Oslo (dpa) – The decision to award the 2016 Nobel Peace Prize to Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos was welcomed Friday across the political spectrum in Norway, home to the prestigious award. Norway – along with Cuba – has been facilitator in the peace process between Santos’ government and the left-wing Revolutionary Armed Forces of […]
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International*/]]> */]]> */]]> Friends and relatives gathered Friday in Moshav Mazor, east of Tel Aviv, to bury an Israeli Air Force pilot who was killed when his F16 fighter jet crash-landed Wednesday. Maj. Ohad Cohen Nov, 34, was killed as his two-seater fighter returned from a bombing run against Hamas targets in the Gaza Strip.
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Middle EastShortly after I wrote an article for Newsweek about how Donald Trump’s business interests could undermine national security should he be elected president, one of his supporters assaulted me. He used the internet to do it. Throughout my adulthood, I have never made a secret of the fact that I have epilepsy. It’s better controlled
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USABy Rabbi Yaakov Marks SAN DIEGO– The people are about to enter the land. After forty years of wandering and waiting, they have prepared themselves and built a close relationship with G-d. It is now time to enter the land and serve G-d through both the spiritual and physical aspects of man. Before they enter,
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Jewish ReligionKids from Newark club and Kushner day school inaugural visitors Mayor Ras Baraka, right, cuts the ceremonial ribbon with Manischewitz CEO David Sugarman, surrounded by children from the Boys and Girls Club of Newark and students from Rae Kushner Yeshiva High School. PHOTOS BY JOHANNA GINSBERG All decked out in their official touring gear, Mayor
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Jewish Religion, Travel and Food, USAThe format was a town hall, just like Sunday’s debate between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, but on Thursday night in New Hampshire Trump immediately and repeatedly batted away the notion that the event had any connection to the upcoming clash with his Democratic opponent. “They were saying this is practice for Sunday. This isn’t
Former Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee claimed Thursday that Hillary Clinton’s laugh is so “phony” and so unnatural that it almost comes off as a “cackle” that would be enough to frighten off trick-or-treaters. The former governor of Arkansas was speaking with Fox News host Martha MacCallum about a column in The Washington Times by
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USAPortugal’s former prime minister Antonio Guterres was officially nominated by the UN Security Council on Thursday to be the next United Nations secretary-general. Guterres will take up the new post to succeed Ban Ki-moon in January 2017. The 15-member council unanimously adopted a resolution formally presenting Guterres as their choice during a closed-door session. The
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InternationalIn what is becoming a monthly routine, President Obama granted commutations Thursday to another 102 federal inmates for mostly drug-related crimes. White House counsel Neil Eggleston said the latest commutations are for people “who have demonstrated that they are deserving of a second chance at freedom.” He said the “vast majority” were serving lengthy prison
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USAWASHINGTON — More than 30 former Republican members of Congress issued a scathing open letter Thursday announcing their opposition to Donald Trump and urging fellow Republicans to deny him the White House. The group recounts the GOP presidential candidate’s long list of insults and “lies,” and says his “disgraceful candidacy is indefensible.” “As Republican members
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USAA collection of love letters from former French president François Mitterrand to his longtime mistress, Anne Pingeot, hits the bookstands next week. But the French media already can’t get enough of their former president’s illicit love life. An image from a blustery January 1996 afternoon, when Mitterrand’s two families stood around the former president’s flag-draped
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InternationalMIAMI — Florida rejected a request Thursday from Hillary Clinton’s campaign chief to extend the state’s voter-registration deadline due to Hurricane Matthew. “I’m not going to extend it,” Gov. Rick Scott told reporters in Tallahassee. “Everybody has had a lot of time to register. On top of that, we have lots of opportunities to vote:
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USAGREEN PARK, Mo. — A St. Louis County police officer answering a disturbance call here before dawn Thursday was shot to death by a teenager who was then critically wounded by a back-up officer’s return fire, authorities say. Officer Blake Snyder, 33, was hit once in the chin and pronounced dead at St. Anthony’s Medical
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USABy Joel H. Cohen NEW YORK — A story I enjoy hearing (and retelling) deals with a synagogue in which two factions can’t agree on whether everyone stands when Kaddish is recited or just the mourners. At an impasse, they finally decide to consult the oldest member of the congregation, whose mind is still sharp,
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