Saturday, November 24, 2012

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World: World News, International News, Foreign Reporting - The Washington Post
The Washington Post World section provides information and analysis of breaking world news stories. In addition to our world news and video, Post World News offers discussions and blogs on major international news and economic issues.
From Colombian evangelicals to Jews in region with a hidden Jewish past
Nov 24th 2012, 11:53

They were committed evangelicals, devoted to Jesus Christ.

But what some here called a spark, an inescapable pull of their ancestors, led them in a different direction, to Judaism. There were the grandparents who wouldn't eat pork, the fragments of a Jewish tongue from medieval Spain that spiced up the language, and puzzling family rituals such as the lighting of candles Friday nights.

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In a Jordan camp, outsiders seek Syrian brides
Nov 24th 2012, 02:39

ZAATARI REFUGEE CAMP, Jordan — Between bitter fall weather and unceasing war at home, Syrian refugees at this northern desert tent camp have enough problems. But fathers like Abu Yousef say they must also contend with something else: older Arab men in search of Syrian brides.

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WWII code found on long-dead pigeon in England may never be broken
Nov 24th 2012, 01:08

LONDON — A World War II code found strapped to the leg of a dead pigeon stuck in a chimney for the past 70 years may never be broken, a British intelligence agency said Friday.

The bird was found by a man in Surrey, southern England, while he was cleaning out a disused fireplace at his home this month.

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