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Once again, Jewish people were targeted and attacked on a major religious holiday, marking the latest escalation in an ...

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Hanukkah — also spelled Chanukah or other transliterations from Hebrew — is Judaism's "festival of lights." On eight ...

The Bondi Beach mass shooting appears to have been motivated by “Islamic State ideology”, Australian Prime Minister Anthony ...