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In the Eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk, where pro-Russian militants have seized government facilities, pamphlets have recently been circulated warning Jews to register with city officials or see their property confiscated. There was some confusion as to who put the leaflets out, or whether they were merely meant as a provocation. On Thursday, however, the U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine confirmed to CNN that the pamphlets are authentic. Speaking with CNN host Jake Tapper, Amb. Geoffrey Pyatt said that the “chilling” leaflets which force Jews to register their property and religion with the government or face consequences have been released by...

Military drops leaflets in Waziristan By our correspondentsWANA/MIRAMSHAH: Planes dropped leaflets in both South Waziristan and North Waziristan on Thursday on the occasion of Pakistan Day to urge the tribesmen to beware of foreigners and their local supporters who had allied themselves with the "Yahood Aur Hanood" (Jews and Hindus).The leaflets, in Urdu and Pashto, carried the title "warning". The Pakistan Army produced and dropped the leaflets. There was a prayer at the end of the leaflets for the tribespeople. The leaflets, dropped in Wana, Makeen, Tiarza and other places in South Waziristan and in Miramshah and Mir Ali tehsils...

A Roman Catholic diocese has ordered a priest to stop distributing a pamphlet it says "borders on the pornographic," but which the priest says supports the church's stance against same-sex marriage by detailing claims about the medical consequences of gay sex acts. The Rev. John Nesbella, an assistant priest at Prince of Peace parish in Northern Cambria in the Altoona-Johnstown Diocese said Wednesday that he stopped distributing "Medical Consequences of What Homosexuals Do." The seven-page document is authored by Paul Cameron, a sociologist who chairs the Family Research Institute in Colorado Springs, Colo. It graphically describes various gay sex acts,...