Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe is facing flak over his wife Grace Mugabe’s love for expensive jewelry after it emerged that the first lady had splurged $1.4 million on a diamond ring at a time when the country’s poor were languishing in hunger. According to an urgent application lodged in the Harare High Court this week, […]
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InternationalWASHINGTON — The director of a West Virginia nonprofit who was put on leave for referring to first lady Michelle Obama as “an ape in heels” will be back at work next week. Pamela Ramsey Taylor, director of the Clay County Development Corp., will return to her position Dec. 23. She was originally suspended for
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USAYour browser does not support the video tag. JACKIE | OFFICIAL TRAILER | FOX Searchlight The legend is that the Kennedy family was cursed. The reality is that the Kennedy family was blessed with an unmistakably odd style of speech. “It doesn’t really sound like anybody else from Massachusetts,” says Amy Stoller, a dialect production
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Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USAAs President-elect Donald Trump prepares to take office next month, the soon-to-be First Daughter is capitalizing on her family”s fame, offering well-heeled fans and admirers the opportunity for an exclusive sit-down meeting – for a price. In what could be the most expensive selfie opportunity with a celeb, Ivanka Trump is auctioning off an opportunity
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USAMK Merav Michaeli accuses ‘modesty police’ of humiliating her aide for wearing mid-thigh outfit and leggings By Times of Israel staff and Raoul Wootliff A female Knesset aide was detained for an hour on Sunday morning for wearing a dress that guards deemed was too short. Shaked Hasson, an assistant to Zionist Union MK Merav
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Middle EastReprinted with permission from LobeLog. National Security Adviser-designate Michael T. Flynn has come under increasing fire. The retired general’s personal Twitter account and his son’s promotion of Twitter-based conspiracy theories about the Washington, D.C. pizzeria Comet Ping Pong are prompting renewed scrutiny of President-elect Trump’s pick for the top national security position in the White
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USAIsrael is boycotting Swedish Foreign Minister Margot Wallstrom”s upcoming visit to Israel due to her past anti-Israel statements, the Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper reported on Monday. According to the report, Wallstrom will arrive in the region on Thursday, but will not meet Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, who also serves as Foreign Minister, or any other Israeli
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International, Middle EastRome (dpa) – Giulia Spizzichino, one of Rome’s last Holocaust survivors and the woman who helped bring Nazi criminal Erich Priebke to justice, died overnight aged 90, the Jewish Community of Rome said Tuesday. Spizzichino is credited for convincing the Argentine government to allow the extradition of Priebke to Italy, where he was tried and
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International, Jewish HistoryRabbi Yossi Bodenheim, the Jewish Chaplain for Scottish universities, was attacked, along with his family in Edinburgh. Rabbi Bodenheim was walking with his wife and children when a woman shoved his wife and grabbed his kippah off of his head and threw it on the ground. “My wife and I took our four young children
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International‘Not one’ expert she interviewed knew of Caribbean Jewish victims, says Jamaican author, but that didn’t stop community from raising international funds for monument By Julie Masis More than 70 years after the end of World War II, a small South American country erected its first Holocaust memorial. Over 100 Jewish names were engraved on
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International, Jewish HistoryYour browser does not support the video tag. Hundreds Protest Suu Kyi’s Panel On Rohingya Muslims Over the past decade, the Rohingya minority in Myanmar have been repeatedly called “The Most Oppressed People in the World.” Ever since 2012 and 2013, when a wave of attacks by their ethnically Rakhine neighbors in the north-eastern state
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InternationalCaracas (dpa) – Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro ordered the closure of his country’s border with Colombia for 72 hours on Monday to prevent cash smuggling. The measure was taken to stop Venezuela’s currency being smuggled out of the country by criminal organizations wanting to destabilize the economy, according to Maduro. The border between the two
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InternationalEsma Redžepova, the prominent and versatile Roma singer dubbed the “Romany music queen,” has died at the age of 73, hospital sources and her family said Sunday. The singer from Macedonia was one of the first vocalists in the Balkans to sing in the Romany language. She performed in some of the world’s greatest music
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International, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, Obituaries & memorialsThe world’s largest wild reindeer herd has almost halved over the last 16 years, as scientists warn rising temperatures and human activity have had an effect, the BBC reported. The herd, settled in Russia’s remote Taymyr Peninsula, the northernmost part of the country’s mainland, has reduced by 40 percent since 2000, after changes to the
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