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Comatose ex-Israeli PM moved home from hospital (AP) PDF Print E-mail

FILE - In This file photo taken Sunday Dec. 18, 2005, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon smiles as he talks to journalists prior to the weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem. Sharon's former aide said on Thursday, Nov. 11, 2010, that the comatose ex-Israeli premier will be moved to his ranch in Israel's south. Sharon, one of Israel's most popular and controversial figures, has been in the long-term care unit of Tel Hashomer Hospital outside Tel Aviv since suffering a series of strokes in 2006. (AP Photo/ Emilio Morenatti, File)AP - Israel's comatose former prime minister, Ariel Sharon, was moved home to his ranch Friday, nearly five years after being incapacitated by a series of strokes while still in office.


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Five years comatose, Israel's Sharon taken home (Reuters) PDF Print E-mail
Reuters - Israel's comatose former prime minister, Ariel Sharon, was moved back to his desert ranch on Friday, leaving the secure hospital ward that has been his home for almost five years, officials said.
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Comatose Sharon moved to family farm (AFP) PDF Print E-mail

Former Israeli premier Ariel Sharon, seen here in 2005, was taken from the hospital bed where he has lain in a coma for nearly five years, for a trial period at home.(AFP/File/Gali Tibbon)AFP - Former Israeli premier Ariel Sharon was taken on Friday from the hospital bed where he has lain in a coma for nearly five years, for a trial period at home, a hospital official said.


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Clinton warns Hezbollah it can't stop UN tribunal (AP) PDF Print E-mail

A Shiite woman carry's a picture of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah as she listen to him on a TV screen, during a rally marking Hezbollah Martyr's Day in the southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, Thursday, Nov. 11, 2010. Nasrallah said his militant group will cut the hand of anyone who tries to arrest any member of the party and the group will not accept any accusation against any of its fighters or leaders in the 2005 assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)AP - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodhman Clinton warned Hezbollah against resorting to violence, saying the militant group cannot stop a U.N. court investigating the assassination of a former Lebanese prime minister.


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Palestinian held for Facebook criticism of Islam (AP) PDF Print E-mail

In this Nov. 10, 2010 photo, Palestinian boys look at websites on the Internet in the West Bank city of Bethlehem. A mysterious blogger who set off an uproar in the Arab world by claiming he was God and hurling insults at the Prophet Muhammad is now behind bars, caught in a sting that used Facebook to track him down. The case of the unlikely apostate, a shy barber from Qalqilya, is highlighting the limits of tolerance in the Western-backed Palestinian Authority — and illustrating a new trend by authorities in the Arab world to mine social media for evidence. (AP Photo/Nasser Shiyoukhi)AP - A mysterious blogger who set off an uproar in the Arab world by claiming he was God and hurling insults at the Prophet Muhammad is now behind bars — caught in a sting that used Facebook to track him down.


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