The spies, who concealed their identity in the interview, said they tricked Hezbollah in buying pagers from Israel, and that the plan was years in the making.

By bne Berlin bureau Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico made a surprise trip to Moscow on December 22 to hold rare face to face talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin, as he seeks to secure gas deliveries ahead of the end of the Ukrainiangas transit deal next week,

Pagers exploded across Lebanon in September. Retired Mossad agents, key to the operation, tell 60 Minutes Israel's plot started years ago with getting Hezbollah terrorists to buy walkie-talkies.

German authorities said they received tipoffs last year about the suspect in a car attack at a Christmas market in Magdeburg as more details emerged on Sunday about the five people killed.

While recent developments bring hope and a chance for peace and stability, they also underscore the immense challenges facing displaced Syrians inside the country and refugees abroad.   The situation in Syria is fluid and far from stable.

According to the top Hungarian diplomat, the proposals put forward in connection with this package were nothing short of "insane"

Travis Timmerman said he had gone to Syria on a Christian pilgrimage and was not ill-treated while in Palestine Branch, a notorious detention facility operated by Syrian intelligence.

Timmerman, 29, had not contacted his family for months after he went on a trip to Eastern Europe. His discovery came in the wake of the overthrow of the Assad regime.

Travis Timmerman, an American who was reported missing by law enforcement earlier this year, was flown out of Syria by the U.S. military on Friday, a day after he was spotted in the streets wandering barefoot following what he claimed was a monthslong imprisonment.

More and more voices are heard, and in Russia, and among Russia's friends abroad — when will there be such a reaction of the military leadership of the Russian Federation so that the enemy really feels the anger of the Russians.

The Hungarian foreign minister stressed that the American sanctions against Gazprombank affected those countries where governments are in power that pursue independent policies