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Israel Minister Says State Won’t Fund Shows With Nudity

Israel's outspoken culture minister is threatening to withhold funding from two productions showing at a top festival...

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Palestinian Refugees’ Dreams of Returning Home Fade

Fifty years ago, Sobhi Awwad left the ancient West Bank city of Jericho with his parents, running to dodge the...

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For Jerusalem Palestinians, A Dilemma To Seek Israeli Citizenship

It's a dilemma many Palestinians from Jerusalem confront: Resign yourself to becoming an Israeli citizen or press ahead...

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Definitive Israeli 1967 War Photo Still Stirs Emotions

Fifty years after the 1967 Six-Day War, a photograph of three awestruck Israeli paratroopers at the freshly captured...

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Trump Reviews Option To Move US Embassy To Jerusalem

US President Donald Trump will decide on Thursday whether to renew a legal waiver that delays an eventual move of the...

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Trump’s Tweets Entertain and Confound

President Donald Trump's cryptic tweet of a non-existent word -- "covfefe" -- sparked a flood of humor and ridicule on...

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Five Questions On Trump’s Potential Move of US Israel Embassy

US President Donald Trump faces a Thursday deadline to decide whether to move the US embassy in Israel to the disputed...

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Israeli Rule ‘key Cause’ of Palestinian Hardship

Fifty years after Israel occupied the Palestinian territories, its policies in the West Bank and Gaza are at the root...

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Six Days That Changed the Face of the Middle East

The Arab-Israeli war of June 1967, or Six-Day War, radically changed the map of the Middle East. Between June 5 and 10,...

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50 Years After Six-Day War, Israeli-Palestinian Divide Widens

Israelis and Palestinians mark 50 years since the Six-Day War next week as the gap between them further widens, with...

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Keeping Memories Alive In Years Since Six-Day War

Some use photographs, others seek global solidarity or throw themselves into campaigning for peace. Fifty years after...

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The New Voice of Pro-Biafra Independence

Nnamdi Kanu walks slowly across the courtyard of his family home in Umuahia, southeast Nigeria, as a crowd of...

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Israel Approves Controversial Jerusalem Cable Car Project

Israel's government on Sunday approved plans to install a cable car to Jerusalem's Old City, a project likely to anger...

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Six Red Carpet Looks That Turned Heads At Cannes

After 12 days of red carpet glamour, political fashion statements and wardrobe malfunctions, here are the looks that...

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Trump, Feted and Chided Abroad, Returns To Uncertainty At Home

Trump, feted and chided abroad, returns to uncertainty at home Swinging over the green Ionian sea Saturday, his first...

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Israelis Rally For Palestinian State, End of Occupation

Thousands of Israelis rallied Saturday in Tel Aviv in support of a Palestinian state ahead of the 50th anniversary of...

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Palestinians End Mass Hunger Strike In Israel Jails

Hundreds of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails on hunger strike since April 17 have ended their mass protest under...

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Christmas Comes In May For DR Congo’s Kimbanguists

A cow carried on a stretcher as an offering plus a choir chanting effervescent songs of praise while a brass band...

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UN Fears Gaza Energy Crisis Could Spark Fresh Violence

The United Nations warned Friday that an energy crisis in the Gaza Strip was severely affecting water supplies and...