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Police officer stand in front of a mosque in Berlin on Dec. 18, 2018, which is searched as part of an investigation into its imam on suspicion he raised money to support an Islamic fighter in Syria (Paul Zinken/dpa via AP)
December 18, 2018, 1:01 pm
German police raid mosque in Berlin in terrorism probe
Authorities say preacher under investigation for raising funds to support a jihadist fighter in Syria
By AP
This Tuesday, April 15, 2014, file photo provided by ISNA, a semi-official news agency, shows blindfolded Iranian convicted man Bilal being escorted by officials and security to be prepared for his execution in public in the northern city of Nour, Iran. He was later pardoned moments before being hanged. (AP/ISNA, Arash Khamoushi)
December 18, 2018, 10:16 am
UN condemns ‘severe’ human rights violations in Iran
General assembly passes Canadian-drafted resolution singling out Islamic Republic’s discrimination against women and persecution of religious minorities
By AP and TOI staff
A Delta IV rocket, carrying the Parker Solar Probe, lifts off from launch complex 37 at the Kennedy Space Center, in Cape Canaveral, Florida, August 12, 2018. (Bill Ingalls/NASA via AP)
December 18, 2018, 9:00 am
Trump said planning to launch US Space Command
Sources say president could soon sign executive order pulling together various military units and agencies into a coordinated body to protect country’s orbiting assets
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In this photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, Syrian President Bashar Assad, left, meets with Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir in Damascus, Syria, Sunday, Dec. 16, 2018 in Damascus. (SANA via AP)
December 17, 2018, 5:19 pm
Sudan president lands in Syria in first visit by Arab leader
Nearly 8 years after Arab League exiled Assad regime for brutal crackdown on opposition groups, some regional powers express interest in restoring ties
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Jewish children boarding ship as part of a kindertransport out of Nazi occupied Europe. (Courtesy of Pamela Sturhoofd)
December 17, 2018, 9:20 am
Germany to compensate hundreds who fled Nazis as children in Kindertransport
This year is the 80th anniversary of start of effort to evacuate 10,000 youngsters to Britain and elsewhere in Europe to escape Hilter’s regime; around 1,000 are still alive
By AP and TOI staff
Members of Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) march during the annual military parade marking the anniversary of the outbreak of the devastating 1980-1988 war with Saddam Hussein's Iraq, in the capital Tehran on September 22, 2018. (AFP/STR)
December 16, 2018, 11:45 pm
Iranian general fatally shoots himself in the head by accident
Iran-Iraq war veteran Ghodratollah Mansouri’s gun went off while he was cleaning it, Revolutionary Guard website says
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Illustrative: Pakistani army soldiers during a search operation against militants, on the outskirts of Peshawar on June 24, 2017. (AFP/Abdul Majeed)
December 16, 2018, 12:58 pm
Pakistan summons Iran envoy over deadly attack near border
Islamabad demands Tehran take action against armed group in Balochistan region believed responsible for Friday ambush that left six soldiers dead
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Abdelkrim Chekatt speaking to France 2 television in an interview that aired December 15, 2018. (screen capture: France 2)
December 16, 2018, 5:37 am
Father of Strasbourg shooter says son supported Islamic State
Abdelkrim Chekatt said he tried to convince Cherif Chekatt to quit backing terror group, went to police after attack fearing he was involved
By AP
The NoTraffic team (Courtesy)
December 15, 2018, 10:51 pm
Israeli startup NoTraffic raises $3.2m for congestion management system
Company’s AI algorithms use live data from streets to optimize timing of traffic lights, thus streamlining traffic
By AP and TOI staff
Illustrative photo of a member of the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces removing an Islamic State flag in the town of Tabqa (AFP Photo/Delil Souleiman)
December 15, 2018, 9:47 pm
US official: ‘End days’ nearing for Islamic State in Syria
Syrian Democratic Forces have been on the offensive in attempt to capture last enclave in east of country
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In this 2001 photo, Alter Wiener, born in 1926, holds up a photo of himself taken in July 1945, two months after he was liberated from a Nazi death camp, in his apartment in Aloha, Oregon. (Benjamin Brink/The Oregonian via AP)
December 14, 2018, 3:38 am
Holocaust survivor, who told his story to thousands, killed by car in Oregon
Alter Wiener recently appeared before lawmakers to press for mandatory statewide curriculum standards requiring teachers to educate students about the Holocaust and genocide
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In this photo from November 28, 2018, Donald Trump Jr., center, and Kimberly Guilfoyle, right, depart following the National Christmas Tree lighting ceremony at the Ellipse near the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)
December 13, 2018, 4:33 pm
Donald Trump Jr. calls his father a Christmas ‘regifter’
US president’s son says as his dad’s namesake, he ‘got regifted all the things that were monogrammed for him at time’
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Illustrative: Police patrol near the scene of a terror attack in central Stockholm, Sweden, April 8, 2017. (Anders Wiklund/TT via AP)
December 13, 2018, 1:52 pm
Sweden arrests man suspected of preparing terror attack
After raids in Gothenburg, security services offer no details on motive or identity of would-be terrorist, but say his activities had ‘international links’
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Britain's Prime Minister Theresa May makes a statement outside 10 Downing Street in central London after winning a confidence vote on December 12, 2018. (Daniel Leal-Olivas/AFP)
December 13, 2018, 12:03 am
UK’s May survives no-confidence vote, but Brexit troubles still brew
British prime minister wins support of Tory colleagues 200-117, but faces stiff opposition as she tries to deliver on deal to divorce from Europe
By AP
Palestinians stand next to the remains of a car allegedly used by Israeli special forces during a raid in Gaza, which was was later destroyed in an Israeli airstrike, in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip on November 12, 2018. (Said Khatib/AFP)
December 12, 2018, 10:46 pm
Palestinians offer new details of IDF Gaza special ops raid that went awry
Interviews with Hamas officials reveal an Israeli intelligence operation in which agents posing as Palestinian aid workers may have gone undetected for up to 2 weeks
By AP
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