
2016Meir Dagan, Israeli general (born 1945)[â ]
Aluf Meir Dagan was an Israel Defense Forces Major General (reserve) and Director of the Mossad.
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2016Meir Dagan, Israeli general (born 1945)[â ]
Aluf Meir Dagan was an Israel Defense Forces Major General (reserve) and Director of the Mossad.
2016ZoltĂĄn Kamondi, Hungarian director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1960)[â ]
ZoltĂĄn Kamondi was a Hungarian film director, actor, screenwriter and producer. He was born in 1960 in Budapest, Hungary.
2016Rojava conflict: At a conference in Rmelan, the Movement for a Democratic Society declares the establishment of the Democratic Federation of Northern Syria.[â ]
The Rojava Conflict, also known as the Rojava Revolution, is a political upheaval and military conflict taking place in northern Syria, known among Kurds as Western Kurdistan or Rojava.
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A series of carefully considered steps has positioned Judge Merrick B. Garland for a job his friends say he has dreamed of for years: a seat on the United States Supreme Court.
The New York stage veteran Marin Ireland gives a performance of beautiful complexity in Martyna Majokâs quietly gripping play.
Eurowings is a key part of Lufthansaâs long-term strategy to expand low-fare operations, but poor service has added to the parent companyâs headaches.
A combination of legitimate complaints and misstatements of how things work between the worldâs two largest economies.
More than 44,000 people are already trapped in the country, a number ticking upward each day, as aid groups warn of a potential humanitarian crisis by summer.
The singer-songwriter is part of a new twist in musical theater: pop stars trying to make the leap to Broadway.
Hikaru Nakamura and Fabiano Caruana, who have New York roots, are among those competing to oppose Magnus Carlsen in the first world chess championship in New York since 1995.
On a discordant day, Republican leaders vowed again that they would not hold hearings or a confirmation vote this year even if a Democrat wins the White House in November.
Abengoaâs global ambitions are now the source of its troubles as it tries to avoid what would be the largest bankruptcy in Spanish corporate history.
The potential resistance adds a wrinkle to a very public fight over access to an iPhone used by one of the San Bernardino attackers.
Arnaud Desplechinâs film tells of a middle-aged anthropologist and the women who left their imprint on different stages of his life.
A Citigroup report on 20 nations said pension obligations, much of them unfunded, amounted to nearly twice the countriesâ total national debt.