International

Catalan leaders sign and suspend declaration of independence

Catalan President Carles Puigdemont and other regional leaders have signed a declaration of independence from Spain after his long awaited speech before Catalonia’s parliament. But the move will not be implemented immediately allowing for talks with the national government in Madrid. The symbolic gesture was welcomed by some lawmakers but for others it fell short […]

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International

Pope wants Catholic opposition to death penalty increased

Pope Francis called Wednesday for categoric opposition to capital punishment to be written into an update of the most important guide to Catholic teaching. His comments, which will be controversial with many fundamentalist Christians and some Catholics, came in a speech to clerics attending a conference in Rome to mark the 25th anniversary of the

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International

Trump names top Kelly aide, a cybersecurity expert, to run Homeland Security

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump has nominated Kirstjen Nielsen, a cybersecurity expert and top aide to chief of staff John F. Kelly, to take over the Department of Homeland Security, the White House announced Wednesday. The appointment of Nielsen likely will mean a continuation of policies followed by Kelly. The retired Marine general won Trump’s

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USA

North Korea’s new infiltration plan: paragliding troops

North Korea has developed an extraordinary way to infiltrate the South and attack the allies’ strategic bases – using paragliders. The new tactic comes in the face of continuing military exercises between South Korea and the United States. South Korea’s National Defense Committee, Ministry of National Defense and Joint Chiefs of Staff revealed on Tuesday

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International

TV report: Islamic State chiefs gather near Israel border, set up training camp

Several senior commanders from Islamic State who recently fled from Iraq and northern Syria are now based in southern Syria, just across the Golan Heights border with Israel, and are training hundreds of new recruits there, an Israeli television report said. Israel’s Channel 2 said the commanders have made their way to an Islamic State-controlled

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Middle East

Menendez trial: Judge raises serious doubts about government’s case

NEWARK, N.J. — The judge overseeing U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez’s federal corruption trial raised serious doubts Wednesday whether a legal theory that prosecutors have relied on to prove their case is still allowed in the wake of a 2016 U.S. Supreme Court decision that narrowed the reach of federal bribery laws, raising the prospect that

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USA

IDF general warns Hamas that lasers aimed at troops could lead to escalation

A top Israel Defense Forces general warned Wednesday of an Israeli “response” to “provocative” actions by Hamas, saying tensions between the sides could escalate if the terror group does not control its fighters. In a Facebook post in Arabic, Coordinator of the Government Activities in the Territories Maj. Gen. Yoav Mordechai said Hamas members have

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Middle East

Trump threatens NBC’s broadcast licenses following critical stories

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump, who has threatened press freedoms before, suggested Wednesday that NBC might lose its broadcast licenses following critical stories detailing his behavior. “With all of the Fake News coming out of NBC and the Networks, at what point is it appropriate to challenge their License? Bad for country!” the president tweeted.

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USA

Israeli delegation said to land in Cairo ahead of Fatah-Hamas talks

An Israeli delegation flew into Cairo on Tuesday to conduct talks with high-ranking Egyptian officials ahead of Palestinian reconciliation talks in Egypt’s capital, according to Arabic media reports. Although there was no word on the content of the discussions, the reports came on the same day unity talks were launched in Egypt between Hamas and

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Middle East

Did Jewish Breitbart journalist see the Nazi salutes?

[youtube:2033774] An explosive new video shows Jewish Breitbart tech editor Milo Yiannopoulos singing ‘America the Beautiful’ in a Texas bar while white nationalists perform Nazi salutes in front of him. The video, which was reported on by Buzzfeed, was taken in April 2016 at the One Nostalgia Tavern in Dallas. As Yiannopoulos sings, white nationalists

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USA

Brazilian restaurant sorry for signs accusing Israel of genocide, urging boycott

RIO DE JANEIRO — A Brazilian Arab food restaurant apologized for placing anti-Israel signs at its entrance after a massive Jewish-led boycott campaign on social media. One of the owners of Papaya Verde restaurant, in Recife, sent a note to the Pernambuco Jewish federation stressing that the big and colorful “Free Palestine! it’s not war,

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International, Middle East

‘Bad Rabbi’ exposes seamy underbelly of early 20th century Jewish life

‘Bad Rabbi’ by Eddy Portnoy (Courtesy Stanford University Press) Thugs. Thieves. Blackmailers. Deadbeats. Murderers. These are the kinds of Jews who populate “Bad Rabbi and Other Strange But True Stories from the Yiddish Press,” a new book published this month by Stanford University Press. Contrary to what Hollywood, popular culture, and family lore would have

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Jewish History, USA