Laura Bush falsely claimed on World Refugee Day that the US “welcome(s) many of those refugees, both from Iraq and Afghanistan into the United States.†As the Baltimore Sun notes today, “as of May, only 69 Iraqis had entered the United States†this fiscal year. In total, the United States has “resettled fewer than 500 Iraqi refugees†since the invasion of Iraq in 2003.
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Scientists were examining the distinct possibility that Hitler hated Jews because a jewish prostitute gave him syphilis. The job of “combating syphilis – the Jewish disease – should be the task of the entire German nation,” he wrote, adding “The health of the nation will be regained only by eliminating the Jews.”
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14% of Americans have a great deal or quite a lot of confidence in Congress; meanwhile, 69% of Americans have a great deal or quite a lot of confidence in the military.
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Hamas offered a ceasefire with Israel if Israel halted operations in Gaza and the West Bank, and Abbas refused to engage in diplomatic discussions with Hamas, calling Hamas: “murderous terrorists, killers and coup seekers.†He also told Israel to back off. “Our problems are not only with Hamas — I emphasize my rejection of any Israeli attempt aiming to take advantage of this disdain, perpetrated by the coup militants, to choke our people,” he said.
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A new Harvard Medical School study shows around 1.8 million U.S. veterans lack basic health insurance or access to care. The number of uninsured veterans has increased by nearly three hundred thousand since President Bush took office in 2000.
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Thousands of South Korean farmers protested a pending trade deal with the US. “Free trade with the United States is like robbing our right to live,” they said.
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Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton said the American military has done it’s job in Iraq. “It’s the Iraqi government which has failed,” she said.
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São Paulo became an advertisement free city, and advertisers drove back and forth in front of city hall in protest. “I think this city will become a sadder, duller place,” said Dalton Silvano, the only city councillor to vote against the laws and an ad executive, “Advertising is…an art form,” he said.
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Email messages sent by White House officials using Republican National Committee addresses have been extensively destroyed, including many messages sent upleading to and following the Iraq War, according to an early report on the ongoing investigation released today by the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. The committee has obtained evidence of potentially extensive violations of the Presidential Records Act by senior White House officials.
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Large teams of newly trained suicide bombers are being sent to the United States and Europe, according to evidence contained on a new videotape.
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A dead Iraqi is worth a maximum of $2,500, which is about how much it costs to buy an Iraqi car.
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Wendy’s is up for sale.
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A 13-year-old British boy ended his ten-year vow of silence, which began when his mother forced him to have his tonsils removed, with the words “thank you.” “We feared Ben would never speak again but now he is chattering all the time,” his grandfather said.
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Israel and the United States tacitly agreed on a policy to treat the West Bank and Gaza as separate entities.
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Senate Democrats are seeking a major reversal of energy tax policies that would take billions of dollars in tax breaks and other benefits from the oil industry to underwrite renewable fuels.
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Iraq was rated the world’s second most unstable country, behind Sudan.
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The EU said today it would resume financial aid to the new Fatah-led Palestinian government, as part of international efforts to isolate Hamas in its Gaza stronghold. Meanwhile, Israel has blocked all cargo shipments into Gaza where supplies of fuel, food and medicine are running low. Many areas of Gaza have been without electricity since last week’s fighting.
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The American-led coalition forces in Afghanistan killed seven children during an air strike on what they say was an Al Qaeda base in the east of the country, the military said in a statement today.
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At least two Katyusha rockets fell on northern Israel Sunday, the first fired from Lebanon since last summer’s inconclusive war with Hezbollah guerrillas.
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A suicide bomber walked onto a bus carrying officers to a police academy and detonated himself in Kabul on Sunday, killing at least 35 police officers.
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