London (dpa) – Prime Minister Theresa May has told EU President Donald Tusk that Britain wants to give up its six-month presidency of the European Council scheduled for next year, her office said on Wednesday. May told Tusk by phone that the decision was taken because her government expects to be occupied next year with […]
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InternationalPrime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu vowed on Tuesday that Israel would stop attempts to transfer weapons from Iran to Lebanon. He made the comments at a speech during the special Knesset debate marking a decade since the Second Lebanon War. “The Lebanon War has some achievements, but also forced us to do some serious soul-searching. This
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Middle EastCLEVELAND – New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie said Wednesday that every Republican who’s not working for Donald Trump is working for Hillary Clinton – and hinted he could engage in a bit of an “I told you so” to GOP holdouts like Jeb Bush and John Kasich if Mrs. Clinton is elected. “This is not
Kenyan marathoner to compete for Israel in Rio Olympics (JNS.org) Kenyan-born marathoner Lonah Chemtai is expected to compete for Israel at the Olympics Games in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil next month after gaining a last minute approval. Israeli marathoner Lonah Chemtai with her husband and coach Dan Salpeter. Credit: Facebook. “I am very proud [to
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Middle EastCLEVELAND – Tuesday was supposed to be jobs nights at the RNC. The official theme of the evening was “Make America Work Again.” It was right there, on all the signs. But the real theme of the night-and a hint of the next four months to come-became clear when the speakers kicked off. You might
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USAUnited States Secretary of State John Kerry will travel to Paris this week for talks with Palestinian Authority (PA) chairman Mahmoud Abbas on peace prospects with Israel, the State Department said Tuesday. The meeting with Abbas will be the top U.S. diplomat’s second stop on a global tour that will kick off late Thursday. Kerry
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Middle East, USACLEVELAND – House Speaker Paul D. Ryan, hoping to unite a clearly divided GOP, offered a full-throated defense of his party’s ideas late Tuesday, saying the only way to fight poverty, repeal Obamacare and offer a “better way” to America is to banish a “third Obama term” by dismissing Hillary Clinton and linking arms with
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USAA military court in Gaza on Tuesday sentenced three local residents to death after they were convicted of providing information to Israel’s security services. The Palestinian Interior Ministry, which is in charge of the security forces and which is controlled by Hamas in Gaza, said that the Supreme Military Court sentenced to death by strangling
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Middle EastCLEVELAND — For the first time this week, police threatened a group of demonstrators with arrest, after a rowdy crowd, some wearing masks, sprinted through the streets of downtown Cleveland in a cat-and-mouse game with officers on bicycles. The protest, Tuesday afternoon, which seemed to have splintered from a larger march that started at Public
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USAAlmost 50,000 children are at risk of starving to death in northeast Nigeria as the country reels from the impact of Boko Haram’s almost-seven-year insurgency. An estimated quarter of a million children are suffering from severe acute malnutrition in Borno state, the birthplace of the militant group, UNICEF said on Tuesday. Of these, 49,000—around one
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InternationalNorth Korea says its latest ballistic missile tests trialled detonation devices for possible nuclear strikes on American targets in South Korea and were personally monitored by supreme leader Kim Jong-Un, AFP reported Tuesday night. Tuesday’s test firing of three missiles in violation of existing UN resolutions was seen as an angry reaction to the planned
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International, USAOn Tuesday afternoon, the Knesset held a special discussion in commemoration the Second Lebanon War. Many dignitaries, led by President Reuven Rivlin, attended the event along with soldiers who fought in the war and bereaved families. It seems that the only ones missing were the Knesset members themselves. In an embarrassing gesture to the soldiers
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Middle EastIt appears that no matter how many men, women and children Islamists slaughter or maim, few in the West take Islamic terror seriously. This may sound odd, given how much talk there is about terror, but a compelling case can be made for this assertion. 1) The Western elites The elites of the Western world
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International, USACLEVELAND — Ohio Gov. John Kasich is all over town this week, except inside the Republican convention hall downtown. Kasich, a Republican, has taken the rare and impolitic step of boycotting his party’s convention in his home state, drawing scorn from party nominee (and former primary rival) Donald Trump’s campaign. Suffice it to say he’s
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