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I Am Gabriel Ancient Stone on Display in Israel
JERUSALEM, Israel -- Gabriel is one of the Bible's best known angels. Now, a first of its kind exhibition in Jerusalem highlights an archaeological discovery quoting Gabriel that's considered the most important find of its kind since the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls. It's called the "Revelation of Gabriel." It's written on stone and proclaims three times, ...
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Obama administration wants war on terrorism to continue for decades
A top Pentagon official said Thursday that the evolving war against Al Qaeda was likely to continue "at least 10 to 20 years" and urged Congress not to modify the statute that provides its legal basis. "As of right now, it suits us very well," Michael A. Sheehan, the assistant secretary of defense for special operations, said, referring to the "authorization to use ...
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Andy Kroll A democracy of the wealthy
($6 billion in 2012 and expected to climb in 2016). Billions of words of punditry and commentary about the election (always) "of the century" will flow from well-funded TV news outfits stoked by all those ad dollars. Above all, there will be the money pouring into super PACs and the dark side, which will inundate everything else, shaping the new landscape in which U.S. elections now ...
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Leading security experts say FBI wiretapping proposal would undermine cybersecurity
a new report being released Friday by a group of technologists, could pose "serious security risks" to ordinary Internet users, giving thieves and even foreign agents a way to listen in on Americans' conversations, undetected. The 20 computer experts and cryptographers who drafted the report say the only way that companies can meet wiretap orders is to re-engineer the way their ...
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Israel has highest poverty rate in the developed world OECD report shows
Israel is the most impoverished of the 34 economically developed countries, with a poverty rate of 20.9%, according to a report released by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development on Wednesday. Israel’s poor population has grown more than in any other OECD nation, making it the country with the highest rate of poverty, having exceeding Mexico, whose poverty rate stands ...
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Bombings kill many Iraqis in Shiite areas
Bombings in Shiite areas of Baghdad and in northern Iraq killed more than 35 people on Wednesday, after weeks of violence by Sunni Islamist insurgents determined to set off sectarian confrontations. Tensions between minority Sunni Muslims and the Shiites who now lead Iraq are at their highest since American troops pulled out in December 2011, with relations coming under more pressure by the day ...
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Pain can be contagious
The pain sensations of others can be felt by some people, just by witnessing their agony, according to new research. A Monash University study into the phenomenon known as somatic contagion found almost one in three people could feel pain when they see others experience pain. It identified two groups of people that were prone to this response – those who acquire it following trauma, ...
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Palestinian President in Egypt With Heavy Agenda
Cairo, May 16 (Prensa Latina) Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas will pursue a heavy agenda of vital issues in this capital, one of which is a meeting today with his Egyptian counterpart, Mohamed Morsi. Abbas arrived in Cairo last night, just 48 hours after delegations from his Al Fatah organization and Hamas, the Islamist entity that rules the Gaza Strip, agreed to form a transitional ...
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CIA Chief Makes Surprise Trip to Israel
CIA Chief John Brennan has made an unannounced visit to Israel. According to an anonymous Israeli Defense Official, Brennan met with Israel's Defense Minister. This trip comes amid concerns about weapons transfers from Syria to Lebanese terror group Hezbollah. Israel has carried out air-strikes aimed at halting arms shipments to the group. This week, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ...
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Were Neanderthals the mental equals of modern humans
[D]id the Neanderthals, once caricatured as brute cavemen, have minds like our own, capable of abstract thinking, symbolism and even art? It is one of the most haunting questions about the people who once shared a continent with us, then mysteriously vanished. An early date for the paintings [found in El Castillo cave, Spain] would also be a vindication for the slight, dark-haired man watching ...
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Palestinian President Receives Arab League Secretary General
Cairo, May 17 (BNA)-- Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas received here today Arab League Secretary General Nabil Al Arabi. They discussed regional developments, mainly in Palestine, in light of Israel's continuous settlement policy and repeated incursions of Al-Aqsa Mosque which will undermine the two-state solution and cause failure of the international efforts to reach a just and ...
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Israel justice minister slams Russia arms to Syria
Israeli Justice Minister Tzipi Livni on Friday slammed Russian arms deals with Syria, after US media reported further weapons shipments to the Damascus regime.Livni's comments also come in the wake of a surprise visit by CIA chief John Brennan to Israel to discuss the situation in Israel's war-torn neighbour."The transfer of arms to Syria is clearly not positive and does not ...
