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Israel must protect its Beduin citizens
One day each summer, my childhood camp was magically transformed into a mini-Israel for "Yom Yisrael," Israel Day. My favorite part of Yom Yisrael was the Beduin tent. There was something mysterious and astonishing about the characters who served us sweet, strong coffee and welcomed us to sit with them on the tent's floor. I was taught that the Beduin were part of the very ...
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Reality Check Israel’s modern-day royal family
It's a shame Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu spent the flight to London for Margaret Thatcher's funeral asleep on the double bed that cost the taxpayer an extra half-a-million shekels. He could have used the flight time more profitably by reading up on a how a truly great conservative leader regarded the use of taxpayers' money for prime ministerial personal comforts.Soon ...
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Health minister attacks dental health protection
Fluoridation of community water supplies is under attack by the new health minister, despite its success in Israel in reducing dental caries in ...
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Israel acts to deny Hezbollah arms says PM Netanyahu
Israel is "acting" to prevent weapons from Syria from reaching Lebanon's Hezbollah and will continue to do so, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on ...
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Struggling with urban decay Detroit now has a mountain of unwanted coke
The vistas in struggling Detroit are not always beautiful. Once-grand commercial buildings stand open to the winds while wild grasses strangle those swathes of the city where abandoned homes have been razed. And now residents must deal with an enormous and fast-growing mountain of pitch-black ...
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Senior member of Imran Khans Tehreek-e-Insaf party assassinated as row over Pakistan election vote rigging continues
Police officer Sarfaraz Nawaz says Zohra Shahid was gunned down outside her home in the city of Karachi in southern Sindh province. She was the vice president of former Pakistani cricket star Imran Khan's Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party in Sindh.No one has claimed responsibility for the killing.Mr Khan's party has claimed it was the victim of vote rigging in several areas of Pakistan, ...
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Hezbollah steps up Syria battle Israel threatens more strikes
AMMAN (Reuters) - Lebanese Hezbollah militants attacked a Syrian rebel-held town alongside Syrian troops on Sunday and Israel threatened more attacks on Syria to rein the militia in, highlighting the risks of a wider regional conflict if planned peace talks ...
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Obama to discuss legality of drone program
WASHINGTON President Barack Obama will discuss the legality of his administration's secret drone program and other counterterrorism practices during a speech Thursday, a White House official said. Obama's speech will be an attempt to fulfill his State of the Union pledge to be more "transparent" with the public about the controversial drone program that has become the ...
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Have recent controversies paralyzed Washington
CBS News political director John Dickerson, Politico's Lois Romano, the New York Times' David Sanger, and the Washington Post's Dan Balz discuss whether recent controversies will prevent Washington from doing any actual ...
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Nadal and Serena triumph in Rome
After all these years, Rafael Nadal still knows how to dominate Roger Federer. In the 30th meeting between the two tennis greats, Nadal controlled the final from start to finish to win 6-1, 6-3 on Sunday for his seventh Italian Open title. It was the most lop-sided win in the series since Nadal also lost just four games, but over three sets, in the 2008 French Open final against Federer. ...
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Al-Qaeda exploits oilfields
Al-Qaeda's Syrian wing is financing its activities by selling oil from the fields that once helped to prop up the regime of Bashar al-Assad. Up to 380,000 barrels of crude oil were previously produced by wells around the city of Raqqa and in the desert region to its east that are now in rebel hands. The strongest faction in this part of the county is Jabhat al-Nusra, the al-Qaeda offshoot. The ...
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Al-Qaeda exploits oilfields
Al-Qaeda's Syrian wing is financing its activities by selling oil from the fields that once helped to prop up the regime of Bashar al-Assad. Up to 380,000 barrels of crude oil were previously produced by wells around the city of Raqqa and in the desert region to its east that are now in rebel hands. The strongest faction in this part of the county is Jabhat al-Nusra, the al-Qaeda ...
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$710m jackpot to one ticket
A single ticket holder has won America's US$590 million ($710.85 million) Powerball jackpot - one of the biggest lottery wins recorded. The lone winner was sold at a supermarket in Zephyrhills, Florida, said Florida Lottery executive Cindy O'Connell. The winner was not immediately identified and Ms O'Connell did not give any indication hours after yesterday's draw whether anyone had come forward ...
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$710m Powerball prize yet to be claimed
A single ticket holder has won America's US$590 million ($710.85 million) Powerball jackpot - one of the biggest lottery wins recorded. The lone winner was sold at a supermarket in Zephyrhills, Florida, said Florida Lottery executive Cindy O'Connell. The winner was not immediately identified and Ms O'Connell did not give any indication hours after yesterday's draw whether anyone had come forward ...
