Yesh Atid party chairman and former Finance Minister Yair Lapid laid out his plans for cobbling together a coalition government after the next Knesset election, saying who would – and who would not be welcome in a Lapid government. Bolstered by recent polls showing his Yesh Atid party leading or effectively tied with the ruling
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Middle EastPhoto taken on March 25, 2017 shows the scene at the accident site in Tumd Right Banner of Baotou city, North China’s Inner mongolia autonomous region. A total of 83 homes were damaged in a powerful explosion that ripped through an apartment building in north China, killing three and injuring another 25, local government said.
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InternationalBratislava (dpa) – Controversial former Slovakian politician Frantisek Gaulieder died Saturday in mysterious circumstances, local media reported. The 66-year-old was apparently run over by a train, leading media to speculate that he might have been murdered or that he could have taken his own life. Gaulieder was a key player in a political scandal in
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InternationalBerlin (dpa) – Germany’s defence minister has demanded the US recognize and show appreciation for Germany’s engagement with the NATO military alliance. The US must “acknowledge what individual nations contribute on a daily basis to NATO,” Ursula von der Leyen told Italian newspaper La Repubblica in comments published Saturday. Germany assists NATO through its support
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International, USASenate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer said Sunday that Democrats are ready to work with President Trump to fix Obamacare if Republicans abandon their drive to repeal the law. The New York Democrat made the offer in the wake of Friday’s decision by Mr. Trump and House Speaker Paul D. Ryan to pull the GOP
Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair called for a new approach to Arab-Israeli peacemaking, and blamed the Ayatollahs’ regime in Iran for the intractability of the Middle East’s problems at the AIPAC annual policy conference Sunday. “If you had a benign regime in Iran, all of the problems in the Middle East would be resolvable,”
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International, Middle East, USARussian authorities detained hundreds of anti-corruption protesters and arrested the nation’s leading opposition figure Sunday, as the biggest demonstrations against the Kremlin since 2011 broke out in several cities around the nation. Police detained anti-graft crusader Alexei Navalny in central Moscow, where thousands took to the streets in a rally staged roughly a year before
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InternationalPrime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu opened the weekly cabinet meeting this morning (Sunday), referring to his meeting this weekend with British Prime Minister Theresa May. “On Friday, I spoke with British Prime Minister Theresa May. I sent her condolences on behalf of all the citizens of Israel and the government of Israel to the families of
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International, Middle EastIsraeli Ambassador to the US, Ron Dermer praised the unprecedented lack of “daylight” between Israel and the US under the administration of President Donald Trump. “When it comes to the great challenges facing Israel and the United States, for the first time in many years, perhaps in many decades, there is no daylight between our
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Middle East, USARwanda’s President Paul Kagame on Sunday became the first African leader to address the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) policy conference, hailing Israel as an inspiration for his own country’s rebirth after genocide. Kagame was commander of the rebel force that put an end to the 1994 slaughter of Rwandan Tutsis by Hutu extremists
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International, Middle East, USABy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — It’s not a good sign when an op-ed piece in the Washington Post uses the terms incompetent, stupid, and a “cartoon version of a presidency” in connection with Donald Trump. The President’s supporters are already making their standard remarks about a left-wing press. Sure, the Washington Post along with the
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Ira Sharkansky, USADefense Minister Avigdor Liberman held a live chat with his supporters on his Facebook page Sunday, during which he was asked about his promise to have Hamas leader Ismael Haniyeh killed within 48 hours of becoming Defense Minister. “The wisdom is to act responsibly and with determination,” Liberman replied. “Talk to me about Haniyeh at
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Middle EastThe incitement against haredi IDF soldiers and their recruiters continued, with death threats being made against the head of the IDF branch for yeshiva students Sunday. Leaflets calling for the death of Maj. Yaakov Roshi were strewn outside of his parents’ house in Petach Tikva, representing an escalation in the campaign of harassment and intimidation
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Middle EastIn Knesset first, lawmaker Merav Ben Ari opts for shared parenting without marriage By Stuart Winer Member of Knesset Merav Ben Ari attends a committee meeting in the Knesset, February 6, 2017. (Miriam Alster/Flash90) A lawmaker who conceived a child with a gay friend to whom she isn’t married gave birth Saturday to a baby
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