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France, Land of Epicures, Gets Taste for McDonald's

PARIS - When McDonald's France announced a plan to open a restaurant in the commercial mall under the Louvre, the scene appeared to be set for a new French controversy. The New World was about to...

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No business for snow business in sunny Lebanon

While much of the United States and Europe is fighting subzero temperatures, Lebanon is praying for snow as unusually warm weather puts a dampener on the country's lucrative ski season. "So many...

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Sex Scandal Is New Crisis for Troubled French Team

PARIS — Less than two months before the start of the World Cup in South Africa, the French national soccer team, its on-field reputation in decline, is dealing with a sex scandal involving several...

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Suzuki makes a Splash

TOWN and cities are becoming increasingly congested. To tackle this, car manufacturers are embracing the small car market. There’s an array of choices for the befuddled motorist, ranging from the chic...

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France: Synagogue Defaced and Jewish Man Is Attacked

Three attackers defaced a synagogue in Nîmes on Sunday, then threw tear gas at a 78-year-old Jewish man, the local police said Monday. Word of the attack came as 300 people gathered Monday in front of...

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France Won't Extradite Iranian Sought by U.S.

PARIS — A French court on Wednesday refused an American request to extradite an Iranian businessman accused of violating an American embargo on exports to Iran. He had raised American suspicions by...

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France: Draft Veil Ban Approved

The French government approved a draft bill on Wednesday that prohibits the wearing of full facial veils in public places, which is expected to lead to a vote in Parliament in July. According to the...

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Emirates to begin management reshuffle in January

Dubai: Emirates airline on Sunday announced a management reshuffle across its Middle East operations. Its Middle East division will see a number of country manager rotations from January 1. The...

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Army forces in Bahrain fire on protesters, at ambulances

MANAMA, Bahrain - At exactly 5:18 p.m. yesterday, the prodemocracy demonstrators, mostly young men, came to a fork in the road. Turn right, and they would head to a hospital that has cared for...

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More than 100,000 demonstrate in Bahrain

MANAMA, Bahrain - More than 100,000 demonstrators packed central Pearl Square here yesterday in what organizers called the largest prodemocracy demonstration this tiny Persian Gulf nation had ever...

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Bahrain King in Saudi Arabia to Discuss Unrest

MANAMA, Bahrain — A day after one of the largest pro-democracy demonstrations this tiny Persian Gulf nation had ever seen, its king was in Saudi Arabia, a close ally and neighbor, to discuss the...

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Protesters in Bahrain Demand More Changes by King

MANAMA, Bahrain — In by far the largest protest yet here, tens of thousands of demonstrators packed the city’s streets on Friday and closed a stretch of highway as they demanded that their king...

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Offering Slow, Small Changes, Morocco's King Stays in Power

RABAT, Morocco — With the pace of democratic change stalled or staggering under violent crackdowns in the Middle East and North Africa, Morocco’s recent decision to alter its Constitution provides...

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Art's own treasure island: the 'buried exhibition' that may never be found

Circled by sharks and forbidden to humans, Isla del Coco is one of the most isolated parts of the planet. Why did the likes of Marina Abramovic and Ed Ruscha want their art buried there? ...

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Why one Canadian woman joined ISIS's Islamic state

While the International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation has estimated that up to 2,800 Western men have gone to Syria to fight, much less is known about Western women like Canadian Umm Haritha,...

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Calgary brothers join ranks of Canadians fighting for ISIS

Two more Canadians are on the list of foreign fighters with the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), CBC News has learned. Both are relatively recent converts to Islam from Calgary — and in a...

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Women’s Soccer League Star Is Happy to Be an Ambassador

Nadia Nadim, who plays for Sky Blue F.C., is among those who could help bring more attention to the three-year-old National Women’s Soccer League....

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The Bigger Picture of the Negev's Umm al-Hiran

Co-authored by Dalal Hillou For the past 60 years, Arab Palestinian Bedouin populations in the Negev desert in southern Israel have struggled to simply stay on their land in the face of discrimination...

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Existence Before Co-existence

Palestinian NGOs working with young people in Palestine and Israel face intense pressure from donors - many of them European organizations and foundations, and the EU itself - to facilitate dialogue...

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Smuggled Out HRW Syrian Report Blames Syria's Assad For 'Crimes Against...

Tens of thousands of photos showing people who died in Syrian government custody that were smuggled out of the country are now revealing the human stories behind their deaths, Human Rights Watch (HRW)...

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Syria's decade of repression

Exactly a decade ago, a 34-year-old Bashar al-Assad stood before Syria's parliament and spoke of "the desperate need for constructive criticism", "transparency" and "democracy". Many Syrians believed...

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From Taliban-ruled Afghanistan to Portland

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - Soccer is the one constant in Nadia Nadim's life since fleeing the Taliban as a young girl. She first learned the game from her father, an Afghan military general who was...

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More than simple heart burn

Most of us eat too much, drink a bit more than we should, and suffer from our occasional excess with the nagging irritation of heartburn. But for others, heartburn — or indigestion — becomes a frequent...

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Nf1 promotes 5-HT6R constitutive activity [Pharmacology]>

Active G protein-coupled receptor (GPCR) conformations not only are promoted by agonists but also occur in their absence, leading to constitutive activity. Association of GPCRs with intracellular...

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A paradox of transcriptional and functional innate interferon responses of...

