Contractors took out just over $4.6 billion worth of building permits in July, an 11.4% decrease from June.
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Jane Fonda, Danny Glover and Eve Ensler have joined the growing list of artists who are boycotting the Toronto film festival over a program honoring Tel Aviv’s 100th anniversary, gossip blogger Perez Hilton reported on Friday.
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During a lecture that the Chief Military Advocate General, Brig. Gen. Avichai Mandelblit, gave on Thursday (Sep 3) in Jerusalem as part of the legal seminar "To fight and to win in the framework of the law", he stressed the IDF's obligation to pay attention to the legal aspect of all of its operations.
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The twelve experts appointed by Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen to lay the ground for NATO’s new Strategic Concept met at the Alliance’s Headquarters for the first time on 4 September.
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The Islamic Republic of Iran's Navy commander says that the country's naval forces are tasked with blocking water routes used by 'the enemy', in the event of a necessity.
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MOSCOW - Russia and Syria are in talks on the delivery of at least eight MiG-31 Foxhound interceptors under a contract signed two years ago, a Russian business daily said on Thursday according to RIA Novosti, citing an industry official.
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The top U.S. commander in the Pacific said he’s “cautiously optimistic” last week’s Military Maritime Consultative Agreement talks in Beijing have opened the door to closer military-to-military engagement between the United States and China.
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Enemies of America remain in Afghanistan, and the United States must stay there to defeat the terrorists, Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates said during a Pentagon news conference.
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MOSCOW - North Korea has begun the final stage of uranium enrichment, a method of producing nuclear weapons, state media said on Friday according to RIA Novosti.
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As DD India reports, Army Chief Deepak Kapoor said the number of ceasefire violations by Pakistan Army has increased to enable militants to infiltrate into India before the onset of winter to "disrupt" the peaceful environment in Jammu and Kashmir.
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