By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — The linkage here between guns and homosexuals does not refer to the killings in an Orlando gay club by a Muslim who appears to have been gay, anti-gay, and a religious fanatic. That combination presents its own puzzles, but the discussion here is about something different. This note might also […]
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East, USAThis article updates previous one Munich Police say the perpetrator of the horrific shooting Friday evening was a German-born man who also held Iranian citizenship. During a press conference, Munich Police chief Hubertus Andra said man who killed 10 people in a shooting rampage at a large shopping mall was an 18-year-old German of Iranian
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InternationalTAMPA, Fla. — Hillary Clinton has tapped Virginia Sen. Tim Kaine as her running mate, adding a well-liked swing-state moderate with broad governing experience to the Democratic ticket. Clinton’s choice of Kaine, 58, reflects her calculation that voters with doubts about both her and Republican nominee Donald Trump will respond to a doubling-down of her
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USAJACKSONVILLE, Fla. | Two female Army officers will make history when they report to Fort Bragg, North Carolina, in their first step toward earning the Special Forces tab and becoming Green Berets. The female officers, whom Army officials declined to identify, could attend their first Special Forces Assessment and Selection (SFAS) class as early as
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USAMIAMI — The attorney for the mental health care worker shot by a North Miami cop isn’t buying the police union’s explanation that the officer was trying to save his client’s life, but accidentally shot him instead. Hilton Napoleon, who is representing behavioral therapist Charles Kinsey, said Friday that it was implausible that a trained
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USANEW YORK — Nearly 35 million TV viewers watched GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump’s acceptance speech Thursday night at the Republican National Convention. Nielsen reported that an average of 32.2 million viewers watched across the ad-supported networks that carried the speech between 10 and 11:45 p.m. ET. An additional 2.75 million viewers were tuned in
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Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USATo Be Updated Berlin (dpa) – At least six people have been killed in a ongoing terrorist attack in Munich, German police said on Twitter Friday. Police spoke of an “acute state of terror” in the southern German city after a shooting at its Olympia shopping centre. Three suspects with long guns are still on
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InternationalCLEVELAND — Ivanka’s dad for president! Now that’s a man a lot of people could get behind. Ivanka Trump’s introduction of her father Thursday night was almost enough to forget what the real candidate is like. If Donald Trump had given Ivanka’s speech, he would have come out of his convention on a roll. Instead,
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USACLEVELAND — Fresh off his marathon Republican convention acceptance speech, Donald Trump looked backward Friday, rekindling his feud with onetime chief rival Ted Cruz. Trump, in classic style, essentially said he couldn’t care less that Cruz declined to endorse him in a dramatic snub at the convention. “I don’t want his endorsement,” Trump said at
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USAJust hours after Donald Trump formally accepted the Republican presidential nomination, former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke announced he is running for a U.S. Senate seat representing Louisiana under an “America first” campaign slogan. It’s a two-word phrase that Trump also used in his speech Thursday night at the Republican National Convention. “I’m overjoyed
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USABy Ben Shnider CLEVELAND, Ohio — This has been a terrifying week for people who care about the future of our nation and Israel. A man who promotes outrageous and irresponsible policies became the presidential nominee of the Republican Party. His foreign policy platform alarms our allies and should scare anyone who cares about a
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Middle East, USAGermany and Austria’s foreign ministers have warned Turkey not to use the current state of emergency in the country to persecute political opponents, German public broadcaster DeutscheWelle reports. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan declared a state of emergency on Wednesday, after a group of military personnel attempted to topple his government over the weekend. Erdogan
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International, Middle EastBEIJING — Reacting to strong language in the GOP’S 2016 platform, which criticizes China over issues including Internet censorship, destroying churches and “cultural genocide” in Tibet, Beijing on Thursday urged U.S. Republicans to stop “groundlessly accusing China and interfering in China’s domestic affairs.” The platform delegates adopted this week in Cleveland before nominating Donald Trump
British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson has said that more must be done to prosecute members of the Islamic State militant group (ISIS) for war crimes. Johnson, who started his new job in British Prime Minister Theresa May’s new cabinet after the Brexit reshuffle, was speaking at a meeting of foreign ministers in Washington focused on
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