Foreign minister calls Turkey’s continuing demand for apology from Israel ‘beyond rude’. ‘Turkish government should apologize for supporting terror,’ he says, reminding counterpart that Israel sent his country aid in 2007
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WASHINGTON (AP) — A band of frigid weather snaking its way up the East Coast on Sunday threatened to bring blizzards and a foot of snow to New York City and New England, while several states to the South made emergency declarations as the storm caused crashes on slick roads. Brennen G. Smith/The Decatur Daily, via Associated Press Snow falling on the Old State Bank building in Decatur, Ala., on Saturday. Airlines grounded hundreds of flights Sunday along the Northeast corridor in anticipation of the storm, affecting major airports including New York’s JFK and Newark. Airlines said more cancellations were likely as the storm progressed. Travel misery began a day earlier in parts…
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Photo: hotelcasavelas2 I’m not much of a fan of the gym . It’s not that I don’t like to sweat, but I’d prefer to do it outdoors, or at home atop my yoga mat. But for many of us it’s the workout of choice especially in those places where access to nature just isn’t as easy to comeby. But what if the gym could make you sick? Really, really sick? According to a recent article in the
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There is nothing like a warm and cozy sweater coat during the holidays. Enter reconstructed sweater coats made by hand from recycled garments by Jill Kerttula, a Wisconsin-based artist who sells her one-off creations on Etsy under the label Jill2day . … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Army chief tells Jerusalem students IDF ‘doing things it cannot discuss’ to free captive soldier; urges every soldier to visit Jerusalem ‘at least once’
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President Barack Obama made a surprise Christmas visit to a Marine base in Hawaii on Saturday to thank the troops for their service, including being away from their families during the holidays. (Dec. 26)
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(CNN) — A series of aftershocks hit near Christchurch, New Zealand, on Sunday morning, leaving cracks in buildings and sending stocked items falling off shelves in stores and malls. The aftershocks stemmed from a…
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JERUSALEM – Israeli forces killed two Palestinian militants Sunday along the Gaza-Israel border, where a sudden surge in violence has weakened an unofficial truce in place since Israel’s bruising 2009 war there. The Israeli military said it launched an airstrike after spotting two men trying to plant an explosive device along the frontier, where soldiers patrol. The Islamic Jihad militant group said two of its members died in a clash with Israeli ground troops. There was no way to immediately reconcile the two accounts. The border area has been calm for the most part since Israel invaded Gaza in December 2008 to try to stop years of Palestinian rocket fire on southern Israel,…
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Storm damages Caesarea pier but brings about discovery of weaponry from mandate period. ‘I know Israelis: eventually someone will touch, and will cause disastrous blast,’ says diver who found them
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A tsunami kills more than 200-thousand people is Southeast Asia; Six-year-old beauty queen JonBenet Ramsey is found beaten to death; Winston Churchill addresses joint session of Congress; Presidents Truman and Ford die. (Dec. 26)
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