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The international community must face up to the Burundian crisis, because by common consensus it is on the verge of explosive reignition. By reason of complex current political upheavals, it is estimated that perhaps as many as 100,000 Burundian people...

From Ian: Eugene Kontorovich: The Problem With Using the Tax Code to Punish Israeli Settlements J Street and like-minded progressives are campaigning to eliminate U.S. tax exemptions for charitable groups that provide support to Jewish communities...

A train station in Douala Cameroon. Social media played a vital role in providing an alternative narrative to official accounts about the train accident in the town of Eseka, some 75 miles from the capital Yaounde. Creative Commons photo by Z. NGNOGUE...

September 10 In History 134 CE: The great Talmudic sage, Rabbi Akiva, was taken captive by the Romans, and executed five days later in Caesarea, Israel. Rabbi Akiva had been a 40-year-old shepherd who could not even read the Aleph-Bet. One day, he came...

News that made headlines on various newswires around the world MONDAY President Jacob Zuma broke his silence on the Nkandla report on Sunday, two weeks after it had been released by Public Protector Thuli Madonsela. Zuma told a crowd in Gugulethu...