State of Atonement When Leaders Say Sorry - a Special Yom Kippur Project
It's not only regular individuals who apologize. Leaders, too, sometimes beg forgiveness for historical transgressions committed by their states
Breaking:
- Last int'l flight departs Erbil as flight ban on Iraqi Kurds starts (Reuters)
- UN: 63 presumed dead in shipwreck involving Rohingya Muslims (AP)
- Dozens of LGBT people detained in Azerbaijan capital (AP)
- Trump to visit South Korea, China, Japan, Vietnam, Philippines, Hawaii from November 3-14 (Reuters)
- Turkey orders 117 soldiers detained over Gulen links (Reuters)
- Stampede at Mumbai train station kills at least 21 people (AP)
- Somalia's al Shabaab militants attack military base outside Mogadishu, say kill 17 soldiers (Reuters)
- Report in Gaza Strip: Hamas carried out a missile test towards the sea (Haaretz)
- U.S. distances itself from Trump's ambassador to Israel over false remark on occupation (Haaretz)
- White House opens probe after reports that Ivanka, Jared used private email accounts (Reuters)
- Hamas reportedly agrees to Egypt's new plan for prisoner swap with Israel (Haaretz)
- U.S. Ambassador to UN Haley says countries should suspend providing weapons to Myanmar (Reuters)
- Turkey's Erdogan says Iraqi Kurdish referendum has no legitimacy (Reuters)
- ISIS releases audio recording of leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi (Reuters)
- Iranian Foreign Minister says country will walk out of nuclear deal if U.S. withdraws (Reuters)
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