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US House Approves $10 Million in Aid for Iraq's Christians
Thu, 15 May 2008 00:00:00 +0800
Washington -- The House of Representatives has shown its support for the plight of the Chaldean/Assyrian/Syriac people of Iraq by including $10 million in the House version of the Supplemental Appropriations Bill of 2008.
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Barack Obama's America
Thu, 15 May 2008 00:00:00 +0800
One of the wisest American former officials I know asked me a few nights ago: "Michael, put on your thinking cap, and tell me where the United States will be four years from now, if Barack Obama is president.
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Democracy or Autocracy: History Is Back
Thu, 15 May 2008 00:00:00 +0800
Is democracy on the march or is it in retreat? I put that question to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice this week. I suggested the answer was, at best, uncertain: Elections in Gaza have led to the creation of a terrorist mini-state ruled by Hamas; freedom in Lebanon is under intense assault by Hezbollah, another terrorist group; Russia is more aut
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Terror Triumphant
Thu, 15 May 2008 00:00:00 +0800
"Hezbollah must know," Lebanese prime minister Fouad Siniora said in a speech this weekend, "that the power of weapons will not terrorize us."
Unfortunately his words were directly contradicted when the Lebanese army almost simultaneously announced that it was freezing the two measures by Siniora's government that had kicked off the crisis--the remo
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Assyrian Delegation Meets Australian FM
Thu, 15 May 2008 00:00:00 +0800
On 13 May 2008, a delegation representing the Assyrian Universal Alliance - Australia Chapter and the Assyrian Australian National Federation went on an official visit to Canberra to meet with the Minister for Foreign Affairs, The Hon.
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Lebanon Reverses Decisions That Prompted Violence
Thu, 15 May 2008 00:00:00 +0800
BEIRUT, Lebanon -- Lebanon's governing coalition on Wednesday night formally reversed two decisions that had provoked the militant group Hezbollah, bringing the country a step closer to resolving the week-old political crisis that set off the worst factional violence since the nation's 15-year civil war.
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Assyrian Man Hit Daughter for Dating a Muslim
Thu, 15 May 2008 00:00:00 +0800
Wellington, New Zealand -- Ishak Ishak, 59, who came to New Zealand as a refugee from Iraq, had pleaded guilty to assaulting his daughter in April. In Wellington District Court yesterday Judge Susan Thomas sentenced him to come up for sentence if called upon within nine months.
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Lebanese Demonstrate in Stockholm
Thu, 15 May 2008 00:00:00 +0800
The Lebanese Diaspora in Sweden arranged a demonstration supporting democracy in Lebanon
The 14 of March coalition in Sweden called the Swedish government to help Lebanon regain its democracy by stopping the terrorist organization Hezbollah
Present in the demonstration were the Lebanese Forces, the Aramaic Democratic Organization, the Future Movemen
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Iran is Winning; Can the US Bolster the Arab Center?
Thu, 15 May 2008 00:00:00 +0800
Watching the news from Lebanon, it's poignant to read the title of a new memoir by Jordan's former foreign minister, Marwan Muasher - "The Arab Center: The Promise of Moderation.
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Cardinal Pleas for Lebanese Peace
Wed, 14 May 2008 00:00:00 +0800
BEIRUT -- The Maronite patriarch of Antioch called for dialogue in Lebanon as he continues his international trip to personally meet with leaders, including the U.
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