The war in Syria has left more than 465,000 people dead or missing, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) reported Monday. The U.K.-based monitoring group, which uses a network of sources on the ground in Syria, said that 321,000 people, including 96,000 civilians, had died as a result of the conflict since it began […]
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Middle EastA group of environmental activists snuck into a public golf course owned by President Donald Trump in Rancho Palos Verdes, California, and vandalized it to protest the Trump administration’s “blatant disregard” for the environment, the Washington Post reported Sunday. The group, which calls itself an “anonymous environmental activist collective,” carved the words, “No More Tigers,
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USA‘Alongside every great male fighter is a wonderful female fighter,’ president tells security forces at Ofer Checkpoint By Times of Israel staff President Reuven Rivlin gives Purim packages (Mishloach Manot) to members of the Israeli security forcesguarding at the Ofer checkpoint on March 12, 2017. (Mark Neyman/GPO) President Reuven Rivlin handed out treats to members
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Middle EastMINNEAPOLIS — A prosecutor in Poland is contending there is ample evidence to seek the arrest of a Minneapolis man on allegations that he commanded a Nazi unit implicated in the deaths of 44 Poles, The Associated Press reported Monday. Prosecutor Robert Janicki said that various evidence gathered in the yearslong investigation into 98-year-old Michael
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International, USAThis woman didn’t care how large the price tag was for a last minute plane ticket – she just couldn’t stand to see a father in distress. In a Facebook post published by Love What Matters, a father and his daughter were about to check in for their flight at an airport when the employee
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Travel and Food, USADALLAS — If state Rep. Jessica Farrar has her way, men in Texas will pay a $100 fine for “unregulated masturbatory emissions” and undergo a digital rectal exam to get a vasectomy, a colonoscopy or a Viagra prescription. Farrar’s proposed legislation, filed last week, calls on the Department of State Health Services to explain the
Israel arrests members of Hamas terror cells in Judea and Samaria (JNS.org) Israel’s Shin Bet security agency Sunday announced the arrest of two Palestinian men who had planned to carry out terror attacks on behalf of Hamas in Judea and Samaria. A joint operation between the Shin Bet and Israel Defense Forces (IDF) led to
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Middle EastAUSTIN, Texas (Press Release) — At SXSW, Anti-Defamation League (ADL) CEO Jonathan A. Greenblatt announced Sunday that ADL has secured seed funding from Omidyar Network to build a state-of-the-art command center in Silicon Valley to combat the growing threat posed by hate online. The center will employ the best technology and seasoned experts to monitor,
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International, USANorth Korea may soon conduct a powerful nuclear test as the reclusive country is continuing to excavate a tunnel at its nuclear site, U.S. analysts said Saturday. The news comes just a day after a former CIA official raised concerns over Pyongyang’s ability to attack the U.S. with a ballistic missile. Kim Jong Un’s latest
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International, USAWASHINGTON, March 11, 2017 – Former California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger (R- November 17, 2003 – January 3, 2011) is considering a 2018 Senate run as a third-party, or independent, candidate. Schwarzenegger’s entrance would give him the stage to continue to lock horns with President Trump over political issues. Trump has publically excoriated the former body
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Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USARussia’s longtime envoy to the United Nations, Vitaly Churkin, died from a heart attack suffered inside his Manhattan office last month, a city official said Friday. The ambassador’s cause of death was confirmed by a senior city official on condition of anonymity Friday after the medical examiner’s office declined to release details about his passing
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International, Obituaries & memorials, USAPalestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas held several meetings with terrorists and their families. According to MEMRI researchers, Abbas on March 5 held a meeting with the family of Muhammad al-Jaled, a terrorist who was was eliminated in February. Al-Jaled was shot while attempting to carry out a terror attack at the Huwara Checkpoint in November.
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Middle EastFriday’s first presidential phone call, in which the PA chief was invited to the White House, has the Palestinians extremely upbeat By Avi Issacharoff Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas greets his supporters following a trip to Washington DC, on March 20, 2014, in the West Bank city of Ramallah. (Issam Rimawi/Flash90) US President Donald Trump’s
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Middle East, USAMK Oren Hazan (Likud) demanded Jordanian authorities re-arrest freed terrorist Ahmed Daqamseh for incitement against Jews. Daqamseh killed seven Israeli schoolgirls in a terror attack in 1997, and was freed on Sunday – five years early. Upon his release, he said, “The Israelis are the human waste which the nations of the world vomited up
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