Girls go mild in Israeli wartime drama
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In "Close to Home," a film  now receiving its U.S. theatrical premiere at New York's IFC  Center, two 18-year-old girls prowl the streets, making small  talk about their lives and loves, taking time out along the way  to talk on their cell phones, smoke, window shop and indulge in  some snacks.
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For both Israel and the Aksa Martyrs Brigades in the West Bank, the emerging cease-fire is an experiment.
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Hope and skepticism as Israel and the Palestinians try again
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Life slowly returned to the battered Israeli town of Kiryat Shemona on Tuesday, as residents emerged from grimy bomb shelters and began cleaning up the wreckage caused by more than a month of Hezbollah rocket attacks.
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Hamas militants fired a rocket into an Israeli border village, wounding two young sisters as they played outside their home. The attack followed Israel airstrikes against Gaza militants and threats of an "all-front" war on the Islamic group.
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It's not easy to find romance in a conservative Muslim country torn by war. Here's how some young Iraqis are trying
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A Palestinian suicide bomber is the  unlikely star of a new Israeli film billed by its director as  an effort to destroy prejudices that fuel conflict in the  Middle East.
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The mission has revived fears of war between Israel and Syria. But the Israelis are keeping an uncharacteristic silence
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On the eve of the Jewish New Year, Israelâs national discourse was dominated by talk of potential civil war, but few of those talking dared define the possible dimensions of such a conflict.
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Oren Safdieâs new play about playwriting and generational conflict is sweetly amusing, if dramatically limp.
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Amnesty says women and girls are being targeted in wars while the authorities do little or nothing to prevent it.
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MOUNT HARIF BORDER OUTPOST, Israel  - At a signal  from their guide, the women halt, hunched uncertainly in the  dark no-man's-land.
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EREZ CROSSING, Gaza  - Umm Mohammad and her children cowered in no man's land on Monday with Israeli troops firing warning shots in front and Hamas gunmen behind.
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Israel was reacting with uncharacteristic calm after a suicide bombing on Monday in Tel Aviv by a Palestinian teenager killed three Israelis -- a test of Israel&#39;s pledge to show restraint in the wake of Palestinian President Yasser Arafat&#39;s illness.
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PETAH TIKVA, Israel  - She escaped the Holocaust at age six by hiding from the Nazis under a pile of dead bodies in her Ukrainian village.
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In much of Africa, the traditionally low status of girls puts many of them in danger and protects attackers.
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Israeli troops kill two teenagers, three militants in latest operation in Khan Yunis refugee camp. GAZA CITY - A Palestinian teenager with Down&#39;s Syndrome was killed by Israeli soldiers Thursday in a flashpoint