International

Canada’s trade minister Chrystia Freeland walks out of EU trade talks on verge of tears

OTTAWA – Trade minister Chrystia Freeland has “walked out” of talks with Wallonia’s prime minister, Paul Magnette, her office confirmed, as it appeared the Belgian region would miss an EU deadline for CETA support Friday. Belgian broadcaster RTBF reported Freeland left the Walloon parliament on the verge of tears. Freeland was quoted in French as […]

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International

Breaking down the UNESCO vote

By Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. –Last week, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) voted Christian and Jewish heritage off of the Temple Mount in Jerusalem; Tuesday they ratified their perfidy. The vote seems clearly a response to the expansionist, jihadist aspirations of members of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) that sponsored

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International, Middle East

British lawmaker says Israel is responsible for anti-Semitism

A British lawmaker who is a well-known critic of Israel is blaming Israel’s treatment of Palestinian Arabs for the rise of anti-Semitism in the country. Jenny Tonge, a House of Lords member from the Liberal Democrat party, took to Facebook on Monday after the publication of a report which determined that the Labour party”s leadership

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International, Middle East

Over 300 at Italian newspaper’s protest at UNESCO in Rome

The center-right and pro-Israel popular Italian newspaper Il Foglio organized an unprecedented protest at UNESCO’s offices in Rome against the UNESCO vote that denied the Jewish people’s connection to its holy sites in Jerusalem and to express the public’s anger at Italy’s abstention in that vote. Italy, the newspaper said, should have voted against the

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International, Middle East

Jewish Congress members denounce UNESCO resolution

A group of Jewish American lawmakers on Wednesday issued a statement denouncing the UNESCO resolution which denies the Jewish connection to Jerusalem. The lawmakers signed to the statement are U.S. Representatives Nita Lowey (D-NY), Sandy Levin (D-MI), David Cicilline (D-RI), Steve Cohen (D-TN), Susan Davis (D-CA), Ted Deutch (D-FL), Eliot Engel (D-NY), Lois Frankel (D-FL),

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International, Middle East, USA

Joe Scarborough rips media reaction to Trump on election results: ‘You guys bathe in that hypocrisy’

MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough issued an angry rant against the media Thursday morning, arguing that reporters are taking one “little phrase” from Donald Trump and having a “freak out” over something that Democrats have been complaining about ever since President George W. Bush beat Al Gore in 2000. On MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” Mr. Scarborough pointed out

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USA

WikiLeaks emails part curtain on a nearly elected Obama considering White House staff

WASHINGTON — The anti-secrecy group WikiLeaks on Thursday released a handful of Barack Obama’s emails from a period immediately before he was elected in 2008, including several that revealed names of people Obama was considering for senior roles and one that reflected care in avoiding a transition conflict with President George W. Bush. The emails

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International, USA

Carl P. Leubsdorf: Trump almost certainly delivered fatal blow to himself

Historians assessing the 2016 presidential election will cite Donald Trump’s repeated self-inflicted wounds: attacking a Mexican-American federal judge, the Muslim-American Gold Star parents of a fallen war hero and a former Miss Universe. But they’ll likely conclude he administered the coup de grace to himself by refusing in Wednesday night’s third televised debate with Hillary

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USA

Idaho’s first Syrian refugee wants Americans to understand their country’s vetting process

Asmaa Albukaie was married at age 14. She had two children by the time she was 15. Then she took an unusual step for a stay-at-home Syrian mom: She signed up for a university degree in library science in Damascus. “I noticed that women in movies, American women, decide whatever they want to decide. This

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