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Hamas Israel poisoned Gaza patients with gas
Hamas Health Minister Mofeed al-Mokhalalati accused Israel of poisoning Palestinians patients in Gaza by providing the hospitals in the Strip carbon monoxide gas posing as nitrous gas, the Middle East Monitor reported on Friday.Four Palestinian patients were reportedly poisoned by the carbon monoxide ...
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Rule of Law Israel’s legal headache
Does throwing African migrants in detention centers for three years without standard legal proceedings violate international law? Or is it just enforcement of Israel's sovereign right to maintain border ...
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Infrastructure Smart customers seek smart grids
At Tel Aviv conference, experts hail smart grids as future of energy management as solutions to conserving energy and money for households and ...
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New book Could Germany have a Jewish chancellor
BERLIN - A new novel about a neo-Nazi plot to assassinate Germany's first Jewish candidate for Chancellor has shed a timely light on the right-wing extremist violence that has plagued the country since 1990 and was swept under the carpet for years.Political ...
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Column One Thank you Hafez Assad
The threats emanating from Syria have become downright frightening. For the past several days, Home Front Defense Minister Gilad Erdan has been warning repeatedly that it is certain that Israeli population centers will be hit by Syrian ballistic missiles and that we have to be prepared for the worst-case scenarios, including Scud missile-launched chemical weapons attacks on Israel's ...
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Into the Fray Can the people trust the government
- Bertrand Russell, 1950 This week, almost a decade and a half after the Muhammad al-Dura incident at the Netzarim junction in the Gaza Strip, the government of Israel has taken a stand, rebuting responsibility for the death of the then-12 year old Palestinian ...
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Savirs Corner Syrian reconstruction
Inside Asia . Since its independence in 1946, Syria has been a theater of confrontation between ethnic and religious groups and a battlefield for outside Arab powers to gain influence in the socalled "mother of Arab nationalism."Syria has been governed since 1971 by the Alawite minority that constitutes only 10 percent of its population. The Assads - father and son - while ...
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My Word The signs and the songs
When I was a boy World was better spot.What was so was so, What was not was not.Now I am a man; World have changed a lot.Some things nearly so, Others nearly not. "WHICH SIDE do you support?" asked a reader recently, inadvertently summing up precisely my dilemma. It has become a matter of "sides" and a "battle" - and I don't think there can be any victors ...
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Moscow felt ‘echoes of earthquake’
Moscow - A massive undersea earthquake on Friday in Russia's Far East prompted a tsunami warning and was felt in cities including Moscow far to the west, but there were no immediate reports of ...
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Arias in limbo as she awaits her fate
Phoenix - An Arizona jury failed on Thursday to reach a unanimous verdict on whether Jodi Arias should be put to death for the murder of her ex-boyfriend, prompting the judge to order a rerun of the sentencing phase of the ...
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Motorists rescued after bridge collapse
Olympia, Washington - Part of a four-lane freeway bridge over a river in rural Washington state collapsed on Thursday, sending vehicles and drivers tumbling into the frigid water, authorities ...
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Gay ban lifted by Boy Scouts
Jennifer Tyrrell (left), who was removed from her position as a den leader in 2012 for being gay, hugs Pascal Tessier, 16, after a resolution passed to allow openly gay scouts in the Boy Scouts of America at the Boy Scouts' National Annual Meeting in Grapevine, Texas, on ...
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Stephanie Knight the 21-year-old cancer victim whose dying wishlist captured the nations heart loses her battle with the disease
Stephanie Knight (left, aged 16, before she became ill) had been bravely battling the rare bone cancer Ewings Sarcoma since she was 17, losing her right leg and part of her pelvis. She died this week aged ...
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Medals given to a boy sailor who died when he was just 13 next to his father after their merchant naval vessel was shelled to be sold at auction
Sydney Cawsey was aged 13 years and nine months when he died alongside his father John, 39, after their merchant naval vessel was shelled on March 12, ...
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Rubbing alcohol served as scotch in N.J. Attorney general
(Shutterstock) Investigators have charged 29 bars in New Jersey for selling cheap alcohol - and in one instance, rubbing alcohol coloured with food dye - and serving it as high-end liquor in what's been dubbed Operation Swill. ...
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N.J. cop charged with firebombing bosss house
(Fotolia) A New Jersey cop is accused of firebombing his boss's home. Early Monday, the home of Edison Police Department Capt. Mark Anderko was hit with either a gas can or Molotov ...
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Stretched by riots Swedish police call reinforcements
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Police in Stockholm called in reinforcements on Friday after youths set cars and a school ablaze in a fifth night of rioting, the worst to hit Sweden for ...
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2 men from diverted Pakistani flight into U.K. arrested
LONDON British fighter jets were scrambled to escort a Pakistani passenger plane carrying nearly 300 passengers from Lahore to England after an incident on board, British officials said Friday. Essex Police boarded the plane at Stansted and arrested two men "on suspicion of endangerment of an aircraft," according to a statement from the police, which did not elaborate. Britain's ...
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Taliban launches major attack in Kabul
Taliban fighters have launched a deadly coordinated attack on a UN compound in the centre of the Afghan capital Kabul, setting off explosions and battling security forces, Reuters reported. A plume of smoke hung over the city centre after the attack was launched on Friday, eight days after six Americans, soldiers and civilians, and nine Afghans were killed in a suicide car bombing in Kabul. ...
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Who owns Jolies genes
>Editor's note: Gayle Sulik is a medical sociologist, founder of the Breast Cancer Consortium and author of "Pink Ribbon Blues: How Breast Cancer Culture Undermines Women's Health. " Follow her on Twitter: @pinkribbonblues(CNN) -- Angelina Jolie, when writing about her preventive double mastectomy, did not discuss how much her surgeries cost, but she did mention that many women would not be ...
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Can men control themselves
>Editor's note: Pepper Schwartz is professor of sociology at the University of Washington and the author or co-author of 17 books, the latest of which is "The Normal Bar. " She is the AARP Love and Relationship Ambassador and writes the Naked Truth column for AARP.org. She is a senior fellow at the Council on Contemporary Families, a nonprofit organization that gathers research on American ...
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Insurgents Attack Near U.N. Mission in Kabul
KABUL, Afghanistan ...
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Two arrested after UK fighter jets escort Pakistani plane
British police arrested two men on a Pakistan International Airlines plane after British fighter jets were scrambled to escort it to a London airport on Friday, officials ...
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Syria agrees to take part in peace talks says Russia
The Syrian government will attend a US and Russian-sponsored peace conference next month, despite President Bashar al-Assad publicly doubting the prospects of success for such a ...
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William Hague Solution to Middle East conflict is slipping away
William Hague has warned the Israelis and Palestinians that the prospect of a two-state solution to the Middle East conflict is slipping away and that if the latest US-sponsored push for renewed talks is not grasped, the region faces a bleak ...
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Cincinnati’s streetcar named bureaucracy
Cincinnati once had a streetcar system that carried 100 million people each year, but it was scrapped in favor of the bus in the mid-twentieth century. Today, just 25 million people use the bus network in Cincinnati, which has led to a proposal for a new streetcar line, but red-tape is blocking the tracks.
Cincinnati, throughout the first half of the twentieth century, had over 200 miles of streetcar tracks and the system carried over 100 million people per year. By the 1950’s the system was deemed unfeasible and was dismantled, with the last streetcar being retired in 1951. Several decades later, the faith that everyone had in the efficiency and convenience of busses has proven unfounded. Read more
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