[Link] Maya Assad's family has been stateless for generations, but that could soon change

Read: 10/4/2022 www.abc.net.au

For more than a year the engineer and her businessman husband had been jobless, as the economy in the country in which she was born and raised, Lebanon, imploded.

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[Link] Shooting at holy site in Jerusalem kills one and injures four

Read: 21/11/2021 www.abc.net.au

Israel says the shooting at a holy site for Jews and Muslims by a Palestinian gunman has left one dead and four injured. The attack took place near an entrance to a contested flashpoint shrine known to Jews as the Temple Mount and to Muslims as the Noble Sanctuary, police said.

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[Link] Sirhan Sirhan, man who assassinated Robert F Kennedy, granted parole

Read: 28/8/2021 www.theguardian.com

The man who killed Robert F Kennedy was granted parole on Friday after two of the former attorney general, senator and presidential hopeful’s sons spoke in favor of release and prosecutors declined to argue he should be kept behind bars.

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[Link] Palestinians facing eviction from East Jerusalem offered deal

Read: 3/8/2021 www.theguardian.com

Palestinian residents of the occupied East Jerusalem neighbourhood of Sheikh Jarrah facing forcible eviction from their homes have been offered a compromise deal with Jewish settlers by Israel’s supreme court, in an unexpected development in the high-profile case.

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