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A chaplain exhorted hundreds of mourners gathered at a candlelight vigil to not give up hope as Fort Hood and its surrounding community looked to each other for comfort after an Army psychiatrist allegedly went on a deadly shooting spree at the military base.

Lebanon's opposition, including Iranian-backed Hezbollah, agreed on Friday to join a national unity government proposed by Prime Minister-designate Saad al-Hariri, a senior opposition source said.

Prosecutors have dismissed a complaint filed by a group of Norwegian lawyers accusing Israeli leaders of war crimes over its deadly incursion into Gaza last year.

A cousin of the man suspected of shooting fellow soldiers at a Texas military base says he had little contact with his Palestinian relatives in the West Bank but had told family there that he suffered discrimination in the U.S. Army because he is a Muslim.

Israel said Thursday that Hezbollah could have bombarded the Jewish state for a month with the weapons confiscated in the country's largest-ever arms seizure, and called on the world to focus on the Lebanese militants' chief backer, Iran, rather than assailing Israel.

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A Jewish settler who was arrested for allegedly having murdered two Palestinians was approached by Israel's internal security agency to be an informer after the attacks, the agency said Friday.

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Egyptian Deputy Foreign Minister Ahmed Fathalla discussed Turkmen President Gurbangulu Berdimuhammedov's preparations for an official visit to Egypt in 2010 in Ashgabat today.

An unassuming college math student has become an unlikely hero to many in Iran for daring to criticize the country's most powerful man to his face.

Israel on Friday rejected a U.N. General Assembly resolution urging an investigation into a report saying war crimes were committed in Gaza, and condemned the world body vote as "completely detached from realities", Reuters reported.

The UN General Assembly has voted in favour of a resolution calling for independent inquiries by Israel and the Palestinians into war crime claims, BBC reported.

The United States on Thursday vowed to continue its cooperation with Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas when the latter reiterated his decision not to run for re-election in January, Xinhua reported.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday cited his country's seizure of a weapons-carrying cargo ship as evidence that Iran is committing war crimes by supplying the Lebanese Hezbollah movement with weapons intended to "kill as many civilians as possible", Xinhua reported.

Israeli security forces late today released a ship believed to have been carrying weapons from Iran to Hezbollah, the Israeli Haaretz newspaper reported. Israel seized the ship earlier this week in Mediterranean waters.

Nov. 4 - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says the seizure of an alleged arms shipment to Hezbollah proves Israel's enemies are guilty of war crimes.

Naji Hamdan, an American of Lebanese origin, looks from the balcony of his home, in Beirut, Lebanon, on Thursday Nov.

Iran's Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani said Wednesday that economic and political cooperation between Iran and Iraq is expanding, the semi-official Fars news agency reported.

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton's tense exchanges with Pakistani civilians and Arab diplomats over a harrowing week of foreign stops exposed the confining limits of her office.

Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Al-Muallim met today with the Iranian president in Tehran, the Iranian Mehr news agency reported.

Lebanon's Hezbollah guerrilla group denied on Thursday any connection with a shipment of weapons that Israel said it had intercepted on the high seas, Reuters reported.