International

Gov. Brown taps California’s Rep. Becerra to be state’s first Latino attorney general

WASHINGTON — California Gov. Jerry Brown has tapped House Democratic Caucus Chairman Xavier Becerra to be the state’s next attorney general. He will succeed Kamala Harris, who was elected to the U.S. Senate in November. Becerra, 58, has served 12 terms in Congress and was making a bid to become the ranking Democrat on the […]

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USA

In phone call with leader, Trump lavishes praise on Pakistan

ISLAMABAD — The annals of international relations are filled with mundane readouts of conversations between world leaders, the language shorn of sharp edges and massaged into shapeless lumps of diplomatic-speak. The report of a telephone call between Donald Trump and Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif was more interesting than that. “You are a terrific guy,”

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International, USA

Amona ascends the Temple Mount

Dozens of Amona residents and their children ascended the Temple Mount this morning to pray for the future of their community, 0404 reported. Amona is slated for demolition at the end of this month by order of the Supreme Court, on grounds that the community is built on private Palestinian land. The residents were accompanied

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Middle East

UN General Assembly president dons PLO flag

Israel”s Ambassador to the United Nations Danny Danon on Wednesday slammed UN General Assembly President Peter Thomson, who wore a scarf with the colors of the the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO)”s flag. Thomson wore the scarf on Tuesday as the UN marked its annual “International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People”. The special session,

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International, Middle East

Kyrgyzstan’s President Claims Russian Troops Must Go

Kyrgyzstan’s President Almazbek Atambayev has called for Russian troops to leave his country when the contract to host them expires, Russian state news agency RIA Novosti reports. Currently Russia’s military presence on Kyrgyz soil constitutes four different deployments all nominally considered one base but spanning different sites. They stretch from an air force deployment in

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International

Israel’s new ambassador to Turkey arrives in Ankara

‘We have a lot of work to do,’ says Eitan Na’eh, two days after Erdogan accused Israel of increasing ‘oppression, deportation, and discrimination’ By Raphael Ahren Israel’s ambassador to Turkey Eitan Na’eh, whose appointment was announced on November 15, 2016. (courtesy, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs) Israel’s new ambassador to Turkey — the first in

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Middle East

Senegalese sculptor Ousmane Sow dies in Dakar

Ousmane Sow, a luminary figure of African contemporary art, died early Thursday morning in Dakar. He was 81. “He takes with him the dreams and the plans that his body, too tired, did not wish to follow,” Sow’s family told Agence France-Presse. Born in the Senegalese capital of Dakar in 1935, Sow was one of

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International, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, Obituaries & memorials

France’s Shame in Labeling Goods Made by Jews

To its credit, France is one of the first countries in Europe to ban economic boycotts of Israel. To its shame, France is the first European country to implement a 2015 European Union decision to label Israeli products from Judea and Samaria—the West Bank—and the Golan Heights. Who, besides France’s Jewish community—already diminished by the

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International, Middle East

Chuck Schumer, Senate Democratic leader, calls for probe of China’s Dalian Wanda Group

Incoming Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer wants the U.S. government to exert closer scrutiny of China’s Dalian Wanda Group, an entertainment conglomerate with ties to the Communist government in Beijing, the Wall Street Journal reported Thursday. The Wanda Group has been on a buying binge in the past few years, snapping up American and European

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International, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USA

World’s oldest person Emma Morano celebrates 117th birthday

Italy’s Emma Morano, thought to be the world’s oldest person and the last to be born in the 19th century, celebrated her 117th birthday on Tuesday. Friends, neighbours and her doctor gathered in her small apartment on the shores of Lake Maggiore, to mark the latest milestone, presenting her with a large birthday cake Ms

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International, Science, Medicine, & Education