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REPORT: Valeant is appointing a new CEO

REPORT: Valeant is appointing a new CEO

  Embattled pharmaceutical firm Valeant is planning to appoint a new CEO to replace Michael Pearson, who is hospitalized, according to Dow Jones. Current CFO Robert… Read More ›

Jerusalem – Palestinian Families Push Israel To Return Attackers’ Bodies

Jerusalem – Palestinian Families Push Israel To Return Attackers’ Bodies

  Jerusalem – Palestinian accountant Ahmed Oweisat last saw his son Moataz in October — hours before Israeli police say the 16-year-old boy tried to… Read More ›

Washington – Trump Says Rival Cruz’s Canadian Birthplace Could Be ‘big Problem’

Washington – Trump Says Rival Cruz’s Canadian Birthplace Could Be ‘big Problem’

  Washington –  Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump has waded back into the topic of eligibility for the U.S. presidency, telling the Washington Post that… Read More ›

Chicago – College Begins Effort To Fire Professor For Comment On Islam

Chicago – College Begins Effort To Fire Professor For Comment On Islam

  Chicago – Officials of a suburban Chicago Christian college has begun efforts to fire a political science professor who was placed on leave after… Read More ›

Escape from Ramadi: I fed children sleeping pills to stop their tears

Escape from Ramadi: I fed children sleeping pills to stop their tears

Habbaniyah, Iraq – Five-year-old Tabarak had to be given sleeping pills to hush her crying as her family fled from ISIS. For months, her mother Nada… Read More ›

102-story Seattle skyscraper plan deemed a ‘hazard’ to aircraft

102-story Seattle skyscraper plan deemed a ‘hazard’ to aircraft

  With skyscrapers reaching higher each year, it seems the sky’s the limit — unless that sky is full of airplanes. That’s the problem facing… Read More ›

Hong Kong missing booksellers push hidden industry into spotlight

Hong Kong missing booksellers push hidden industry into spotlight

Hong Kong – A government investigation into the mysterious disappearance of five Hong Kong publishers and book sellers this week thrust an unusual publishing industry into… Read More ›

Czech president: Migrant wave an ‘organized invasion’

Czech president: Migrant wave an ‘organized invasion’

Milos Zeman says ‘young men in good health’ ought to stay behind in the Middle East to fight the Islamic State   Czech President Milos… Read More ›

German FM: Europe must reassert control over borders

German FM: Europe must reassert control over borders

Steinmeier warns against associating refugees with terrorists, but calls for measures to strengthen EU security   Europe must gain stronger control of its borders in… Read More ›

Mass sexual assaults in Cologne test German openness to refugees

Mass sexual assaults in Cologne test German openness to refugees

‘Lumping’ the New Year’s Eve attacks by reportedly ‘Arab-looking men’ with the refugee issue ‘is nothing but exploitation,’ warns justice minister   BERLIN, Germany (AFP)… Read More ›

French Jews leaving in record numbers – but not for the reason you think

French Jews leaving in record numbers – but not for the reason you think

Most Jewish emigres come from middle-class areas with little anti-Semitism. Only 15% are from poor, heavily Muslim areas that see frequent anti-Jewish attacks   Last… Read More ›

Arab-Israeli offers money for information on Dizengoff shooter

Arab-Israeli offers money for information on Dizengoff shooter

With the chase still ongoing for Nashat Melhem, the suspect in the Dizengoff shooting that killed two, the head of the merchants’ committee in the… Read More ›

New Druze town approved

New Druze town approved

Israel’s National Council for Building and Planning approves the establishment of a new Druze town that will initially comprise 400 apartments in the Naftaly Estate… Read More ›

IDF officer killed in training accident at Tze’elim base

IDF officer killed in training accident at Tze’elim base

Mortar shell falls in open area near another training drill that was in process, killing 1st.-Lt. Yishai Rosales and lightly injuring another soldier. An IDF… Read More ›

IDF officer to Saudi paper: Israel has ‘common language’ with moderate Arab states

IDF officer to Saudi paper: Israel has ‘common language’ with moderate Arab states

Second time an Israeli official gives interview to news outlet in recent weeks.   A senior IDF officer told Saudi news outlet Elaph in a… Read More ›

US Jewish groups back Obama on gun control initiatives

US Jewish groups back Obama on gun control initiatives

With his executive actions, Obama is directing federal agencies to take the steps he proposed.   Jewish groups praised new executive actions by President Barack… Read More ›

Germany in shock after dozens of women say were assaulted by ‘North African’ men in Cologne

Germany in shock after dozens of women say were assaulted by ‘North African’ men in Cologne

The demonstration came five days after 90 women reported being robbed, threatened or sexually molested at the New Year’s celebrations outside Cologne’s cathedral by young,… Read More ›

About The Equal Rights Treatment for Refugees Organization (ERTR)

About The Equal Rights Treatment for Refugees Organization (ERTR)

Equal Rights Treatment for Refugees, (ERTR), was initially committed to an objective approach to issues of refugees in the Middle East and elsewhere.  It was… Read More ›

Analysis: Is the Duma case full of holes or does Ben-Uliel face jail time?

Analysis: Is the Duma case full of holes or does Ben-Uliel face jail time?

Ben-Uliel apparently confessed to the Shin Bet, but retracted before the police.   A list of questions remain unanswered about the future of the Duma… Read More ›

Netanyahu denies placing conditions on aid package for Arabs

Netanyahu denies placing conditions on aid package for Arabs

But minister confirms he and colleague were asked to draw up list of demands for community to get billions of earmarked funds   Prime Minister… Read More ›