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Egyptian police close Gaza border in protest demanding release of kidnapped colleagues
RAFAH, Egypt - An Egyptian security official says policemen at the country's main crossing point into the Gaza Strip have closed the border on their own initiative to protest the abduction of their colleagues. The official said Friday that the guards will keep the border closed until four of their colleagues, who were abducted in the Sinai peninsula Thursday with three others, are freed. ...
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CIA chief John Brennan makes surprise Israel visit for Syria talks
CIA chief John Brennan 'was sent to Israel to prevent it from taking action on its own in Syria', according to reports in Israeli media. Photograph: Charles ...
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More natural gas found offshore Israel
There are strong indications that there's more natural gas than estimated off the coast of Israel near the giant Leviathan field, a U.S.-Israel group declared. Noble Energy, which has headquarters in Texas, and its drilling partners from Israel, Avner Oil Exploration and Delek Drilling, said there are "significant signs" of natural gas at its Karish-1 license area in the eastern ...
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Iran calls attention to aggressive plans of the U.S. and Israel
"Some Persian Gulf countries are supporting U.S. plans in the region and it harms the countries of the region", the Chairman of the National Security and Foreign Policy of the Islamic Consultative Assembly of Iran, the national parliament, Alaedin Boruyerdi said on Saturday (27th). Crimes and discord are the buzzwords of the ...
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Israeli Palestinian leaders should resume negotiations Ban
New York, May 17 : UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, in separate conversations with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, stressed the need for the parties to create the conditions conducive to resuming meaningful negotiations, his spokesperson said on ...
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Angry Egyptian policemen close crossing with Gaza
GAZA - Egyptian policemen blocked the crossing into the Gaza Strip on Friday to protest against the kidnapping of Egyptian security forces in the Sinai, witnesses and sources said.Locals said police had placed barbed wire across the entrance to the border and closed the gates with chains, leaving hundreds of Palestinians stranded on both sides of the fence.Islamist gunmen abducted seven Egyptian ...
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Israel may pre-emptively strike Syria again - Israeli official
A lone chicken is seen in the rubble of the site where an Israeli airstrike struck Damascus earlier this month. AFP Image Israel is considering more air strikes on Syria to prevent the transfer of arms to "Islamist militants" in the region according to the New York Times.The report, citing an unnamed Israeli official, also warned "if Syrian President Bashar Al Assad reacts by ...
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Coptic cleric says he will sue Israeli police
JERUSALEM -- An Egyptian Coptic cleric who was mistreated during Orthodox Easter services is threatening to sue.Video supplied to The Associated Press shows Israeli police shoving Arsanious el-Orshalimi and putting him in a headlock. The incident took place during Orthodox Christian Holy Saturday in Jerusalem's Old City earlier this month. The event drew thousands of people to the area, ...
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Date of international conference on assistance to Palestinian people made public
The date of the international conference that will be held in Baku on assistance to the Palestinian people has been made public, APA reports. Palestine’s ambassador to Azerbaijan Naser Abdel Karim said the conference will be held on June 11. According to the ambassador, high-level delegations from the member states of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation will attend the ...
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US lawmakers to Abbas Axe official who glorified terrorist
WASHINGTON (JTA) - A bipartisan group of congressmen condemned comments made by a Palestinian Fatah official in support of the murderer of an Israeli father of five.The letter sent to Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas on Wednesday strongly condemned Fatah's Sultan Abu Al-Einein following his "open support for the murderer of Eviatar Borovsky," and called for him to be ...
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Delivery firm smuggles KFC meals into Gaza - at a price
While a family meal costs about 80 Egyptian pounds (R106) from the el-Arish KFC restaurant in the Egyptian North Sinai, the price of getting it into Gaza is a further 100 Israeli shekels ...
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Oil gas reserves add to existing tensions between Israel Lebanon
The recent discovery of oil and gas reserves in the eastern Mediterranean off the Israeli, Cypriot and Lebanese coasts is a great boost to the independence and self-sufficiency of these ...
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UN chief discusses Middle East peace with Israeli Palestinian leaders
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, in separate phone talks during the last two days, discussed the Middle East peace process with both Israeli and Palestinian leaders, a spokesman told reporters here on Thursday."In the past two days, the secretary-general had phone conversations with the Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, and the President of Palestine, Mahmoud Abbas," said ...
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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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