Mossad hit squad targeting Iranian scientists -CBS news website

A new article has revealed that there is an assassination unit inside the Israeli spy agency tasked with killing Iranian scientists. The article, published on the CBS News website on Saturday, is adapted from a new book entitled Spies Against Armageddon: Inside Israel's Secret Wars by CBS national correspondent Dan Raviv and Israeli journalist Yossi Melman.

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Young Lebanese to fight alongside Syrian ‘brothers’

‘We are going to Syria to carry out jihad and overthrow the tyrant Assad’:

About 20 armed men enter a dilapidated barn in northeastern Lebanon, preparing to sneak across the border and fight alongside their Syrian “brothers” against the regime in Damascus. The young men decide to rest briefly at the farm near Al-Qaa in the Bekaa Valley, their arms and baggage placed against a wall.

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Barclays scandal sends shockwaves through global finance

‘When the financial rewards are so big, executives try to cheat the system’:

The Barclays rate-rigging scandal is sending shockwaves through world finance, putting ethics and regulation under scrutiny, and raising the prospect of criminal charges in a sector-wide global probe.

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