Israel has been working on a massive wall along its border with the Gaza Strip that aims to rob Hamas of its main strategic weapon: tunnels. Nachal Oz, Israel (dpa) – A tractor lazily chugs across a field as sunlight streams down on the landscape awash with spring colours. It would be a perfect pastoral
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Middle EastChelsea Clinton appeared on CBS Tuesday morning to quash rampant rumors about her mother’s future in politics. When asked if the former presidential candidate would run again in the future, her daughter responded, “I don’t think so.” Hillary Clinton has kept a low profile since losing the election to Donald Trump in November. The former
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USAThe city of Cambridge, Massachusetts, one of America’s hotspots for liberals-slash-progressives, just voted on a resolution to start impeachment proceedings against President Donald Trump. Sigh. The City Council actually voted on this. Seven-to-one, with one abstention. The resolution asks the House of Representatives to “look into the president’s various business interests, and their potential violation
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USAPresident Donald Trump has signed a repeal of internet privacy rules despite criticism that it threatens to undermine online safety and enable unconstitutional mass surveillance. The overturning of the Obama-era privacy protections, which was supported by Congress in a March 28 vote, will allow internet providers to share personal information with advertisers and other third
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USAKyrgyzstan’s security service says the likely suspect in Monday’s deadly blast in the Russian city of St Petersburg is a native of the former Soviet republic who obtained Russian citizenship. A spokesman for the GKNB security service identified the suspect as Akbarzhon Jalilov, born in the city of Osh in 1995. He provided no other
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InternationalOfficers allegedly hit the man repeatedly with their rifles and threatened to shoot him, believing he was behind stabbing attack By Times of Israel staff An Israeli Border Police officer frisks a Palestinian man in front of Damascus Gate in Jerusalem’s Old City on September 20, 2016 (Sebi Berens/Flash90) Two Border Police officers were indicted
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Middle EastFormer Trump campaign adviser Carter Page confirmed he passed documents to a Russian spy in 2013 but the information was not sensitive, BuzzFeed reported Monday. Page, an energy consultant, met with Russian intelligence agent Victor Podobnyy at a January 2013 energy conference in New York as the SVR agent tried to recruit Page. Podobnyy and
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International, USASpecial congressional elections are notoriously quirky and often hazardous to ruling parties. So with Donald Trump struggling in Washington, it’s hardly surprising that Republicans are nervous about four contests this spring, especially one this month in Atlanta’s suburbs. The poster child for what could happen occurred in Mississippi in 1981, six months after Ronald Reagan
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USAWASHINGTON — A top government ethics official said Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin should not be disciplined for plugging “The Lego Batman Movie” — as long as he keeps his promise not to do it again. Mnuchin handled the controversy better than White House adviser Kellyanne Conway did when she ran afoul of the same law
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Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USAFormer National Security Adviser Susan E. Rice said Tuesday the notion she used her powers to unmask members of the Trump campaign or transition for political purposes is “absolutely false.” Speaking to MSNBC, Ms. Rice also said she never kept a spreadsheet of instances in which intelligence community picked up conversations involving the Trump campaign
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International, USAFORT WORTH, Texas — Bernie Appel was known as Mr. RadioShack. Over a 34-year career that started before Charles Tandy brought the company to Fort Worth, Appel was credited with transforming the consumer electronics retailer from transistor radios and telephone jacks to computers and camcorders. Appel died Sunday. He was 85. The Boston native joined
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Obituaries & memorials, USAIn a new charter, the terror group is apparently toning down the rhetoric — to appease the West and mollify Egypt; it won’t be recognizing the Jewish state By Avi Issacharoff The Jewish people can finally breathe a sigh of relief. The new Hamas charter, set to be published in the coming days, will reportedly
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Middle EastMore than 100 gay men in Chechnya have reportedly been arrested and tortured, and some were allegedly killed by police. The report was first publicized in the Russian newspaper Novaya Gazeta, says Natalia Antelava, editor-in-chief of Cody Story. She says the abuses probably stem from LGBT activists’ request to have a gay parade in the
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InternationalST. PAUL, Minn. — The Democratic leader in the Minnesota state House of Representatives is not apologizing for a crack about white men during a floor speech that led at least one Republican colleague to demand on Tuesday she resign from her leadership post. “I hate to break up the 100 percent white male card
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