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(AP) An Israeli committee has handed the government its proposal for ending a system granting Jewish ultra-Orthodox seminary students automatic exemptions from military service.These exemptions have generated widespread resentment in a country where military service is compulsory for Jewish citizens. Public ...
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(AP) Israel's prime minister says a new report by the U.N. atomic agency shows that international pressure is having no effect on halting Iran's suspect nuclear program.In a confidential report, the International Atomic Energy Agency said this week that Iran has ...
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(AP) Cairo, the Arab world's most populated city, is often referred to as an open-air museum of Islamic antiquities and the city of 1,000 minarets.But its rich history and contributions to Islamic art has languished.The city has seen some of its ...
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(AP) An Iranian semi-official news agency reports the country is denying that an unmanned drone violated the airspace of Bahrain, the strategic Gulf kingdom that hosts the U.S. Navy's 5th Fleet.The Thursday report by ISNA quotes an unnamed official in Iran's ...
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(AP) Syria's fighting has uprooted more than half of the country's 530,000 Palestinians _ descendants of refugees from a Mideast conflict half a century ago _ and their situation is becoming increasingly desperate, the head of a U.N. aid agency said ...
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(AP) The United States and Israel are raising hopes for a restart of the Middle East peace process after more than four years of hardly any talks.As they started their meeting Thursday in Jerusalem, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry praised ...
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(AP) It was one of the most perplexing events of Egypt's revolution: orchestrated attacks on prisons around the country that broke out more than 20,000 inmates while police were tied down with the massive popular protests that swept autocrat Hosni Mubarak ...
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(AP) The massive circular structure appears to be an archaeologists dream: a recently discovered antiquity that could reveal secrets of ancient life in the Middle East and is just waiting to be excavated.It's thousands of years old _ a conical, manmade ...
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(AP) Main domestic and international issues facing Iran ahead of its June 14 presidential election:___NUCLEAR QUESTION: Four rounds of revived talks between Iran and world powers since last year have produced no important headway in the Tehran's impasse with the West. ...
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(AP) Bahrain's Interior Ministry says an Iranian drone has been found in the strategic Gulf kingdom that hosts the U.S. Navy's 5th Fleet.The statement Wednesday gave no other details. Bahrain has repeatedly accused Shiite Iran of encouraging the more than 2-year-long ...
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(AP) Secretary of State John Kerry says the United States and its Arab and European allies will step up their support for Syria's opposition to help them "fight for the freedom of their country" if President Bashar Assad's regime doesn't engage ...
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(AP) The Israeli military has jailed a young man for six months for refusing to serve because of his opposition to Israel's occupation of the West Bank, focusing attention on the longstanding conflict between the country's universal military service and divided ...
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(AP) Saudi Arabia on Tuesday executed five Yemenis convicted of crimes and displayed their bodies in public as a deterrent for future criminals, the government said.The Interior Ministry said the five were convicted of setting up a gang that carried out ...
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(AP) The eight candidates approved Tuesday for Iran's June 14 presidential election to replace Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who cannot run again because of term limits.___ALI AKBAR VELAYATI: Top adviser to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on international affairs. Velayati, 67, served as ...
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(AP) A Palestinian report shows human rights abuses by the rival governments in the West Bank and Gaza are on the rise.The Palestinian Independent Commission for Human Rights said in its annual report Tuesday that incidents of abuse are up 10 ...
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