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Israelis got a first demonstration Sunday of the electric car that developers hope will revolutionize transportation in the country and serve as a pilot for the rest of the world.

The silver car doing circles in a Tel Aviv parking lot looked like a regular sedan _ except it had no exhaust pipe and there was an electric socket where the mouth of the gas tank should have been.

The Silicon Valley startup Project Better Place hopes the fully electric prototype will be on Israel's streets in large numbers beginning at the end of 2010. Read more

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ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkey said on Saturday it had launched air and artillery attacks against Kurdish separatist rebels in northern Iraq overnight after an insurgent attack on a Turkish military base killed six soldiers.

"Targets proven to belong to the PKK terrorist organization in northern Iraq were put under heavy and effective fire by our air force planes with the support of artillery," the statement said.

The attacks, which began after 11 a.m. EDT, targeted members of a Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) group who had escaped into Iraq from Turkey after an attack on gendarme headquarters that resulted in the deaths of the six soldiers. Read more

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“We were settled in our homeland, enjoying being part of a community and then everything around you collapsed. I was in school when the shooting began”

Naji Farah says he is a survivor of "Nakba" and will never forgive Israel for leaving him and his family refugees. via CANOE

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Four people, including a woman and a child, have been killed in an operation against al-Qaida near the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, the U.S. military said Sunday.

The military says the woman and child were riding in a vehicle targeted south of Mosul. It says two armed men were also killed.

In Sunday's statement, the military regretted killing 'civilians' in the operation Saturday against what was described as associates of foreign al-Qaida fighters.

Iraq's security forces on Saturday launched a new operation against al-Qaida in Mosul. Mosul was considered the last important urban staging ground for al-Qaida in Iraq after losing its strongholds in Baghdad and other areas during the U.S. troop 'surge' last year. Read more

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“The process of (the PKK terrorist leaders') sweet dreams turning into a nightmare has begun”

The Turkish military said on Saturday that it killed at least 20 terrorists of the outlawed separatist Kurdistan Workers' Party in airstrikes in southeast Turkey, in retaliation for a PKK terrorist raid on a ... via Today's Zaman

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“He has no formal role in the campaign and he will not play any role in the future.”

An informal Middle East advsior to Barack Obama q uit the campaign yesterday as the advisor's ties to Hamas were about to become more publicized. via TalkLeft

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Spanish champion Real Madrid will play Al Nasr in a friendly in Saudi Arabia. The game in Riyadh on May 20 will honor the Saudi team's international striker Majed Abdullah, a three-time Asian player of the year ... via PR-inside.com

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Reuters Saturday, May 10, 2008; 4:53 AM BAGHDAD - Nineteen people have been killed and 116 wounded in clashes between security forces and militants in eastern Baghdad's Sadr City district in the past 24 hours, ... via The Washington Post

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Another soldier from Fort Hood has been killed in an attack in Iraq. The Defense Department on Friday announced the death of 21-year-old Spc. via KIII

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