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Man refused overdraft kills four in Israeli bank
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - A gunman shot dead four people execution-style in a bank in Israel on Monday after being refused an overdraft and cash from its automatic teller ...
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Israel calls off UNESCO Jerusalem tour blaming Palestinians
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel said on Monday it had canceled a visit by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) to Jerusalem's Old City, saying the Palestinians had sought to politicize a conservation ...
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Israel gunman shoots 4 dead at bank kills self
JERUSALEM -; A gunman stormed into a bank in the southern Israeli city of Beersheba Monday, killing four people in a gunfight and taking a hostage before killing himself, police ...
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Israel cancels planned visit by UNESCO delegation
The Israeli Foreign Ministry on Monday cancelled a planned visit by a UNESCO delegation to Jerusalem due to the efforts of Palestinian factions to politicize it, local media reported.The ministry said the Palestinians are trying to turn this visit into a "fact-finding mission of Israel's moves in Jerusalem. "In statements to Xinhua, a well-placed source said "the ...
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Vandals target Israeli women’s prayer group
Israeli police say vandals have spray-panted slogans on the home of one of the leaders of a liberal Jewish women's group that has angered ultra-Orthodox communities over its demands for equality of ...
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Decline of the empire
On September 16, 1985, when the Commerce Department announced that the United States had become a debtor nation, the American Empire died. The empire was seventy-one years old and had been in ill health since 1968. Like most modern empires, ours rested not so much on military prowess as on economic power. After the French Revolution, the world money power shifted from Paris to London. For three ...
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The failure to face climate change
The greenhouse effect was first hypothesised in 1824 by Joseph Fourier - though his analogy was the bell jar rather than the greenhouse - and proved experimentally by John Tyndall in 1859. In the 19th century it could be seen as unambiguously a good thing: if carbon dioxide and other trace gases didn't trap heat in the atmosphere, the earth wouldn't be warm enough to support life as we ...
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Forests and insects feed much of the world
Forests, trees on farms and agroforestry are critical in the fight against hunger and should be better integrated into food security and land use policies, FAO Director-General Jos Graziano da Silva said today at ...
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Fears grow of clash between Israel and Syria
Fears about a possible escalation of violence between Israel and Syria grew Sunday amid renewed Israeli threats to destroy Syrian weapons caches and Syria’s warnings of retaliation. After decades of relative calm along the two nations' borders, some Israeli officials say tensions with Syria have reached one of the highest points since the 1973 Yom Kippur war. During a Cabinet ...
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Bach to the blues our emotions match music to colors
Whether we're listening to Bach or the blues, our brains are wired to make music-color connections depending on how the melodies make us feel, according to new research from the University of California, Berkeley. For instance, Mozart's ...
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Israels Lapid speaks of removing some settlers for peace
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Finance Minister Yair Lapid, whose new centrist party is the second largest in Israel's government, said on Monday thousands of Jewish settlers would have to be removed from occupied land under any peace deal with the ...
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Israel seeks to rein in company tax breaks
By Steven Scheer TEL AVIV | Mon May 20, 2013 10:07am EDT TEL AVIV May 20 (Reuters) - Israel plans to amend a law granting companies tax breaks and grants to invest in the country as the government tries to close a widening budget deficit. Since taking office two months ago, Finance Minister Yair Lapid has drawn up state spending cuts and tax hikes to close a deficit of over 45 billion ...
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Israel backs Kerry peace moves despite internal debate
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry speaks as he welcomes Prime Minister of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdogan during a luncheon at the State Department May 16, 2013 in Washington, DC. Alex Wong/Getty ...
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Jihadists’ control of Syrian oilfields signals a decisive moment in conflict
The stranglehold that Jabhat al-Nusra and its allies have achieved over Syria’s oilfields signals a decisive moment in the conflict that will shape the rapidly and violently evolving map of the new Middle East. The impact is immediately visible. With a new independent source of funding, the jihadists holding the oilfields between al-Raqqa and Deir Ezzor are much better equipped than their ...
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Can a deal be made with Iran
. Their stated goal is "the most objective analysis of Iranian politics." Yet they find that Iran embraces, "more fully and openly than Turkey, the project of building a state that is simultaneously Islamic and democratic." (The greater openness of Tehran than Istanbul should, they seem to think, be apparent to any objective analyst.) Iran's government "of the ...
