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Ad campaign trying to bring ‘lost Jews’ together backfires
Posters featuring lost youth are not an unusual site in any big city, but the ones that recently appeared on Israeli TV and on the Internet weren’t what they seemed.
Jay Leno ready for prime time
Jay Leno’s new show will be freshly baked five nights a week with three times the comedy of his former “Tonight Show,” the comedian promised. “The Jay Leno Show,” premiering at 10 p.m.
Gang members, police officer arrested in filmmaker’s slaying
Six men, including a police officer, are facing homicide charges in last week’s killing of French filmmaker and photographer Christian Poveda in El Salvador, the attorney general’s office said.
Paper’s organ harvesting article causes Israel-Sweden rift
Israeli troops are accused in a newspaper article of harvesting organs from dead Palestinians, and Israel wants Sweden’s government to condemn the Swedish paper that published it. Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman compared the Swedish Foreign Ministry’s hands-off position to the country’s neutrality during World War II. “It’s a shame that the Swedish Foreign Ministry fails to intervene in a case of blood libels against Jews,” Lieberman told Sweden’s ambassador to Israel on Thursday evening
Bacon, ex-Pentagon spokesman, refugee advocate, dies
Kenneth Bacon, a former reporter and Pentagon spokesman who later served as a top advocate of displaced people all over the world, died Saturday, according to Refugees International. He was 64
One million flee as deadly storm slams into China
A deadly typhoon that slammed into China’s coastal provinces and Taiwan over the weekend has displaced nearly one million people and left dozens missing, state-run media reported Monday. High winds and torrential rain from Typhoon Morakot hit coastal provinces Fujian and Zhejian hardest, and caused the worst flooding in decades in Taiwan — where flood waters as high as seven feet were reported, China Daily said
Plane crashes in Iran, 168 believed killed
A plane crashed Wednesday in northwestern Iran, state television reported. All 168 aboard were believed to be dead. The passenger plane is thought to have crashed near the Iranian city of Qazvin, Iranian Press TV reported.
Mexican police, soliders killed in multi-city attacks by drug gangs
A series of coordinated attacks in at least seven Mexican cities killed three federal police officers and two soldiers Saturday in what officials are calling an unprecedented onslaught by drug gangs, reports said.
Moussavi said to be planning new party after Iran vote
Iranian opposition leader Mir Hossein Moussavi plans to form a new political party aimed at reining in the power of the Islamic Republic’s leadership, a leading reformist newspaper reported Sunday. Moussavi told supporters the party will be focused on upholding “the remaining principles of the constitution,” according to Etemad-e Melli, a newspaper aligned with fellow opposition candidate Mehdi Karrubi. He is expected to file papers with Iran’s Interior Ministry to establish the party before hard-line incumbent Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is sworn in for a new term, the newspaper reported