Moscow (dpa) – Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree on Wednesday declaring that his country will not become a member of the International Criminal Court. In his decree, Putin ordered Russia’s Foreign Ministry to inform the United Nations of his decision. Russia signed a treaty to establish the court in 2000, but did not […]
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InternationalSTEAM Register Staff Researchers have discovered a “Super-Earth” planet in orbit around the very bright nearby star known as GJ 536. The planet, which has been named GJ 536 b, has a mass around 5.4 Earth masses. And while it’s not in the star’s habitable zone, the planet’s short orbital period of 8.7 days and
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International, Science, Medicine, & EducationStephen Hawking believes that humanity has less than thousand years on Earth before a mass extinction occurs, the leading theoretical physicist said during a speech Tuesday at Oxford University Union, U.K. According to Hawking, the only way humans can avoid the possibility of extinction was to find another planet to inhabit. At the talk, Hawking
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International, The World We SharePM also plans trips to Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, Singapore, Australia and West Africa in bid to combat UN’s automatic anti-Israel majority By Raphael Ahren Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with visiting Fiji Prime Minister Josaia Voreqe Bainimarama, in Jerusalem, November 7, 2016. (Ohad Zwigenberg) Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday announced an upcoming trip to the Republic
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International, Middle EastSupreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said she was looking forward to Donald Trump”s naming of a ninth justice to fill out the high court. Ginsburg, speaking Monday at the annual Jewish Federations of North America General Assembly, was asked what the immediate impact of a Trump presidency would be. “The most immediate, a vacancy
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USAControversial legislation to ban mosque loudspeakers goes back to the drawing board By Times of Israel staff Health Minister Yaakov Litzman speaks at the 2016 Israel Medical Conference, Jerusalem, August 16, 2016. (Miriam Alster/FLASh90) Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s ultra-Orthodox coalition allies on Tuesday scuppered a Knesset vote scheduled for Wednesday on a controversial bill that
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Middle EastThe fertility rate among Jewish women matches that of Arab women for the first time in Israel’s history, new figures released Tuesday show. The average number of children born to Jewish women was 3.13 in 2015, the same as their Arab counterparts, according to Israel’s Central Bureau of Statistics. The statistics represent a fall in
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Middle EastThe denouncements came swiftly after President-elect Donald J. Trump made his first key appointments. On Sunday, Trump announced his choices for his senior White House leadership team: Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus as White House chief of staff and Trump for President CEO Stephen K. Bannon as chief strategist and senior counselor to the
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USAWASHINGTON — Sen. Charles E. Schumer of New York was elected by Democrats as minority leader of the Senate on Wednesday, and he quickly added new leadership posts for members representing the party’s left and right flanks following this month’s stinging election losses. Schumer will take over for the retiring Sen. Harry Reid of Nevada,
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USAThe telegram was one of the first to arrive from a world leader. On the morning of November 9, the Kremlin announced that Russian President Vladimir Putin had sent a message to U.S. President-elect Donald Trump expressing “his hope they can work together toward the end of the crisis in Russian-American relations, as well as
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International, USADonald Trump promised during the election to get rid of the lobbyists who have been a longtime source of so much Washington corruption. It looks like the President-elect, or more accurately his vice president Mike Pence, is taking key steps to follow through on that pledge. RELATED: Rand Paul: Will Donald Trump betray voters by
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USAWASHINGTON — Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., will become the ranking Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee, which weighs attorney general nominees, as well as nominations to the Supreme Court and other courts, in January. As the most powerful Democrat on the committee, Feinstein will play a major role in how President-elect Donald Trump’s Supreme Court
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USAAway from the confines of Washington, U.S. President Barack Obama has issued what looks like a warning about President-elect Donald Trump. Speaking during an hour-long news conference in the Greek capital of Athens, Obama told reporters: “We are going to have to guard against a rise in a crude sort of nationalism or ethnic identity
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International, USAOn the campaign trail, Donald Trump was no fan of financial industry giant Goldman Sachs. One of his campaign ads in the days just before the vote even featured Goldman CEO Lloyd Blankfein. The voiceover didn’t name him, but as his image flashed onscreen, the narration described “a global power structure that is responsible for
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