By: Steve Connor – Independent News and Media Limited

A technical breakthrough has enabled scientists to create for the first time dozens of cloned embryos from adult monkeys, raising the prospect of the same procedure being used to make cloned human embryos.

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By: Phil Black – Cable News Network

The world has reached the point of maximum oil output and production levels will halve by 2030 — a situation that will eventually lead to war and disaster, a report claims.

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By: Rbin McKie – Guardian Unlimited

Oil is ‘the bloodstain of the earth’s economy’ and will soon trigger a global conflict that will cost millions of lives. That is the stark claim of a controversial new film, which says a crash in oil production is about to set off worldwide recession and economic collapse.

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By: Gil Ronen – Arutz Sheva

The Jewish State’s first Arab minister, Raleb Majadle, declared Wednesday that as far as Jerusalem’s Temple Mount is concerned, Israeli sovereignty is nonexistent and Islam rules

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* American Jewish Orgs.: Fatah Charter Calls to ‘Eradicate’ Israel The Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations is deliberating a proposed statement calling on Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas to change the Fatah charter.

* Mubarak: Syria will attend Annapolis Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak said on Tuesday he believed Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Moualem would attend the upcoming Annapolis peace conference.

* U.S. troops deploy new weapon in Iraq U.S. forces in Iraq are using a high-resolution, thermal/infrared sensor system that turns night into day.

* Putin: Russia will respond to NATO “muscle-flexing” near borders Russian President Vladimir Putin said Tuesday that Russia’s decision to suspend its participation in a key arms control treaty was a necessary response to NATO “muscle-flexing” near its frontiers.

* Blair unveils Palestinian schemes The envoy of the Quartet of Middle East peace negotiators, Tony Blair, has announced a series of economic projects to help boost the Palestinian economy.

* ‘Joint statement has been drafted’ Agreement has been reached on a draft for a joint Israel-Palestinian statement ahead of the Annapolis conference.

* Venezuela’s Chavez visits Iran Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez made his fourth trip to Iran in two years on Monday.

* Musharraf ‘to quit army by end of the week’ President Musharraf of Pakistan has decided to resign as Army chief by the end of the week, it emerged today.

* Former guerilla leader wins Kosovo elections Former Kosovar guerrilla leader Hashim Thaci’s Democratic Party of Kosovo (PDK) won the legislative elections.

* Earthquake felt across Israel Two earthquakes, measuring 3 and 4.2 on the Richter scale, were felt across Israel on Tuesday morning.

* PM: We’ll freeze settlements, remove outposts Prime Minister Ehud Olmert told the cabinet on Monday that Israel will not establish any new settlements in the West Bank and will begin to dismantle existing illegal outposts.

* Turkish Soldiers Continue to Deploy at Iraqi Border Turkey is still massing tens of thousands soldiers on the Iraqi border, a response to a series of attacks by Kurdish militants that have claimed the lives of more than 50 soldiers and civilians.

* Army on high alert ahead of Annapolis The IDF is in a heightened state of alert ahead of the Annapolis summit next week, out of fear that Hamas and Islamic Jihad will try to perpetrate a large-scale terror attack to derail the Israeli-Palestinian peace talks.

* ‘Egypt allowing Hamas to amass arms’ Thirty years after Egyptian President Anwar Sadat’s historic visit to Israel, Public Security Minister Avi Dichter accused Egypt on Sunday of knowingly permitting smuggling that strengthens Hamas.

* Hamas on the Way to Building an Army The Hamas terrorist organization in Gaza is two to three years away from becoming a real army and reaching the same capabilities of Hizbullah today.

* Iran leader dismisses US currency Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has suggested an end to the trading of oil in US dollars, calling the currency “a worthless piece of paper”.

* Survey: Americans see Israel as ally A large percentage of Americans continue to support the State of Israel, especially in relation to the Palestinians and the “war on terror”.

* Court Upholds Musharraf Election The newly formed Supreme Court of Pakistan, which was appointed after emergency rule was imposed two weeks ago, today dismissed the main outstanding challenges to Gen. Pervez Musharraf’s election for another presidential term.

* Analysis: Iran’s secret Syrian plan Israel has been providing intelligence and satellite images to the U.S. about a secret Syrian nuclear program for several months.

* OPEC ‘upset at dollar,’ Ahmadinejad says Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Sunday OPEC heads of state were annoyed about the decline in the dollar and asked their finance and oil ministers to study the issue of pricing oil.

* Palestinians seek pre-conference settlement freeze The Palestinians have told the United States they will accept nothing less than a total freeze in Jewish settlement building.

* US seeks to end Pakistan crisis A senior US envoy has met President Pervez Musharraf to discuss Pakistan’s deepening political crisis.

* Rice rules out visit to the region before Annapolis conference U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice won’t return to the region before the Mideast peace conference at the end of the month in Annapolis, Maryland.

* Abbas ‘pessimistic’ about Annapolis Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas voiced pessimism about the prospects of the upcoming US-led peace conference.

* ‘Vatican-Israeli ties worsening’ A senior Vatican diplomat who served as papal envoy to Israel has described Vatican-Israeli relations as worsening.

* Saudi minister warns of dollar collapse The dollar could collapse if Opec officially admits considering changing the pricing of oil into alternative currencies such as the euro.

* Russia readies nuclear fuel bound for Iran Russia on Friday gave the clearest indication yet that it was ready to send uranium to fuel Iran’s first atomic power station.

* Ahmadinejad: OPEC being pressured Iran’s president said Saturday that the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries is “under heavy economic and political pressures”.