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Tory swivel eyed loons hit back at inner circles slur
David Cameron has been told by Conservative activists that he must repair the broken relationship between the party leadership and the grassroots, branded by one of his inner circle as "swivel-eyed loons". One leading activist accused elements at the top of the party of "utter contempt" for supporters, while a leading MP said activists were being treated as "pariahs". They spoke ...
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$6m to keep tabs on Assange
The cost of policing the Ecuadorean Embassy in Knightsbridge while WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange takes refuge inside has now risen to £3.3 million ($6.2 million), Scotland Yard has disclosed. Assange has been hiding from the law in a cramped basement room at the embassy for nearly a year. By the time the anniversary falls on June 19, policing costs are expected to have gone ...
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Scientists unravel secret world of mammoths from clues in ivory tusks
The first time I met palaeontologist Dan Fisher was in a hotel in the Arctic frontier town of Salekhard, in Siberia. I was there to film an expedition to recover a new mammoth specimen with a BBC crew. We were keen to head north into the tundra of the Yamal Peninsula, where we'd heard new mammoth carcasses had been discovered. After sharing a large Mi-8 helicopter with a load of ...
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Lucky escapes in emergencies at Moscow Newark
Part of an airliner carrying about 130 people caught fire as it was landing in Moscow, and passengers evacuated the plane by jumping off one of its wings and shooting down an evacuation slide. The Emergencies Ministry said none of the passengers and crew members was injured by the fire on the landing gear of the Boeing 737 at Vnukovo Airport. A ministry statement said the plane belonging to ...
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More Polling Shows Americans Care About Benghazi IRS Scandals
A new poll from CNN demonstrates that Americans say the continuing investigations into two scandals that have arisen in the last week are important. According to the poll, 55 percent of those polled say the questions about the administration's conflicting stories on the cause of the September 11 attacks on the American diplomatic post in Benghazi are "very important," with ...
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Ctee finds IDF didnt kill Palestinian boy al-Dura in 2000
Netanyahu presented with gov't report finding that France 2 footage shows 12-year-old icon of second intifada was not hit with IDF bullets; claims French TV station edited footage to give misleading ...
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Oxford sex child abuse ring Nobody can feel sorry for them unless theyre sorry themselves Mother of grooming brothers blames rape victims for their horrific sex crimes
Mother of grooming gang rapists blames SCHOOLGIRLS for the horrific ordeal they suffered as she claims 'they were having sex at the age of ten instead of playing with ...
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Coronation Street star Neville Buswell denies allegations he flashed underage girl
He appeared in a one-off special edition of Coronation Street in Las Vegas in 1997, before being written back into the show in 2005. After six weeks on air, his character died of ...
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One dead two hurt including boy in Wales plane crash
A man has died while a boy and another man are fighting for their lives after a light aircraft crashed on the approach to an airport runway.The victim, who was a passenger in the plane, was pronounced dead at the scene of the accident at Caernarfon Airport in North Wales.A second man, aged in his 60s, suffered "serious multiple lower limb injuries" and a boy received head and abdomen ...
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Man dies in plane crash in Wales
A second man, aged in his 60s, suffered "serious multiple lower limb injuries" and a boy received head and abdomen injuries, according to the Welsh Ambulance ...
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Video battered mini-golf course gets back on its feet
Bill Geist meets Glenn Lynn, who has designed more than 400 mini-golf courses, and is adding one more to his list: Barnacle Bill's miniature golf course, which like many other Jersey Shore businesses was obliterated by Hurricane ...
Malaysia Feature
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Malaysia's 10th MP sets focus on education
On the 10th of June, 2010, the 10th Malaysia Plan was revealed to Malaysia’s news media, outlining what is essentially the government’s budget plans for the next five years. The 10th Malaysia Plan will therefore be in effect during 2011 to 2015. Malaysia is a vast country and the plan is therefore vast as well, a thick and complicated document, but one of the most important aspects of the plans announced in parliament were those that involve the education departments of the country.
Malaysia has an extensive public schooling system, operated under the belief that every child has a right to equal and fair opportunity in the country, a right that is enshrined in the constitution. The government spends around RM 7 billion on public education throughout the country, and in the 10MP, extremely important plans were outlined, aimed at increasing pre-school attendance from 67% of the population currently, to 87% by 2012. Read more
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