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Vice President Dick Cheney delivers remarks Monday at the American Israel Public Affairs Committee conference in Washington.
At the annual policy conference of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee this week in Washington, a conservative Christian couple from eastern Tennessee told me that their son had decided to join the Israeli army. It was one [...]

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Ondiep residents and friends of the Mulder family held a “silent march” to commemorate Rini Mulder, the man who was killed by the police. Two thousand people joined in the march. The neighbourhood organised their own protection group (”Dutch”) to secure the marchers. The protection group(”ordedienst”) was put together by a Gradus Kwarten.
The Ondiep [...]

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A German court has ruled that the sale of anti-Nazi products containing the banned swastika symbol is not illegal.
The Federal Court of Justice in Karlsruhe supported the appeal of a man who was fined 3,600 euros ($4,757) last year for selling a range of anti-Nazi material bearing the swastika with a large red line [...]

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Poland has introduced a new law aimed at removing from authority officials who collaborated with the secret police before 1989.
Former Polish spies who attempt to falsify their past will be punished for commiting a crime and could risk not working in their field for up to 10 years under Thursday’s new law - said [...]

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A proposed bill to ban the discussion of homosexuality in Polish schools would violate free speech, a human rights group has warned.
Human Rights Watch (HRW) made its warning in an open letter to Polish Prime Minister Jaroslaw Kaczynski.
It also said the bill “would create a climate of intolerance” in schools.
Last week, Poland’s [...]

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A one-year-old diplomatic boycott of the Palestinian government has been eased after a Norwegian diplomat met the Palestinian prime minister in Gaza.
Western powers imposed an economic and diplomatic blockade in March 2006 in a bid to pressure the ruling Hamas group to recognise Israel, renounce violence and accept interim peace deals.
But Norway, which is not [...]

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[So how does illegal immigrant labour boost the economy if they send the money home?-ed]

The amount of money sent home by Latin American migrant workers to their families has reached more than $62bn.
This figure now exceeds the combined total of all direct foreign investment and foreign aid to Latin America.
According to the Inter-American [...]

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Bank of America Corp. has begun offering credit cards to customers without Social Security numbers, typically illegal immigrants, the Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday.
In recent years, banks across the country have been offering checking accounts and even mortgages to the nation’s fast-growing ranks of undocumented immigrants, most of whom are Hispanic, the paper [...]

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