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February 13th, 2016 
Awake Goy (JTA) — Bernie Sanders and Hillary Rodham Clinton sharply differed over whether to establish diplomatic relations with Iran.
Meeting in Milwaukee Thursday night for the latest debate in the race for the Democratic presidential nod, Sanders, the Independent senator from Vermont and Clinton, the former secretary of state, drew pronounced distinctions on Iran policy.
Sanders avoided using the word “normalize” relations, as he had in previous debates, but said improving relations with Iran was more likely to roll back its backing for terrorism than isolating it.
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Published time: 13 Feb, 2016 05:50
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan. © Christian Hartmann / Reuters
Two Russian pranksters known for high-level prank calls claim they spoke to Turkish President Erdogan posing as Ukraine’s President Poroshenko and PM Yatsenyuk. The 13-minute exchange, which a Turkish source denied ever took place, is explicitly anti-Russian.
The alleged tricksters are Vladimir Krasnov and Aleksey Stolyarov, known as Vovan and Lexus on the internet, who have a history of impersonating Ukrainian and other politicians to try and prank high-level officials of different states.
In the audio, uploaded online by the duo, a voice similar to that of Recep Tayyip Erdogan addresses the “fake” Petro Poroshenko via an interpreter translating from Turkish into Russian.
The Turkish speaker says he would “gladly” take part in an economic – and even “naval” – blockade of Crimea and join “a dialog of states that suffered from the Russian sanctions.” The two sides exchange warm words pledging mutual support of the unofficial Crimean Tatar body Mejlis, which has opposed Russia’s reunification with the peninsula.
The supposed Turkish leader then stressed he would “never, never” apologize to Russian President Vladimir Putin for downing the Su-24 bomber on the Syrian-Turkish border in November of 2015.
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Published time: 12 Feb, 2016 14:14
Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev © Ekaterina Shtukina/
A Reuters article quoted Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev as “raising the specter of a world war” in an interview to a German newspaper. The problem is – he didn’t say any such words.
The leading world news agency reported on an interview that Medvedev gave Germany’s Handelsblatt newspaper on the eve of talks on Syria in Munich.
“All sides must be compelled to sit at the negotiating table, instead of unleashing a new world war,” the agency quoted the head of the Russian government as saying.
The report referred to a German translation of his words, which is incorrect and implies that Russia is warning that a full-scale war between leading world powers may be ignited from the Syrian conflict.
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Published time: 12 Feb, 2016 09:45
© Nikola Solic / Reuters
A whole range of health and psychological disorders, including depression and nicotine addiction, have been confirmed as relating the presence of Neanderthal genes in our DNA by US scientists.
The rigorous genome comparison is the first study of its kind.
It’s been known since 2010 that Eurasian genes may suffer from a series of health problems associated with Neanderthal DNA, after the fact of interbreeding with Homo sapiens was confirmed. But this was the first direct study of the two DNA types, undertaken by scientists at Vanderbilt University in Tennessee.
“Our main finding is that Neanderthal DNA does influence clinical traits in modern humans: We discovered associations between Neanderthal DNA and a wide range of traits, including immunological, dermatological, neurological, psychiatric and reproductive diseases,” senior author on the paper and evolutionary scientist John Capra said.
The study was published in the February 12 issue of the journal Science.
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Parliament approves law allowing heirless and unclaimed property taken during World War II to be returned to Jewish owners
Serbian lawmakers have voted on a bill allowing the restitution of heirless and unclaimed Jewish property expropriated during the Holocaust.
The World Jewish Restitution Organization said Friday Serbia is one of the first countries in Eastern Europe to pass such a bill, which means the property will be returned to the local Jewish community.
Gideon Taylor, WJRO chair of operations, says “this is a step toward justice and the recognition of history.”
Taylor said in a statement “we look to other countries to follow Serbia’s lead.”
The organization had actively campaigned for the law to be passed.
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In Op-Ed on The Times of Israel, evangelical leader apologizes if he has ‘communicated beliefs poorly’
Declaring that his views on Israel have been misunderstood, evangelical Christian leader Mike Bickle has written an Op-Ed on The Times of Israel expressing his commitment to Israel and explaining remarks in which he cited Adolf Hitler as being among the “hunters” sent by God as mentioned by the prophet Jeremiah.
“Let me make clear,” Bickle wrote. “What Hitler did was evil, an utter atrocity to the Jewish people and to all of mankind. The creation of the modern state of Israel after the Holocaust is a testament to God’s enduring love for His beloved people.”
“I have been and remain committed to the spiritual and material defense of Israel and the Jewish people, as is my ministry,” Bickle went on. Later in the article, he added, “For those times when I have communicated my beliefs poorly, I apologize.”
Bickle has made headlines in recent days after he endorsed presidential hopeful Ted Cruz, and after Cruz touted his backing.
Republican presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) speaks during the Sunshine Summit conference being held at the Rosen Shingle Creek on November 13, 2015, Orlando, Florida. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images/AFP)
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