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Journalists and right activists lost over a US Supreme Court decision to reject the hearing of a case that challenges a law that allows the US government to detain individuals who were found to have substantially supported al Qaeda, the Taliban or forces associated with the two groups, Reuters said.

haaretz said that Kentucky Senator Rand Paul's proposed bill could allow the US to cut its $400 million annual foreign aid to the Palestinians if the latter does not publicly recognize Israel's right to exist.

Muslim Brotherhood leader Mohammad Badie and 683 others had been sentenced to death by an Egyptian court on Monday, the same court who handed out capital sentences to hundreds of others last month, CNN said.