California hotel employee ‘prevents mass shooting’

Image copyrightLong Beach Police DepartmentImage caption Police seized weapons including an assault rifle California police say a hotel worker may have prevented a mass shooting after the worker reported that a disgruntled colleague had threatened to shoot…
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Parents fail to free sons over daughter’s murder

Image copyrightGetty ImagesImage caption Qandeel Baloch was killed in July 2016 The parents of a Pakistani social media star allegedly murdered by her brothers have lost their bid to free their sons. Qandeel Baloch's parents told the court they forgave Wa…
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Why South Korea and Japan have fallen out

Image copyrightAFP/GettyImage caption The dispute has angered people in both countries South Korea has terminated its military intelligence-sharing pact with Japan in the latest tit-for-tat dispute that has hit diplomatic and trade ties. It comes after Ja…
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Execution set for US killer who preyed on gay men

Image copyrightFlorida Department of CorrectionsImage caption Gary Ray Bowles A serial killer who preyed on gay men along the US east coast is set to be put to death in Florida on Thursday, barring a stay by the US Supreme Court. Gary Ray Bowles admitted …
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Syrian jailed over death that led to German riots

Image copyrightGetty ImagesImage caption Alaa Sheikhi said ahead of sentencing that he was not responsible for the death of Daniel Hillig A Syrian man has been sentenced in Germany to nine and a half years in prison over the fatal stabbing of a man in Chem…
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Giraffes get trade protection amid falling numbers

Image copyrightEPAImage caption Giraffes are targeted for bushmeat, but body parts are also used for jewellery and bracelets Giraffe conservation has taken a big step forward with the world's tallest mammals receiving enhanced protection from unregulated t…
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Who started weaponizing Jewish identity in U.S. politics, Trump or Obama?

The classic antisemitic trope of Jewish dual loyalty is one that stretches back thousands of years across many different lands, but always with the same fundamental theme – the Jews are more loyal to their co-religionists and their religion, than to the land …
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IDF strikes Hamas targets in Gaza

IDF fighter jets attacked a number of terrorist targets along the Gaza strip according to the IDF spokesperson. The IDF tweeted, "In response to the rocket fired from #Gaza to #Israel, we just struck a number of military targets in a Hamas naval facility in…
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Israel plans to attack the Houthis in Yemen – report

Israel's fight against the shipment of weapons from Iran to organizations under its protection may reach new districts. Sources in the Kuwaiti newspaper Al-Jarida claim that Israel plans to attack targets of Houthi rebels and Hezbollah in Yemen, near the Stra…
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Two Israeli-Arabs arrested for supporting the Islamic State group

Two Israeli-Arab residents of the city of Tamra have been arrested and charged with supporting and assisting the Islamic State group, Israel’s Shin Bet internal security service announced on Wednesday. The two, identified as 22 year-old medical student Amin …
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