Michelle Obama Calls Laura Bush A Role Model, Friend
By Annika McGinnis WASHINGTON, Aug 6 (Reuters) - U.S. first lady Michelle Obama said she considered her predecessor Laura Bush a "role model and a friend," as the two took the stage together on...
View ArticleWar on Gaza a 'Tie' With Hamas
The images were different, but two words were repeated in most TV graphics announcing the start of the ceasefire. "Gaza victorious" (Gaza tantaser) were the words superimposed on images of Palestinian...
View ArticlePatient In New York Hospital Tests Negative For Ebola
A patient who is being held in isolation at The Mount Sinai Hospital in New York has tested negative for ebola, the hospital reported on Wednesday. "We would like to report that the Centers for Disease...
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Negotiating With Terrorists: Lessons From South Africa
In an opinion piece that ran in The Guardian last Friday, Britain's Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg took a stand for peace. In the article, he made the claim that the only way Israel and Hamas can...
View ArticleObama: 'I Have No Sympathy For Hamas'
WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama continued his forceful defense of Israel on Wednesday, blaming Hamas for the conflict in Gaza that has left nearly 1,900 Palestinians and 67 Israelis dead. "I have...
View ArticleLessons From a Summer Vacation at War
I was out to dinner in Jerusalem last week with a group of friends, some American, some Israeli. It was a mostly upbeat evening, with good food and wine, a bit too much of both. Thoughts of the war...
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Israel, Gaza, War & Data: Social Networks and the Art of Personalizing...
It's hard to shake away the utterly depressing feeling that comes with news coverage these days. IDF and Hamas are at it again, a vicious cycle of violence, but this time it feels much more intense....
View ArticleThe Final Solution Of The Christian Arab Question In The Middle East
In 2003, as President George W. Bush unleashed his invasion of Iraq-based on the false premise of WMDs- for the overarching goal of reengineering the Arab world to conform to Western notions of...
View ArticleEbola Hearing Details Real Risks Of Deadly Disease Hitting U.S.
WASHINGTON -- What are the real risks of Ebola spreading to the United States? That was one of the topics at a congressional hearing Thursday on the deadly disease outbreak in West Africa. The short...
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Haunting Photos Of Iraqi Minorities On The Run From The Islamic State
As Islamic State fighters extended their offensive into northern Iraq on Thursday, members of Iraq's minority communities fled in search of refuge. The militant group has warned that it would execute...
View ArticleUkraine: Rebels Have Shot Down A Ukrainian Military Plane
By Richard Balmforth and Pavel Polityuk KIEV, Aug 7 (Reuters) - The head of NATO called on Russia to "step back from the brink" of war by pulling its troops back from the Ukrainian border and warned...
View ArticleFDA Enables Potential Use Of Experimental Ebola Drug On Infected Patients
By Rod Nickel Aug 7 (Reuters) - Tekmira Pharmaceutical Corp said on Thursday that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration had modified its clinical hold status on Tekmira's experimental Ebola treatment...
View ArticleAmerican Forces Said To Bomb ISIS Targets In Iraq - NYTimes.com
DOHUK, Iraq — American military forces bombed at least two targets in northern Iraq on Thursday night to rout Islamist insurgents who have trapped tens of thousands of religious minorities in Kurdish...
View ArticleAfricans Face Long Wait For Unproven Ebola Drug
MONROVIA, Liberia (AP) — Africans seeking a drug to help contain the Ebola virus will have to wait months before a potentially life-saving experimental treatment used on two infected Americans is...
View ArticleStarbucks: We Don't Give Money To Israel
WASHINGTON -- The global coffee company Starbucks released a statement this week to clarify apparent misconceptions about the company's patronage of Israel. In a fact sheet updated Aug. 5, Starbucks...
View ArticleEmpowering Women, Empowering Humanity. Picture It!
By Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, Executive Director of UN Women Nearly 20 years ago, the world came together in Beijing for the Fourth World Conference on Women. There, 189 governments adopted a visionary...
View ArticlePentagon: No U.S. Air Strikes Have Taken Place In Iraq
WASHINGTON, Aug 7 (Reuters) - Media reports that the United States has struck targets in Iraq are not accurate, a Pentagon spokesman said on Thursday, as Islamist militants advanced across northern...
View ArticlePentagon Denies Reports U.S. Hit Militant Targets In Iraq
The Pentagon denied reports that U.S. forces had bombed targets in northern Iraq on Thursday. In a message posted on Twitter, Pentagon press secretary John Kirby said reports that the U.S. had...
View ArticleWhat Hamas and ISIS Have In Common
In the most disturbing development in the bloody saga of Iraq yet, the militant group ISIS has taken over a crucial dam which could cause a humanitarian crisis of disastrous proportions for religious...
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'Virgins Wanted' At NYC Film Festival
Nothing arouses controversy like a movie about a man and a woman auctioning off their virginity. A documentary called "Virgins Wanted" purportedly tells the true story of what happened in November...
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