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LONDON (AFP) - Former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher was back out in public to reopen a top London hotel, only four days after a brief stay in hospital. The baroness, 80, insisted she felt "fine" as she relaunched the plush Brown's Hotel. She had stayed overnight Wednesday in a London hospital after feeling faint. Her private secretary said it was "back to normal" for Thatcher who had been taking things easy since leaving hospital. Looking frail but determined in an electric blue coat, Thatcher, once dubbed the "Iron Lady", was helped from her car before cutting the ribbon. She...

Yossi Ben-Aharon, former head of Prime Minister Yitzchak Shamir's Bureau, says that the Likud MKs should be worried not about the disengagement referendum, but rather about deposing Ariel Sharon. Ben-Aharon told Arutz-7's Shimon Cohen that Sharon's disengagement plan is "more dangerous than the Oslo Accords," because it is merely his first stage in his plan to establish a Palestinian state. Ben-Aharon said that like the late Yitzchak Rabin before him, he views a Palestinian state as something that Israel cannot agree to or accept. Sharon and his aide Dov Weisglass "used all sorts of tricks and deception to implement this...