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Jobbik MP Auschwitz museum may not reflect facts
The Jerusalem Post has learned.During a debate in parliament on Thursday, Jobbik MP Tamas Gaudi-Nagy announced that he believed that the museum at the Auschwitz death camp in Poland "may not reflect real ...
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Israel’s interests in Syria
It is a mistake for Israelis to express support for Bashar Assad. Israel should stay out of the Syrian conflict altogether while hoping for the fall of the Assad regime. Ultimately, Israel would be better served by a failed state next door than by a strong, Iranian-backed entity there.Several prominent Israelis have expressed their preference for an Assad victory in the Syrian civil war. ...
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Brawl breaks out among Berlin Jewish community
BERLIN - A meeting of the elected leadership of the conflict- ridden Berlin Jewish community -Germany's largest with 10,500 members - spilled over into physical attacks on Thursday due to disputes over the 2013 budget.The session turned "brutal," said one observer at the community's representative meeting ...
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Center vs periphery The roots of terror
On April 30, Haytham al-Mishal, implicated in recent rocket attacks on Eilat, was driving down the road in Gaza City on a motorcycle. Without warning, he was engulfed in an explosion from an Israeli air strike. The air strike was the first since the previous outbreak of violence in Gaza in November 2012. This continued back-and-forth is a dangerous, and often fatal, reminder of the ...
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Two believed dead as heavy rains flood San Antonio streets
SAN ANTONIO (Reuters) - One woman died when her car was washed off a bridge and a second was believed to have drowned on Saturday as drenching rains in San Antonio triggered floodwaters so strong they swept a city bus off the street and forced the rescue of some 130 people, officials ...
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Truck crash caused Washington state bridge collapse officials
MOUNT VERNON, Washington (Reuters) - A bridge that collapsed in Washington state and sent two cars plunging into the Skagit River, raising concerns about the safety of the nation's aging infrastructure, was knocked down by a truck that crashed into at least one girder, officials said on ...
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Jersey Shore heads into summer with high hopes
(CBS News) SEASIDE HEIGHTS, N.J. - Seven months after superstorm Sandy ripped up boardwalks and washed a roller coaster into the ocean, summer is getting its unofficial kickoff this weekend on the Jersey Shore. The next three months are the time most businesses make most of their money in beach towns along a 127-mile stretch of the New Jersey coast. But they're still not catching many ...
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Disgraced ex-IMF chief spotted on red carpet at Cannes
Disgraced ex-IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn on Saturday sent French media into a frenzy when he appeared on the red carpet at the Cannes Film Festival for the premiere of Jim Jarmusch's vampire tale "Only Lovers Left ...
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Trio arrested over London soldier murder
Three men were arrested Saturday on suspicion of conspiracy to murder the British soldier who was hacked to death in a London street by two ...
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Hurricane season fears as warning satellite fails
Experts fear it could not have happened at a worse time. The US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) said the satellite, which provides coverage for the entire US eastern seaboard, is relied upon to track hurricanes threatening cities along the coast. The NOAA gave a warning that this year's hurricane season - the first since hurricane Sandy devastated the New York and New ...
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Divided Europe imperils Syrian arms embargo
A raft of sanctions aimed at hobbling the Syrian regime is at risk of collapse, according to diplomats, unless deeply divided European foreign ministers can reach a consensus tomorrow on amending a ban on arming the ...
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Fire and fury in Sweden as riots spread
From the moment Henrik Sedin gathered the puck, deep inside his own half, it was destined to be a wild night in Stockholm. It was shortly before 10pm last Sunday when the team's millionaire superstar slapped the puck hard into the empty net: 5-1. For the first time in seven years, and in front of their own fans, Sweden were the ice-hockey champions of the ...
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Killing with kindness Burmas religious battleground - and the monks at the heart of it
Six years ago, the world cheered the monks behind Burma's Saffron Revolution. Now, a horrific new eruption of religious slaughter is being blamed on a 'Buddhist Bin Laden'. So what happened to the mantra of ...
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LA synchronises its stoplights
It seems the impossible has occurred: The nation's most congested city has become a model for traffic control. Gridlock still prevails and drivers' blood pressure still spikes as LA's traffic arteries seize up during morning and afternoon rush hours. Yet, with the flip of a switch earlier this year, Los Angeles became a worldwide leader by synchronizing all of its nearly 4,400 stoplights. It is ...
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Soldier stabbed on patrol in Paris no link at this stage to London murder
A French soldier on anti-terrorist duties was stabbed in the neck Saturday in an attack that President Francois Hollande said could not "at this stage" be linked to the brutal murder this week of a military man in ...
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Three more arrests over soldier hacked to death
Murdered soldier Lee Rigby. Photo/AP Three men have been arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to murder the British soldier hacked to death in a London street by two Islamists. Two men aged 24 and 28 were arrested at a residential address in southeast London while a 21-year-old man was arrested in the street around 1.5 kilometres from the murder scene, Scotland Yard police ...
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Bayern Munich 2 Borussia Dortmund 1 Bayern Munich Edges Borussia Dortmund in Champions League Final
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Maoist Attack Kills at Least 16 in India
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Anti-Muslim actions rise in UK over slain soldier
By SYLVIA HUIAssociated Press LONDON (AP) - Police, politicians and activists in Britain are warning of rising anti-Muslim sentiment following the slaughter of an off-duty British soldier in a London street, an apparent act of Islamic extremism that has horrified the nation. Metropolitan Police investigating the killing of Lee Rigby, a 25-year-old soldier who was run over by attackers then ...
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Kerry presses Egypt on economic reform says aid depends on it
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Secretary of State John Kerry urged Egypt to act swiftly on economic reforms to secure a $4.8 billion International Monetary Fund loan, saying the measures were needed to get further aid from the U.S. Congress, an American official ...
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British police arrest three more over killing of soldier
A worker adds flowers to other floral tributes to Drummer Lee Rigby, of the British Army's 2nd Battalion The Royal Regiment of Fusiliers, at the scene of his killing in Woolwich, southeast London May 24, ...
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Thousands of U.S. bridges vulnerable to collapse
SEATTLE Thousands of bridges around the U.S. may be one freak accident or mistake away from collapse, even if the spans are deemed structurally ...
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London brutal attack probe nets additional arrests
LONDON British police on Saturday arrested three more suspects in connection with the savage killing of an off-duty soldier that has raised fresh concerns about terrorism. Scotland Yard said counter-terrorism officers arrested two men, aged 24 and 28, at a residential address in southeast London. A third man, 21, was arrested separately on a London street at the same time. Police said they used ...
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Pentagon chief urges end to sex assault scourge
US Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel told cadets Saturday that they must stamp out the "scourge" of sexual assault within the military, as US leaders grappled with the growing ...
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