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Today’s ‘Altneuland’ Jerusalem’s ‘beauty and wisdom’ season
It is symposium season in Jerusalem these days - and hero season in Israel. Every June I am overwhelmed by conferences, often balancing two per week, as academics and activists visit Israel before the summer - and summer heat - really begin.As my daily schedule fills up, I enjoy reading about the annual conferring by Israel's universities of honorary doctorates to intellectual and ...
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Terra Incongnita Rewarding IDF service is not discrimination
The only discrimination of a bill allowing for preferential treatment for army, national service results between Jews who don't serve, those who ...
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G-8 communique sidesteps Assad’s fate
G-8 leaders from left, Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Russian President Vladimir Putin, British Prime Minister David Cameron and US President Barack Obama during the G-8 summit at the Lough Erne golf resort in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland. (AP Photo/Lefteris ...
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G8 calls for urgent Syria peace talks despite Russia split
G8 leaders on Tuesday called for a peace conference on Syria to be held as soon as possible but deep divisions remained as Russia stood by its embattled Middle East ...
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Turkish PM Erdogan claims victory after protest crackdown
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday claimed victory over anti-government protesters after a heavy crackdown, as police raided homes and arrested dozens of demonstrators in a bid to stamp out nearly three weeks of ...
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Syria spillover into Lebanon intensifies with clashes in Sidon
The southern Lebanese city of Sidon erupted in heavy clashes as followers of a radical Sunni cleric battled gunmen believed to be sympathisers of the Shia-backed Hezbollah, in the latest outbreak of violence between factions supporting opposing sides in the Syrian ...
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At last it’s time for America to talk to the men from the Taliban
No more long dinners in Qatari restaurants, or idle afternoons in the capital's many shopping centres. Since they were first secretly delivered by US plane to Doha in 2010, the senior Taliban emissaries whom Washington hoped would eventually agree a peace deal with Kabul have not been rushed off their feet; efforts to kick-start a formal negotiating process to end the war repeatedly ...
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Guantanamos Most Dangerous Revealed
A list released by the US government has identified several dozen Guantanamo Bay prisoners designated as too dangerous to release but who cannot be prosecuted. Those on the list are prisoners held without charge under the Authorised Use of Military Force act passed by Congress and signed by President George W Bush in 2001, said Pentagon spokesman, Army Lt Col Todd Breasseale. The ...
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Quake shakes Perus capital of Lima
LIMA (Reuters) - A moderate earthquake shook buildings in Peru's capital on Tuesday but there were no reported injuries or damage, Reuters witnesses and safety officials ...
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WikiLeaks trial focuses on whether Tweets meet evidence standards
FORT MEADE, Maryland (Reuters) - The court-martial of the U.S. soldier accused of providing reams of classified documents to WikiLeaks in a case illustrating the challenge of keeping secrets in the digital age must decide whether tweets and Web pages can be admitted as ...
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Ex-NFL player with ALS responds after radio hosts fired for mocking him
ATLANTA A day after the cast of an Atlanta sports radio show was fired for mocking Steve Gleason's battle with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, the former Saints player issued a response. Team Gleason, an organization named after the former NFL player, posted a statement on ...
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4 accused of holding mother child captive in Ohio
CBS/AP (CBS) ASHLAND, Ohio - Four people have been arrested and are accused of holding a mother and her child captive for two years in Ashland, Ohio, in what the U.S. ...
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Bostons One Fund nears $55M with more than 250 claims
One Fund Boston administrator Kenneth R. Feinberg leads a town hall meeting held to discuss how victims of the Boston Marathon bombing will be compensated on May 7, 2013, at the Boston Public ...
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Floods wallop Northern India
Indian army personnel rescue stranded people in one of the worst flood-affected regions in the northern Indian state of Uttarakhand, June 18, 2013. Torrential rain and floods washed away buildings and roads, killing at least 23 people in the northern Indian state, officials said on Monday. Many more people remain ...
