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Foreign midshipmen forge international ties
Like her classmates at the U.S. Naval Academy, Midshipman 1st Class Dagmara Broniatowska learned how to salute, ran the endurance course and memorized the body of American military information, history and quotations known as the Rates. In her "four...
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Mr. Abbas' mission
Signs of movement toward renewed cooperation between the Palestinian Authority and Hamas have Israeli officials on edge. Israel considers Hamas a terrorist organization committed to its destruction and has shunned negotiations. In the wake of...Tags: Hamas, West Bank, Elections, Gaza Crisis (2008), Gaza Strip
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The media's double standard for rioters
I have noticed a strange difference in how the media (including the FOX propaganda channel) cover similar events — and no, I'm not talking about the budget nonsense or any other Washington stupidity. I mean the way you refer to the young people...Tags: Standards, Fox Broadcasting Company, Wars and Interventions, Finance, England
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Muddled Middle East
When revolutions in Tunisia and Egypt erupted earlier this year quickly forced out long-time autocratic rulers, many in the West hoped that the pro-democracy demonstrations there would unleash a tidal wave of change across the Arab world. To an extent,...Tags: Barack Obama, Democracy, Jerusalem (Israel), U.S. House of Representatives, Hosni Mubarak
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Obama's Mideast speech: Israel and the Arab Spring
The most surprising aspect of President Barack Obama's speech Thursday on U.S. policy in the Middle East may have been his strongly worded call for a two-state solution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, based on Israel's boundaries before 1967....Tags: Barack Obama, Ali Abdullah Saleh, Democracy, Heads of State, Israel
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Foreign tourism offices
For tourist information on selected foreign destinations, contact the government offices below. For information about a country not listed, call the United Nations at 212-963-1234, dial 0 and ask for the number of the country's U.N. mission or delegation....Tags: Luxembourg, Swiss Confederation, Norway, Singapore, Ethiopia
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Israeli attorney general is faced with decision on fate of Sharon
Sun Foreign StaffJERUSALEM - He is a career civil servant who spent years toiling in obscurity as a lawyer in the Justice Ministry, an unassuming official with little experience in criminal law who now holds the fate of Israel's prime minister in his hands. It is up to...Tags: Justice System, Criminal Laws, Ehud Olmert, Criminals, National Government
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ANALYSIS-Crackdown on radical Islamists tests Tunisia's stability
Reuters* Moderate Islamist-led government cracks down on Salafists * Rupture raises risk of fuelling armed radicals in N.Africa * Main Salafist group rejects state, shuns elections * Secular Tunisians fear for freedom, stability By Tarek Amara TUNIS, May 23...Tags: Zine el Abidine ben Ali, Afghanistan, Police Arrests, Al-Qaeda, National Government
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Analysis: Crackdown on radical Islamists tests Tunisia's stability
ReutersTUNIS (Reuters) - For the first time since the Arab Spring uprisings of 2011, relations between mainstream Islamists in government and radical Salafist Muslim activists have reached breaking point, sparking deadly clashes in two Tunisian cities. The...Tags: Afghanistan, Police Arrests, National Government, Libya, Feminism
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Swiss seek to facilitate restitution of dictator loot
Reuters* Draft law first of its kind - Swiss Foreign Ministry * Swiss blocked $1 billion of Arab Spring loot ZURICH, May 22 (Reuters) - Switzerland proposed on Wednesday a new law to make it easier to freeze assets stolen and salted away by foreign leaders and...Tags: Geneva (Swiss Confederation), Swiss Confederation, Theft, Libya, Zurich (Swiss Confederation)
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Tunisia announces first death from new coronavirus
ReutersTunis (Reuters) - A 66-year-old Tunisian man has died from new coronavirus, a strain of a virus that emerged in the Middle East last year, after a visit to Saudi Arabia, the health ministry said on Tuesday. The man, a diabetic, died in hospital in the...Tags: French Literature, Medical Procedures and Tests, Viral Diseases and Infections, Diabetes, Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome
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