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Palestinian President Meets Ronald Lauder of the World Jewish Congress in the West Bank: Report

Palestinian President Meets Ronald Lauder of the World Jewish Congress in the West Bank: Report

Palestinian Met with President Mahmoud Abbas World Jewish Congress West Bank President Ronald Lauder told Reuters a Palestinian minister on Saturday. The talks follow Lauder’s call for renewed peace talks between the two groups. On September 16, Lauder, a US businessman and heir to the SD Lauder companies, told the Saudi newspaper Arab News that he believed that the White …

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Russian police broke up anti-Putin protests in the Far East

Russian police broke up anti-Putin protests in the Far East

Reuters reports. Protests against the Kremlin have been going on for three months in the town of Khabarovsk, 3,800 miles east of Moscow. Locals are angry over President Vladimir Putin’s decision to arrest prominent local governor Sergei Furgal. Video footage on social media of a woman asking, “In what country do you live?” Proponents of her case have been working …

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Doctors are asking what is wrong with the virus filling French ICUs fresh

Doctors are asking what is wrong with the virus filling French ICUs fresh

PARIS (AP) – During an overnight shift this week, three new COVID-19 patients were taken to Dr. Kareem Depot’s small intensive care unit in the southern French city of Arles. At his service are now more viral patients than the first wave of infections, and are eager to create new ICU beds elsewhere in the hospital to accommodate the sick. …

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The low-income quarter should grow. A valuable forest can pay the price.

The low-income quarter should grow.  A valuable forest can pay the price.

JERUSALEM – A blistering afternoon in the mountains west of Jerusalem, people from all walks of life swam in the Israeli spring pools and picnicked in a Buccaneer refuge called Ain Lavan in the shade of the fig trees, as they had done for years. But they will not have much time to enjoy it. Developers want to build 5,000 …

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