A s soldiers advanced on the village, Raffi and his family fled without a single bag of clothes – setting off, once more, into exile. The trio had left the hardships of Syria the previous year to start a new life in Nagorno-Karabakh, the breakaway enclave within Azerbaijan populated and controlled by ethnic Armenians. For […]
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The double refugees: The family who fled Syria’s civil war and ended up in war-torn Nagorno-Karabakh
Rep. Who Ended Prayer With ‘a Woman’ Says it Was Pun to Recognize Record Number of Women in Congress
WASHINGTON — The Democratic congressman and former United Methodist minister who ended his prayer opening the 117th Congress with “amen and a woman” says that he was only making a pun to recognize the record number of women serving in the legislative body. Rep. Emanuel Cleaver II, who led St. James United Methodist Church in […]
They just wanted to help a few hungry Israelis. They ended up replacing Israel’s welfare system
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Armistice Day: WWI was meant to be the war that ended all wars. It wasn’t.
It was the British author, H.G. Wells, that coined the expression: “The war that will end war” to describe World War One, which had broken out in Europe in September 1914. Wells believed the conflict would create a new world order that would make future conflict impossible. It would do so, Wells believed, by crushing […]
How an Israeli artist ended up inside a deep pit in Berlin
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How a former Israeli Hummus maker ended up running for Dutch parliament
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You won’t believe How and Why the Giant statue of Colossus Of Rhodes Ended
The Colossus of Rhodes was a gigantic 33-metre-high statue of the sun god Helios which stood by the harbour of that city from c. 280 BCE, one of the most important trading ports in the ancient Mediterranean. Made by the local sculptor Chares using bronze, the statue soon appeared on contemporary travel writer’s […]
Public lab workers begin open-ended strike amid pay dispute with treasury
Around 2,000 laboratory workers at some 400 public medical labs started an open-ended strike on Sunday morning amid a pay dispute with the treasury. Coronavirus testing will continue amid the labor action, but only those who test positive will be notified so that epidemiological surveys can be carried out. Those who test negative for COVID-19 […]
Public lab workers begin open-ended strike amid pay dispute with treasury
Around 2,000 laboratory workers at some 400 public medical labs started an open-ended strike on Sunday morning amid a pay dispute with the treasury. Coronavirus testing will continue amid the labor action, but only those who test positive will be notified so that epidemiological surveys can be carried out. Those who test negative for COVID-19 […]
Public lab workers begin open-ended strike amid pay dispute with treasury
Around 2,000 laboratory workers at some 400 public medical labs started an open-ended strike on Sunday morning amid a pay dispute with the treasury. Coronavirus testing will continue amid the labor action, but only those who test positive will be notified so that epidemiological surveys can be carried out. Those who test negative for COVID-19 […]
Public lab workers begin open-ended strike amid pay dispute with treasury
Around 2,000 laboratory workers at some 400 public medical labs started an open-ended strike on Sunday morning amid a pay dispute with the treasury. Coronavirus testing will continue amid the labor action, but only those who test positive will be notified so that epidemiological surveys can be carried out. Those who test negative for COVID-19 […]
How Gwyneth Paltrow’s brother ended up directing an Israeli film on Eichmann – in Hebrew
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Italian politics in nutshell: How country ended up with ex-IMF chief it never voted for as its PM
Improbable as it first seemed, a League-Five Star Movement coalition was formed nearly three months after the country voted. The elections of March 4 resulted in two winners – the center-right coalition led by the League that, collectively with Silvio Berlusconi’s Forza Italia, won 37 percent; and the Five Star Movement, which won nearly 33 […]
Unit 731: How Leaders of Japan’s WWII Germ Warfare Unit Ended Up Working for the US
Formed in 1935 in Japanese-occupied Harbin, China, Unit 731 was led by Gen. Shiro Ishii, a surgeon and microbiologist. Between the local population and captured Chinese, Soviet and some Western prisoners of war, Unit 731 and affiliated outfits had plenty of human guinea pigs, or “logs,” as they were euphemistically called, for experimentation. Japanese […]
The Pentagon Ended Online Surveillance Project Same Day Facebook Was Founded
In 2004, the Pentagon killed an online mass surveillance project on the very same day that Facebook launched. Darpa’s LifeLog project was intended to amass personal browsing and viewing habits of American citizens. However, for no apparent reason, the U.S. government decided to cancel the project when Facebook launched. Wired.com reports: Run by Darpa, the […]
Pentagon Admits US Tanks Accidentally Ended up With ISIS, Iranian-Backed Militias
The United States military has developed a reputation for being careless with its resources and weapons. It has been unable to account for hundreds of millions — if not trillions— of dollars, and its armaments have ended up in the hands of ISIS. In the latest snafu to be officially acknowledged, as many as nine M1 Abrams tanks ended […]
Pentagon Biological Weapons Program Never Ended: US Bio-labs Around The World
The US Army regularly produces deadly viruses, bacteria and toxins in direct violation of the UN Convention on the prohibition of Biological Weapons. Hundreds of thousands of unwitting people are systematically exposed to dangerous pathogens and other incurable diseases. Bio warfare scientists using diplomatic cover test man-made viruses at Pentagon bio laboratories in 25 countries […]
The Nuremberg Trials Never Ended, They Are Now De Facto Law
Wear’s War Editor’s Comment: To grasp the absurd and unjustifiable treatment of Monika Schaefer one must understand the Nuremberg Tribunal was never completely mothballed. Its principles live on today and are designed to entrap people exercising the human right of free speech. Control the rules of a trial, and you control the outcome. The Nuremberg Tribunal is a […]