Italy on Monday rushed to swear in its 64th government in 70 years, a centre-left coalition headed by new Prime Minister Paolo Gentiloni and strikingly similar in makeup to the one led by his predecessor Matteo Renzi. Gentiloni, 62, served as Renzi’s foreign minister until the latter resigned after voters resoundingly defeated a December 4 […]
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InternationalOn Monday, Kanye West took a trip to New York City reportedly in search of a finding a psychiatrist for when he visits the East Coast but it appears the rapper had other plans on his schedule as well. According to video from C-SPAN, the rapper, accompanied by his entourage, arrived for a meeting on
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Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, USACalling himself a “child of the United Nations,” outgoing U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon delivered a farewell address to the U.N. General Assembly expressing appreciation for the honor to serve the global organization. “As some of you said, I am a child of the United Nations. After the Korean War, U.N. aid fed us. U.N. textbooks
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InternationalYaakov Shimon, considered one of the most ruthless gangsters in Israel, is wanted on murder and drug charges By Times of Israel staff Yaakov Shimon seen during a court hearing in Jerusalem on May 03, 2012 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90) An Israeli mobster wanted for his suspected role in a slew of murders in Israel’s underworld has
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International, Middle EastNEW YORK — Former Texas Gov. Rick Perry is President-elect Donald Trump’s choice to lead the Energy Department, according to news reports early Tuesday. The former Republican campaign rivals met for about 90 minutes Monday. It’s unclear when the pick, reported by NBC News and ABC News, will be announced. Energy is the department that
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USAEgypt’s interior ministry Monday accused fugitive Muslim Brotherhood leaders who have fled to Qatar of training and financing the perpetrators of the bomb attack on a Cairo church that killed 25 people. The ministry said investigations revealed the group was led by a suspect who received financial and logistical support and instructions to carry out
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Middle EastWASHINGTON — Donald Trump announced Tuesday he will nominate oil tycoon Rex Tillerson to be secretary of state, setting up a potential confrontation with fellow Republicans on Capitol Hill who are uneasy with the Exxon Mobil chief executive’s close ties to Russian President Vladimir Putin. In a brief statement released by his transition office early
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International, USAFour Georgia police officers were shot and wounded Monday in two separate incidents, according to reports. Two police officers were shot early in the day while carrying out a search warrant in Fort Valley and, in the evening, a person suspected of driving a stolen car opened fire on two other officers in Lavonia in
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USAClose Donald Trump hasn’t been sworn in yet, but he is already making decisions and issuing statements to world leaders that radically depart from American foreign policy, all to the benefit of his family’s corporate empire. Because of this, the next president of the United States is already vulnerable to undue influence by other nations,
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International, USANetanyahu embarks on historic visit to Muslim allies Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan (JNS.org) Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu left Tuesday for a historic visit to Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan, two Muslim-majority nations, in an effort to bolster ties with the Central Asian former Soviet Republics. In Azerbaijan’s capital of Baku, Netanyahu met with President Ilham Aliyev,
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Middle EastBy Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM — If Arieh Deri, Israel’s interior minister and the leader of the ultra-Orthodox Shas party, gets his way, Israel will become the only country in the free world that discriminates against Jews. The legislation that Shas and its Ashkenazi counterpart are putting before the Knesset – with the help of
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Middle East, USABy Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO−Donald Trump previously announced that he would divulge his plan for insulating himself from charges of business conflicts of interest as President this Thursday. Now he has postponed this speech until January (of 2021?). * Donald Trump decided to appoint Rex Tillerson, the CEO of ExxonMobil, to be his Secretary of
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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & Satire, USAMemo to Corporate America: Be ready to be Donald Trump’s next target. Defense giant Lockheed Martin Corp. found that out Monday when the president-elect again used Twitter to blast the F-35 fighter-jet program for costs he termed “out of control.” The stock prices of Lockheed Martin, the project’s prime contractor, and of one of its
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USAGreen Party candidate Dr. Jill Stein’s election recount efforts in Wisconsin have shown that the grand total from the state was off after all. President-elect Donald Trump ended up gaining an extra 162 votes in Wisconsin, increasing his margin of victory by .06 percent. Watch the video The recount results were learned Monday. In the
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