In the dusty Mauritanian capital of Nouakchott, thousands of protesters armed with loudspeakers gathered outside the country’s Supreme Court on November 15. Demonstrators held messages of protests on paper, some worn around their heads to keep their hands free, and demanded the court uphold the death sentence against Mohamed Ould Cheikh Ould Mkhaitir, a Mauritanian […]
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InternationalWASHINGTON — President Barack Obama on Monday pardoned 78 people and shortened the sentences of 153 others convicted of federal crimes — the most individual clemencies ever granted in a single day by any president. As he nears the end of his second term, Obama has issued more commutations than the previous 11 presidents combined,
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USAIn a rerun of the Bastille Day terrorist attack in Nice, two men plowed a truck Monday evening through a Christmas market in Berlin, Germany, causing mass carnage for which the Islamic State quickly took credit. The Berlin police said on Twitter, according to a translation by The Washington Times, that “w e can confirm
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InternationalBy Jerry Klinger The most important synagogue in America is not located in the United States. Thirteen hundred miles, East-South-East from Miami, Honen Dolim (She who is Merciful to the Poor) stands on the tiny former Dutch Caribbean Island of St. Eustatius. Statia (St. Eustatius) is remote, difficult to get to and central to the
Lebanon on Sunday announced a new 30-minister government led by Saad Hariri, AFP reports. The new government brings together the entire political spectrum except for the Christian Phalangist party that rejected the portfolio it was offered. “This is a government of entente,” Hariri said of the new cabinet, formed six weeks after the election of
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Middle EastDonald Trump officially became president-elect Donald Trump shortly after 3:30 pm Monday, as he secured a majority of the Electoral College vote and easily overcame a last-ditch effort by protesters to keep him out of the White House. Despite efforts to convince Trump electors to deliver a conscience vote for a different candidate, Trump avoided
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USAA neo-Nazi group is targeting Jewish residents of a small Montana town, publicizing their personal information and calling upon white supremacists to harass them – a form of cyber bullying colloquially known as “doxing”. The doxing campaign, led by the neo-Nazi website The Daily Stormer, is targeting Jewish residents of Whitefish, Montana, where the mother
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USABenjamin Gilman, an American Jewish attorney with a prolific political career, passed away on Saturday at the age of 94. Gilman, a lifelong Republican from the Hudson Valley, served roughly 40 years in various government positions. Beginning as Assistant Attorney General of New York in 1953, Gilman opened a private law practice in the 1950s,
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Obituaries & memorials, USARussia’s ambassador to Turkey, Andrey Karlov, has died of wounds sustained in a gun attack while he was attending an art exhibition opening in Ankara on Monday, the Russian foreign ministry has confirmed. “Today in Ankara as a result of an attack, the ambassador of the Russian Federation to Turkey, Andrey Gennadyevich Karlov, received a
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InternationalJapanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has provoked the ire of the majority of his voters over his meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin, as his own approval ratings fell. Abe received Putin at a hot spring in his home prefecture of Yamaguchi Thursday to discuss trade and the ongoing territorial dispute between their nations, before
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InternationalMore than 130,000 dunams (32,000 acres) of forests burned in the November fires; the Jewish National Fund says best to not replant, contrary to its fundraising plea By Melanie Lidman November 23, 2016 dawned bright and cold in the hills outside of Jerusalem, and an elderly guard outside of the village of Nataf wanted to
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Middle EastLooking back at a Democratic Party that has been shattered nationwide under his leadership, President Obama is accepting blame for building a campaign organization that benefited mainly himself. The president said Monday that he and his political team didn’t pay enough attention to local Democratic races after he came into office in 2009, saying he
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USAClose Packed into a cramped Senate hearing room, the crowd erupted into prolonged whistles and cheers. Bernie Sanders had just joined a “Hands Off Medicare” rally-cum-press conference on December 7, and the activists in attendance, mostly union members in matching T-shirts, were enthralled. When the headliners of the event, Democratic Party leaders Nancy Pelosi and
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USABalad lawmaker Basel Ghattas, suspected of smuggling phones, SIM cards, to Palestinian security prisoners, decries ‘political witch-hunt’ against Arab community leaders By Times of Israel staff Joint Arab List member Basel Ghattas at his office at the Knesset in Jerusalem, on November 3, 2015. (Hadas Parush/Flash90) Israel Police said on Sunday that there is substantial
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