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New York – or more than 30 years now, sharp-eyed New Yorkers have been finding them on ledges, windowsills and store counters — poker-chip-size coins that reveal themselves to be something far more mysterious than loose change.
The inch-wide ceramic discs, painted in iridescent colors, have the rough, weathered feel of ancient treasure. Each is embossed [...]

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PM makes carefully worded Knesset speech as Brazilian president begins visit.

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Israel to take issue with the Latin American country’s close relations with Iran.

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Luiz da Silva says he’ll visit region to push for peace and prevent possible conflict with Iran.

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Brazilian leader seeks peace in Mideast

China said Thursday it will continue to push for a diplomatic resolution to the Iranian nuclear standoff, rebuffing efforts by Western powers to introduce a new set of sanctions against Iran.
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Lugano, Switzerland – Switzerland’s oldest resident died peacefully in her sleep on Sunday, a few weeks before her 113th birthday.
A spokeswoman for the old people’s home near Italian-speaking Lugano where she lived said Rosa Rein had fallen asleep during the afternoon, and had not woken up.
On her 112th birthday Rein had told journalists she was [...]

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Engagement of Renato (ducho-eliahu) Bortman & Efrat Shammah

Stamford, CT – Few names make one cringe in horror like that of Josef Mengele, the Nazi concentration camp “doctor” who performed gruesome human experiments—especially on twin children—before dodging Allied troops and fleeing to South America
in 1945. Yet despite some people’s obsession with the medical monster and all that’s been written about him, little of [...]

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Queens, NY – A 25-year-old Queens College graduate who traveled to Pakistan in 2008 with the Denver airport shuttle bus driver indicted last year in a Qaeda bomb plot was charged on Saturday with conspiring to commit murder in a foreign country and receiving training from a terrorist group.
The charges against the man, Adis Medunjanin, [...]

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