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Israel's likely targets in Syria: Iran and Hezbollah
JERUSALEM – With three air strikes on targets in Syria since January, Israel is inserting itself into the Arab Spring’s most intractable conflict, heightening fears that the civil war could spiral into a regional conflagration. But as some...
Tags: Tel Aviv (Israel), Unrest, Conflicts and War, Politics, Weaponry, Lebanon
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The Week Ahead: Iran and Pakistan on the stump, Mubarak on trial
D-Day for Iranian presidential race Tuesday, May 7 -- So many candidates, so few promising real change. More than a dozen Iranian lawmakers, former Cabinet ministers, revolutionary guardsmen and allies of Islamic leaders have thrown in their hats...
Tags: Punishment, Politics, Justice and Rights, Crimes, Think Tanks
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'The Way of the Knife' exposes America's shadow wars
In October 2002, Barack Obama, then an obscure state senator in Illinois, stood in Federal Plaza in Chicago and gave a speech about Iraq that launched his career toward the White House. "I don't oppose all wars," Obama told the crowd. "What I am opposed...Tags: U.S. Congress, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Politics, Weaponry, Military Equipment
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Elie Wiesel, history's witness
It was a fine April day last week that found Elie Wiesel at Chapman University; it was a fine April day too, 58 years earlier, when the gaunt, teenage Wiesel found himself alive and suddenly free to walk out of the Buchenwald concentration camp. In the...
Tags: Judges, Nazi Party, Bernard Madoff, Lawyers, Politics
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Critically ill Palestinian released from Israeli jail
RAMALLAH, West Bank–-Two weeks after a Palestinian prisoner died of cancer in an Israeli jail, provoking violent protests in the West Bank, Israel released a critically ill Palestinian prisoner who had served 11 years of a 14-year-sentence....
Tags: Prisons, Palestine, West Bank, Tzipi Livni, Israel
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Margaret Thatcher funeral: Scenes of solemnity and protest [Video]
As former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher was laid to rest Wednesday, videos from Britain provide a glimpse of how she was remembered -- both by those who loved and loathed her. The London ceremony was akin to the 1997 rites for Princess Diana. Above,...
Tags: Anglicanism, Diana, Princess of Wales, Religion and Belief, Christianity
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'Arab Spring,' once an inspiration, now a more cautionary tale
Two years ago, the "Arab Spring" that deposed dictators and demagogues was an inspiration to hundreds of millions of repressed souls across the Middle East who yearned for a say in how they were governed. Today, with the Egyptian economy in ruins,...
Tags: Saudi Arabia, Mohamed Morsi, Politics, Islam, Lebanon
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Thatcher critics in Britain counter her official funeral with parties
As Margaret Thatcher was laid to rest in London, scattered protests and parties cheering her death were reported around Britain, a sign of the persistent divisions over her legacy. "I ignore people who say it's in bad taste,” Durham Miners Assn....
Tags: David Cameron, Government, Gordon Brown, Margaret Thatcher, Politics
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Shareholders get another chance
It's "proxy season" again for most public companies — called that because most shareholders submit their votes via proxy rather than attend the companies' annual meetings in person. This year's season represents a critical juncture in public company...
Tags: Politics, Corporate Officers, Shareholders, Robert A. Iger, Elections
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Carnival plus yard sale coming to Linden-Linthicum UMC [Clarksville]
Linden-Linthicum United Methodist Church youth mission teams are hosting a carnival and yard sale April 20, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Vendor and crafter parking lot spaces are available for $10. Bring your own table or rent one for an additional $10. In...Tags: Linthicum, American Cancer Society, United Nations, Clarksville, Religion and Belief
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Arab hip-hop's El Rass takes on rap and revolution
BEIRUT — When Mazen El Sayed, a.k.a. El Rass, picks up a microphone, his provocative phrasings may lock in on any number of targets: Islamic clerics, the West, Arab regimes, social inequities. "We are all made from the same steel," the Lebanese hip-...Tags: Entertainment, Tripoli (Libya), Islam, Music, Beirut (Lebanon)
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