The MDA blood service team arrived at the US embassy where the ambassador Dan Shapiro and other members of his staff donated a total of 40 units of blood. This was not the first time that the ambassador has given blood. He is accustomed to donating blood twice a year and appreciates the important of […]
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Middle EastIt was vintage Merkel. Neatly organizing her papers before speaking in her soft Berliner accent, the German Chancellor made the announcement everybody had been waiting for, “To stand as a candidate for a fourth time after 11 years in power is anything but a trivial decision, not for the country, for the party, nor for
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InternationalBOGOTA, Colombia — Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos and the head of the country’s largest guerrilla group Thursday signed a new deal to end the nation’s half-century civil war. Santos and the commander of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, known as the FARC, Rodrigo “Timochenko” Londono signed the agreement using a pen made from
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InternationalFetene Yezengaw is a crossing guard who has brought smiles and laughter to the same intersection for the last decade – so now, the community is repaying him for all the kindness. When Fetene was a 15-year-old child soldier in Ethiopia, he stepped on a land mine that blew his leg off. After healing in
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USANigerian security forces have killed at least 150 pro-Biafra supporters, some by extrajudicial executions, since August 2015, according to Amnesty International. In a report published on Thursday, the human-rights group said that Nigerian government forces killed at least 60 people on May 29 and 30, when pro-Biafra activists had come together for a memorial gathering
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InternationalAlexandra Zapruder was not born when her grandfather trained his home-movie camera on President John F. Kennedy’s motorcade rolling through downtown Dallas 53 years ago, but that 26-second film has become a difficult family legacy. On Nov 22, 1963, Abraham Zapruder, a devoted supporter of Kennedy and his vision for America, shot a home movie
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Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USAThere are a little less than 2,000 giant pandas in the world, making the chance to name two of the newest born a rather special and rare treat. And that’s exactly what Zoo Atlanta is offering animal lovers around the world to do. The zoo announced Monday it would allow people to name its new
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The World We Share, USAWith fires raging across Israel, including inside the northern coastal city of Haifa, growing numbers of Israelis believe that many of the blazes were intentionally set – in an attempt by Arabs to take advantage of the dry, windy weather to pursue war against the Jewish state by any means. Among the proponents of this
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Middle EastPresident-elect Donald Trump announced that the US ambassador to the UN will be South Carolina Novernor Nikki Haley. Haley, now in her second term as governor and a former member of the House of Representatives. Israel supporters in Washington praised the pick, citing her pro-Israel, anti-BDS bona fides. The Republican Jewish Coalition called the choice
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International, USAFrench Jewish leaders have criticised the favorite to be the country’s next president for comments he made about religious integration. Francois Fillon, who is leading the race to become the presidential candidate for France’s center-right, made an interview in which he compared the need to integrate French Muslims with the past experiences of French Jews.
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InternationalMexico City (dpa) – Authorities surrounded a camp in the Mexican town of Zitlala Wednesday, after seven bodies were discovered in improvised graves and human remains were found in a portable cooler, prosecutors said. The gruesome discoveries were made in the southern Mexican state of Guerrero, where a wave of violence left approximately 30 people
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InternationalHillary Clinton is being pushed by computer scientists and lawyers to challenge the presidential election results in three key swing states, two of which Donald Trump won two weeks ago. While one member of that group said in an online post Wednesday that the results were “probably not” hacked, he advised Clinton to file for
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USAAttackers make reference to Western Wall struggle; progressive leaders call on government to end incitement against non-Orthodox Jews By Raoul Wootliff Hateful graffiti sprayed on the Kehilat Ra’anan Reform synagogue in Ra’anana, November 24, 2016. (Yossi Cohen) A Reform synagogue in the central Israeli city of Ra’anana was vandalized overnight Wednesday-Thursday in an apparent hate
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Middle EastThe White House on Wednesday welcomed the signing of a military intelligence sharing agreement between South Korea and Japan, saying it will bolster three-way cooperation between the two allies and the U.S. in defending against North Korea. Earlier in the day, Seoul and Tokyo formally signed the information sharing accord, known as the General Security
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