The number of anti-Semitic incidents in the United Kingdom increased by more than a third in 2016 to reach record high levels, according to data released Thursday by a leading Jewish charity. The man who leads the policing of Jewish communities has linked the increase to a range of both local and global factors, including
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InternationalThe White House reveled Friday in the first jobs report of the new administration that showed the U.S. economy added 227,000 jobs in January, saying President Trump had already taken steps to turn the economy around. “Today’s report reflects the consumer confidence that the Trump presidency has inspired,” said White House press secretary Sean Spicer,
LOS ANGELES — President Donald Trump’s treasury secretary nominee, Steven Mnuchin, has been sued again by a film financier that accuses Mnuchin and others of fraud related to the collapse of movie and TV company Relativity Media. RKA Film Financing, in an amended complaint filed Thursday in New York County Supreme Court, renewed its claim
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Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USAOn Sunday night, my dad was going through the security line at Washington Dulles International Airport to board a short domestic flight. It was, by his account, an uneventful evening, away from the protestors who were awaiting international arrivals. According to his boarding pass, he’d been granted TSA Pre-check, the Transportation Security Administration protocol to
Valletta (dpa) – EU leaders agreed on a plan to stem the flow of migrants via the Mediterranean at a summit in Malta on Friday, yet they repeatedly found themselves addressing the elephant in the room: US President Donald Trump. The summit, which ended on Friday evening, came as the European Union finds itself under
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By Yoni Peres, DVM TEL AVIV, Israel — At the top of the cliff, just like Noah’s Ark after the flood, overlooking the Tel Aviv skyline, stands a unique building – the Steinhardt Museum of Natural History. Just a few steps away, in an old building at the Tel Aviv University’s Department of Zoology, Professor Tamar Dayan, the
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Jewish History, Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, The World We Share, Yoni PeresNew Delhi (dpa) – Workers, students and fishermen were Friday involved in a massive operation to clean up an oil spill off the coast of India’s southern Chennai city amid warnings of ecological damage by environmentalists. Two ships collided near the Ennore port area last weekend resulting in 20 tonnes of fuel spilling into the
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InternationalWashington (dpa) – German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel said he found much common ground with US Vice President Mike and Secretary of State Rex Tillerson after meeting with them Thursday in Washington. There were differences between Germany and the United States on migration, Europe, Ukraine and Russia’s behaviour, Gabriel said, but in his meetings with
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International, USAPresident Trump signed a memorandum Friday to delay – and potentially cancel – a sweeping federal rule that would impose new responsibilities on financial advisers, a move guaranteed to provoke heated objections from consumer advocates and liberal lawmakers. The memorandum targets the Department of Labor’s fiduciary rule that, when it begins to phase in April
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USADozens of lawsuits being filed across the nation against President Donald Trump, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and its Customs and Border Protection division contend that customs officials are subjecting refugees, immigrants and travelers from seven Muslim-majority countries to flagrant religious and racial discrimination. They also claim that customs officials refuse to provide information
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International, USASeeking to seal ‘ultimate deal,’ new president is not rushing to dramatic changes. He doesn’t mind Israel building in settlements blocs, but could soon push for two-state solution By Raphael Ahren Donald Trump’s grandiose pre-election promises notwithstanding, the new president is starting to make it fairly clear that he will neither quickly move the US
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Middle East, USADonald Trump’s rise to the presidency of the United States might’ve been nothing more than a stunt to get a bigger contract on “The Apprentice,” according to his close friend Howard Stern. The president never actually wanted to win the election, and instead, was hoping there was still a chance his opponent will take over,
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Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USASens. Charles E. Grassley and Dianne Feinstein announced Friday they have introduced legislation to kill a controversial investor visa program that critics have derided as a backdoor way for wealthy foreigners to essentially buy a pathway to U.S. citizenship. “I was hoping that it would not come to this point, but absent serious efforts to
Moscow (dpa) – Fighting between the Ukrainian military and Russian-backed rebels in eastern Ukraine has intensified amid reports Friday of shelling in dozens of civilian areas. The flare-up in the simmering three-year-old conflict coincided with Ukraine assuming the month-long presidency of the United Nations Security Council. The Ukrainian military reported another six soldiers dead on
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