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Daily Archives: 20 February 2013
Israel Is a No-Show at Its U.N. Human Rights Review
Israel on Tuesday became the first nation to skip a United Nations review of its human rights record without giving a reason — and then won a precedent-setting deferral.
The president of the United Nations’ Human Rights Council, Remigiusz Henczel, declared Israel a no-show at a meeting in Geneva and then reconvened the 47-nation council to decide what to do. 
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France to deport radical Muslim clerics
French Interior Minister Manuel Valls said on Tuesday that Paris is set to deport a string of radical imams as part of a fight against “global jihadism”. (Read more)