The Legend of Zion

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New York Agrees to Congestion Pricing and a Mansion Tax in $175 Billion Budget Deal

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Mark Zuckerberg asks governments to help control internet content

Mark Zuckerberg writes an open letter calling for new laws to monitor internet content.

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Saudi Arabia 'hacked Amazon boss's phone', says investigator

An investigator working for Jeff Bezos says Saudi Arabia accessed data on the Amazon boss's phone.

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Trump offshore drilling order unlawful, judge rules

The 2017 move aimed to allow oil and gas companies to work in parts of the Arctic and Atlantic.

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Rolling Stones postpone North America tour over Mick Jagger illness

Mick Jagger's doctors have advised him not to travel.

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Trump threatens to shut Mexico border amid migration surge

Mexico's president says he will not be drawn into confrontation by threats "related to politics".

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Hikvision: US pension funds invest in China 'Big Brother' firm

Up to a million Muslims are reportedly being detained in concentration camps in the Xinjiang region.

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Palestinians mass at Gaza border to mark protest anniversary

Tens of thousands of Palestinians rallied at the Israel-Gaza border on Saturday, facing off against Israeli tanks and troops on the first anniversary of the 'Great March of Return' demonstrations.

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Turks begin voting in local polls which Erdogan could lose in big cities

Turks began voting on Sunday in local elections that President Tayyip Erdogan has described as a matter of survival for the country.

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Comedian in front as curtain rises on Ukrainian presidential election

Ukrainians began voting in a presidential election on Sunday in which a comedian with no political experience and who plays a fictional president in a popular TV series is tipped to win the first round.

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Eiffel Tower goes dark for Earth Hour

The Eiffel Tower was plunged into darkness late on Saturday as the city of Paris switched off the lights on its best-known tourist attraction to mark this year's Earth Hour.

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Arab summit expected to reject U.S. decision over Golan

Arab heads of state, long divided by regional rivalries, are expected to unite at a summit on Sunday to oppose a U.S. decision to recognize Israel's annexation of Arab lands captured in 1967.

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Liberal lawyer Caputova wins election to become Slovakia's first female president

Riding a wave of public fury over corruption, liberal lawyer Zuzana Caputova won Slovakia's presidential election on Saturday, bucking a trend that has seen populist, anti-European Union politicians make gains across the continent.

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North Korea says embassy raid in Spain was a 'grave terrorist attack'

A break-in at the North Korean embassy in Spain last month was "a grave terrorist attack", a representative from North Korea's foreign ministry said on Sunday in the North's first official comment on the incident.

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Venezuelans rally to protest chronic power outages

Thousands of Venezuelan opposition sympathizers protested on Saturday against recurring blackouts that crippled much of the country this month and have aggravated the OPEC nation's economic and social crisis.

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Karachi revitalization drive aims to remake Pakistan's largest city

At a historic market commissioned by Queen Victoria in Pakistan's southern metropolis of Karachi, third-generation spice seller Mohammad Shakeel Abbasi complains that a move to clear illegal encroachments has left poor shopkeepers jobless.

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Trump cuts aid to Central American countries as migrant crisis deepens

The U.S. government cut aid to El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras on Saturday after President Donald Trump blasted the Central American countries for sending migrants to the United States and threatened to shutter the U.S.-Mexico border.

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Korean Air stops serving peanuts after teens' flight disrupted by allergy

Korean Air Lines said on Sunday it has stopped serving peanuts as snacks to customers in response to a recent incident when two teenage brothers were unable to board a flight because of a peanut allergy.

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Algerian army repeats call to declare president unfit for office

Algeria's army chief renewed a call for President Abdelaziz Bouteflika to be declared unfit for office and told opponents not to seek to undermine the military, after weeks of protests demanding an end to the ailing leader's 20-year rule.

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