The Foreign Ministry’s director general, Dore Gold, on Thursday banned all Israeli diplomats in Israel and abroad from holding contacts with Israeli journalists, in the wake of a Haaretz report that Arab states would not seek a vote regarding Israel’s nuclear arms at next month’s International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) meeting in Vienna. Speaking on […]
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Middle EastThis article was first published on the Wilson Center site. Today there are more than 2,000 fighters from Russia on the battlefields of Syria and Iraq fighting on behalf of the Islamic State. [i] A large number of these fighters are Muslims originating from the Northern Caucasus, a fact that feeds a narrative back in
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InternationalLos Angeles (dpa) – A raging wildfire in California’s rural high desert has destroyed more than 300 buildings, including 96 homes, authorities said Friday. The official estimates of damage by San Bernardino County Fire Chief Mark Hartwig are the first since the blaze erupted Tuesday and swiftly grew into a giant firestorm that has left
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USAWorld-renowned Armenian artist Marie Balian spent months preparing an original mural as a gift for the people of Jerusalem. Six meters tall and four meters wide, her fabulous artwork contains close to 1,000 colored tiles. Balian’s unique method involved sketching in charcoal on the tiles, designing and painting them and then burning them in the
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Middle East, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, Travel and FoodThis story contains graphic images depicting violence and death. Viewer discretion is advised. It was a warm summer evening on July 18 when Ezra Acayan, a freelance photographer, saw his first shooting victim. The dead body was lying in a fetal position alongside railway tracks in the Philippine capital of Manila. The police officers responsible
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InternationalIstanbul (dpa) – Turkey’s prime minister said Saturday he wants the United States to place Islamic preacher Fethullah Gulen, blamed for plotting a coup, under “temporary arrest,” ahead of a visit by Vice President Joe Biden next week. Gulen, a one-time ally turned rival of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, denies the charges that he
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Middle East, USARIO DE JANEIRO – This time, the Canadians came out on the right side of the disqualification. Or did they? Canada won a bronze medal in the 4×100-metre relay Friday night at the Olympic Games, four years after being disqualified in the same race for the same medal because of a lane violation. On that
Sheriff Joe Arpaio and several of his subordinates in Maricopa County, Arizona are facing criminal contempt charges as the result of a ruling filed Friday by U.S. District Court Judge Murray Snow in Phoenix. Judge Snow’s order formally calls on the U.S. Attorney’s Office to file charges against the 84-year-old lawman and three of his
Donald Trump is undergoing a campaign pivot, but it doesn’t have anything to do with his remarks Thursday night that he regretted some of his statements (he left unspecified which) over the course of his raucous year-long campaign. Trump’s semi-apology set political pundits abuzz, but the most notable change in Trump’s rhetoric in recent weeks
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USAPrime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has renewed his efforts to convince opposition leader MK Yitzhak Herzog, head of the Zionist Union party, to join his coalition, Channel 2 News revealed Friday. According to the report, Netanyahu and Herzog met on Thursday in Caesarea for talks on the possibility of Zionist Union joining the coalition. Sources said
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Middle EastA Jewish man in his sixties was attacked with a knife in the eastern French city of Strasbourg on Friday by a man who was promptly arrested. René Gutman, the chief rabbi of Strasbourg told news agency AFP that the victim, who was wearing a traditional kippa, was attacked outside his home which is located
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InternationalUsain Bolt made it a perfect nine for nine of Olympic gold, completing a unique “triple-triple” of sprinting success, as he anchored Jamaica to victory in the men’s 4×100 meters relay in Rio. Just as he had done in Beijing and London, Bolt followed up gold in the 100m and 200m by helping his country
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International, Sports & Competitions, USAThe fans of Scottish football team Celtic defied Europe’s footballing body and police to make a political protest against their team’s Israeli opponents, Hapoel Beer Sheva FC, on Wednesday night, with hundreds flying the Palestinian flag. Sections of Celtic Park in Glasgow became a sea of green , red, black and white as the Scots
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International, Middle East, Sports & CompetitionsRIO DE JANEIRO — There was less than three minutes to play in Friday’s women’s Olympic water polo final when the emotions started to kick in for Adam Krikorian. No women’s team had ever won consecutive gold medals in the sport, something Krikorian’s team was about to do. No team had ever scored more goals,
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