Lawyer for Former Egyptian President Mubarak Denies His Client Gave a Newspaper Interview

The lawyer of former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak denied on Sunday that a recent interview with the deposed president, published in the privately-owned Egyptian daily Al-Watan, took place. The lawyer, Farid El-Deeb, told the Egyptian daily Al-Ahram that the interview was a fabrication. The interview with Mubarak by journalist Mohamed El-Sheikh attracted mass attention as […]

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Russia Supplying Syria With Advanced Missiles to Prevent International Forces From Getting Involved

May 19, 2013 15:32 by Pesach Benson Russia’s supplying Syria with advanced Yakhonts anti-ship missiles. The NY Times, which broke the story, explains why these “ship-killer” rockets matter in a civil war where rebels have zero naval capabilities: Unlike Scud and other longer-range surface-to-surface missiles that the Assad government has used against opposition forces, the […]

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Information Missing from Studies on the “Benefits” of State Medicaid Expansion

Newscom Advocates of the Obamacare Medicaid expansion have produced a number of studies in various states that project significant economic benefits if states adopt the expansion. However, most of those studies omit one or more key factors that, when included, make expansion scenarios look considerably less rosy. Job creation. Many state-level studies project that adopting […]

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Missile Defense: Another Successful U.S. Test

PASCAL SAURA/AFP/Getty Images/Newscom Last Wednesday, off the coast of Kauai, Hawaii, the Navy cruiser USS Lake Erie conducted a successful test of the next-generation missile defense weapon, engaging and destroying a dummy target warhead that had separated from a short-range attacking rocket. The Standard Missile-3 (SM-3) is designed to seek and kill both attacking rockets […]

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Gosnell Found Guilty: Give Gosnell Victims a Legacy – Defund Planned Parenthood Now

GOSNELL FOUND GUILTY MURDER OF 3 Babies Born Alive 2 Counts of Conspiracy 1 Involuntary Manslaughter 21 Illegal Late-term Abortion 208 Informed Consent Violations 237 Criminal Convictions DODGES Death Penalty via Abeyance of Appeal Demand ABORTUARY AND INFANTICIDE INVESTIGATIONS NATIONWIDE Compel Congress to Defund Planned Parenthood and ALL Other Institutions of DEATH Now! URGENT: ABC […]

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France Seeks to Buy Drones from Israel

France is in talks with the United States and Israel to buy intelligence-gathering drones, the country’s Defense Minister said on Sunday. “We need this capacity in the short term. There are currently two countries in the world that build drones, the United States and Israel,” Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian told the iTele TV channel. “We […]

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Don’t Hastily Change Military Justice Code

Andrew Burton/Reuters/Newscom In light of a recently overturned guilty verdict in a sexual assault case, Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel has called on Congress to modify the military criminal justice system, specifically this authority to overturn a court-martial. Appropriately, an independent review panel has been established to review the issue of sexual assault in the […]

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WJC Urges EU to Ban Neo-Nazi Parties

The World Jewish Congress (WJC) urged Europe’s governments on Tuesday to consider a ban on far-right parties, at the end of a three-day conference held in Budapest. The WJC, which represents Jewish communities outside Israel, adopted a resolution calling on governments in Europe to “consider banning neo-Nazi parties or organizations whose aim is to overthrow […]

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