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Argentine Province Cracks Down On Fiery Paper Balloons

AP | Posted 12.29.2011

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BUENOS AIRES, Argentina -- An Argentine province is cracking down on a beloved holiday tradition, banning the kind of paper balloons that wowed audien...

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Sephardic Spain: Mazel Bueno

Bob Schulman | Posted 09.02.2011

Read More: Madrid, Toledo, Cordoba, Travel to Spain, Sephardic Spain, Travel News
Bob Schulman

2011-07-03-Screenshot20110703at7.21.58PM.jpg Self-described as "Jerusalem West," the 2,000-year-old city of Toledo in central Spain at one time had the country's largest concentration of Jews.

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Beyond Free Trade with Colombia

Milburn Line | Posted 07.27.2011

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Milburn Line

Armed forces are accused of murdering 2,547 civilians and presenting them as combat kills; there are now 27,000 forced disappearances in Colombia

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Plane Crash Over Argentina's Patagonia Leaves No Survivors

AP | MICHAEL WARREN | Posted 07.18.2011

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BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — A turboprop plane carrying 22 people crashed and exploded in Argentina's southern Patagonia region, killing all on boa...

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Colombia Drug Gangs Overtake Villages

GlobalPost | Nadja Drost | Posted 05.25.2011

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MONTELIBANO, Colombia -- On a November morning, several drug runners sat down at a bar in the quiet hamlet of El Palmar. They had told the bar's owner...

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Why Do We Ignore the Plight of the Roma in Europe?

Ben Daniel | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Cordoba, Roma People, Amensty International, Roma Persecution, Persecution of Roma, Roma Discrimination, Gypsy Genocide, Roma Italy, Roma in Europe, Roma Gypsies, Romani Genocide, Religion News
Ben Daniel

For years we've honored the victims of the Holocaust by promising never to forget. In the contemporary plight of Europe's Roma population, we have the opportunity to get make good on our promises.

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Collateral Damage: Jewish Fratricide And The Demonizing Of Córdoba

David Shasha | Posted 05.25.2011

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David Shasha

For many centuries, Córdoba was a marker of Jewish creativity and cosmopolitanism afforded by Islam in contrast to the prison that was Christian Europe. "Arab Derangement Syndrome" sees things in quite the opposite way.

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Spanish Man Visits Bar With Girlfriend's Head In Bag

AFP | Posted 05.25.2011

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A Spanish man calmly drank beer with his mates in a bar with his murdered girlfriend's head in a bag, press reports said....

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A Time for Tolerance: Pushing Back on Hate-filled Rhetoric Around the "Ground Zero Mosque"

Tad Stahnke | Posted 05.25.2011

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Tad Stahnke

It's time to put this debate back on course and recognize that hate-filled rhetoric hurts nobody but us. It does nothing but weaken our position as an international example in the fight to defend the rights of all people.

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The Cordoba Initiative and Islam's Western CIvilization

Michael Thad Allen | Posted 05.25.2011

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Michael Thad Allen

Cordoba blossomed after 750. At this time, most Europeans lived savagely, grunting and dragging women around by the hair, in awe of the crumbling buildings of the ancients.

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Where Is the Unhallowed Ground?

Allison Kilkenny | Posted 05.25.2011

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Allison Kilkenny

Conservatives keep asking: Where are the moderate Muslims? I want to know: where are the moderate Americans? Where are the politicians who will finally stand up to this right-wing extremism?

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GOP Charge: Ground Zero Mosque is bin Laden's Trojan Horse

Philip Smucker | Posted 05.25.2011

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Philip Smucker

Gary Berntsen, the tough-as-nails former CIA operative running to unseat Senator Chuck Schumer in New York, tells me al Qaeda and its affiliates are set to infiltrate the mosque before it has been built.

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Weiner (with Muslim Wife) Won't Say Mosque Is Okay

MJ Rosenberg | Posted 05.25.2011

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MJ Rosenberg

Naturally, Chuck Schumer has no comment on the Cordoba House. But I'm intrigued with Anthony Weiner who, in July, married a devout Muslim woman who has kept her Islamic faith.

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Working With China to Build Public Transportation in LA

Joel Epstein | Posted 05.25.2011

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Joel Epstein

A recent Transport Politic article notes that not only is China willing and able to contribute its national funds to foreign projects, but also that it intends to structure its investments as an alternative to the World Bank.

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Pablo Emilio Moncayo: FARC To Free Colombian Soldier Held Hostage For 16 Years

AP | CESAR GARCIA | Posted 05.25.2011

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FLORENCIA, Colombia — A Colombian soldier held hostage for more than 12 years was freed by rebels Tuesday and reunited with his family, ending a...

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Obama: The Roger Federer of Politics

Scott Malcomson | Posted 05.25.2011

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Scott Malcomson

Each man raises the level of play with a cool focus and economy of gesture that make most other players look crude.

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