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Israeli police Bungled bank heist kills 4 people robber commits suicide
JERUSALEM - Israeli police say a bungled bank robbery in a southern city left four people dead before the gunman took his own life. Police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld says four people were killed when at least one gunman entered the bank in the city of Beersheba on Monday. A gunfight apparently broke out and the robber took one hostage, but as a standoff developed, he committed suicide. ...
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Israel rejects French TV claim on Palestinian boys death
A September 30, 2000, file combo of TV grabs from France 2 footage taken during Israeli-Palestinian clashes in Netzarim in the Gaza Strip shows Jamal al-Dura and his son Mohammed, 12, hiding behind a barrel from Israeli-Palestinian cross fire. (via ...
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Four killed in bank robbery in Israel
FOUR people were killed and at least three injured Monday in a bank robbery in the southern Israeli city of Beersheba, police and first aid officials said. The robber shot himself, and a woman he had apparently held hostage was freed, Negev District Police Commander Peretz Amar told reporters at the scene, announcing the incident was "over." "We tried to negotiate with him. We ...
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Israel cancels UNESCO mission to Jerusalem
ISRAEL announced on Monday it was calling off a United Nations investigative mission to the Old City in annexed east Jerusalem because of Palestinian efforts to politicise the visit. "Israel has cancelled the delegation," which was due to have arrived the same day, a foreign ministry official told AFP "The Palestinians were not respecting the understandings. The visit was supposed to ...
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Four Dead As Israel Bank Robbers Take Hostages
Four people have been killed and hostages taken during a bank robbery in Israel, according to police. The victims reportedly died during a shootout at a branch of Bank Hapoalim in the southern Israeli city of Be'er Sheva after the robbers entered at around 11am local time. A further shot was heard from the bank at around 2.15pm, according to local reports. One of the robbers was ...
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Israeli military says gunfire from Syria has again hit Israeli-controlled Golan Heights
JERUSALEM - The Israeli military says gunfire from Syria has hit the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights overnight. The military said on Monday that the gunfire did not cause any damage or injuries. The military says it believes the fire was accidental. Israel has found itself in a difficult position as clashes from Syria's civil war rage near its frontier with the Golan Heights, a strategic ...
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Vandals spray-paint slogans against liberal Jewish womens prayer group in Israel
JERUSALEM - Israeli police say vandals have spray-panted slogans on the home of one of the leaders of a liberal Jewish women's group that has angered ultra-Orthodox communities over its demands for equality of worship. Israeli TV footage showed black writing on the hallway and door of the Jerusalem home. Police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said Monday police were investigating. The group, ...
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UNESCO delegation arrives on rare inspection trip to Jerusalem
WAM JERUSALEM, May 20th, 2013 (WAM) -- A delegation from UNESCO, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, arrived on Sunday to inspect preservation work in Jerusalem's Old City, as part of a deal whereby Israel would let the delegation tour the Old City, and the Palestinians would postpone five anti-Israel resolutions pending before the body. According to a ...
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Gunfire from Syria hits Israeli-controlled Golan
Israel has found itself in a difficult position as clashes from Syria's civil war rage near its frontier with the Golan Heights, a strategic plateau captured from Syria in the 1967 ...
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Israeli inquiry says film of Muhammad al-Duras death in Gaza was staged
France 2 footage showing Muhammad al-Dura crying beside his father in Gaza in September 2000: the IDF initially claimed it was responsible but later changed its account. Photograph: AFP/Getty ...
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Palestine is a potential eco-friendly hub
Palestine, occupied Palestine, the Palestinian Territories or the Occupied Territories, call it what you will, this patch of land in the Middle East has many different name according to political opinion, but what many don’t realize about it is the ingenuity that takes place on a daily basis.
Palestine is one of the poorest regions in the world and certainly in the Middle East, the territory which is loosely made up of the West Bank and Gaza Strip, is a large refugee camp because none of the inhabitants have sovereignty and therefore do not have a centrally strong government to provide basic services. Much of the areas income is derived through donations and money earned by day laborers within Israel. Read more
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