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November 27th, 2012
Written by Rob Harris - AP Sports Writer in Feature Stories, Latest News with 0 Comments
LONDON (AP) – English soccer faced another racism investigation after a Premier League match between Tottenham and West Ham was marred by anti-Semitic abuse by fans.
West Ham pledged to impose lifetime bans after some of its supporters were heard Sunday making chants about Adolf Hitler and also praising Italian club Lazio after an apparent anti-Semitic stabbing of a Tottenham fan on Wednesday in...
November 26th, 2012
Written by Konstantin Testorides - Associated Press in Feature Stories, Latest News with 0 Comments
SKOPJE, Macedonia (AP) — More than 1,000 ethnic Albanians marched in the capital of Macedonia on Sunday to mark the 100th anniversary of Albania's independence from the Ottoman Empire. Some politicians have opposed such celebrations, saying they could stoke ethnic tensions in Macedonia.
The prime ministers of neighboring Albania and Kosovo, Sali Berisha and Hashim Thaci, were expected to attend...
November 26th, 2012
Written by Karen Attiah - Associated Press in Feature Stories, Latest News with 0 Comments
WILLEMSTAD, Curacao (AP) — Headstones are pockmarked, their inscriptions faded. Stone slabs that have covered tombs for centuries are crumbling. White marble has turned grey, likely from the acrid smoke that spews from a nearby oil refinery.
One of the oldest Jewish cemeteries in the Western Hemisphere, Beth Haim on the island of Curacao, is slowly fading in the Caribbean sun.
Beth Haim was...
November 23rd, 2012
Written by The Associated Press in Feature Stories, Latest News with 0 Comments
The Hays Daily News, Nov. 18
The Kansas Secretary of State Office usually is low profile. Statutes guide the rather perfunctory roles it performs.
Not so with Kris Kobach, whose national and state moonlighting has made him the face of Kansas for outsiders.
One of two, in reality, as Gov. Sam Brownback's grander political ambitions keep him in the spotlight as well. With unreserved backing from...
November 21st, 2012
Written by Daud Yussuf - Associated Press in Feature Stories, Latest News with 0 Comments
GARISSA, Kenya (AP) - More than a dozen people have been shot, one woman has died and hundreds of shops were burned to the ground in this eastern Kenyan town amid rising Somali-Kenyan tensions, officials said Tuesday.
The violence follows a lethal attack here on Monday in which three Kenyan soldiers were killed. Local sympathizers of al-Shabab - a Somali Islamist extremist group that Kenyan...
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