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Tuesday, April 25 was a day of remembrance for the six million Jews killed during the Holocaust. Around the world television programs and news outlets broadcast stories of courage and resolution in the face of Nazi terror, preaching tolerance of other cultures lest history be repeated. But for 90,000 Holocaust survivors living in Israel today, life is still a harsh struggle of living day to day with little to get by on. Gizela Burg is one such survivor. Having lived in four concentration camps over the course of her life under the Nazi regime, she knows what it’s like to...

The Justice Department will take Google to court on March 13 in San Jose, California, in response to Google’s repeated refusal to comply with federal subpoenas demanding information regarding the search engine’s database, specifically information related to searches conducted using the engine and the web sites available to Google’s users. Google is the largest search engine in the world, and the only one that has not cooperated with the Justice Department so far. Google claims these demands are a violation of privacy, but the government has assured them that no individuals would be identified by name, only their searches would...

The United States has improved its standing in the eyes of the world during the past year, according to a BBC World Service poll. It is now the second least popular nation in the world, beating out Iran with 13 out of 33 countries polled saying the US has a "mainly positive" influence and 17 saying its influence is "mainly negative." Iran, by comparison, polls 5 for "mainly positive" and 24 for "mainly negative." The survey asked 39,435 people in 33 countries for their opinions of Britain, China, Europe, France, India, Iran, Japan, Russia, and the United States. Those from...

Accusations that workers at one of Great Britain’s largest immigration centers in southern London have been granting visas to attractive foreigners in exchange for sex have prompted an investigation according Reuters. Anthony Pamnani, a former employee of the center, blew the whistle to the British Sun tabloid last week. “One girl came in and told us an administrative officer had visited her flat and they slept together,” Pamnani said, “She got indefinite leave to stay.” He also claimed that Brazilian women were favored most of all, and were allowed to stay twice as long as their male counterparts. Unattractive women...

Iran could be producing nuclear weapons in less than three years, according to a briefing given on Tuesday to the Israeli Parliament’s Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee from Israel's army chief Lieutenant General Dan Halutz. The meeting addressed the imminent dangers of Iranian nuclear progress. "If the Iranians continue now then they will be able to begin enriching uranium at the start of March," Halutz told the parliamentary forum, according to its chairman, Yuval Steinitz. From there, “It would take two to three years” to develop an atomic bomb. This new report can only increase the already-heightened tensions between Israel...