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adidas campus uiet in a West Bank village, surrounded by barley fields and olive groves. Young Palestinian men in Jaba once wanted to farm, residents say, but now, more and more want to fight.Last week, dozens of them, wearing balaclavas and brandishing rifles with photos of their dead comrades plastered on the clips, burst into a school playground 鈥?showcasing Jaba new militant group and paying tribute to its founder and another gunman who were killed in an Israeli military raid last month. Id hate to make my parents cry, said 28-year-old Yousef Hosni Hammour, a close friend of Ezzeddin Hamamrah, the groups late founder. But Im ready to die a martyr. READ MORE: Why is Israel pushing ahead with its legal overhaul Similar scenes are playing out across the West Bank.
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WASHINGTON AP 鈥?In a bid to revive the Equal Rights Amendment, the House on Thursday approved a measure removing a 1982 deadline for state ratification and reopening the proce
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BAKU, Azerbaijan AP 鈥?Preliminary results of Azerbaijans presidential elections Wednesday showed a landslide victory for incumbent聽President Ilham Aliyev, whose re-election was widely expected following his governments swift reclaiming of a region formerly controlled by ethnic Armenian separatists.With nearly 55 percent of the ballots counted, Aliyev, 62, was winning the race with 92.1 percent of the votes, the head of the countrys Central Election Commission, Mazahir Panahov, reported at a briefing late on Wednesday evening, several hours after the polls closed.Other candidates on the ballot so far have won less than 3 percent each, Panahov said.
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CHARLESTON, W.Va. 鈥?After deadly floods washed thousands of West Virginians out of their homes last month, about 700 victims bypassed the shelter at the high school gym and got rooms at a luxury resort fit for royalty.Jim Justice, billionaire owner of The Greenbrier resort and Democratic nominee for governor, closed his hotel for business and opened it as a free shelter after the June 23 floods that killed 23 people, including 15 in Greenbrier County.Shooing away election talk, Justice said he put his gubernatorial campaign on hold for t
af1 he two weeks following the floods to focus on victims. But a boost of good will from voters seems likely in return.There a long history of storms and other natural disasters making or breaking political leaders 鈥?President Barack Obama and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie drew praise for dropping partisan differences and working together after Superstorm Sandy in 2012, while then-President George W. Bush never fully recovered from his administration response to H
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Few people expect President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping to end their trade war when the leaders meet Saturday at the G20 summit in Buenos Aires, Argentina. But officials on both sides in recent days have played up the possibility of a truce, raising hopes that the dispute will not escalate further.Over the spring of this year, the U.S. has imposed tariffs on $250 billion of Chinese goods, including chemicals, food, fabric and steel. China responded with its own tariffs on $110 billion worth of U.S. goods.Trump has thre
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TOKYO 鈥?The safest way to hold the Tokyo Olympics is without any fans, the top medical adviser to the Japanese government said in a report on Friday.Dr. Shigeru Omis recommendation seems to put him at odds with organizers and the International Olympic Committee with the Olympics opening in just five weeks on
salomon July 23.Fans from abroad were banned several months ago, and organizers are to announce early next week if some local fans should be allowed. We believe the risks of infections inside venues would be lowest by holding the event with no fans, said the report, which was compiled by a group of 26 experts led by Omi, a former World Health Organization official. It was submitted to the government and Olympic officialsWidely circulated repor
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But researchers in Texas, Oklahoma and other states may not be able to take part in what many expect to be a boom in stem cell science, as several state legislatures have moved to ban or restrict the research on the heels of the policy shift.This week, the Texas senate passed a budget bill that included an amendment to ban the use of state funds for embryonic stem cell research. Earlier in March, the Oklahoma House passed a more restrictive bill one that would make it a criminal misdemeanor for scientists to wor
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