An Israeli human rights group says the overwhelming majority of Israeli troops suspected of criminal offences against Palestinians are never indicted.
The small number of investigations and even fewer indictments showed Israel’s army was ignoring its duty to protect Palestinian civilians, Yesh Din says.
It said soldiers felt they had immunity from investigation and prosecution, which inevitably [...]

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The leader of an Orthodox Jewish sect was arrested Wednesday after authorities unsealed a sweeping 37-count indictment alleging that he operated a decade-long tax fraud and money laundering scheme stretching from Israel through New York to downtown Los Angeles’ jewelry district, authorities said.
Grand Rabbi Naftali Tzi Weisz, head of the Spinka religious group, and his [...]

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The three main minorities in the United States — blacks, Hispanics and Asians — have little trust for each other and hold prejudiced views about Americans of different ethnic origins to their own, a poll showed Wednesday.
“This extraordinary poll reveals some unflattering realities that exist in America today,” said Sandy Close, head of new America [...]

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[Why did they pick on a white child?-ed]
A court in Dubai, in the UAE, has jailed two men for 15 years for the abduction and sexual assault of a 15-year-old French-Swiss boy.
The men, one of whom is HIV positive, took the teenager to the desert and raped him at knifepoint.
The victim’s mother, Veronique Robert, says [...]

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How many times have we read some variation on the following lede?
“Israeli armored forces backed by aircraft thrust into the southern Gaza Strip today, killing four Palestinians a day before Israeli and Palestinian negotiators were to begin laying the groundwork for peace talks.”
The Israelis don’t want to negotiate, but they’re willing to go through the [...]

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At least 40 migrants have drowned in the Aegean Sea off the western coast of Turkey, officials say.
The bodies were found washed up on the shore near the city of Izmir. Six people were rescued, officials told Turkey’s Anatolia news agency.

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[Black panthers tried to cause trouble by making a racism allegation over Jow Horn's killings of theives in Texas, locals are fed up with being called racism every 2 mins-ed]
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5358596078324631308

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_TjftnwhRk

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[The people killed were black, and home owner was white; so black groups and crying racism as usual-ed]

The cha-chick of a shell entering a shotgun’s chamber rattled through the 911 line just before Joe Horn stepped out his front door.
Horn, 61, had phoned police when he saw two men break into his neighbor’s suburban Houston [...]

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