North Korea announced it shuts down nuclear reactor after receiving $30 million of its dirty money back and a heavy oil shipment.
Abandoning nuclear capabilities in exchange for less than a billion dollars total aid makes no sense. North Korea bluffs somewhere: it either continues nuclear program, or produced and hidden some nuclear weapons for sale, or it had no nuclear weapons at all, as the ultra low-yield test blast suggested.

near Ramallah. No one is hurt in the ensuing fighting.

Arab media clam that French intelligence asked Mossad to refrain from kidnapping Hezbollah’s top brass visiting France for talks. Reportedly, Jordan and some Israelis warned the French that Mossad is going to kidnap hostages to exchange them for kidnapped IDF soldiers Regev and Goldwasser. The story may reflect Hezbollah leaders’ fear to leave the safe haven of Lebanon, but if true, it exposes a major mole inside the Mossad who passes information to Israeli leftist politicians and Jordanians.
In another possible leak, Palestinian Assenara newspaper claimed that Israeli security cabinet authorized assassination of Hamas’ Haniyeh.

Israeli government confirmed Palestinian report about Israeli ceasing hunting 178 wanted Fatah terrorists to free their hands to fight Hamas. Since fighting Hamas is dangerous, Palestinian terrorists will actually continue murdering Jews to liberate Arab homeland.