBI’s power to probe the most private aspects of people’s lives. http://www.worthynews.com/zone.cgi?http://...om/id/10070691/

U.S. and Iraqi forces raided a secret Iraqi detention bunker run by the Ministry of Interior in central Baghdad and freed 173 Sunni prisoners who had been tortured with electric shocks and drills, Iraqi and U.S. officials said yesterday. http://www.worthynews.com/zone.cgi?http://...16-121614-5775r

A summit focusing on narrowing the digital divide between the rich and poor residents and countries opened Wednesday with an agreement of sorts on who will maintain ultimate oversight of the Internet and the flow of information, commerce and dissent. http://www.worthynews.com/zone.cgi?http://...t.ap/index.html

An engineer working for a defence contractor in California and two of his relatives have been charged with acting as agents of China. http://www.worthynews.com/zone.cgi?http://...fic/4441794.stm

The Likud faction has decided Wednesday to “unite in the face of (Labor party leader) Amir Peretz’s radical plans, which jeopardize Israel’s security and economy.” http://www.worthynews.com/zone.cgi?http://...3170135,00.html

President Bush prodded China on Wednesday to grant more political freedom to its 1.3 billion people and held up rival Taiwan as an example of a society that has successfully moved from repression to democracy. http://www.worthynews.com/zone.cgi?http://...,175677,00.html