Los Angeles (dpa) – Music icons Bob Dylan, Paul McCartney, Roger Waters, Neil Young, The Who and the Rolling Stones will perform starting Friday at the Desert Trip festival in California, the first-ever modern-day music festival to feature some of the top acts of the 1970s on one stage. The festival is being staged over […]
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Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, USAWASHINGTON — Rudy Giuliani is doing what many thought to be impossible: He’s out-Trumping Donald Trump. The former New York mayor is becoming a regular source of over-the-top statements and slams about Democrats, often amplifying and even surpassing Trump in grabbing headlines, if also sometimes confounding fact-checkers — all in the name of promoting Trump.
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USABy Suzanna Goussous – Oct 06,2016 – Last updated at Oct 06,2016 AMMAN — Activists on Tuesday called on Jordanians to turn off their lights for one hour on Friday to protest the recent gas deal between Jordan’s National Electric Power Company (NEPCO) and Israel. “On Friday, we will turn off electrical appliances and anything
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Middle EastBill Cosby’s lawyers have launched their most comprehensive effort to date to have the sexual assault charges against him dropped, arguing that various factors “created a perfect storm of prejudice, bias and delay” that requires the dismissal of the charges against the entertainer. The motion, filed Thursday in the Pennsylvania court where Cosby is facing
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USAA boat full of women activists which was headed for the Gaza Strip before being intercepted and commandeered by the Israeli Navy on Wednesday has docked at the Israeli port of Ashdod without incident. The activists were transferred to authorities “for further processing,” the Israeli military said in a statement late Wednesday. The boat carrying
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International, Middle EastI came here with a prepared speech. So that we can be together and meet to share the blessing of the day for the Rosh Hashanah. But more than that, I will not read my prepared speech. I would rather just deliver maybe- what my presence here or it was a compelling one. First because
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InternationalClose For a Palestinian insurgent supposedly determined to see Israel destroyed, Paul Hadweh looks remarkably like his fellow students at the University of California, Berkeley. I met the 22-year-old senior on the rooftop of a campus building, overlooking the expanse of San Francisco Bay, which glimmered in the pure light of late afternoon. He wore
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Jewish History, Middle East, USAThe Foreign Ministry in Jerusalem rejected on Wednesday evening the criticism of the State Department in Washington over Israel”s approval of construction of homes on government-owned land in Shilo for residents who will be evicted from the community of Amona. “The 98 housing units approved in Shilo are not “new settlements”. The units will be
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Middle East, USABy Dana Al Emam – Oct 06,2016 – Last updated at Oct 06,2016 AMMAN — Partnerships between public and private tourism institutions in setting and implementing clear plans are key to boosting the sector’s performance, according to Mexico’s Ambassador to Jordan Enrique Rojo Stein. The diplomat reviewed his country’s new policy to enhance the sector’s
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InternationalPolish lawmakers have withdrawn draft legislation that would have introduced a near-total ban on abortion. 352 members of the parliament rejected the proposed legislation, which would further restrict Poland’s already tight legislation on the termination of pregnancy. 58 lawmakers backed the proposed law. The about-turn in the vote marks the first major domestic setback for
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InternationalThe Trump train isn’t off the tracks — but it’s wobbling. Republican nominee Donald Trump has ceded ground to his Democratic opponent, Hillary Clinton, in both state and national polls ahead of Sunday’s second presidential debate. This might be because of a strong first debate performance from Clinton, who convincingly won the event in the
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USAClose to 150 Iranian lawmakers this week signed a bill to significantly reduce the number of people the Islamic Republic executes on drug trafficking charges, but the reform is already facing stiff opposition. Iran continues to be among the countries that execute the highest number of their own citizens. Tehran put at least 977 people
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Middle EastIt wasn’t just 1995. Five years of tax information from the 1970s that Donald Trump provided to the New Jersey Department of Law and Public Safety show mismanagement and losses that could have pushed him into personal bankruptcy—but for the largesse of his Dad. The recent report in The New York Times that a loss
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USAHENDERSON, Nev. — Donald Trump on Wednesday took credit for the widely praised debate performance of his running mate, Mike Pence, during the vice presidential debate, saying that it demonstrated his leadership skills. “Mike Pence did an incredible and I’m getting a lot of credit because that’s really my first so-called choice, that was my
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