Donald H. Harrison

Obama and Philippines’ Duterte, who swore about and promised to curse him, briefly meet

VIENTIANE, Laos — President Barack Obama and controversial Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte bumped into each other while attending a dinner of world leaders here Wednesday, exchanging niceties after Obama canceled an earlier sit-down because of vulgar comments Duterte directed toward him in public. The encounter “consisted of pleasantries” between the two before the gala dinner […]

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International, USA

Ahmed Tibi visits top terrorist in prison

Knesset Member Ahmed Tibi of the Joint Arab List recently visited terrorist mastermind Marwan Barghouti in the Hadarim prison. Voice of Israel correspondent Gal Berger reports that Barghouti told Tibi that he supports holding local elections in the PA-controlled territories, and added that these local elections must lead to general parliamentary and presidential elections. The

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Middle East

Netanyahu and Abbas willing to meet, but blame each other

Will Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Authority (PA) chairman Mahmoud Abbas meet? Both leaders said on Tuesday they were willing to meet to relaunch peace efforts, but no date was set and they traded blame for stalled talks. Netanyahu, speaking at The Hague with Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte, stressed again he was willing

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Middle East

Supreme Court: PM cannot prohibit railroad work on Shabbat

The High Court issued an interim order this afternoon (Tuesday) barring the Prime Minister from intervening to prevent railroad work on Shabbat. Only the Labor Minister can make that decision, the courts decided. The order stated that the Prime Minister had issued a directive to the Israeli Railway Authority instructing them not to work on

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Middle East

Rodrigo Duterte, Philippine president, vows to Islamic terrorists: ‘I will eat you alive, raw’

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has moved on from insulting President Obama to a diplomatically safer target – Islamic terrorists. Mr. Duterte’s office issued a statement on Tuesday saying he regretted calling Mr. Obama a “son of a whore” yesterday – a move that cost him a one-on-one meeting at the G-20 Summit in Laos –

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International, USA

Syria: ‘Dozens Choke’ After Regime Barrel Bomb Attack

Dozens of people have been treated for breathing difficulties in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo after the air force of President Bashar al-Assad dropped barrel bombs on a rebel-held district on Tuesday, according to a monitoring group. The U.K.-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which relies upon an extensive network of sources on the

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International

Hillary Clinton’s team may be guilty of obstruction of justice: GOP chairman

Hillary Clinton’s aides may have obstructed justice by having her emails deleted, the top investigator for the U.S. House charged Tuesday in a letter asking the federal prosecutor in Washington, D.C., to probe the matter. The computer team Mrs. Clinton hired erased tens of thousands of her emails, even though they were subject to a

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USA