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Whatever happened to… Syria’s civil war?

What’s happening in Syria’s civil war? Fox News host Bret Baier has the latest on the Syrian civil war that erupted in 2011 and the Arab League’s consensus decision to bring Syria back into the fold on ‘Special Report.’ Fighting among various opposition groups in Syria has declined, but the …

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Kosovo becomes second Muslim-majority country to endorse organization’s definition of anti-Semitism

Kosovo became the second Muslim-majority country to endorse the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s (IHRA), an intergovernmental organization, definition of anti-Semitism, joining 43 other countries.  The southeastern European country passed the resolution on adopting the definition defined by the IHRA on Thursday, June 8.  The decision was announced on Twitter by …

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UN investigators accuse Israel of ‘delegitimizing’ Palestinian human rights group with terrorism accusations

Investigators commissioned by the U.N.’s top human rights body on Thursday accused Israel of “delegitimizing and silencing civil society” by outlawing Palestinian human rights groups and labeling their members as “terrorists.” The findings came in the annual report by the Human Rights Council’s “Commission of Inquiry.” The commission, led by …

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Haitians in severely overcrowded jails dying of thirst, starvation

The emaciated inmate in black shorts lay on a thin mat in Haiti’s most notorious prison, isolated from other prisoners at Port-au-Prince’s National Penitentiary because of drug-resistant tuberculosis. He slowly sat up to talk to a visiting reporter and more than 70 fellow tuberculosis patients gathered at the door of …

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Kosovo accuses US, EU of pro-Serbian bias in negotiations

Kosovo’s prime minister on Thursday complained of bias against his country from the United States and the European Union and tolerance of what he called Serbia’s authoritarian regime. Prime Minister Albin Kurti said his Cabinet took a different stance. “We insist that behaving well with an autocrat doesn’t make him …

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US suspends food aid to Ethiopia after investigation reveals ‘widespread’ supply theft

The United States Agency for International Development announced Thursday the suspension of all food aid to Ethiopia. An internal investigation discovered “widespread and coordinated” theft and diversion of supplies intended for millions of the massive East African nation’s malnourished residents. “Our intention is to immediately resume food assistance once we …

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Australia plans to ban swastikas, Nazi symbols

Australia’s government plans legislation to ban swastikas and other Nazi symbols nationwide due to an increase in far-right activity, Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus said Thursday. While most Australian states already ban such Nazi symbols, the federal law would go further by also banning the trade in such material, Dreyfus said. “There’s …

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Ex-Russian security officer who turned on Kremlin sent back home

Poland has deported a former Russian intelligence officer with the counterintelligence unit of the Federal Security Service (FSB), denying his repeated requests for asylum and handing him back over to Russian authorities, reports said Wednesday. Emran Navruzbekov was deported to Russia after a Polish court ruled last week that he …

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