Two bombs exploded at a busy market in central Baghdad on Saturday killing at least 27 people and wounding more than 50 others, security officials and medics said. The attacks took place early Saturday morning in al-Sinaq, a busy market selling car accessories, food and clothes as well as agricultural seeds and machinery. Details were […]
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By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – Although I have known Nancy more than 50 years, and have been married to her for 48 plus, Gayle Midyette has even more bragging rights. She has known Nancy 60 years, ever since the Brownies matched them up as pen pals. They’ve only met in person a few
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Donald H. Harrison, Travel and Food, USATurkish airstrikes in Syria killed two Islamic State group emirs this week amid ongoing international negotiations over how to end the five-year-old Syrian civil war and halt the militant group also known as ISIS. Abu Ansari and Ebu Hussein Tunusi were both killed in separate airstrikes carried out by the government in Ankara, Turkish media
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Middle EastCheetahs are in a race for survival, with wildlife experts warning that the world’s fastest land animal is close to extinction. Experts estimate that there are only 7,100 cheetahs left in the world – a dramatic decline from 100 years ago, when the total population was estimated at 100,000. So imminent is the threat to
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International, The World We Share‘Obama doesn’t deal in revenge. It’s not how he makes decisions,’ Dan Shapiro tells Israeli TV By Joshua Davidovich Dan Shapiro speaking in Jerusalem on November 18, 2015. (Miriam Alster /Flash90) The American ambassador to Israel vociferously denied Thursday that the US decision to allow an anti-settlement resolution to pass the United Nations Security Council
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Middle East, USANearly 90,000 Christians were killed for their faith in 2016, equivalent to one every six minutes, according to a new study by the Italy-based Center for Studies on New Religions (Censur). The annual study, which is set for release next month, also indicated that between 500 and 600 million Christians were prevented from freely practicing
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InternationalBerlin (dpa) – German Social Democratic Party (SPD) leader Sigmar Gabriel is likely to be the main challenger to Chancellor Angela Merkel at next September’s election after his chief rival pulled out of the race to head up the SPD campaign, media reports say. The left-leaning SPD is expected to back next month the 57-year-old
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InternationalRALEIGH, N.C. — Gov.-elect Roy Cooper filed a lawsuit Friday challenging the North Carolina General Assembly’s special session law that revamps the state elections board. Cooper’s attorneys asked a Wake County Superior Court judge to block the law from taking effect while the lawsuit pends. Judge Donald Stephens granted the request after a hearing Friday
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USAWASHINGTON — After President Barack Obama on Thursday announced retaliatory measures against the Russian government for what the U.S. has concluded were efforts to interfere in the election, President-elect Donald Trump’s response was terse and dismissive, saying it was time to “move on to bigger and better things.” But after Russian President Vladimir Putin said
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International, USAThe Dong Ward municipality in South Korea’s largest port city of Busan on Friday handed over a confiscated statue symbolizing the victims of Japan’s wartime sexual slavery to a civic group, paving the way for it to be installed in front of the ward’s Japanese Consulate. Two days before the handover, the civic group attempted
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InternationalShe is only 11 but already words like “genius” are being used to describe the musical talents of London schoolgirl Alma Deutscher, who has just wowed the crowd in Vienna with the world-premiere of her self-penned opera “Cinderella”. She played violin and piano during the performance and was rewarded with a standing ovation. It is
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International, Music, Dance, and Visual ArtsBy Rabbi Ben Kamin OCEANSIDE, California — Great heat has been generated by the recent American decision to abstain at the UN Security Council on Israel’s settlements in the West Bank (or Judea and Samaria, as some of us Jews call the area). I have strong mixed feelings about the matter except in one category:
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Middle East, USAArmy to set up initiatives to train and integrate minority groups, increase numbers of Arab-speaking soldiers By Times of Israel staff Israeli Minister of Defense Avigdor Liberman visits the IDF Bedouin Desert Reconnaissance Battalion army base on July 26, 2016. (Ariel Hermoni/Ministry of Defense) In recent months the Israel Defense Forces has stepped up efforts
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Middle EastRebuking the Obama administration’s non-veto, powerful lobby asks people to encourage their representatives to come out against the move By Eric Cortellessa American Orthodox Jewish Rabbi Shmuley Boteach speaks on December 28, 2016 as people take part in a protest calling on the US to ‘defund the UN’ in the wake of the December 23
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