The trial of a 17-year-old Danish girl suspected of planning bomb attacks against two schools, including a Jewish school, has begun near Copenhagen, The Associated Press reported on Wednesday. Police arrested the girl, who was 15 at the time, in January of last year. The girl, who was not allowed to be named, has been
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InternationalTMZ Sports reports that former New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez had a Bible verse written on his forehead when he was found hanged in his prison cell on Wednesday morning. According to reports from WBZ Boston, officials at the Souza-Baranowski Correctional Center in Massachusetts discovered Hernandez with the verse John 3:16 scribbled above
Ahead of Holocaust Remembrance Day, cops probe how memes of Hitler, concentration camps appeared on Petah Tikva school’s network By Times of Israel staff Illustrative image of school computers (shironosov /iStock by Getty Images) Police are investigating how Nazi images appeared as screensavers on computers in a school in the central Israel city of Petah
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International, Jewish History, Middle EastSmugglers are forcing unaccompanied child refugees to sell their bodies in exchange for money to aid their traveling through Europe, a new report from Harvard University has claimed. There is a “growing epidemic of sexual exploitation and abuse of migrant children in Greece,” say the report’s co-authors, Dr Vasileia Digidiki and Professor Jacqueline Bhabha, at
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Middle EastIn Pakistan, the lynching of a journalism student by classmates over alleged blasphemy offenses has caused national soul-searching. At the start of this year, Mashal Khan was a 23-year-old with his whole future ahead of him. He was known for having a liberal outlook, including relatively secular views on religion and society. Those views had
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InternationalUniversity of California, Berkeley officials on Wednesday canceled conservative commentator Ann Coulter’s appearance at the university next week, citing safety concerns following several violent clashes between right-wing and left-wing protesters in the famously liberal city. The decision further heightens a free-speech debate roiling campuses in California and across the country after disturbances have interrupted, and
Paris (dpa) – France’s presidential candidates rallied their voters on Wednesday, four days before the first round of elections, with polls showing the outcome still too close to call. Far-right hopeful Marine Le Pen, holding her final campaign rally in Marseille, railed against immigration, vowing that her first move if elected would be to take
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InternationalMIAMI — Guantanamo’s commander has concluded he does not have the authority to allow teams of volunteer cat lovers to scoop up feral cats across the base to neuter and vaccinate them and spare them from extermination. A nonprofit organization called Operation Git-Meow presented the proposal last month to the U.S. Navy base commander, Capt.
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International, The World We Share, USAATLANTA — The nation’s premier 2017 political race entered a bruising new stage Wednesday, as Karen Handel sought to rally skeptical Republicans while Democrats supporting Jon Ossoff prepared for a grueling second round of votes to represent a north Atlanta district in Congress. The two will square off in a June 20 runoff that is
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USAEvery year, the survivors gathered on the last night of Passover to tell the story of their own miraculous escape from bondage to freedom. Their story doesn’t take place in the desert of Egypt but in the killing pits of Lithuania. Shortly after the Nazis invaded Lithuania in June 1941, they started bringing groups of
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International, Jewish HistoryBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — We’re a long way from understanding the man who our American friends chose as their President, and just as long from being able to guess what he’ll do next. It’s both drama and mystery. We outsiders may lack some of the details about American politics. Americans who think they understand their
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East, USACARACAS, Venezuela — Tens of thousands of Venezuelans used a national holiday to demonstrate yet again against the government of embattled President Nicolas Maduro, and at least two people died as the government used heavily armed forces and tear gas to control the vast crowds. Marching on a day marking the beginning of Venezuela’s independence
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InternationalWASHINGTON — People who are freed from prison when their convictions are reversed deserve a refund of what they paid in fees, court costs and restitution, the Supreme Court ruled Wednesday. “They are entitled to be presumed innocent” once their convictions are thrown out, said Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and the state “has zero claim”
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USAFrench security services on Tuesday arrested two men accused of plotting an attack, just five days before the first round of the presidential election, AFP reports. The men were arrested in the southern city of Marseille by agents from France”s domestic intelligence agency, according to the news agency. French Interior Minister Matthias Fekl said the
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