PreOccupied Territory The News In Advance. Barely.

“We basically invented airplane hijacking as a political tool, but to hear UNESCO tell it, that was just a bunch of Syrians.” Paris, October 13 – On the heels of celebrating a decision by the United Nations Educational, Social, and ...

A steady supply of currency for the ATMs was made possible late last week when the Obama administration allowed Iran access to the US dollar. Washington, October 9 – Following months of awkwardness over the propriety and necessity of shipping pallets ...

“It is beyond heinous for a nation founded in the wake of Nazi genocide to be pumping gas in any direction,” declared Human Rights Watch Director Ken Roth. Amman, September 28 – Human rights organizations and diplomatic officials expressed shock ...

“This man has the Gaul – excuse me, the gall – to dictate to followers of Islam what their values should be.” Paris, September 26 – Muslim community organizations and individual adherents of Islam voiced surprise and anger today upon ...

“It would be an excellent first step toward establishing the kind of relations we might want to develop with Israel and the larger Jewish world.” Dubai, September 22 – New strategic alignments and a growing appreciation of geopolitical realities around the ...

They wonder what the early-twenty-first-century youth population has against them. Ur, September 18 – Residents of this Mesopotamian city-state admitted consternation today over the common use of their location’s name in online communication, most commonly when teens and other young ...

“We were like dreamers,” recalled Shad-Din Froideh, 77. Ramallah, September 11 – Purveyors of sweets in the Palestinian territories are recalling with fondness the booming sales they enjoyed following the attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon fifteen years ...

“Obama is bending over – as well as bending over backwards – for us, enabling us to exceed the limits of the nuclear deal with no adverse consequences.” Tehran, September 11 – The international community’s inability to stymie North Korea ...

“Oh, that Basher,” they chuckled and shook their heads. “He doesn’t play by anyone else’s rules.” Aleppo, September 7 – Embattled Syrian President Basher Assad’s forces deployed chemical weapons against insurgents in this ancient city once more this week, prompting ...

To do so would require that users encounter those pages, which in turn requires that such users exist. Mountain View, CA, August 31 – Executives at Google have noted that whereas controversy has erupted for years over the use of ...