“Guns have nowhere near the effectiveness of the bombs in terms of raw killing capacity.” Damascus, June 13 – The government of Syria issued its official statement this morning on yesterday’s Orlando nightclub shooting, including President Basher Assad’s expression of ...
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As more details emerge it will be easier to seize on one or two of the details of the attack and use them to shoehorn the Palestinian issue to center stage. Ramallah, June 7 – A powerful car bomb exploded in ...
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Few Syrians have access to kale. Park Slope, June 1 – A group of socially-conscious, politically-aware Brooklyn residents have decided to help alleviate the suffering of the embattled Syrian people by collecting their excess leafy greens and donating them to ...
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Trainers and staff with the Syrian firing squad team have been practicing intensively for years, often gunning down hundreds of people a week. Damascus, May 30 – Syrian President Basher Assad is reportedly fuming at a decision of the International ...
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“It will be helpful to His Highness King Abbas to consult with hoi polloi and then do as he pleases to preserve his power.” Versailles, Palestinian Autonomous Territories, May 25 – Faced with an increasing gap between the economic fortunes ...
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Divergent treatment of terrorism targeting Europeans and terrorism targeting Israelis and Jews has strained the double standards inventory in Western Europe. Paris, May 18 – French Minister of Foreign Affairs Jean-Marc Ayrault announced today that his country would postpone the Middle ...
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Adherence to those rules is the responsibility of each vendor, not the publisher or author, explained organizer spokesman Jabr Waqqi. Ramallah, May 16 – Controversy erupted at a regional book fair in the Palestinian capital this week after visitors discovered for ...
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Muslims have perpetrated 100% of the bombings in Baghdad since the collapse of Saddam Hussein’s regime. Baghdad, May 11 – Following the deaths of more than 60 people this morning in an Islamic State car bomb attack in the Iraqi ...
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“Not even the supposedly enlightened, liberal countries of Europe have a law such as this one.” Tehran, May 4 – In a move aimed at making the country and society more progressive, the government of Iran announced this morning it ...
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“Happy now?” asked a sneering Security Council. “There’s your stupid Syria session.” New York, May 6 – The United Nations Security Council engaged in a shouting match with its mother today over tackling issues that are not the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, ...
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