Darren Seals, a black activist who protested in Ferguson, Mo., in 2014, was found shot to death in a burning vehicle in St. Louis County early Tuesday morning, according to county police. Seals, 29, of St. Louis, was found at about 2 a.m. in the city of Riverview, one of dozens of small communities that […]
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USAKnesset Member Ahmed Tibi of the Joint Arab List recently visited terrorist mastermind Marwan Barghouti in the Hadarim prison. Voice of Israel correspondent Gal Berger reports that Barghouti told Tibi that he supports holding local elections in the PA-controlled territories, and added that these local elections must lead to general parliamentary and presidential elections. The
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Middle EastWill Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Authority (PA) chairman Mahmoud Abbas meet? Both leaders said on Tuesday they were willing to meet to relaunch peace efforts, but no date was set and they traded blame for stalled talks. Netanyahu, speaking at The Hague with Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte, stressed again he was willing
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Middle EastThe High Court issued an interim order this afternoon (Tuesday) barring the Prime Minister from intervening to prevent railroad work on Shabbat. Only the Labor Minister can make that decision, the courts decided. The order stated that the Prime Minister had issued a directive to the Israeli Railway Authority instructing them not to work on
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Middle EastEstonia has accused the Russian air force of violating its airspace for the fourth time this year, according to a statement by the Baltic country’s Ministry of Defense. The three Baltic countries are undergoing a NATO reinforcement due to the high level of Russian military activity observed near its borders since the start of hostilities
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InternationalPhilippine President Rodrigo Duterte has moved on from insulting President Obama to a diplomatically safer target – Islamic terrorists. Mr. Duterte’s office issued a statement on Tuesday saying he regretted calling Mr. Obama a “son of a whore” yesterday – a move that cost him a one-on-one meeting at the G-20 Summit in Laos –
Dozens of people have been treated for breathing difficulties in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo after the air force of President Bashar al-Assad dropped barrel bombs on a rebel-held district on Tuesday, according to a monitoring group. The U.K.-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which relies upon an extensive network of sources on the
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InternationalLibertarian presidential nominee Gary Johnson has complained in recent days that he gets very limited coverage in the mainstream media compared to the big names in the 2016 race. Mr. Johnson appears to be 100 percent right. There is a virtual broadcast black-out on the candidate. A startling new analysis of major network news coverage
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USARepublican nominee Donald Trump said Monday that if he is not elected as the U.S. president Israel would cease to exist as a country because of the Iranian nuclear deal. Trump told labor leaders in Cleveland on Monday, according to The Columbus Dispatch that the deal to slow down Iran’s nuclear programme in return for
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Middle East, USAHillary Clinton’s aides may have obstructed justice by having her emails deleted, the top investigator for the U.S. House charged Tuesday in a letter asking the federal prosecutor in Washington, D.C., to probe the matter. The computer team Mrs. Clinton hired erased tens of thousands of her emails, even though they were subject to a
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USAThe following editorial appeared in The Dallas Morning News on Wednesday, Sept. 7: ——— What does it mean to be a Republican? For generations, the answer had been clear: A belief in individual liberty. Free markets. Strong national defense. But what does it mean to be a Republican today? With Donald Trump as the party’s
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USAAUSTIN, Texas — A handful of white cowboy hats dotted the crowd among the hot pink kippas as Shabbat services commenced at Congregation Agudas Achim in Austin, Texas this past Saturday. And there were more congregants than usual. Some were there to celebrate a Bat Mitzvah — hence the hot pink kippas worn by both
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Middle East, USAAbid Qureshi, the global chairman of law firm Latham & Watkins’ pro bono practice, has been nominated by U.S. President Barack Obama for the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. He is the first ever Muslim to be nominated to serve the federal judiciary, according to Muslim Advocates, a civil rights legal advocacy
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USABy Dorothea Shefer-Vanson LEWES, England–I’d often heard about Glyndebourne, the country estate where operas are presented at a very high artistic standard, but never dreamed I would actually be able to attend a performance myself. It wasn’t even quite clear to me where it was, somewhere out in the country outside London. It sounded like
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