AS IT IS - The Oldest Non-Federal Art Museum in Washington, DC and a Jewish Museum in Germany Hello again and thanks for joining us for another edition of AS IT IS. Im June Simms. Coming up today, we visit a Jewish museum in Germany, where the number

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Zionism Issue Could Derail UN Racism Conference Lisa Schlein Geneva 27 Jul 2001 15:27 UTC The United Nations top human rights official warns that efforts to 1)equate 2)Zionism with 3)racism could 4)de

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Pakistan has launched a major ground offensive against militants in the border area near Afghanistan. The BBCs Shoaid Pasan reports the army is meeting fierce resistance from the militants. The screws upturning in what appears to be the toughest tes

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Mahmoud Abbas was elected as President of the Palestinian National Authority in 2005. He is a leading politician in the Fatah movement. He was also the first Prime Minister of the Palestinian Authority. Abbas has spent much of his career negotiating

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Pressure Increases on US to Change Myanmar Policy Amid a brutal military crackdown that started in August of 2017,more than 700 thousand Rohingyas have fled their homes in Myanmars Rakhine State to camps in neighboring Bangladesh. 在一次始于2017年

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1. Campaigning halts and Baghdad streets are quiet on the eve of Thursday's parliamentary election which will decide who will govern Iraq for the next four years. 2. Iran's president escalates his ant

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1. With violence at a relative low, large numbers of Iraqis turn out to vote. Turnout is strong in Sunni areas too, and ballot shortages are reported in some precincts . 2. The White House reportedly

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1. Pro-Russia insurgents freed one of the 8 European military observers being held prison in eastern Ukraine on Sunday, citing medical reasons. Earlier in the day, all eight appeared in public in the first time under armed guard giving assurances the

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Technology Report - 3-D Goes From Movies To Real World 科技报道 - 3D技术从电影走入真实世界 From VOA Learning English, this is the Technology Report. 这里是美国之音慢速英语科技报道。 Movie fans know that their action her

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In June, The New York Review of Books published an article by author Peter Beinart contending that young American Jews think little about Israel, if at all. The article cited a survey conducted by a conservative pollster. It concluded that many young

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Helen Mirren Backs Bill on Returning Art Stolen by Nazis British actress Helen Mirren has joined U.S. lawmakers' efforts to return artwork stolen by Nazis during the Holocaust to its rightful owners. Decades after Nazis looted the art mostly from Jew

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Exhibit at Berlin Jewish Museum Stokes Debate The exhibit at Berlins Jewish museum seeks to answer frequently asked questions about Jews. Are all Jews religious? What makes food Kosher? What do Jews wear on their heads and why? And who can become a J

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A champion of freedom, a pioneering leader,a woman of greatness, that's how some world leaders described Margret Thatcher.Former British Prime Minister died yesterday after she had a stroke. We lost a great leader, a great primeminister, and a Great

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US Group Requests High-Level Delegation for Racism Conference Breck Ardery United Nations1 6 Aug 2001 23:00 UTC A coalition of U.S. civil rights groups says the United States government should send a

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美国犹太裔白人说唱新人 Mac Miller 新单《Avian》!冥想与说唱的意境结合让MV显得十分诙谐,披上宗教色彩的外衣,说唱的缘由开始重新诠释!世界就是这么包容万象,任何事物取代与你灵魂深

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New developments in the probe of the ferry that sank off the coast of South Korea killing hundreds. Prosecutors have now detained the president of the company that own that boat in addition of four other employees. It is suspected the ferry was overl

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By Jessica Desvarieux Cairo 18 September 2009 Iranian opposition supporters attend protest in Tehran, 18 Sep 2009 Thousands of Iranian opposition supporters marched through the streets of the capital Friday, ignoring government warnings not to turni

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As we enter 2014, award season is just around the corner. Director Steve McQueen's 12 Years a Slave is definitely one of the front-runners. 12 Years a Slave is based on the 1853 memoir of Solomon Northup, a free man kidnapped and sold into slavery. T

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Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Hua Chunying says that the inscription gives the Nanjing Massacre recognition across the international community. The files show the atrocities of Japanese troops in the killing of 300,000 Chinese civilians and u

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Lady Gaga! Paris Hilton! Kim Kardashian! Err Kim Kardashian's hairdresser! These days we have so many celebrities.And some are famous for being well, just famous. So I wondered: is this obsession with celebrities just a phenomenon of the 21st century

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