* EU must improve military capabilities, UK says UK foreign secretary David Miliband called for a strengthening of the EU’s military capacities.

* ‘Israel is destroying Muslim artifacts’ The Turkish envoy that visited Jerusalem in March to inspect the excavations at the Mughrabi Gate outside of the Temple Mount has concluded that the work is destroying artifacts from different Muslim historical periods.

* Israel: IAEA’s report ‘unacceptable’ Israel dismissed a report issued by the UN nuclear watchdog agency on Thursday as “unacceptable.”

* Palestinian poll: Annapolis no, peace yes A September 2007 poll conducted by the Palestinian Center for Public Opinion revealed 57.1 percent of Palestinians oppose at various degrees the participation of their leadership in the Annapolis peace conference.

* Russian parliament votes for suspending European arms treaty Russia’s upper house of parliament voted Friday to suspend participation in a key European arms control treaty.

* Rice and Ramon Read it Wrong: Israelis Oppose Land Concessions U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice incorrectly estimated this week that most Israeli citizens are willing to hand over Judea and Samaria to the Palestinian Authority.

* EU ‘should expand beyond Europe’ Foreign Secretary David Miliband has suggested the European Union should work towards including Russia, Middle Eastern and North African countries.

* Russian loophole offers Putin chance of third term Russian President Vladimir Putin could run for re-election in next year’s presidential vote if he resigns early to get around a ban on serving three consecutive terms.

* Erekat: PA baffled over ‘Jewish Israel’ Senior Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat appeared to soften his position Thursday but still rejected Prime Minister Ehud Olmert’s call for explicit Palestinian recognition of Israel as “the Jewish state.”

* Doomsday vault begins deep freeze Engineers have begun the two-month process of cooling down a “doomsday vault”, which will house seeds from all known varieties of key food crops.

* Olmert Considering Re-Opening Orient House to PA Palestinian Authority sources in Jerusalem say they have received signs that Prime Minister Ehud Olmert is seriously considering approving Abbas’s request to re-open a PA office in Jerusalem.

* Turkish mission to call on Israel to stop Mugrabi dig A Turkish mission sent to Israel to inspect controversial work by Israeli archaeologists at the Mugrabi Gate in the Old City of Jerusalem will advise that all work should stop immediately.

* Palestinians harden refusal to accept a ‘Jewish state’ Opposition from Palestinian leaders to Prime Minister Ehud Olmert’s demand that the Palestinians recognize Israel as the “state of the Jews” intensified.

* Abbas urges ‘bring down Hamas’ Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has called for Gaza’s Hamas rulers to be “brought down”, his strongest call yet for their removal.

* ANALYSIS: Lebanon risks civil war Lebanese presidential elections have been rescheduled once again, this time moved from November 12 to 21.

* Musharraf ‘will quit army soon’ Pakistan’s attorney general says he expects President Pervez Musharraf to resign as army head before 1 December.

* Jerusalem says Solana could trump ElBaradei Two weeks before he is due to deliver a report on the Iranian nuclear program to the five permanent members of the UN Security Council and Germany, EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana remained tight-lipped.

* Darfur mission may fail, warns UN The joint UN-African Union peacekeeping mission to Darfur may fail unless countries can provide helicopters and lorries, a top UN official says.

* Israel urging Disney to sue Hamas The Israeli consulate in Los Angeles, California recently appealed to the Walt Disney Company to examine whether or not Hamas infringed upon its copyright on the character of Mickey Mouse.

* EU seeks ‘status neutral’ way out for Kosovo As diplomatic efforts on the fate of Kosovo look set to reach a dead end, the European Union’s mediator has suggested a status neutral solution for Serbia’s breakaway province.

* China calls for Tehran to work with IAEA China supports Iran’s right to nuclear energy for peaceful purposes but wants Tehran to allay international suspicions about its nuclear program.

* Several dead in Kirkuk blast A suicide car bomber has struck in Iraq’s northern oil city of Kirkuk, killing seven people and wounding 20.

* Bhutto Says Musharraf Must Give Up Power Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto demanded the resignation of U.S.-backed President Gen. Pervez Musharraf.

* Rice to GA: Mideast future at stake “The future of the Middle East is at stake,” US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice told the General Assembly in Nashville of the United Jewish Communities.

* Solana: Iranian issue must not be ignored EU foreign policy chief meets with Minister Mofaz in Jerusalem.

* Settler leaders: Olmert halting W. Bank construction Settler leaders charged on Tuesday that a deal had been struck with the United States and the Palestinians to freeze new construction in the settlements before the Middle East peace conference.

* Majadle Justifies Destruction of Temple Remains The Jewish State’s first Arab minister, Raleb Majadle, declared Wednesday that as far as Jerusalem’s Temple Mount is concerned, Israeli sovereignty is nonexistent and Islam rules.

* Most Israelis want Olmert ousted as PM A majority of Israelis believe that the Knesset should suspend or topple Prime Minister Ehud Olmert due to the criminal investigations against him.

* ‘Russia plans missiles in Belarus’ A senior general warned Wednesday that Russia could deploy short-range missiles to Belarus.

* US moves closer to space-based combat The US is developing a new space vehicle which could attack targets anywhere in the world within minutes.

* Knesset Advances Jerusalem Protection Law The Knesset passed the first reading of a bill initiated by Likud Knesset Member Gideon Sa’ar.

* Darfur: The devil came on horseback In Sep. 2004 former U.S. Marine Corps Captain Brian Steidle arrived in the whirlwind of Darfur.