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Netanyahu: Israel ready to tackle other challenges now that Shalit released – Haaretz Daily Newspaper | Israel News.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday thanked the ministers of his cabinet for approving the prisoner swap with Hamas that secured the release of Israel Defense Forces soldier Gilad Shalit, adding that the government was ready to tackle other issues at hand.

Obama pulls out of Iraq.

President Barack Obama said all American troops will leave Iraq by the end of the year, ending a long war which cleaved deep political divides and estranged the United States from its allies.

UN calls for Gaddafi probe.

The circumstances surrounding the death of Libya’s ousted despot Muammar Gaddafi are unclear and an investigation is needed, the UN human rights chief said on Friday.

It’s good to talk: Mobile phone use not linked to cancer, says new research – Health News, Health – Independent.ie.

THERE is no link between the long-term use of a mobile phone and getting brain cancer, research suggests.  In what has been described as the largest study on the subject, researchers found that cancer rates in the central nervous system were almost the same in both long-term mobile phone users and people who do not use the handsets, the study published on bmj.com found.

Fresh hope for blind girl after stem-cell therapy – National News – Independent.ie.

 BLIND schoolgirl has been able to see shadows up to 10 inches away after just one round of stem-cell treatment in China, her mum said last night.