Republican senators want to block transfer of money to the PA, until the PA can prove that it is not giving money to terrorists or their families. The suggested law was proposed on Wednesday, by Republican senators Lindsey Graham, Roy Blunt, and Dan Coats. The law is named after Taylor Force, an American student who […]
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Middle East, USAFormer President Shimon Peres confidentially revealed to the Jerusalem Post two years ago that he had intervened to stop Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu from bombing Iran. Steve Linde, formerly the editor-in-chief of the newspaper, revealed Peres”s comments in an article on Thursday. Linde said that Peres had dropped the bombshell in a meeting with Linde
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Middle EastU.S. Secretary of State John Kerry warned on Thursday that Washington was “on the brink” of ending its talks with Russia on the Syrian conflict over the assault on Aleppo, AFP reported. “I think we are on the verge of suspending the discussion because, you know, it’s irrational in the context of the kind of
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International, Middle East, USAThe Palestinian Authority on Friday suspended a senior official who criticized PA President Mahmoud Abbas’s attendance at Shimon Peres’s funeral earlier in the day. Osama Mansour, who is a military liaison with Israel, posted comments on Facebook in which he blasted the president for going to the funeral in Jerusalem. “There are no personal relationships
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Middle EastWASHINGTON — With Congress opening the way for the families of 9/11 victims to sue Saudi Arabia, victims’ families are focusing on an unproven theory that a Saudi consular official in Los Angeles and a Saudi intelligence operative in San Diego directly assisted two of the 19 hijackers. The alleged Southern California connection is the
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Middle East, USAAt the edge of his farm, Menkir Tamrat walks over to a pepper plant and pulls back the dark green leaves to reveal dozens of shiny red peppers. “Looks like we have a whole bunch of ripe ones, red ones, ready to be plucked,” he says as he rubs his hands together. Over the next
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International, USABritain’s Labour Party suspended a senior activist close to recently reelected leader Jeremy Corbyn after she said that the national day to honor the victims of the Holocaust should not be solely about Jews. The Guardian on Friday quoted Labour as saying that while it did not comment on individual memberships, it is understood that
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InternationalWASHINGTON — Five years ago, Hillary Clinton made a little-noticed deal obligating Japan to continue paying nearly $2 billion a year to help defray the cost of U.S. troops stationed on its territory. The money is used to build housing and training areas for U.S. forces, pay wages to thousands of Japanese workers on U.S
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International, USAPolice in the El Cajon suburb of San Diego have released a surveillance video from a local business that shows an unarmed Ugandan refugee being shot dead in a car park on Tuesday. As two police officers close in on Alfred Olango his sister Lisa Peterson, who is standing nearby, shouts: “Officer don’t shoot him!”
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USANewsweek said its website was knocked offline by hackers Thursday evening after it published an article accusing one of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s companies of having violated the U.S. embargo against Cuba. Editor-in-chief Jim Impoco told reporters Friday that Newsweek’s website was unavailable for several hours the night before as the result of what
France condemned the bombing on Saturday of a hospital in Syria’s Aleppo, saying the shelling of healthcare structures and personnel in the besieged city constituted war crimes. “Their perpetrators will be held to account,” Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault said in a statement. “France is mobilising at the Security Council as we speak to put a
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International, Middle EastBy Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM — In a lengthy interview published on the last day of September 2016 in Ha’aretz and hours before the funeral for Shimon Peres yet another former Israeli spy chief offers a critical and penetrating view of contemporary Israel. Ephraim Halevy, age 82 with vast experience of Israeli affairs, secret and revealed,
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Middle EastBy Joe Spier CALGARY, Alberta, Canada — On September 1, George Frederick “Buzz” Beurling, recognized as “Canada’s most famous hero of the Second World War,” was posthumously honored by the Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum with the unveiling of a life-sized bronze statue of his likeness at a ceremony at Hamilton’s International Airport. Among the dignitaries paying
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International, Jewish History, Middle EastItalian police proudly unveiled two Van Gogh paintings recovered during a mafia raid. The masterpieces, stolen more than a decade ago in Amsterdam, were found in a house linked to an international drug trafficker in Castellammare di Stabia, near Naples. Valued at 89 million euros, both paintings were said to be in good condition and
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