An Egyptian security official says the death toll from the previous night’s militant attack in Sinai, which included a suicide car bombing, has reached 11. No one has claimed responsibility for the assault, in which eight troops were initially reported killed. The official says three more slain soldiers were found on Friday morning outside the […]
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Middle EastPresident-elect Donald Trump has scheduled a full day of interviews for Monday back at Trump Tower with business leaders and law enforcement professionals, transition team officials announced. Mr. Trump is spending the long Thanksgiving weekend at his Mar-a-Lago Club in Palm Beach, Florida, taking a break from the interview process, which has included meetings with
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USAWelcome to Newsweek’s daily rundown of President-elect Donald Trump’s transition process. There are about 4,000 positions to fill, and we’ll be keeping track of appointees through the January 20 inauguration. After a short hiatus for Thanksgiving, Trump’s transition team provided an update on the president-elect’s plans for next week, as inauguration day inches ever closer.
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USABy Joel H. Cohen NEW YORK — In what may be hid most controversial appointment yet, President-elect Donald J. Trump has confided to intimates he’s seriously considering naming israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as a special envoy at large. According to insiders’ reports, Trump had thought of naming Bibi to his cabinet, but “then there’d
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Joel H. Cohen, Trivia, Humor & SatireBy Dorothea Shefer-Vanson MEVASSERET ZION, Israel — The headline in the paper one morning made me shudder. It reported that Israel’s Minister of Education, Naftali Bennet, had proclaimed that it was more important to focus on Jewish studies in schools than on math and science subjects. Admittedly, the party that Bennet represents, Jewish Home, stands for
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Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, Middle East, Science, Medicine, & EducationBy Judy Lash Balint JERUSALEM — The destruction of property and nature all across the country is beyond belief. Among the latest tragedies in the fires engulfing Israel is the life work of artist Yoram Raanan in Beit Meir, in the hills outside Jerusalem. Last night the moshav was completely evacuated and little remains. What
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Middle East, Music, Dance, and Visual ArtsAlma Deutscher is a composer, virtuoso pianist and concert violinist who wrote her first sonata five years ago and whose first full opera, ‘Cinderella’ has its world premiere in Vienna next month. Alma Deutscher, un prodigio de 11 años. Compone desde los 6 y estrena ópera propia en Viena esta Navidad #Flipadhttps://t.co/l6w2XQs2f7 pic.twitter.com/NV9ESZqMbp— Javi y
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International, Music, Dance, and Visual ArtsAretha Franklin really stole the show at the Detroit Lions Thanksgiving Day game. Franklin totally went off book and performed a rather lengthy performance of the National Anthem that made for some pretty hilarious responses from Twitter. RELATED: Soon-to-be first daughter Ivanka Trump gave us a glimpse inside her family’s Thanksgiving Day Yes, Franklin has
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Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, Sports & Competitions, USALOS ANGELES — Florence Henderson, whose portrayal of Carol Brady on the iconic television show “The Brady Bunch” created an idealized mother figure for an entire generation, died Thursday. She was 82. Henderson died from heart failure about 7:30 p.m. while surrounded by her four children, said her longtime manager and publicist Kayla Pressman. As
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Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USAHappy Thanksgiving, Ivanka Trump! The business woman and busy mom shared a few special snaps from her adorable family’s Thanksgiving week together. Trump shared a sweet photo of her eldest son, Joseph Kushner during a busy day of volunteering and feeding the homeless. “Thank you Project Ore / UJA for allowing Joseph, Arabella and me
U.S. President-elect Donald Trump has called on America to come together this Thanksgiving holiday. In a near-two-minute-long video posted to his Twitter account, Donald Trump has said that when America is unified “there is nothing out of our reach.” He called on the people of the U.S. to move forward and “restore the bonds of
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USALOS ANGELES — President-elect Donald Trump expressed his support for Los Angeles’ 2024 Olympic bid during a phone call with Mayor Eric Garcetti on Wednesday, Garcetti’s office said in a statement. Garcetti spokeswoman Connie Llanos said Trump spoke on the phone with the mayor in their first exchange since the Nov. 8 election. Besides talking
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Sports & Competitions, USAThe MDA blood service team arrived at the US embassy where the ambassador Dan Shapiro and other members of his staff donated a total of 40 units of blood. This was not the first time that the ambassador has given blood. He is accustomed to donating blood twice a year and appreciates the important of
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Middle EastIt was vintage Merkel. Neatly organizing her papers before speaking in her soft Berliner accent, the German Chancellor made the announcement everybody had been waiting for, “To stand as a candidate for a fourth time after 11 years in power is anything but a trivial decision, not for the country, for the party, nor for
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