New York (dpa) – The venue for the first TV debate between Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Hillary Clinton has been changed from Ohio to New York. The debate will be held September 26 at Hofstra University in Hempstead, about an hour’s drive outside New York City, the university said Tuesday. The debate originally was […]
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USAGeert Wilders, the far-right Dutch politician, told delegates at the Republican National Convention on Monday that Europe was “imploding” because of immigration from Muslim countries. Wilders, whose anti-Islam Freedom Party has enjoyed strong support in recent Dutch opinion polls, told Trump fans at a fringe event that: “The situation in Europe today is worse than
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International, USAThe Knesset on Tuesday night approved the second and third readings of the so-called “Dismissal Law”, which states that Knesset members could be dismissed for misconduct if a majority of 90 MKs vote to suspend them. The bill passed by a majority of 62 MKs who voted in favor and 47 who voted against. Prime
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Middle EastThe Director-General of Israel’s Foreign Ministry, Dore Gold, has released a video slamming the Palestinian Authority for building a monument to honor the terrorist who planted a bomb which killed 15 Israeli civilians in the center of Jerusalem. The monument to Ahmad Jabarah Abu Sukkar, who masterminded the 1976 attack, was unveiled at an official
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Middle EastTurkey President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s purge of suspected dissidents from Turkish society continues apace, and has now been expanded to include teachers, university deans, civil servants and media. Erdogan’s government have blamed supporters of US-based cleric Fethullah Gulen for organizing the failed coup last Friday night. Gulen is in self-imposed exile, and leads a movement
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Middle EastLondon (dpa) – Prime Minister Theresa May has told EU President Donald Tusk that Britain wants to give up its six-month presidency of the European Council scheduled for next year, her office said on Wednesday. May told Tusk by phone that the decision was taken because her government expects to be occupied next year with
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InternationalPrime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu vowed on Tuesday that Israel would stop attempts to transfer weapons from Iran to Lebanon. He made the comments at a speech during the special Knesset debate marking a decade since the Second Lebanon War. “The Lebanon War has some achievements, but also forced us to do some serious soul-searching. This
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Middle EastCLEVELAND – New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie said Wednesday that every Republican who’s not working for Donald Trump is working for Hillary Clinton – and hinted he could engage in a bit of an “I told you so” to GOP holdouts like Jeb Bush and John Kasich if Mrs. Clinton is elected. “This is not
Kenyan marathoner to compete for Israel in Rio Olympics (JNS.org) Kenyan-born marathoner Lonah Chemtai is expected to compete for Israel at the Olympics Games in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil next month after gaining a last minute approval. Israeli marathoner Lonah Chemtai with her husband and coach Dan Salpeter. Credit: Facebook. “I am very proud [to
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Middle EastCLEVELAND – Tuesday was supposed to be jobs nights at the RNC. The official theme of the evening was “Make America Work Again.” It was right there, on all the signs. But the real theme of the night-and a hint of the next four months to come-became clear when the speakers kicked off. You might
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USAUnited States Secretary of State John Kerry will travel to Paris this week for talks with Palestinian Authority (PA) chairman Mahmoud Abbas on peace prospects with Israel, the State Department said Tuesday. The meeting with Abbas will be the top U.S. diplomat’s second stop on a global tour that will kick off late Thursday. Kerry
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Middle East, USACLEVELAND – House Speaker Paul D. Ryan, hoping to unite a clearly divided GOP, offered a full-throated defense of his party’s ideas late Tuesday, saying the only way to fight poverty, repeal Obamacare and offer a “better way” to America is to banish a “third Obama term” by dismissing Hillary Clinton and linking arms with
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USAA military court in Gaza on Tuesday sentenced three local residents to death after they were convicted of providing information to Israel’s security services. The Palestinian Interior Ministry, which is in charge of the security forces and which is controlled by Hamas in Gaza, said that the Supreme Military Court sentenced to death by strangling
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Middle EastCLEVELAND — For the first time this week, police threatened a group of demonstrators with arrest, after a rowdy crowd, some wearing masks, sprinted through the streets of downtown Cleveland in a cat-and-mouse game with officers on bicycles. The protest, Tuesday afternoon, which seemed to have splintered from a larger march that started at Public
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