Beijing, Manila agree to handle maritime disputes properly, in what expert calls a ‘welcome U-turn’ China and the Philippines agreed on Thursday to properly handle their maritime disputes and restore the bilateral ties soured by the South China Sea dispute. The development is a “welcome U-turn” in the bilateral ties, said Jia Duqiang, a senior […]
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InternationalHours before his headline-making appearance at Thursday’s 2016 Al Smith Dinner in New York City, Republican presidential nominee walked off an interview with an NBC affiliate in Ohio. The interview started off well enough. Trump and WCMH’s Colleen Marshall spoke of his recent comments about the upcoming presidential election possibly being rigged against him. Marshall
OTTAWA – Trade minister Chrystia Freeland has “walked out” of talks with Wallonia’s prime minister, Paul Magnette, her office confirmed, as it appeared the Belgian region would miss an EU deadline for CETA support Friday. Belgian broadcaster RTBF reported Freeland left the Walloon parliament on the verge of tears. Freeland was quoted in French as
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Travel and FoodBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM–A clip is circulating among alumni of the Fall River Jewish community that has Cantor Marcus Gerlich along with the Temple Beth El choir. singing Kol Nidre, It brings back memories from the best of my Jewish youth. Cantor Gerlich was a fine teacher and role model, who saw me and many others through
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Ira Sharkansky, Jewish Religion, Middle EastBy Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. –Last week, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) voted Christian and Jewish heritage off of the Temple Mount in Jerusalem; Tuesday they ratified their perfidy. The vote seems clearly a response to the expansionist, jihadist aspirations of members of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) that sponsored
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International, Middle EastThe Third Presidential Debate-TGIO By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO─ Trump supporters were impressed with how much their candidate had matured since the second debate. He managed not to stalk Hillary Clinton when she was speaking, waited nearly thirty minutes before interrupting her, and did not label her the devil. * Hillary Clinton supported legal abortion
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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & SatireA British lawmaker who is a well-known critic of Israel is blaming Israel’s treatment of Palestinian Arabs for the rise of anti-Semitism in the country. Jenny Tonge, a House of Lords member from the Liberal Democrat party, took to Facebook on Monday after the publication of a report which determined that the Labour party”s leadership
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International, Middle EastThe center-right and pro-Israel popular Italian newspaper Il Foglio organized an unprecedented protest at UNESCO’s offices in Rome against the UNESCO vote that denied the Jewish people’s connection to its holy sites in Jerusalem and to express the public’s anger at Italy’s abstention in that vote. Italy, the newspaper said, should have voted against the
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International, Middle EastA Jewish editor for the political news website Politico has been suffering anti-Semitic abuse over twitter from a purported supporter of Donald Trump. Hadas Gold, the editor of Politico’s “On The Media” blog, received a message with a photoshopped image of her wearing the yellow patch the Nazis forced Jews to wear and with a
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USAA group of Jewish American lawmakers on Wednesday issued a statement denouncing the UNESCO resolution which denies the Jewish connection to Jerusalem. The lawmakers signed to the statement are U.S. Representatives Nita Lowey (D-NY), Sandy Levin (D-MI), David Cicilline (D-RI), Steve Cohen (D-TN), Susan Davis (D-CA), Ted Deutch (D-FL), Eliot Engel (D-NY), Lois Frankel (D-FL),
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International, Middle East, USAMSNBC’s Joe Scarborough issued an angry rant against the media Thursday morning, arguing that reporters are taking one “little phrase” from Donald Trump and having a “freak out” over something that Democrats have been complaining about ever since President George W. Bush beat Al Gore in 2000. On MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” Mr. Scarborough pointed out
WASHINGTON — The anti-secrecy group WikiLeaks on Thursday released a handful of Barack Obama’s emails from a period immediately before he was elected in 2008, including several that revealed names of people Obama was considering for senior roles and one that reflected care in avoiding a transition conflict with President George W. Bush. The emails
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International, USAHistorians assessing the 2016 presidential election will cite Donald Trump’s repeated self-inflicted wounds: attacking a Mexican-American federal judge, the Muslim-American Gold Star parents of a fallen war hero and a former Miss Universe. But they’ll likely conclude he administered the coup de grace to himself by refusing in Wednesday night’s third televised debate with Hillary
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