Israel Says Troops Only Shot at Protesters Charging Gaza Border

Jerusalem (AP) — Israel's defense minister says troops acted appropriately by only firing on Palestinian protesters who charged toward Gaza's border with Israel. Avigdor Lieberman said Sunday that those who protested peacefully were not harmed, and he rejected accusations of excessive use of force
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The shale oil and natural gas discovered in a deposit off the island state's west coast “is understood to dwarf Bahrain's current reserves,” Bahrain News Agency reported, without giving figures. The country currently pumps about 45,000 barrels of oil a day from its Bahrain Field, and it shares income from
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It was sweet redemption for Charles Kushner last year when his son Jared was named senior White House adviser. A dozen years earlier, a sordid scandal stemming partly from a family falling-out had reduced the senior Mr. Kushner from real estate baron to felon making wallets at a prison camp in
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A local micro-lender is banking on its one-hour loan processing time to attract mass patronage. Mobile-based Jijenge Credit says it only needs one's identification card and an M-Pesa statement to process a request. “We have also eliminated all legal aspects in emergency loan products, apart from the
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Libra Credit believes that access to credit should be easy, in quick time, and simple. However, the current method of loan financing is geographically based and long waiting times. Relying on traditional lenders like the banks etc. doesn't address future customer needs which are getting access to loans
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Ally Financial is a bank holding company that has two core competencies: auto lending (commercial and retail) and online banking. The company is focusing on growing their online banking platform capabilities and expanding their product offering to become a more diversified bank in the long term.
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Brian Smith, a building inspector with the city of Albany, fills out paperwork on the hood of his car in front of a new home on Hummingbird Street on Friday. He said that he's never seen home construction at the pace it's occurring now in the Albany area. “They just can't build them fast enough,” he said.
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Remember that taxpayers are allowed to take the greater of the standard deduction or total itemized deductions which are comprised of high medical costs, mortgage interest, state and local taxes and charitable giving. Without getting into the complicated (and boring) math, the big jump in the standard
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The National Association of Home Builders/Wells Fargo Housing Market Index (HMI) is projecting increased activity in construction of homes in March. This is great news for small contractors, electricians, plumbers and other businesses likely to be hired to build these homes. But the projection is being
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Dubai: Global banking giant HSBC, with a focus on the premium segment of the consumer banking business is looking to expand its retail lending, liabilities and wealth management business to a wider audience. “We are looking at the full corporate employee programmes to expand our retail business.
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Valeant Pharmaceuticals International logo Valeant Pharmaceuticals International Inc (NYSE:VRX) (TSE:VRX) Director John Paulson purchased 7,066,629 shares of the firm's stock in a transaction that occurred on Tuesday, March 6th. The shares were bought at an average price of $15.40 per share,
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A mortgage team works to verify everything on the borrower's application, an appraisal of the property is obtained, the borrower's file is passed along to an underwriter that again verifies all of the information, and then the bank and the client can close on the loan. A title company is used to finalize the
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The average price for a house in Ireland is 7.3% higher than it was this time last year, and over 50% higher than it was five years ago, according to the latest quarterly housing price report from Daft. Issued on Sunday, the report reveals that housing prices in Dublin have risen by 8.4% in the last quarter,
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US Direct, a full-service printing, marketing, graphic and digital advertising company, has leased a 39,260-square-foot industrial space at 1700 Barranca Parkway in Irvine. Bob Griffith of Newmark Grubb Knight represented the landlord. David Bolt, senior vice president of Lee & Associates – Newport
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William Blair Investment Management LLC decreased its holdings in First American Financial Corp (NYSE:FAF) by 0.9% during the 4th quarter, according to the company in its most recent filing … The Company operates through the title insurance and services segment, and specialty insurance segment.
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A new technology-driven real estate firm is launching in Denver this month with plans to crack the traditional real estate brokerage industry's thick walls in a way no other startup has ever managed. REX Real Estate Exchange, based in Woodland Hills, Calif., will roll out the large siege engines of artificial
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CAIRO – 1 April 2018: Loan balance at Egypt's banks recorded LE 1.4 trillion ($79.16 billion) by the end of November 2017, compared to LE 1.3 trillion by … A study by management consulting firm, McKinsey & Co., showed that Egypt's banking sector came among the top five banking markets in Africa.
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I could not fathom having such fortune. In my attempt to clear my head, I began to vigorously clean the garage. While I was pushing the broom, with gun-dog dander and hair flying around me, an epiphany came: Inheritance is more than money. Although I cannot expect to inherit life-changing sums of
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When the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) in a note to all banks in the country in February 2013, released the guideline for the industry on the requirements and conditions for agent banking in Nigeria, not many people believed that agent banking will change the face of the industry, but this initiative has in
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