US slams ‘grotesque’ Jew-hating Ukraine leaflets; Saved from the noose in Iran; Hezbollah planned Thailand Passover attack; Kansas holds unity service

2014. április 18 17:43

US slams ‘grotesque‘ Jew-hating Ukraine leaflets; Saved from the noose in Iran; Hezbollah planned Thailand Passover attack; Kansas holds unity service

 
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US calls anti-Semitic Ukraine leaflets ‘grotesque’
It remains unclear who produced fliers calling on Jews to register with authorities or face consequences
 
By LAZAR BERMAN and AP
Armed pro-Russian activists pose for a photo after they occupied the police station in the eastern Ukraine town of Slovyansk. (photo credit: AP/Maxim Dondyuk, Russian Reporter magazine)
 
 
Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a meeting in Moscow, Tuesday, March 4, 2014. (photo credit: AP/RIA-Novosti/Alexei Druzhinin/Presidential Press Service)
 
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By ROBERT BURNS
 
A flag flutters in the wind over barricades at the regional administration building that has been seized earlier in Donetsk, Ukraine, Friday, April 18, 2014. Pro-Russian insurgents in Ukraine’s east who have been occupying government buildings in more than 10 cities said Friday they will only leave them if the interim government in Kiev resigns.(photo credit: AP/Sergei Grits)
 
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Netanya crime boss found dead in his home
 
Police look at suicide as most likely cause in Charlie Abutbul’s death
 
 
Artist's rendering provided by NASA on Thursday, April 17, 2014, shows an Earth-sized planet dubbed Kepler-186f orbiting a star 500 light-years from Earth. (photo credit: AP/NASA Ames, SETI Institute, JPL-Caltech, T. Pyle)
 
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Lebanese man cops to Thai terror plot against Israelis
 
One of two suspected Hezbollah members nabbed in Bangkok this week admits to planned Bangkok bombing on Thai New Year, Passover
 
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People take part in water battles in Bangkok as they celebrate Songkran, the festival that marks Thailand's New Year, on April 13, 2014. (photo credit: AFP/Christophe Archambault)
 
 
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Israelis, Palestinians to hold separate talks with US envoy
 
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By AFP and TIMES OF ISRAEL STAFF
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Rev. Adam Hamilton wipes his eyes during a prayer at an Interfaith Service of Unity and Hope at the Jewish Community Center in Overland Park, Kansas, Thursday, April 17, 2014. (photo credit: AP Photo/Orlin Wagner, Pool)
 
Kansas JCC holds ‘unity service’ after shooting attack
 
Jews and Christians gather to pay respects to the victims; US attorney general urges crowd to embrace ‘tikkun olam’
 
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Journalist denies contact with foreign agents in Lebanon
 
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Arab Israeli men stand next to graffiti reading in Hebrew "Arabs Out" on the wall of a mosque in the northern Israeli city of Umm al-Faham on April 18, 2014. (photo credit: AFP/ JACK GUEZ)
 
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