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This lecture addresses the neglected story of the Jews of present-day Algeria, Morocco, and Libya during the Holocaust. The complex webs of relations created by the diversity of ethnic and religious communities, the history of colonialism, and the alliances among fascist powers created a climate...
May 15, 2008 Reid Rejects President's Reckless And Irresponsible Remarks Calls on President to Explain Inconsistency Between Administration Actions and His Words Today Washington, DC—Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid made the following statement today in response to President Bush’s remarks...
Excerpt - TRIPOLI, Libya -- Recently, Libyan strongman Col. Moammar Gadhafi wrote a letter to President Bush, asking: Where are we going with our relationship? Five years ago, the Bush administration helped persuade Libya -- for decades one of the world's leading sponsors of terrorism -- to scrap...
People watch a fire started by locals in a Roma camp in the Ponticelli neighbourhood of Naples [AFP] Italian police say they have arrested hundreds of people suspected of illegally entering the country in an apparent sign of the new right-wing government's policy to tackle immigration. Those...
Posted to the web 15 May 2008 Chinedu Eze Lagos Libyan Government has again deported Nigerians residing in the North African country for crimes ranging from incomplete immigration documents to other illicit activities. One hundred and sixty three Nigerian were forcefully brought back into the...
I am posting this article below in full because it is a must-read. I love the Economist (especially the brilliant Obits...sounds dark I know, but if you read the Economist you know what I'm talking about)The wandering PalestinianMay 8th 2008 NABLUS AND NAHR AL-BAREDFrom The Economist print...
In a speech to the Israeli Knesset on Thursday, Mr. Bush forfeited the last scraps of his moral authority, dishonoring himself by using one of the world's most important pulpits to launch a false and vicious political attack against Barack Obama. His attack was disgraceful, demeaning and...
AMIN Abbas ("Real nowhere land’’, Opinion, 14/5) puts the question: “As opposed to the Palestinians, who are the Israeli people?’’ Well, half of them are Jewish refugees, or the children of such refugees, from Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq and Yemen. Their presence...
Moammar Gadhafi's Libyan government ran a training camp in the 1980s that prepared Charles Taylor's troops to seize power in the West African nation of Liberia, a key witness at Taylor's war crimes trial testified Wednesday. Moses Blah, who served as vice president under Taylor after he rose to...
Japanese upstream player Japan Petroleum Exploration, also known as Japex, said Thursday that its operating profit for fiscal 2007-2008 (April-March) dropped 34% from a year ago to Yen 19.63 billion ($1.9 billion) as a result of increased costs for its exploration activities in Libya, Canada and...
