Almost 50,000 children are at risk of starving to death in northeast Nigeria as the country reels from the impact of Boko Haram’s almost-seven-year insurgency. An estimated quarter of a million children are suffering from severe acute malnutrition in Borno state, the birthplace of the militant group, UNICEF said on Tuesday. Of these, 49,000—around one […]
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InternationalNorth Korea says its latest ballistic missile tests trialled detonation devices for possible nuclear strikes on American targets in South Korea and were personally monitored by supreme leader Kim Jong-Un, AFP reported Tuesday night. Tuesday’s test firing of three missiles in violation of existing UN resolutions was seen as an angry reaction to the planned
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International, USAOn Tuesday afternoon, the Knesset held a special discussion in commemoration the Second Lebanon War. Many dignitaries, led by President Reuven Rivlin, attended the event along with soldiers who fought in the war and bereaved families. It seems that the only ones missing were the Knesset members themselves. In an embarrassing gesture to the soldiers
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Middle EastIt appears that no matter how many men, women and children Islamists slaughter or maim, few in the West take Islamic terror seriously. This may sound odd, given how much talk there is about terror, but a compelling case can be made for this assertion. 1) The Western elites The elites of the Western world
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International, USACLEVELAND — Ohio Gov. John Kasich is all over town this week, except inside the Republican convention hall downtown. Kasich, a Republican, has taken the rare and impolitic step of boycotting his party’s convention in his home state, drawing scorn from party nominee (and former primary rival) Donald Trump’s campaign. Suffice it to say he’s
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USAFor all the talk of the 2016 Republican National Convention being a disaster, here in Cleveland it certainly doesn’t seem that way. The delegates have been boisterous at their hotels, and at a recent party full of Washington insiders, the mood wasn’t grim, even after Melania Trump’s plagiarism snafu. “[Donald Trump’s] only 3 percent down,”
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USACleveland, Ohio (dpa) – Donald Trump took the reins Tuesday of the Republican Party as delegates to its party convention in Cleveland, Ohio, officially threw their support behind the brash New York businessman as their presidential candidate. A state-by-state roll call vote recording the results of state primaries and caucuses culminated with Trump’s home state
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USAFormer presidential candidate Dr. Ben Carson took the stage of the Republican National Convention Tuesday night and came out swinging against Hillary Clinton and her practice of “deception.” But before that, he needed to make one thing clear. “I’m not politically correct, and I hate political correctness,” he proclaimed. “It’s time for us to stand
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USALOS ANGELES — Since he lost his TV reporting job last year, Jarrett Hill has been looking for his next opportunity. It presented itself in an unexpected way. Hill was sitting at a corner table Monday night in a Culver City Starbucks, drinking a venti iced coffee and watching the Republican National Convention on an
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USAThe White House said Tuesday that President Obama won’t discipline Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julian Castro, a possible running mate for Hillary Clinton, over his violation of a federal law that forbids campaigning on government property. White House press secretary Josh Earnest said Mr. Castro had fessed up to his “inadvertent error.” “To his
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USADemocratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton lost her three point lead against Republican challenger Donald Trump in a new NBC weekly tracking poll published Tuesday. The presumed nominee still holds a slight lead over Trump, carrying 46 percent compared to Trump’s 45 percent of likely voters. But when Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson and Green Party candidate
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USACLEVELAND — When Harmeet Dhillon first ran for vice chairwoman of the California GOP, rivals whispered that the Indian-born Sikh would slaughter a goat at the lectern. On Tuesday night, Dhillon opened the second night of the Republican National Convention by singing the invocation in Punjabi and then translating it into English. It’s a first
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International, USANEW YORK, July 19, 2016 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — The eyes of the world this week will be focused on the Republican National Convention, but almost no one is talking about the vast majority of Trump-supporting delegates who are Evangelical Christians. The billion dollar question begging an answer is: Why are they supporting him? As an Evangelical
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USAHillary Clinton described the first day of the Republican National Convention as “surreal,” comparing Donald Trump’s dramatic entrance to “The Wizard of Oz.” “Lots of sound and fury. Even a fog machine,” she said in a speech to union members in Las Vegas. “But when you pulled back the curtain, there was just Donald Trump,
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