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Mike huckabee meets with Jonathan pollard On January 20, 2017, former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee met with Jonathan Pollard in New York following Pollard’s releas...
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Ofek Buchris Pleads Guilty To Sexual Offenses In Israeli Military Court On January 17, 2017, Brigadier General (res.) **Ofek Buchris**, a former officer in ...
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Arthur Rathburn was the owner and operator of International Biological, Inc. (IBI), a Michigan company that supplied human cadavers and anatomical specimens for medica...
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Israeli and Jewish aid groups support migrant and refugee assistance in Europe On September 5, 2015, IsraAID, an Israeli non-governmental organization founded in 2001...
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Washington, D.C., United StatesRabbi Bernard “Barry” Freundel was arrested in Washington, D.C., on October 14, 2014, after police began investigating allegations that ...
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On August 11, 2014, beloved actor and comedian Robin Williams was found dead at his home in Paradise Cay, California, at the age of 63. Authorities confirmed that the ...
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Yazidi Genocide On August 3, 2014, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) launched an हमला on the Sinjar region of northern Iraq, targeting the Yazidi minority. I...
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Hollywood producer Arnon Milchan publicly acknowledged that he spent years working for Israeli intelligence in a capacity that included acquiring military equipment an...
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All Dogs Are Bad And Their Owners Accursed, Israeli City’s Rabbis Rule More than a dozen rabbis in the city of Elad, located near Tel Aviv, issued a religious edict d...
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On March 21, 2013, President Barack Obama visited the Western Wall in Jerusalem, Israel, during an official trip. He placed his hands on the stones in a gesture of res...
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Amendment of the Smith–Mundt Act in the National Defense Authorization Act On 28 December 2012, President Barack Obama signed the National Defense Authoriza...
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On 22 July 2011, during the Libyan Civil War, NATO aircraft struck a facility in Brega that manufactured large-diameter pipes used in Libya's Great Man-Made River wate...
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Moshe Katsav, the 8th President of Israel, served in office from 2000 to 2007. Following allegations made by multiple women who worked with him during his time as a pu...
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One of the clearest documented cases of Israeli intelligence activity that damaged relations with allies involves the use of forged or cloned passports belonging to ci...
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2010 sermon statements attributed to Rabbi Ovadia Yosef 2010 sermon statements attributed to Rabbi Ovadia Yosef on gentiles In 20...
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They hate white people “The goal of abolishing the White race is, on its face, so desirable that some may find i...
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On February 12, 2010, U.S. Special Operations forces conducted a nighttime raid in Khataba village, in Paktia Province, Afghanistan. The operation targeted a compound ...
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On July 24, 2009, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) announced a large-scale public corruption and money laundering investigation involving arrests of political...
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In July 2009, federal authorities in New Jersey arrested 44 individuals, including five rabbis, in a large-scale corruption and money laundering investigation conducte...
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Bernard “Bernie” Madoff, a financier of Jewish faith, was sentenced on June 29, 2009, in Manhattan federal court to 150 years in prison for operating the largest known...
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Asia Bibi, also known as Aasiya Noreen, is a Pakistani Christian woman whose prosecution under Pakistan's blasphemy laws became an internationally recognized legal and...
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Richard Williamson was a British traditionalist Catholic bishop who became widely known for his involvement in controversies related to the Catholic Church and his pub...
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Lebanon Arrests Ali And Youssef Jarrah On Espionage Charges On October 25, 2008, Lebanese security forces arrested two Lebanese brothers, Ali Dib El‑Jarrah ...
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Joel Engelman files civil suit alleging historical abuse in Brooklyn On August 27, 2008, Joel Engelman, then 23 years old and residing in Greenpoint, Brookl...
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6 August 2015 — Egypt inaugurates a major expansion of the Suez Canal involving a new parallel channel along part of the route and widening of existing sections. The g...
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2011–2014 — Mubarak's fall opens competitive elections and unprecedented political participation, but the transition rapidly produces institutional conflict, polarizat...
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31 March 1991 — Albania holds its first competitive multiparty parliamentary elections since the communist takeover. The former communist Party of Labour wins, but the...
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8 December 1990 — Students in Tirana begin demonstrations demanding political and economic change. The protests rapidly become a national challenge to communist one-pa...
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11 April 1985 — Hoxha dies after more than four decades at the center of Albanian communist power. Ramiz Alia succeeds him and gradually introduces limited reforms as ...
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Klaus Schwab later stated that he met Henry Kissinger while Schwab was at Harvard. The World Economic Forum described the meeting as occurring more than 50 years befor...
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1923 — The Treaty of Lausanne formalizes a compulsory population exchange largely based on religion.
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January–June 1919 — France prioritizes security and compensation for destruction. Britain wants Germany constrained without permanently destroying European economic st...
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1 February 1917–11 November 1918 — German submarines attack merchant shipping in an attempt to reduce British imports below sustainable levels. Early shipping losses a...
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December 1916–January 1917 — German naval and military leaders conclude that unrestricted submarine warfare may force Britain out of the war. They understand that the ...
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21 February 1916 — Germany launches a major offensive against the fortified Verdun region. French forces commit enormous manpower and artillery to prevent the fortress...
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1915–1917 — Commanders increasingly seek to exhaust enemy manpower, artillery and industrial capacity faster than their own side is depleted. Verdun and the Somme beco...
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28 November 1912 — Delegates meeting at Vlorë proclaim Albania independent from the Ottoman Empire during the First Balkan War. Ismail Qemali leads the provisional gov...
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1911–1917 — Unification or Death, commonly called the Black Hand, is a secret Serbian nationalist organization containing influential military officers. Individuals as...
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1904–1914 — Britain has no automatic obligation to enter every Franco-German conflict, but strategic cooperation with France has grown while German naval expansion gen...
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1894–1914 — France and Russia are formally allied, while Britain develops strategic understandings with France and Russia. Germany remains closely aligned with Austria...
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16th–18th centuries — Islam spreads substantially among Albanian populations under Ottoman rule. Conversion varies greatly by region and period. Catholic communities r...
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c. 1479–1912 — Most Albanian-inhabited territories remain within the Ottoman Empire for more than four centuries. Albanian elites participate extensively in Ottoman mi...
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17 January 1468 — Gjergj Kastrioti Skanderbeg dies at Lezhë after more than two decades as the central figure of Albanian resistance to Ottoman expansion. His leadersh...
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1443–1479 — Investigate Skanderbeg's military campaigns, the League of Lezhë, European diplomacy and how later generations transformed him into a national symbol.
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c. 1355–1444 — Families including the Thopia, Muzaka, Balsha, Dukagjini and Kastrioti control competing territories. Albania is politically fragmented rather than unif...
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1079–1080 CE — Byzantine historian Michael Attaleiates uses terms generally interpreted as references to Albanians in the western Balkans. These medieval references ar...
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641–1000 CE — Arabic did not replace Coptic immediately after the conquest. Government, migration, urban life, taxation, religious conversion and social mobility gradu...
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7th–10th centuries — Arabic increasingly replaces Greek and Coptic in government and eventually becomes the dominant spoken language. Conversion to Islam occurs over g...
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