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KATMANDU, Nepal - Scores of climbers were headed for the summit of Mount Everest on Friday in what is expected to another busy weekend on the top of the world. Last weekend, four climbers died on their way down from the summit amid a traffic jam of more than 200 people scrambling to conquer the world's highest peak as the weather worsened.

Supplied The suspected mastermind behind an organ trafficking network, sought for years by Kosovo authorities, has been arrested in Israel an EU prosecutor said on Thursday. "We have received information that Moshe Harel has been arrested in Israel on organ trafficking and other related offences," EU special prosecutor Jonathan Ratel told AFP. "We are seeking confirmation with the Israeli authorities," he added.

May 26, 2012 An image released by the Syrian opposition's Shaam News Network shows an anti-regime demonstration in the Daraa province Tens of thousands of protesters took to the streets on Friday as more than 30 people were reportedly killed across Syria, while security forces deployed tanks and helicopter gunships against rebels. The latest violence came as Kofi Annan, the UN-Arab League envoy to Syria

Daniela Berretta, Associated Press, Tel Aviv, Israel | Fri, 05/25/2012 9:40 PM Israeli archaeologists have unearthed a stash of rare ancient jewelry near the site of the biblical Armageddon in the north of the country. Israel Finkelstein of Tel Aviv University, who co-directed the dig, said this week that the find offers a rare glimpse into ancient Canaanite high society.

By AP / AMY TEIBEL (JERUSALEM) - Recent rapes blamed on African migrants have ignited a political and emotional backlash against their ballooning numbers, with Israelis and their leaders stridently - and in an alarming new development, violently - calling for their expulsion. Israel, bound by an international refugees treaty it ardently promoted, doesn't seem to have that option, and the gap between rhetoric and reality