The intestinal epithelium can limit enteric pathogens by producing antiviral cytokines, such as IFNs. Type I IFN (IFN-α/β) and type III IFN (IFN-λ) function at the epithelial level, and their...

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Two ways Donald Trump's immigration ban can change Muslim countries

Not everyone is perturbed by President Donald Trump's executive order to place travel restrictions on the citizens of selected Muslim countries. ......

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Breaking France’s addiction to its state of emergency

Human Rights Watch’s own research has found repeated abuses against ordinary people during policing operations under emergency powers. Protesters march through Nantes with a puppet dressed as a judge...

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Better ways to protect us from terrorists than a 'mini max' prison

The NSW government has unveiled a new $47 million initiative to fight violent extremism by setting up a new "mini max" jail. t raises several questions regarding the government's efforts to counter...

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Nadia Nadim: the refugee who became a Danish footballing role model

Refugee, medicine student and now international football star Nadia Nadim has been credited with being an inspiration to young Danes as the women’s national team gears up for one of the biggest matches...

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Justice after ISIS: time for judicial triage

The overwhelming reliance on a counterterrorism framework is showing its limits. Judges and local officials in Iraq and Syria are realizing that you cannot lock everyone up. Author interviewing local...

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The Israeli algorithm criminalizing Palestinians for online dissent

Israeli intelligence has developed a predictive policing system – a computer algorithm – that analyzes social media posts to identify Palestinian “suspects.” Graffiti on the separation wall in the West...

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Injury continues to haunt Sebastian Lletget during process to come back

The haunting comes when it’s dark and quiet and Sebastian Lletget has...

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Soccer allowed Afghan refugee to strike a powerful blow against the Taliban

Refugee centers are often squalid, desperate places, timeless...

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Why western Sydney voted 'no'

Many ethnic and religious communities that reside in Blaxland and Watson are on a different social and moral tangent to electorates elsewhere in Sydney. ......

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Son of citizen detained in Iran to Bassil: It’s time to act

Today my family and I feel betrayed, and my father feels left behind. ......

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Stefanie Sun is pregnant with her second child

Singaporean songstress Stefanie Sun has just announced that she is expecting her second baby. The 39-year-old Mandopop star confirmed pregnancy...

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Nearly 100,000 people await kidney transplants

A kidney transplant is a surgical procedure done to implant a healthy kidney from one person into another person. People who need a kidney transplant have end-stage kidney disease and will not be able...

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Critical voices in critical times: Peter Mayo on Gramsci, Egypt and critical...

How can the work and thought of Antonio Gramsci help us make sense of the Arab Uprisings and their aftermath? Is there a place for critical pedagogy in times of counter-revolution? This interview is...

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Britain’s Opposition to the Death Penalty Has an ISIS Exception

Like a dripping corrosive liquid, ISIS and the response it provokes from governments are slowly eating away at key human rights principles. Driven by a desire to appear tough on the extremist group,...

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Singer Stefanie Sun gives birth to second child

Singaporean songstress Stefanie Sun has given birth to her second child just two days after celebrating her birthday. Sun had turned 40 on July 23. Her baby girl was born on July 25 and weighs 2.79kg....

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London's knife-crime problem exposes larger social woes

The recent surge in violence in London reminds Robyn Travis of his own youth in Hackney in the late 1990s and early 2000s, during a previous spike in violence on London's streets. ......

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Nadim Ednan-Laperouse on daughter’s allergy death: ‘We don’t want anyone else...

It’s a heartbreaking story: a young teenager died after eating a sandwich containing sesame seeds, an ingredient to which she knew she had a severe allergy. But the sandwich had no label advising her...

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Dr. Nadim Z. Baba Installed as President of the American College of...

CHICAGO, Nov. 15, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- The American College of Prosthodontists (ACP) welcomes Nadim Z. Baba, DMD, MSD, FACP, as the organization's new president. Dr. Baba was sworn in for his one-year...

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Rethinking resistance in post-uprisings Egypt

There is a dynamic relationship between authoritarianism and resistance, whereby authoritarianism is never absolute, but always challenged through multiple ways that do not solely revolve around...

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CVRx President and CEO Nadim Yared Named Chairman of the Medical Device...

ARLINGTON, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jun 12, 2019-- The , announced that CVRx’s President and CEO Nadim Yared has been named chairman of the MDIC Board of Directors and Executive Committee for a two-year...

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Nadim's path: From Taliban-ruled Afghanistan to Portland

PORTLAND (AP) — Soccer is the one constant in Nadia Nadim’s life since fleeing the Taliban as a young girl. ......

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Uncovering modern paint forgeries by radiocarbon dating [Chemistry]

Art forgeries have existed since antiquity, but with the recent rapidly expanding commercialization of art, the approach to art authentication has demanded increasingly sophisticated detection schemes....

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Peter Todd Accused of Sexual Abuse, ZCash Founder Testifies

Peter Todd filed a defamation suit against Sarah Michelle Reichwein a.k.a Isis Lovecruft, after the former accused him of sexually harassing her. In support of her argument, Zooko Wilcox, founder of...

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The Syrian opposition is fighting the enemy within the mind of every citizen

The appointment of Abdulbaset Sieda to head the Syrian National Council (SNC) opposition comes at a time when the SNC is undergoing what was euphemistically called a restructuring and opening up to...

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Syria's Christians can be the catalysts for peace

What if the regime fell today? This is the question that occupies all Syrians, especially Syrians who are in one of the minorities....

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