Voters in a state in north-eastern Germany are going to the polls, in what is being seen as a serious challenge for Chancellor Angela Merkel. The anti-migrant and anti-Islam Alternative fuer Deutschland (AFD) could perform better than Mrs Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU) in Mecklenburg-West Pomerania. Why is this significant? The state election is being […]
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InternationalTurkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has had informal talks with German Chancellor Angela Merkel on the fringes of the G20 summit in China. The summit is being held in the southern Chinese city of Hangzhou. #Erdogan , #Merkel discuss Syria op., July 15 coup bid https://t.co/UeMqyhoqB6 pic.twitter.com/MDeh7SpAey— ANADOLU AGENCY (ENG) (@anadoluagency) September 4, 2016 What
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InternationalDemocratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton has come under fire for going 274 days without a press conference, but her running mate insists that’s not true: She’s done one. Tim Kaine, the Democratic vice-presidential nominee, said Sunday that he wanted to “push back on the notion that she hasn’t done a press conference.” “She gave a
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USABy Joel H Cohen NEW YORK –Despite the very mixed reviews of his recent visit with Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto in Mexico City, Donald Trump has accepted an invitation to go to Israel to meet with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and address the Knesset. Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has not yet responded
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Middle East, Trivia, Humor & Satire, USABy Rabbi Ben Kamin OCEANSIDE, California — Martin Luther King Jr. is understandably remembered and cherished as the iconic civil rights leader, “the drum major for justice,” and for his brilliant oratorical skills. Some also recall his provocative, brave cri de coeur as the vanguard protestor against the Vietnam War—which did not line up in his
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USAA month after Donald Trump suffered his weakest poll numbers since effectively securing the nomination in May, Hillary Clinton”s campaign has hit its own nadir, with steady reversals first in national and now state polling. After benefiting from weeks of unforced errors by the Republican nominee, Clinton”s lead nationwide over Trump spiked to over 7
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USARepublican presidential candidate Donald Trump made an appearance at a black church in Detroit Saturday, and received a prayer shawl (tallit) for the occasion. After giving a brief speech, Trump received a Jewish Heritage Study Bible along with the prayer shawl from Bishop Wayne T. Jackson, pastor of Great Faith Ministries International. Trump wore the
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Jewish Religion, USADozens of women from the “Women of the Wall” organization, which aims to challenge the religious status quo in Israel and gain a foothold for the Reform and Conservative movements at the Western Wall plaza, arrived this morning at the holy site, on the beginning of the Hebrew month of Elul. The women arrived equipped
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Middle EastAgriculture Minister Uri Ariel (Jewish Home) spoke with journalists Sunday morning ahead of the government”s weekly meeting, fielding questions regarding the ongoing coalition crisis over infrastructure work done for the public transportation system on Shabbat. Two weeks ago, revelations that the Transportation Ministry was conducting infrastructure work for the Israeli rail system on the Jewish
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Middle EastThe US is committed to bringing the perpetrators of the attempted coup against Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to justice, President Barack Obama said Sunday, as the two leaders met during the official opening of the G20 summit in Hangzhou. Ankara accuses US-based cleric Fethullah Gulen of being behind the July uprising. At talks with
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International, USAFormer economy minister Emmanuel Macron, who resigned from the French government on Tuesday, criticised President François Hollande’s government for not pushing hard enough for fiscal reforms in an interview published on Sunday. “I kept trying, proposing, pushing … If you want to succeed you cannot leave work half done, and unfortunately many things were left
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InternationalBy Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM –The intricacies of the latest dispute around Israel’s railways may be of little interest to those not directly affected, but the political ramifications are extremely relevant to us all. Ostensibly, in an effort not to disrupt railway traffic during the working week, Israel Katz, Israel’s minister of transport, authorized essential
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Middle EastJerusalem-Israel is to host a working group of the International Criminal Court as it weighs whether to probe alleged war crimes in the 2014 Gaza war, an Israeli official said Friday. The group’s arrival “shortly” will be unprecedented, he told Agence France Presse on condition of anonymity, saying the visit was intended to show the
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International, Middle EastBy Barry Shaw NETANYA, Israel — If you want to study the weakness of American foreign policy under the Obama-Clinton-Kerry Administration, just look at the Turkish-Kurdish-Syrian triangle. America’s formal position is that it opposes the Assad regime, that it looks on Turkey as a close ally, and that it arms the Kurds in their fight
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