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Egyptian authorities have cracked down on the increasing number of African asylum seekers crossing into Israel -- including, say refugee rights groups, a policy of shooting those along the border. But those who make it to the Promised Land face hardship
Services are set for a Lake of Egypt man found dead after wandering away from his home. Visitation for Wendell Hilliard will be held Saturday from 1 to 2 p.m. at Blue Funeral Home in Marion. His funeral will follow.
Egyptian regulators approve sale of Mobinil to France Telecom
The group was headed to a Taliban sanctuary in Pakistan’s tribal areas with the intention of training to fight against American troops, Pakistani police authorities said Thursday.
Fontana City Councilmember John Roberts enjoyed a trip to Italy with his son John III, who later was deployed to Afghanistan. Here they visited the Colosseum in Rome.
Mr. Hoving transformed the Metropolitan Museum of Art during his tumultuous decade-long tenure as director.
The town of Sargodha has become known as a stronghold of radical Islamic groups. Now, police there say they have thwarted a major terror plot.
Five young American Muslims arrested in Pakistan met with representatives of an al-Qaeda linked group and asked for training but were turned down because they lacked references.
"If you can tell people, 'We have a president in the White House who still has a grandmother living in a hut on the...
StandWithUs/S.F. Voice for Israel has planned three counterprotests in support of Israel in December. All three events are in San Francisco.
The FBI and other US security officials on Thursday questioned several Americans held in Pakistan for alleged links to Al-Qaeda as they probe the reasons for their travel, senior US officials said.
FBI agents are interviewing five young Muslim-American men being held in Pakistan. They suspect the men may have been trying to join forces fighting U.S. troops in Afghanistan.
Elements of Eastern faiths and New Age thinking have been widely adopted by 65% of U.S. adults, including many who call themselves Protestants and Catholics, according to a survey by the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life.
The ongoing and seemingly inexorable decline of traditional media continues to be the canonical example of what happens when the ground rules get changed in an industry that is fundamentally unable to adapt to new market conditions. A great analysis recently posted by Umair Haque at Harvard Business underscores the point: The so-called new normal is starting to seem more and more foreign the ...
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Thomas Hoving, the charismatic showman and treasure hunter whose decade-long tenure as director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art fundamentally transformed the institution and helped usher in the era of the museum blockbuster show, died on Thursday at his home in Manhattan. He was 78.
