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News ISIS Says It’s Behind Brussels Bombings That Killed at Least 34
BRUSSELS – Islamic State claimed has responsibility for suicide bomb attacks on Brussels airport and a rush-hour metro train in the Belgian capital that killed at least 34 people. Police issued a wanted notice for a young man in a hat who was caught on CCTV pushing a laden luggage trolley at Zaventem airport alongside…
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Fast Forward French Jewish Teacher Saved by Torah in ‘ISIS’ Machete Attack
A teenager who attacked a Jewish teacher in Marseille on Monday is a Turkish citizen of Kurdish origin who said he acted in the name of the militant Islamist group Islamic State, the prosecutor in the southern French city of Marseille said. The victim used a Torah book as a shield, according to one news…
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Fast Forward France Pays Silent Tribute to 2015 Terror Victims
PARIS – France honored the victims of Islamist militant attacks last year in a thinly attended silent ceremony on Sunday, almost a year to the day when more than a million people marched in Paris to protest killings at the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo. President Francois Hollande and Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo layed a wreath…
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Fast Forward Toddler Among 11 Injured in Jerusalem Car-Ramming Attack
A baby was among 11 people injured in a car-ramming attack by a Palestinian driver at a Jerusalem bus stop. The 18-month-old boy was seriously injured and placed on life support, and an elderly woman was moderately injured on Monday afternoon when the driver slammed his car into people waiting at the stop near the…
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Israel News Israeli Lawmakers and ADL Shrug Off Trump Remarks ‘Stereotyping’ Jews
Israeli officials close to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu have brushed off remarks by U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump to a Jewish audience that some commentators called offensive. Trump, the Republican front-runner for the 2016 White House race, on Thursday teased Jewish party donors in Washington. “You’re not going to support me even though you know…
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Fast Forward Jewish-Owned American Pharoah Claims Triple Crown With Belmont Victory
A 3-year-old colt owned by an Orthodox Jew from Egypt claimed the first Triple Crown in 37 years. American Pharoah raced to victory on Saturday in the Belmont Stakes, the first horse to win the Belmont, the Kentucky Derby and the Preakness since Affirmed in 1978. Owner Ahmed Zayat, 52, a resident of Teaneck, New…
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