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Mya Wollf (R), 28, and Robin Pickell, 23, practising 'freegans', sort through food they recently found in a dumpster behind Commercial Drive in Vancouver, British Columbia April 10, 2012. A 'Freegan' is someone who gathers edible food from the garbage bins of grocery stores or food stands that would otherwise have been thrown away. Freegans aim to spend little or no money purchasing food and other goods, not through financial need but to try to address issues of over-consumption and excess. Picture taken April 10, 2012. REUTERS/Ben Nelms

Dumpster diners

A look at people who dumpster dive for food not because of need but to try to address societal issues about over-consumption.   Slideshow 

Yoga instructor Tao Porchon-Lynch helps a student through a yoga hand stand in her yoga class in Hartsdale, New York, May 14, 2012. At 93 years old, Porchon-Lynch was named the world's oldest yoga teacher by Guinness World Records. REUTERS/Keith Bedford (UNITED STATES - Tags: SOCIETY)

Oldest yoga teacher

Tao Porchon-Lynch, 93, was named the world's oldest yoga teacher by Guinness World Records.  Slideshow 

Olmert dismisses Hamas leader's comments on Israel

BEIJING | Wed Jan 10, 2007 11:49pm EST

BEIJING (Reuters) - Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on Thursday shrugged off comments by the exiled leader of the Islamist Palestinian Hamas group, Khaled Meshaal, in which he acknowledged the existence of Israel.

Meshaal, whose Hamas movement leads the Palestinian government, told Reuters in an interview on Wednesday that Israel is a "matter of fact", softening a previous refusal to accept that the Jewish state existed.

Olmert, asked by reporters accompanying him on a visit to China about Meshaal's acceptance of Israel as a state that will endure, said: "Does that mean we weren't until now?

"Should I be expected to check what he said? Should I be expected to read what he said?", Olmert added, shrugging as he toured Beijing's Forbidden City.

Meshaal said in the interview in Syria: "There will remain a state called Israel." He also said Hamas would only consider formal recognition of Israel when a Palestinian state has been created.

An Israeli foreign ministry spokesman responded earlier by saying that Hamas had said in the past it wanted to wipe Israel from the map and there was no indication it had changed its position.
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