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Hungary indicts 98-year-old for Nazi war crimes
Alleged Hungarian war criminal Laszlo Csatary, leaves the Budapest Prosecutor's Office after he was questioned by detectives on charges of war crimes during WWII and prosecutors ordered his house arrest in Budapest, Hungary, Wednesday, July 18, ...
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Mali and Rebels Reach Peace Deal
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>Editor's note: John D. Sutter is a columnist for CNN Opinion and head of Change the List. Follow him on Twitter, Facebook or Google+. E-mail him at ctl@cnn.com.(CNN) -- Remember that scene at the end of that Facebook Movie ("The Social Network") when Mark Zuckerberg's character sits alone at a computer screen hitting the refresh button over and over again -- stuck in a loop of anxiety and ...
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WH on American Soldier Kidnapped By Taliban Hes Been Away from Us for Four Years
conference call with two unnamed senior administration officials to provide background for reporters on today's transition in Afghanistan handing over the lead on security in the country to the Afghan National Security Forces. One reporter inquired about how the recently reported peace talks with the Taliban came about, and what conditions were met or will need to be met in order for those ...
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G-8 Disagreement on Syria
President Obama and other world leaders at the G-8 summit Tuesday agreed in calling for an end to the two-year civil war in Syria, but the U.S. and its allies could not convince Russia to unite behind a call for the ouster of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. As expected, Russian President Vladimir Putin would not explicitly endorse an agreement to force Assad, his longtime ally, to step down ...
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NSA boss 50 terror attacks foiled
US surveillance efforts have foiled more than 50 potential terrorist events since the 2001 attacks, the head of a US spy agency argues, defending the programs as vital to national security. "These programs are immensely valuable for protecting our nation and securing the security of our allies," said General Keith Alexander, director of the secretive National Security Agency, in the latest bid ...
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Russia Scientists To Clone Stalingrads Oldest Living Survivor
It survived one of World War II's bloodiest battles, in which some 2 million people are thought to have perished. Although it was often pummeled by machine-gun fire and shrapnel, it stood firm as fierce fighting in Stalingrad raged around it for 200 days. It's little wonder, therefore,that the gnarled,100-year-old poplar, which still stands in Volgograd (as Stalingrad is now ...
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IDF general Palestinians quietly aiding US peace drive
US peacemaking drive by quietly cutting off funds for grassroots campaigners against Israel's occupation of the territory, a senior Israeli general said on Tuesday.The allegation, which the campaigners contested, underscored the sensitivity of the Palestinians' security coordination with Israel at a time of deadlocked diplomacy over their independence drive and censure from rival Hamas ...
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Palestinians ‘aiding US peace drive’
JERUSALEM - The Palestinian administration in the West Bank has tried to help the latest US peacemaking drive by quietly cutting off funds for grassroots campaigners against Israel's occupation of the territory, a senior Israeli general said on ...
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Don’t prolong Iran talks Netanyahu
Jerusalem - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned world powers on Tuesday against holding ';drawn out'; negotiations with Iran on its nuclear programme following the election of a more moderate president in ...
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Pope John II on brink of sainthood
In this picture made available by the Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano, Pope Francis prays in front of the tomb of Pope John Paul II, at the Vatican. (AP Photo/L'Osservatore ...
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Lebanon on the up despite uncertainty over future conflicts
Lebanon has seen strong economic growth since the 2006 war between Israel and Lebanon and the tourism sector, along with construction is experiencing strong signs of confidence from investors. If all goes well, the country may be able to shake off perceptions in the international community of a war-torn and politically unstable country.
The war in 2006 between Hezbollah and Israel had a severe impact on Lebanon. Tourism in 2006 plummeted as international holidaymakers shied away from a country seen as unstable, plagued by an internal lack of security and on the verge of another war, as Israel warned of future military action if the government did not do more to disarm Hezbollah. While some progress has been made in this regard, the greater achievement is the country’s resurgence in the areas of investment, construction and tourism even as the global economy quivers at the edge of a possible second downturn in Europe. Read more
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