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Updated 11/22/09 @ 05:43AM EDT

• The head of the United Nations' nuclear watchdog encouraged Iran to accept an offer to process its enriched uranium abroad, but also said he opposed additional sanctions if it did not.
• Canada's opposition Liberal Party is crying foul after the ruling Conservatives mailed out flyers extolling themselves as stronger supporters of Israel.
• Israel arrested five Palestinian Authority intelligence officers in the West Bank.
• Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas said Israel is conducting secret negotiations with Hamas.
• Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas was welcomed Thursday in Brazil by a state governor who is Jewish.

• Prominent South African Jewish leader and philanthropist Mendel Kaplan has died at the age of 73.
• Israel will send a warship to join a NATO anti-terror force, bolstering its ties with the alliance.
• President Obama said that within the next few weeks, the United States and other world powers would be formulating new sanctions on Iran.
• A sign objecting to the evacuation of West Bank settlements was found at an Israeli army base, a violation of army protocol.
• Palestinians have been asked to boycott large supermarket chains in the West Bank that sell fruit and vegetables grown in Israeli settlements.

• World powers will meet to discuss Iran's nuclear program after the Islamic Republic said it would not export its uranium for further enrichment.
• A fired waiter, a Russian immigrant to Israel, was charged with killing his ex-employer and five members of his family.
• A Lebanese citizen accused of spying for Israel was arrested by the Lebanese security service.
• An Arab man was stabbed in Jerusalem by a Jewish teenager.
• A Holocaust denier released from an Australian jail after publishing material offensive to Jews says he is "unbroken" and "unrepentant."

• Israeli airstrikes hit targets in Gaza in response to a Kassam rocket fired into the Negev.
• Jordan's King Abdullah told American Jewish Congress leaders that U.S. Jewish groups should get behind Middle East peace efforts.
• A Ukrainian mayor who said Jews are to blame for all of the country's problems can run for president.
• A group of researchers quit their involvement in an Austrian Holocaust studies center due to a lack of access.
• A major rent increase forced the Jewish charitable organizations in a Russian city out of their offices.

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