Donald Trump may like to criticize Hillary Clinton for her family’s acceptance of donations from foreign governments while serving as secretary of state but a Saudi prince is alleging that the Republican front-runner has taken foreign money himself to get out of tight binds. Prince Al-Waheed Bin Talal told Turkey’s Hurriyet newspaper that he has […]
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Middle East, USAPalestinian Authority (PA) chairman Mahmoud Abbas has been warned that Hamas is about to win local elections in Judea and Samaria in a landslide and urged to cancel them, Israel”s Channel 2 News reported Friday. But despite those warnings, Abbas is determined to go through with the elections, according to the report. The local elections
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Middle EastIran on Friday denied American accusations it has delivered missiles to Yemeni rebels, retorting it was U.S. support for a Saudi-led coalition backing the government that had prolonged the conflict, AFP reported. Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said the comments by Secretary of State John Kerry on a visit to Saudi Arabia on Thursday were
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Middle East, USAA prominent Christian group in Nigeria has accused U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry of being “discriminatory…and divisive” during a recent trip to the West African country. Kerry was in Nigeria on Monday and Tuesday and was hosted by the Sultan of Sokoto, Muhammadu Sa’ad Abubakar III, the most senior Islamic cleric in the country.
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International, USAVice President Joseph R. Biden said he’s advised Hillary Clinton to “show your soul a little more” to voters, and he believes too many Democratic leaders don’t understand the middle class anymore. In an interview with the Atlantic published Friday, the vice president said Mrs. Clinton is understandably fearful of revealing too much of herself
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USAAn important question that has the potential to affect the outcome of the presidential race is whether Gary Johnson, the Libertarian Party presidential candidate, can manage to join Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Hillary Clinton onstage at the first presidential debate just a month from now. A former Republican governor of New Mexico, Johnson himself
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USAActions by Iranian vessels in several encounters with U.S. warships in the Gulf this week are cause for concern and increase risks of miscalculation, the White House said on Friday, according to Reuters. On Thursday, it was revealed that a U.S. Navy coastal patrol ship fired three warning shots at an Iranian ship that sailed
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Middle East, USAWASHINGTON — Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has “historically bad” support among Jewish voters in Florida, with large numbers rejecting his proposed temporary ban on Muslim immigration and most doubting his professed strong support for Israel, a new poll of Jewish voters has found. If the Florida polling figures released Friday by GBA Strategies, a
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USAI was walking along a beach in northern Istanbul just recently, after the July 15 coup attempt, when I was jarred by a Cold War image. Wedged into the sandstone cliffs lining the beach were two abandoned gun emplacements, which silently spoke of how this golden stretch of sand was once part of NATO’s first
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International, Middle East, USADamascus/Geneva (dpa) – The United States and Russia could not agree Friday on how to bring about a broad truce in Syria, but the top diplomats of the two key players in this conflict announced that such a deal was imminent. US Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov met for
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InternationalJust when the Olympic rush has ebbed in Brazil, the country is plunging into a different sort of sport: politics. The final phase for impeaching Dilma Rousseff got underway on Thursday. And the Brazilian president is not expected to survive another week in office. The process has inched slowly along for months. After numerous congressional
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InternationalAmericans may not have been able to visit Yosemite National Park with President Obama and the First Family earlier this summer, but they can get a glimpse of the president’s trip by watching a newly released virtual reality film of his experience. During Obama’s Yosemite trip ahead of the National Park Service’s 100th birthday, he
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The World We Share, USAThe last tiger in the war-torn Gaza Strip is settling in well to his new home in South Africa after being evacuated, a charity official involved in his rescue told Newsweek. Laziz, an eight-year-old male Bengal tiger, was removed from the Khan Younis zoo in the southern Gaza Strip, which has been dubbed the worst
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International, The World We ShareIf you’re going to celebrate anything while in Bogota, I think the only place to do it right is a restaurant called Andres Carne de Res. The legendary restaurant has been around since 1982, in an area called Chia, about 45 minutes outside of town. While on assignment at a gastronomy conference, I opted for