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Prince Williams girlfriend Kate Middleton has reportedly signed a confidentiality agreement with the British Royal family...

Royals gag Prince Williams girlfriend

LONDON: Prince Williams girlfriend Kate Middleton has reportedly signed a confidentiality agreement with the British Royal family before their anticipated wedding to ensure she never sells her story should the couple divorce. According to the Sunday Express,Kate is believed to have signed the gagging contract when they briefly broke up in April 2007.

Selleck confirms Three Men and a Baby sequel

LOS ANGELES: American actor Tom Selleck is all set to re-unite with Ted Danson and Steve Guttenberg for the third movie in hit franchise Three Men and a Baby. The 65-year-old actor,who played Peter Mitchell in the original 1987 movie and its 1990 sequel,has confirmed a third film is in the works,MTV.com said.

Netanyahu defends Israeli raid

JERUSALEM: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Sunday defended an earlier bloody Israeli raid on a Gaza-bound flotilla,saying troops came under attack by people who were separate from peace activists. Netanyahu claimed the violence aboard the Turkish Marmara aid ship last Monday was intentional and those who attacked Israeli troops had boarded the ship in a way that allowed them to avoid a security check.

UN for multinational probe panel: Official

JERUSALEM: UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has proposed a multinational probe of Israels raid on a Gaza-bound aid ship in which nine pro-Palestinian activists were killed,an Israeli official said. Ban has suggested establishing a panel that would be headed by former New Zealand prime minister Geoffrey Palmer and include representatives from Turkey Israel and the US,said the official from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahus office.

Israel deports people aboard Rachel Corrie

JERUSALEM: Israel Sunday began deporting all 19 people onboard the Rachel Corrie aid ship intercepted by its Navy while trying to breach its blockade of the Gaza Strip. The aid ship,named after a US activist killed in 2003 as she tried to prevent an Israeli bulldozer from razing a Palestinian home,was intercepted by the Israeli Navy Saturday. Six Malaysians and a Cuban were deported to Jordan,while 11 others will be deported within 24 hours.

Egyptians married to Israelis not citizens

CAIRO: The top court here has directed the government to take steps to strip Egyptian men married to Israelis of their citizenship. In a ruling that cannot be appealed,Judge Mohammed al-Husseini of the Supreme Administrative Court Sunday upheld last years verdict that interior minister must look into cases of Egyptian men married to Israeli women,and their children,in order to take the necessary steps to strip them of their nationality.