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Damascus Gate clashes inflame tensions in east Jlem
Palestinians expressed their anger outside Damascus Gate on Sunday afternoon, claiming it was "impossible" for any man under the age of 50 to go through it to enter the mosque.Violent clashes broke out Saturday afternoon in east Jerusalem between over 100 Palestinians and police following what authorities described as an "illegal march" from Damascus Gate to al-Aksa ...
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Caribbean Scientist Warns of Climate Change Disaster
The Caribbean does not have the luxury of time for decisive action on climate change and global warming. In fact, it is on the brink of calamity, according to a prominent ...
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Egypts Morsi rules out talks as hostage video appears
CAIRO: Egypt's President MohamedMorsion Sunday ruled out negotiating with the kidnappers of three policemen and four soldiers who appeared to plead for their release in an online video.The abductions on Thursday in the Sinai Peninsula prompted angry police to shut down border crossings with Gaza and Israel, piling the pressure onMorsito secure the hostages' release."There are no ...
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Obama touts second term agenda in graduation speech
US President BarackObama, in a rousing speech to graduating college students on Sunday, touted his second term agenda, steering clear of scandals that have engulfed the White House in recent ...
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Match made in cyberspace Yahoo poised to buy Tumblr for $1.1bn
Not quite a year after arriving at Yahoo! from Google, chief executive Marissa Mayer has apparently persuaded her board to approve the purchase of Tumblr - the go-to website for legions of young bloggers and internet sharers - for $1.1bn in cash, despite it making just $13m in sales last ...
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Obama tries to bounce back after tough week
U.S. President Barack Obama adjusts his tie before receiving an honorary Doctor of Laws degree at the graduation ceremony of the class of 2013 at Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia May 19, ...
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Man dead two critical in family plane crash
A MAN has died while a boy and another man are fighting for their lives after a light aircraft crashed on the approach to an airport runway in ...
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Morsi rules out talks over Sinai hostages
Egypt's president Mohamed Morsi has ruled out negotiating with the kidnappers of three policemen and four soldiers who appeared to plead for their release in an online video. The abductions on Thursday in the Sinai peninsula prompted angry police to shut down border crossings with Gaza and Israel, piling the pressure on Morsi to secure the hostages' release. "There are no ...
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Poverty in Israel – and the PM’s expenses
Think About It: OECD figures published last week indicate that among the 34 members of the organization, the rate of poverty in Israel is the ...
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Meuhedet’s 4000 staffers to go on warning strike
Some 4,000 staff members of the third-largest health fund - Meuhedet - will hold a one-day warning strike on Monday.The dispute involves what the workers claim is foot-dragging in negotiations over the last 18 months on reaching a new collective ...
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Peres Teach the very young respect for the elderly
The Jerusalem Post to ask President Shimon Peres - a very active almost 90, about how to solve the problem.Peres said that it was a matter of education from the earliest possible age. Children have to be educated to respect human dignity, he ...
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The Region Where does Israel’s greatest threat lie
There is a passionate, but somewhat academic debate over the following issue: Which is the greater threat, the Sunni Islamists (Egypt, Tunisia, Gaza Strip and perhaps soon to be Syria) or the Shia Islamists (Iran, Lebanon, Syria at the moment)? My answer would be the Iran-led Shia bloc. But with two reservations: the margin isn't that big, and it also depends on the specific place and ...
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Gay rights are human rights
The invitation was so unexpected, and email scams are becoming so sophisticated, that I was sure this was one of the latter: "The Ambassador of the United States of Americaa reception in honor of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) Community in Israel."Well really! How stupid did the sender think I was? Except that it wasn't a scam, and the US ambassador to ...
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Yahoo to buy popular blogging platform Tumblr for $1.1 billion Report
If the acquisition takes place, it would be the biggest for Yahoo under Mayer and come in the wake of other pricey deals for startups, such as Facebook's acquisition of the photo app Instagram for stock worth $1 billion at the ...
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Soccer Arsenal Edges Out Spurs for Final Champions League Berth
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Lets go Bulworth... If Barack Obama wants to act like a cinema president which films should he copy
Thankfully only the later part of that plot seems to have inspired Obama. The New York Times' Peter Baker reported last week that Obama had spoken "longingly of 'going Bulworth'" and telling it like it is.As Baker's story and other Obama moments have proven, it's not the only Hollywood plot available to those in the West ...
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Far-right leader Marine Le Pen injures back falling into pool
The French far-right leader Marine Le Pen has broken a bone in her lower spine by falling into an empty swimming pool at her mansion near ...
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Hezbollah takes fight to rebels as Syria’s war spills into Lebanon
Hezbollah launched a major offensive in support of the Assad regime today, with fighters from the Lebanese militant group playing their most significant role yet in Syria's two-year-old civil ...
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Keep the change say Germans alarmed by European plan to scrap copper coins
Desperate to save pennies as the economic crisis continues to bite, the European Union is mulling over phasing out one and two cent coins after it emerged that they cost more than their face value to ...
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Analysis West learns to jaw not war on Syria as the countrys civil war destabilises the region
Sunday's reports that the Syrian conflict was spilling over into Lebanon can be taken as further evidence that the sectarian civil war is destabilising the region. There are also signs that the unending strife is pushing the two players who really matter, America and Russia, towards trying for negotiations and a ceasefire based on the Geneva Accord signed last ...
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Imran Khan blames rival for murder of politician
Imran Khan today blamed a political rival based in Britain for the murder of a politician from his own party who was shot dead outside her house in Karachi on Saturday ...
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Tunisian Islamist protester killed in clash with police
TUNIS (Reuters) - One protester died and several were injured when Tunisian Islamists defied a ban on their demonstration and clashed with police on ...
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WH adviser Partisan fishing expeditions wont distract Obama
(CBS News) "Partisan fishing expeditions" - like the amplifying clamor around news that the Internal Revenue Service targeted for excessive review conservative groups applying for tax-exempt status - White House senior adviser Dan Pfeiffer said Sunday on "Face the Nation," won't "distract" President Obama from doing his job. Pfieffer did admit, however, the the ...
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AP CEO blasts unconstitutional DOJ probe
(CBS News) The Associated Press doesn't question the Justice Department's right to have seized two months' worth of its phone records, the organization's president and CEO Gary Pruitt said Sunday on "Face the Nation." It was the methodology - "so sweeping, so secretively, so abusively and harassingly overbroad," he said - that breached the Constitution. As ...
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Obama Racism is no excuse for not excelling
As a young man, "Sometimes I wrote off my own failings as just another example of the world trying to keep a black man down," said President Obama during a commencement address at Morehouse College in Atlanta, "but one of the things you've learned over the last four years is that there's no longer any room for ...
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Silicon Valley's Expo ambitions
Moffet Field, a fairly unknown former military airbase in Silicon Valley near Mountain View and Sunnyvale, may become the centerpiece of the 2020 World Expo if Governor Schwarzenegger and other advocated of a California bid get their way.
California wants one of its cities to host the 2020 World Expo, the event is a seminal one on the world calendar and is expected to draw in over 70 million visitors to Shanghai, the city currently hosting the exhibition, which last six months. Read more
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