As a leading Israeli human rights activist and Holocaust survivor, Shakah reviewed Jewish fundamentalist history, examined its strains, and explained the dangers of extremist messianic ones. They oppose equality of Jews and non-Jews and destroy democratic values by espousing dogma calling Jews superior to all others.
Upon receipt of a B. S. degree in biology, an acquaintance of mine -- let's call her Linda -- decided to spend the summer in Asia working at a small medical clinic that had a staffing shortage. The clinic was near a major river on whose banks were crowded thousands of families living in small densely packed hovels whose heaped together mass stretched as far as the eye could see.
England’s Daily Express reported on August 4 that “thousands of the worst families in England are to be put in ‘sin bins’ in a bid to change their bad behavior.” Ed Balls, the Children’s Secretary, has announced a 400 million pound plan to put Closed Circuit Television (CCTV) cameras in 20,000 homes in Britain, says the Express, “to ensure that children attend school, go to bed on time and eat proper meals.”
China has urged the international community to respect Myanmar's judicial sovereignty, amid growing outrage over the sentencing of opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi to a further 18 months under house arrest.
At least 70 people are reported to have been killed and dozens injured in a major battle between Taliban fighters and another tribal group in Pakistan.
Eleven senior leaders from the Gaza Strip have resigned from Fatah’s highest committee in protest at the election process and results of their movement's top decision-making body.
Chinese prosecutors have formally arrested four employees of Anglo-Australian mining giant Rio Tinto five weeks after detaining them on suspicion of corporate espionage and taking bribes.
The US president has launched an attack on insurance companies who he accuses of limiting people's access to medical care, during a town hall session on health reform.
Eunice Kennedy Shriver, the younger sister of assassinated US president John F Kennedy and the founder of the Special Olympics, has died at the age of 88.
US troops backed by fighter jets have entered a strategic Taliban-held town in southern Afghanistan, to gain control of the area before next week's presidential elections.
The government of the Democratic Republic of Congo and the United Nations must do more to ensure the safety of civilians living in the war-torn east of the country, the US secretary of state has said.
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Witnesses in a remote southern Taiwan village have told media more than 600 people may have been buried by a mudslide triggered by Typhoon Morakot.
Chinese prosecutors have formally arrested four employees of Anglo-Australian mining giant Rio Tinto five weeks after detaining them on suspicion of corporate espionage and taking bribes.
