TEHRAN (WJC) — Iran is producing new generations of uranium enrichment centrifuges and plans to use them by March 2011, the head of the country’s Atomic Energy Organization told the ‘Fars’ news agency on Friday. “We are producing a new generation of centrifuges named IR3 and IR4 … We plan to use them by 2011 […]
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Travel and FoodSTRASBOURG, France (WJC)–Catherine Ashton, the European Union’s new foreign policy chief, has lashed out against Israel. In her first major speech since taking office on 01 December, Ashton – a former deputy minister in the British government and until recently EU trade commissioner – condemned Israel’s “occupation,” demanded that Israel lift its “blockade” of the
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Middle East, USAAUSCHWITZ, Poland (WJC)–The iron sign bearing the infamous Nazi slogan “Arbeit macht frei” (“Work sets you free”) that spanned the main entrance to the former Auschwitz death camp was stolen in the early hours of Friday, Polish police said. The sign was removed by being unscrewed on one side and pulled off on the other,
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Travel and FoodNEW YORK (Press Release)–The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) is supporting a petition signed by 39 Members of the Knesset calling upon the Israeli public to reconsider availing themselves of British goods and services in response to a recent British government initiative to recommend to all U.K. retail chains the placing of prominent labels indicating
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Middle EastBy Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C.–While the Europeans were busy recasting Jerusalem in the image of Cold War Berlin complete with a wall and two governments-one free and one not-the Palestinians were busy revealing what their presumed state would look like. Follow the threads. In June, Fatah reaffirmed “the right of armed resistance” (terrorism) in
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Middle EastNEW YORK (Press Release)—Our nation’s first African-American president,the pronounced intensification of global anti-Semitism, continued defiance from Iran, and an unabashedly biased anti-Israel report were among the top issues affecting Jews in 2009, according to the Anti-Defamation League’s (ADL) annual list. “Much of the good news from the past year is, unfortunately, tempered by the bad,”
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Middle East, USABy Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM–When Ehud Barak, the elected leader of Israel’s Labour Party, joined the Netanyahu government early this year as Minister of Defense, it was said in many quarters that he’d destroy the party that had already been greatly diminished in the election. The fact that several members of his Knesset faction rebelled
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Middle EastBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM–According to Israelis and others who talk and write about the country, it is the worst or the best place on earth. Hyperbole is the language of those who love and hate it. It is often in the cross hairs of international organizations flying the flags of justice and humane behavior. Or
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Middle East, USANEW YORK (Press Release)– Many governments’ policies toward migrants worldwide expose them to human rights abuses including labor exploitation, inadequate access to health care, and prolonged detention in poor, overcrowded conditions, Human Rights Watch said Wednesday in advance of International Migrants Day, on December 18, 2009. A 25-page roundup of Human Rights Watch reporting on violations
WASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release)–The Senate’s healthcare debate is moving toward landmark legislation that could protect Medicare for the future and eliminate problematic insurance practices while expanding coverage to millions. Consequently, B’nai B’rith International urges senators to consider long-term needs and include provisions from the Community Living Assistance Services and Support (CLASS) Act in the final
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Travel and FoodWASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release)—Senator John D. (Jay) Rockefeller IV, Chairman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, joined with Ranking Member Kay Bailey Hutchison and Senators Byron L. Dorgan, Chairman of the U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Aviation Operations, Safety, and Security, and Jim DeMint, Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Subcommittee on
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Travel and FoodJEFFERSON CITY, Missouri (Press Release) – Matt J. Whitworth, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Columbia, Missouri, man pleaded guilty in federal court Wednesday to illegally transferring funds to Iraq in violation of federal sanctions. Ahmad Mustafa, 55, of Columbia, a citizen of Iraq and a lawful permanent resident alien
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USAWASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release)–Credit Suisse AG, a Swiss corporation headquartered in Zurich, has agreed to forfeit $536 million to the United States and to the New York County District Attorney’s Office in connection with violations of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) and New York state law. The forfeiture is the largest ever entered
WASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) – The United States and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) last week signed an agreement in Abu Dhabi to begin a cooperative effort to detect, deter, and interdict illicit smuggling of nuclear and other radioactive material. The agreement, signed by U.S. Deputy Secretary of Energy Daniel Poneman and UAE Deputy Minister of
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