Saudi Arabia has signed a memorandum of understanding on the purchase of S-400 air defence systems from Russia’s state arms exporter. King Salman, the first sitting Saudi monarch to visit Russia, has led a delegation to Moscow that agreed joint investment deals worth several billion dollars. #SaudiArabia agrees deal for #Russia|n S400 missile defense systems […]
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International, Middle EastWASHINGTON — Treasury Secretary Steven T. Mnuchin took military aircraft on at least seven occasions without adequate justification, his department’s inspector general said in a report. The inspector general said that Mnuchin’s use of the planes was not illegal but that he had failed to meet rules that require that military flights be used only
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USAWASHINGTON – For the last six years, nearly all employers have had no choice but to include birth control coverage in the health insurance plans they offer their employees. On Friday, however, the Trump administration rescinded that regulation, allowing employers to exclude contraceptive care from insurance benefits for religious or moral reasons. The announcement from
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USAThe head of the federal deportation agency said Friday his agents will now have to go out into communities in California even more frequently to round up illegal immigrants, now that the state has embraced a full sanctuary policy. Tom Homan, acting director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, made the comments a day after
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USAWith the threat of a nuclear conflict growing ever more real, the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded Friday to a coalition of disarmament activists that lobbied for a treaty to ban atomic arms. The Norwegian Nobel Committee said it was honoring the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons for its work “to draw attention to
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InternationalJapan’s public broadcaster has vowed to reform its working practices as it revealed that a young reporter died of heart failure after logging 159 hours of overtime in a month. NHK reporter Miwa Sado, 31, who had been covering political news in Tokyo, was found dead in her bed in July 2013, reportedly clutching her
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InternationalIt’s a hell of a time in America when a video game taking an anti-Nazi stance is considered by some to be to controversial. Yet here we are. The video game Wolfenstein II, the latest iteration of an exercies in killing virtual Nazis, has angered Nazis with an online presence because it is about…killing Nazis.
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USABy Dorothea Shefer-Vanson MEVASSERET ZION, Israel — To celebrate my birthday we went to see the film Frantz, not knowing quite what it was about. This joint French-German production was well-received by the critics, so it seemed like a good idea. At least, we thought, we’d be able to practice our French and/or German a
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International, Theatre, Film & BroadcastWASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release)–AIPAC applauds the U.S. Senate for adopting the Hizballah International Financing Prevention Amendments Act of 2017 (S. 1595), which seeks to cut off the flow of resources to the terrorist group. This bipartisan legislation was introduced by Sens. Marco Rubio (R-FL) and Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH). This measure is particularly important in light
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Middle East, USAWASHINGTON — The Las Vegas massacre has breached Republicans’ solid opposition to additional gun restrictions, prompting party leaders as well as the National Rifle Association to say they will consider limiting so-called “bump stocks,” which can turn assault rifles into virtual machine guns. The White House signaled a willingness Thursday to consider a ban, and
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USAThe son and namesake of late Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos declared Thursday he was confident of ousting the current vice president in a legal challenge, which would place him a heartbeat away from leading his country. Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jnr also confirmed his family was in talks with President Rodrigo Duterte, a political ally, to
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InternationalDonald Trump complained to Puerto Rican hurricane victims this week that their suffering is throwing his budget “out of whack,” but for the same cost as the first family’s exorbitant travel, the government could have sent nearly 130 cargo ships to the island, a new analysis shows. The president and first family have reportedly spent
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USAMIAMI — Tropical Storm Nate formed early Thursday, dumping heavy rain across the Central American coast on a northward track headed for the U.S. At 8 a.m., the storm was located about 10 miles south of Nicaragua’s north coast with sustained winds of 40 mph. It’s expected to make landfall Thursday as it continues moving
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USASACRAMENTO, Calif. — In a sharp rebuke to President Donald Trump’s expanded deportation orders, California Gov. Jerry Brown signed landmark “sanctuary state” legislation Thursday, vastly limiting who state and local law enforcement agencies can hold, question and transfer at the request of federal immigration authorities. Senate Bill 54, which takes effect in January, has been
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