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Was Durban II a success or failure? - Jewish Telegraphic Agency

Jewish Telegraphic Agency
By Michael J. Jordan · April 27, 2009 GENEVA (JTA) — The question of whether last week's Durban Review Conference was a success or a failure is in the eye of the beholder.
guardian.co.uk
Boston Globe
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Written on April 27, 2009 | Posted in World News | No comment

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Obama avoids using ‘genocide' in Armenian statement - Jewish Telegraphic Agency

Jewish Telegraphic Agency
WASHINGTON (JTA) — President Obama avoided using the word "genocide" to describe the killing of 1.5 million Armenians by Turks in 1915.
Newsweek
Seattle Times
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Written on April 27, 2009 | Posted in World News | No comment

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Military agency document called extreme duress 'torture' - Boston Globe

Boston Globe
By Peter Finn and Joby Warrick WASHINGTON - The military agency that helped to devise harsh interrogation techniques for use against terrorism suspects referred to the application of extreme duress as "torture" in a July 2002 document sent to the …
Examiner.com
Atlantic Online
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Written on April 25, 2009 | Posted in National News | No comment

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Israel unlikely to cooperate in UN Gaza probe - Jewish Telegraphic Agency

Jewish Telegraphic Agency
(JTA) — Israel is unlikely to cooperate with an investigation into war crimes during the Gaza war because it does not trust the UN agency performing the probe.
Jerusalem Post
AFP
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Written on April 17, 2009 | Posted in World News | No comment

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Hezbollah plot in Egypt highlights shared interests with Israel - Jewish Telegraphic Agency

Jewish Telegraphic Agency
By Leslie Susser · April 13, 2009 JERUSALEM (JTA) — The discovery of a Hezbollah terrorist network in Egypt and reports of an Iranian plot to assassinate President Hosni Mubarak have left already strained relations between Egypt and Iran in tatters.
Al Jazeera
BBC News
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Written on April 13, 2009 | Posted in World News | No comment

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Demjanjuk deportation stayed - Jewish Telegraphic Agency

Jewish Telegraphic Agency
JERUSALEM (JTA) — A US immigration judge granted an indefinite stay of deportation for convicted Nazi guard John Demjanjuk. Demjanjuk, 89, who was stripped in 2002 of his US citizenship for lying about his Nazi past as a guard at the Sobibor death …
The Associated Press
CNN International
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Written on April 5, 2009 | Posted in National News | No comment

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Fatah-Hamas unity talks suspended - Jewish Telegraphic Agency

Jewish Telegraphic Agency
"There are new creative proposals and each movement needs to consult its leadership," senior Fatah official Nabil Shaath told AFP, the French news service, on Thursday.
Xinhua
Jerusalem Post
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Written on April 3, 2009 | Posted in World News | No comment

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No plans for US-Iran meet - Jewish Telegraphic Agency

Jewish Telegraphic Agency
WASHINGTON (JTA) — There are no plans for US engagement with Iran at a conference on Afghanistan. The policy outlined Wednesday by State Department spokesman Robert Wood underscored continuity on Iran strategies between the Bush and Obama …
PRESS TV
AFP
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