JERUSALEM, May 15 — Pope Benedict XVI departed Israel on Friday after issuing a strong condemnation of anti-Semitism and Holocaust denial and a final call for establishment of a Palestinian state, bolstering themes that have run through his trip to the region.
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Pope Benedict XVI wound up a sometimes fraught trip to Israel and the West Bank on Friday with a plea that the Holocaust must “never be forgotten or denied.”
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The Obama administration’s strongest option as it fights to keep hundreds of photographs of prisoner abuse secret may be to classify the photos, legal experts said.
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Oman offers an example of how authoritarian systems eventually rub up against the human desire for freedom and justice.
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The Department of Defense has identified 4,286 American service members who have died since the start of the Iraq war. It confirmed the death of the following American on Wednesday:.
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The underlying relationship between Israel and the United States has become more unsettled since Barack Obama took office.
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Pope Benedict XVI became further entangled in Mideast politics as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called on him to denounce Iran.
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Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, met with King Abdullah II of Jordan, who urged the Israeli leader to commit to a two-state solution with the Palestinians.
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NAZARETH, Israel, May 14 — A newly erected concrete spire sliced high into the air over an altar spread beneath, turning a dusty amphitheater here in northern Israel into a church for tens of thousands.
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Staff Sgt. Jarion Halbisengibbs remembers Sept. 10, 2007, as the night “everything went wrong.”
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