A terrorist from the Islamic Jihad group was killed and another two were injured on Monday night, when a tunnel collapsed in the city of Khan Younis in southern Gaza. The collapse marks the second such incident in a week. Another tunnel collapse last Sunday also killed a member of the terror group Islamic Jihad’s […]
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Middle EastApproximately 30,000 Palestinian children and teenagers have signed up to attend Hamas’ 25 summer camps in the Gaza Strip. The camps run by Izzadin al-Kassam, Hamas’ military wing, include military training with live fire, combat tactics, and religious indoctrination. In an announcement marking the opening of summer camp the al-Kassam brigades declared: “The responsibility to
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Middle EastCLEVELAND – Sen. Jeff Flake, one of the prominent Republicans who stayed home from the party’s convention, said he’s still watching at home in Arizona and said Tuesday that strident speeches and barbs against Hillary Clinton are hurting the GOP. Mr. Flake, in an interview with KFYI radio, said delegates at the convention who chanted
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USACLEVELAND — Retired Johns Hopkins neurosurgeon and former GOP presidential candidate Ben Carson said Tuesday that being transgender “doesn’t make any sense” and equated gender identity with ethnicity. “For someone to wake up and think that they belong to a different sex because they feel different that day is the same as if you woke
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USAAll 84 people killed in the Bastille Day truck attack in Nice have now been identified. Around 30 of them were Muslim including Franco-Tunisian Olfa Khalfallah and her four-year old son Kylan. Before their burial in Tunisia, they and a third victim were mourned at a mosque in Nice. Among those present at Tuesday’s memorial
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InternationalThe Republican National Convention has released the prepared texts of Monday’s speakers on the first day of the convention. The speech of Melania Trump was not included in the release.
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USANevermind that “We are the Champions” is an anthem from a late 20th century band whose lead singer, Freddie Mercury, died of AIDS and who was as flamboyant as the songs he produced. Even at a Republican National Convention that found it necessary to add a platform plank on the use of birth-gender restrooms, the
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USACLEVELAND, Ohio — Few moments in recent times have elicited more anticipation in the American political world than this year’s Republican National Convention, and just hours into the confab’s first session of proceedings, the quadrennial gathering has lived up to the expectations it would feature conflict and chaos. For roughly an hour Monday afternoon, the
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Travel and FoodCLEVELAND – Ivanka Trump is vouching for her father and his character as she gets set to address the Republican National Convention later this week, saying in an interview for ABC’s “Good Morning America” that people should appreciate Donald Trump’s empathy and warmth. “I don’t know that people appreciate his tremendous empathy and his warmth,
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USATwo Jewish minors have been indicted for lighting Arab cars on fire in the village of Kfar Yafiya in retaliation for an attack in Tel Aviv’s Sarona market last month that left 4 Jews dead and 16 wounded. Another minor has been indicted for failure to prevent the fires. The security threat which the three
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Middle EastAs the Pokemon Go phenomenon grows, some institutions connected to European Jewry’s darkest hour have taken precautions against it. The Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and State Museum in Poland has banned the addictive smartphone game, in which players viewing their environments through their device”s camera run in search of animated figures that the game”s application superimposes on
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InternationalAnti-Semitism continues to ominously swirl around the Donald Trump campaign. The Republican convention shut down comments on its YouTube livestream after anti-Semitic abuse appeared during a speech by Linda Lingle, the Jewish former governor of Hawaii. Comments including “Make America Jewish Again” punctuated by yellow stars of David and “Ban Jews” appeared on the feed,
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USAAs Republicans kicked off their party convention in Cleveland, Hillary Clinton on Monday tried to spoil the coronation of Donald Trump by painting her rival as a bigot who is incapable of keeping America safe or dealing with the complex challenges around race. Rather than step into the shadows during the GOP convention, Mrs. Clinton
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USACLEVELAND – Donald Trump said it’s fine if Ohio Gov. John Kasich doesn’t want to attend the Republican National Convention, saying if he lost as badly as Mr. Kasich did in the GOP primary contest, he wouldn’t show up, either. “Well look, he signed a pledge, number one, but honestly, he got beaten so badly,”
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