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16 Jun. 2024
Europe Between Hope and Fear
The federal tendency runs counter to the European political tradition based on national sovereignty. In fact, Western Europe, the heartland of the EU, is the birthplace of the very concept of the nation-state, built on the ruins of various empires, a
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2 Mar. 2018
Fire kills at least 26 people in drug treatment center in capital of Azerbaijan
BAKU (Reuters) – A fire killed at least 26 people in a drug abuse treatment center in Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan, a health ministry source told Reuters on Friday. (Reporting by Nailia Bagirova; Writing by Polina Nikolskaya; Edi
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2 Mar. 2018
Indonesia considers house arrest for ailing radical cleric
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — The Indonesian government is considering house arrest or other forms of clemency for the ailing radical cleric who was the ideological leader of the Bali bombers and is now in prison for helping to fund a jihadist training cam
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18 Jun. 2024
Israel Gave Work Permits, While Palestinians Planned Oct. 7 Massacre
Prior to the October 7 massacre, more than 170,000 Palestinians were working in Israel, constituting an important source of income for the Palestinian economy…. The Palestinians from the Gaza Strip who were permitted to work in Israel received many of
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7 Oct. 2019
‘The Trick Is Not To Expect It But To Delight In It When It Comes’ – Did Charles Dickens Say This Quote About Happiness?
‘It doesn’t even sound like him’
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17 Jun. 2024
China's 170 Million Spy Balloons and other Venus Fly Traps
“China owns $870 billion in U.S. Treasuries that finance our debt. And they either own or have a huge portion of the Chicago Stock Exchange, AMC movie theaters, General Electric’s appliance division, General Motors, and Smithfield Foods just to name a
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2 Mar. 2018
Burkina Faso police director general says capital is being attacked by suspected Islamic extremists
OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso (AP) — Burkina Faso police director general says capital is being attacked by suspected Islamic extremists.
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15 Jun. 2024
As US Is Being Encircled by Enemies, the US Administration Wants Israel to Surrender to Terrorists
While Russian warships, including a nuclear submarine, this week docked in Cuba, and with China building a major deep-water port in Peru that could serve the Chinese military, the US administration is pressuring only Israel to allow the Iran-backed
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10 Jun. 2024
Talisman of Great Expurgation
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken says Hamas has been so degraded that it won’t be able to repeat the October massacre against Israel. Maybe. The Biden plan is part of a pattern of the US behaving as a terzo incomodo [third wheel] in vaudeville, a
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1 Mar. 2018
Explosion heard in Afghan capital Kabul: Reuters witness
KABUL (Reuters) – A police official said a suicide bomber had struck in the Afghan capital, Kabul, after a loud explosion was heard in an area close to foreign embassies on Friday. Police sirens could be heard in the area but there was no imm
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1 Mar. 2018
A police official in Afghanistan says a large explosion has occurred in eastern Kabul
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — A police official in Afghanistan says a large explosion has occurred in eastern Kabul.
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21 Feb. 2017
Why Professors Object to Being Recorded
After the election of Donald Trump as president, a professor at Orange Coast College in California, Olga Perez Stable Cox, went into an extended hate-rant against the president-elect. Among other things, she described the Trump election as an “act of terrorism,” labelled him a “white supremacist” and called Vice-President-El...
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