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An Israeli filmmaker based in California went into hiding Tuesday after his movie attacking Islam's Prophet Muhammad sparked angry assaults by ultra-conservative Muslims on U.S. missions in Egypt and Libya, where a U.S. ambassador and three other Americans were killed. Speaking by phone from an undisclosed location, writer and director Sam Bacile remained defiant, saying Islam is a cancer and …

European Union rejected Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman’s call last week to declare Hezbollah as a terrorist group   following   bombing in Bulgaria which killed five Israelis. Cypriot Foreign Minister Erato Kozakou-Marcoullis, whose country currently holds the rotating EU presidency, said “there is no consensus for putting Hezbollah on the list of terrorist organizations.     Hezbollah was an organization comprising a party …