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Princess Cruises to pay $40 million fine for dumping oily waste and lying about it

Princess Cruise Lines has agreed to plead guilty and pay a $40 million fine for dumping illegal waste off the coast of England three years ago and trying to cover it up by lying to the U.S. Coast Guard. The fine is the largest criminal penalty ever paid involving deliberate dumping by a cruise ship, […]

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International, Travel and Food, USA

Trump says he never really meant to promise that Carrier jobs would return

WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald Trump said Thursday that he never really meant to promise that he would bring jobs back that Carrier, the heating and cooling company, had promised this year to ship to Mexico. “That was a euphemism,” Trump said, meaning he was treating the company as a proxy for U.S. manufacturers that send

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USA

Alone and unpopular, France’s Hollande throws in the towel

French President François Hollande said on Thursday he would not seek re-election next year, bowing to historically low approval ratings after a troubled term in power. The withdrawal means the 62-year-old Socialist leader is the first president of France’s fifth republic, founded in 1958, to step aside after only one term. “I have decided that

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International

Gov. Brown taps California’s Rep. Becerra to be state’s first Latino attorney general

WASHINGTON — California Gov. Jerry Brown has tapped House Democratic Caucus Chairman Xavier Becerra to be the state’s next attorney general. He will succeed Kamala Harris, who was elected to the U.S. Senate in November. Becerra, 58, has served 12 terms in Congress and was making a bid to become the ranking Democrat on the

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USA

In phone call with leader, Trump lavishes praise on Pakistan

ISLAMABAD — The annals of international relations are filled with mundane readouts of conversations between world leaders, the language shorn of sharp edges and massaged into shapeless lumps of diplomatic-speak. The report of a telephone call between Donald Trump and Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif was more interesting than that. “You are a terrific guy,”

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International, USA

Amona ascends the Temple Mount

Dozens of Amona residents and their children ascended the Temple Mount this morning to pray for the future of their community, 0404 reported. Amona is slated for demolition at the end of this month by order of the Supreme Court, on grounds that the community is built on private Palestinian land. The residents were accompanied

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Middle East

UN General Assembly president dons PLO flag

Israel”s Ambassador to the United Nations Danny Danon on Wednesday slammed UN General Assembly President Peter Thomson, who wore a scarf with the colors of the the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO)”s flag. Thomson wore the scarf on Tuesday as the UN marked its annual “International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People”. The special session,

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International, Middle East

Kyrgyzstan’s President Claims Russian Troops Must Go

Kyrgyzstan’s President Almazbek Atambayev has called for Russian troops to leave his country when the contract to host them expires, Russian state news agency RIA Novosti reports. Currently Russia’s military presence on Kyrgyz soil constitutes four different deployments all nominally considered one base but spanning different sites. They stretch from an air force deployment in

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International

Israel’s new ambassador to Turkey arrives in Ankara

‘We have a lot of work to do,’ says Eitan Na’eh, two days after Erdogan accused Israel of increasing ‘oppression, deportation, and discrimination’ By Raphael Ahren Israel’s ambassador to Turkey Eitan Na’eh, whose appointment was announced on November 15, 2016. (courtesy, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs) Israel’s new ambassador to Turkey — the first in

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Middle East