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Wast Bank – Brazil’s president has placed a wreath on the tomb of the late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, despite criticism from Israel.
President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva visited Arafat’s grave Wednesday during a trip to the West Bank. Silva also said he supported the Palestinian struggle.
The Brazilian leader has said he would like to [...]

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Tensions ran high in Jerusalem on Tuesday while Washington waits for Israel’s response to demands raised by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton that could help defuse the diplomatic crisis with the United States.
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Israel preparing response to U.S. demands

Chicago, IL – A Chicago man is scheduled to plead guilty Thursday in federal court here in connection with the 2008 terror assault in Mumbai, India that took some 170 lives, court records showed today.
David Coleman Headley, 49, has been cooperating with investigators since his arrest in Chicago last October.
The indictment alleged that Headley traveled [...]

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Chicago, IL – Mumbai Terror Attack Suspect To Plead Guilty

Penndel, PA – The boy’s father got to the emergency room just ahead of the ambulance carrying his stricken 2-year-old.
Gil Slutsky was at St. Mary Medical Center in Langhorne when a doctor told him that his son, Daniel, could not be revived.
“Shock him,” Slutsky had yelled, reasoning that a chance remained because the child’s skin [...]

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Penndel, PA – Trial to Start in Death of Jewish Boy Forgotten in Hot Minivan

Lauderhill, FL – A Florida retirement home began Passover celebrations early with a matzah ball soup cook-off to find a recipe for the facility’s new kosher menu.
Officials with the Forest Trace retirement home in Lauderhill said six professional caterers participated Monday in the Golden Matzah Bowl and about a dozen amateurs submitted their homemade recipes [...]

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Lauderhill, FL – Matzah Bowl Seeks Best Kosher Soup

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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New York – It Is All Over NYC: For More Than 30 Years Handmade Tokens Into Artistic Currency

Munich, Germany – An expert witness called into question Tuesday the worth of a statement being used against John Demjanjuk, testifying that it came from a KGB interrogation in which the prisoner may have been physically abused.
Demjanjuk, a retired Ohio auto worker who was born in Ukraine and was once a Soviet Red Army soldier, [...]

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Munich, Germany – Witness Statement Questioned at Demjanjuk Trial

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New York – About 90,000 business and residential customers are still without power in New York City and its suburbs to the north and the east.
That’s down from about 140,000 reported Monday as the area copes with effects of the wild weekend storm.
On Tuesday morning, Consolidated Edison reported about 58,000 outages, mostly in Westchester County. [...]

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New York – 90,000 Still in Dark as Sun Comes Out

Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman spoke with United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon overnight Monday and told him Israel expects a more objective and constructive approach from the international community.
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