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(JNS.org) — Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas said that the ongoing wave of Palestinian terror attacks in Israel is a "justified popular uprising." The violence has come due to "the despair of young Palestinians over the lack of a political horizon for the two-state solution, the [Israeli]
migrants
ATHENS, Greece (AP) — The European Union has pledged to spend 80 million euros ($88 million) on a housing scheme for migrants and asylum speakers stranded in Greece. Kristalina Georgieva, the EU Commissioner for Budget and Human resources, signed an agreement Monday for a rent subsidy program due to launch next
Civil War
DALLAS (AP) — More Syrian families have been resettled in Texas and Indiana, the groups helping them said Tuesday, defying efforts by the states' conservative governors to stop additional arrivals of people displaced from the war-torn Mideast country. A family of six went to live Monday near relatives already settled
Immigration
WASHINGTON (AP) — Tashfeen Malik, the wife accused in the California shootings, was one of just 519 Pakistanis allowed into the country last year specifically to marry a U.S. citizen. Malik's path to the United States immediately highlighted the U.S. government's immigration vetting practices after
Barack Obama
WASHINGTON (AP) — In a rare Oval Office address, President Barack Obama vowed Sunday night the U.S. will overcome a new phase of the terror threat that seeks to "poison the minds" of people here and around the world, as he sought to reassure Americans shaken by recent
Israel
JERUSALEM (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry set off an uproar in Israel on Sunday after warning that the country, through its continued West Bank occupation, will become a "binational state." Kerry's words describe a scenario that would mark a failure of U.S.
Barack Obama
President Obama has been mocked, and appropriately so, for his ludicrous comment that the climate change summit in Paris will be a "powerful rebuke" to the terrorists. No. This summit is a powerful rebuke to common sense.
Israel
BETHLEHEM, West Bank (RNS) — The Palestinian Authority has asked municipalities to tone down their public Christmas celebrations this year amid escalating violence between Palestinians and Israelis. Hana Amireh, who heads a government committee on churches in the West Bank, confirmed the Palestinian Authority is requesting "a certain decrease"
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