Two years after the military seized power in Thailand, voters were being asked on Sunday to approve a new constitution which critics say could extend the army’s influence well into the future. The ballot is the first major popularity test for the junta, led by Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha, who has suppressed political activity since […]
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InternationalWikileaks founder and fugitive Julian Assange expressed delight at the fallout from the recent leak of Democratic National Committee (DNC) emails and tried to deflect criticism of his methods during an appearance Friday on Real Time With Bill Maher. Assange, who remains in open hiding at the Ecuadorean embassy in London, said the release of
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International, USAOhio Gov. John Kasich said Sunday that GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump faces an uphill climb in Ohio, a key battleground in the 2016 White House race. Speaking on CNN’s “State of the Union,” Mr. Kasich – who has refused to endorse Mr. Trump and remains one of the real estate mogul’s toughest Republican critics
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USACulture and Sport Minister Miri Regev on Sunday decried the Lebanese Olympic delegation’s refusal to travel on the same bus as their Israeli counterparts as “anti-Semitism” and “the worst kind of racism.” On Friday, Lebanese Olympic athletes attempted to block the Israeli team from traveling with them to the opening ceremony, according to a report
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International, Middle East, Sports & CompetitionsRio de Janeiro (dpa) – Ibtihaj Muhammad is set to leave a mark at the Summer Olympics, no matter how she ends up doing in the women’s sabre fencing events in Rio de Janeiro. When she takes the stage at the Carioca arena in Monday’s individual tournament, she will be the first US athlete to
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International, Sports & Competitions, USABy Steve Kramer ALFE MENASHE, Israel –Alan Baker is a distinguished, British-born Israeli expert in international law and Israel’s former ambassador to Canada. According to Baker, the US State Department promulgates the notion that, “Israel’s settlement activity is the source of all evil in the world, and the US is waging a massive war of
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JERUSALEM (Press Release) — Recently retired NBA all-star Amare Stoudemire and current NBA star Omri Casspi on Friday afternoon, Aug. 5, gifted their friend, Entourage TV actor Jeremy Piven, with a life-saving ambucycle. The ambucycle immediately became part of Israel’s national emergency medical services (EMS) organization, United Hatzalah’s, response team. “Just the idea that we can use
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, Sports & Competitions, Theatre, Film & BroadcastLAUSANNE, Switzerland, Aug. 6, 2016 – Pierre de Fredy, Baron de Coubertin, was a dreamer who revived the Olympic Games in 1896. Though it was an idealistic concept to unite the countries of the world through athletic competition, the baron believed the games should encompass three things: athleticism, art and culture. Baron de Coubertin (Wikipedia)
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International, Sports & Competitions, Travel and FoodWASHINGTON, Aug. 5, 2016 – Money is the milk of presidential campaigns and polls are the cereal. They come together to decide whether a candidate will have the nourishment and stamina to make it across the finish line first. According to the New York Times, tens of thousands of small donors across the nation are
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USATehran (dpa) – Iran defended its mass execution of criminals as a means of tackling terrorism on Saturday, days after 20 men described as members of an extremist and criminal Sunni group were hanged in a single day. “We are doing everything to protect our people from terrorists,” Foreign Ministry spokesman Bahram Ghassemi was quoted
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Middle EastWashington (dpa) – The United States killed three members of al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) in an airstrike in central Yemen, US military authorities announced Friday. The airstrike, which took place on Thursday, occurred in Shabwah Governorate, US Central Command said in a statement. “AQAP remains a significant threat to the region, the United
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Middle East, USAWASHINGTON — After Rep. Lee Zeldin created a firestorm for publicly musing whether US President Barack Obama is “playing for some other team,” liberal Jewish organizations castigated the GOP congressman for suggesting their commander in chief is secretly acting as a foreign agent. In a statement Wednesday, Zeldin responded to a Wall Street Journal report
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Middle East, USAIstanbul (dpa) – Two members of a pro-government local militia were killed by a roadside bomb in south-eastern Turkey on Saturday, the Dogan news agency reported, adding that officials were blaming the armed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK). The explosion took place in Sirnak province, near the border with Syria and Iraq. The area has seen
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Middle EastA second secret UN Security Council ballot suggests former Portuguese Prime Minister Antonio Guterres remains the front-runner to become the United Nations’ next Secretary-General. Diplomats say he received 11 favourable votes in the encourage, discourage or no opinion tally. Each of the 15 member states cast a vote. Guterres came out with 12 encourages and
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