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Syria blames Israel for predawn blasts near Damascus
BEIRUT — Huge explosions were reported in Damascus early Sunday, just two days after a reported Israeli airstrike in Syria targeting surface-to-air missiles possibly destined for neighboring Lebanon and the militant group Hezbollah. Syrian state...
Tags: Lebanon, Defense, National Government, Benjamin Netanyahu, Research
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May Day observer asks: 'Are things changing in their favor?'
Standing in front of an electronics store on Broadway in downtown Los Angeles, Nissem Bachsian watched the May Day protesters stream by, as he does every year. There were immigrant rights groups chanting “Si se puede” — “Yes...
Tags: Science and Technology, Crime, Law and Justice, International Workers' Day, Civil Rights, Immigration
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Syria rejects Turkish accusations in deadly bombings
BEIRUT — Syria on Sunday rejected Turkish charges that Damascus was behind a pair of devastating car bomb attacks in southern Turkey that killed 46 people and left scores injured. The bombings provided a worrisome indication of how the civil war...
Tags: Bashar Assad, Politics, Turkey, United Nations, Bombings
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4 U.N. peacekeepers released by Syrian rebels
BEIRUT--Syrian rebels released four U.N. peacekeepers Sunday, five days after the Filipino troops were seized in the increasingly volatile buffer zone between Syria and the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights. A rebel group reportedly said the four...
Tags: Philippines, Politics, Manila (Philippines), United Nations, National Government
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Israelis worried that U.N. may quit patrolling Syrian border
JERUSALEM — Israeli officials said Sunday they were watching the Syrian border in the Golan Heights area with growing concern following the reported release of four U.N. peacekeepers held by Syrian rebels for five days. The Israeli fear is that...
Tags: Politics, National Government, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Government, Wars and Interventions
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Iranians protest desecration of Syrian shrine
TEHRAN -- Iranians took to the streets Friday in the latest protest against the desecration last week by Syrian rebels of an ancient Shiite shrine outside Damascus, the Syrian capital. "We have to show our anger," declared Ebrahim Jalili, 80, a carpet...Tags: Beirut (Lebanon), National Government, Islam, Government, Religion and Belief
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Women's prayer at Western Wall sparks protest
JERUSALEM -- Thousands of ultra-Orthodox Jews flooded into the Old City’s Western Wall Plaza early Friday in a boisterous and sometimes violent protest against a group of female activists exercising a newly court-affirmed right to pray at the holy...
Tags: Torah, U.S. Embassy, Police Arrests, Feminism, Religion and Belief
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Letters: Malibu dream
Re "Malibu mogul," Business, May 5 Please tell me that billionaire Oracle Corp. Chief Executive Larry Ellison, who is buying up expensive estates on the Malibu waterfront, is really an altruist who will tear down the houses so mere mortals can have an...Tags: Larry Ellison, Oracle Corp.
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Letters: The Alzheimer's journey
Re "Her illness, his obsession," May 5 I felt such a connection to Ken Chiate after reading the beautifully written story of his determination to treat his wife's Alzheimer's disease. My husband has dementia, or as I call it, "Mr. Hyde." I tried a...
Tags: Diseases and Illnesses, Alzheimer's Disease, General Practitioners, Enbrel (drug)
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Former Gov. Mark Sanford wins South Carolina House seat
WASHINGTON — Two years after Mark Sanford left the South Carolina governor’s office tarred by an adultery scandal, he has completed an unlikely political comeback to win a special congressional election. Sanford defeated Democratic neophyte...
Tags: Greg Walden, Democratic Party, Tim Scott, Jenny Sanford, Jim DeMint
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Syria blames Israel for new explosions in Damascus
BEIRUT -- Huge explosions were reported early Sunday in the Syrian capital, Damascus, and state-run media blamed Israel for a strike on a defense research facility outside the capital. State television said Israeli rockets had targeted a research...
Tags: Lebanon, Beirut (Lebanon), Emergency Incidents, Richard Nixon, National Government
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Letters: Getting into and out of Israel
Re "Israel's free pass from Boxer," Opinion, April 28 Israel has the right and obligation to protect its citizens from harm. Contrary to George Bisharat's assertion, no "free pass" will be given to Israel to racially profile Americans entering that...Tags: Barbara Boxer, Politics, Personal Data Collection, U.S. Congress, Interior Policy
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