By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — We should avoid predicting what’s gonna happen or international affairs. There are too many actors and systemic variables (e.g., economics, the choices made by greater powers) to allow any certainty beyond the next few minutes. However, that doesn’t mean that we should avoid consideration of prominent issues, capable of developing […]
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East, USABernie Sanders has claimed that he did “everything he could” to help Hillary Clinton win the 2016 presidential election after she suggested he had “caused lasting damage” to her campaign. The Vermont senator insisted in an interview with NBC’s Meet the Press that he had backed Clinton once he was out of the race. “I
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USASerbian gay right activists marched with their first openly lesbian prime minister through the streets of Belgrade on Sunday, amid tight security. Holding balloons and a banner reading “For change,” hundreds of participants gathered for the parade, which was was cordoned by riot police, while a helicopter flew low overhead. “Serbia respects diversity. My message
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InternationalEmmys host Stephen Colbert delivered a ton of jabs to President Trump in his opening monologue of this year’s award show. The host taunted the president many times, reminding the audience of several tweets he made about previous award shows. Colbert joked with previous Emmys host Seth Myers about the tweet Trump sent that accused
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Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USATwo residents of the Druze village of Hurfeish in the Golan Heights were found guilty Sunday of involvement in an attack in 2015 on wounded Syrians being treated in Israel. The Haifa District Court convicted Kamal Amer, 24, and Yusuf Sharif, 55, of chasing a military ambulance transporting Syrian patients and blocking the road to
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Middle EastU.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Nikki Haley warned Sunday that “North Korea will be destroyed” if the United States is forced to defend itself from the increasingly aggressive rogue state. Days before President Trump’s first speech before the U.N. General Assembly, Ms. Haley said that “we’ve pretty much exhausted all the things we can do
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International, USASan Diego health officials have implemented many measures to combat the city’s deadly hepatitis A outbreak, including power-washing the streets with a bleach solution and vaccinating more than 19,000 people. On Saturday they added yet another emergency measure: bathrooms with 24-hour security. Four new portable restrooms and a handwashing stations were added to an area
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San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education, USATEHRAN, Iran — Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei warned Sunday that Iran would respond strongly to “any wrong move” by the United States on the multilateral nuclear deal struck in 2015. President Donald Trump has threatened to declare Iran in violation of the landmark agreement next month, which could pave the way for additional U.S.
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International, Middle East, USABeginning November 1, cigarettes and other tobacco products will disappear from the shelves of stores in dozens of military bases around the country as the army steps up its fight against smoking, the Israel Defense Force’s manpower chief said Sunday. The ban on cigarette sales on those 55 bases — 65 stores, in total —
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & EducationWASHINGTON — With tensions running high over North Korea, President Donald Trump on Sunday mocked its mercurial leader, Kim Jong Un, referring to him as “Rocket Man.” Trump, who is spending the weekend at his New Jersey golf property, said on Twitter that he had spoken Saturday evening with South Korea’s president, Moon Jae-in, and
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International, USASEATTLE �� Stripped of protections offered by a federal program for young undocumented immigrants, about a dozen of them sat in the Mexican consulate in downtown Seattle waiting to hear what their country of birth could offer them. A week before, U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions, acting at the behest of President Donald Trump, cast
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International, USACORAL BAY, U.S. Virgin Islands — Sharon Coldren, standing on the balcony of the Coral Bay Community Council building, raised a megaphone to give a warning to about 100 of her fellow islanders. “There are tropical storms on the way that could become hurricanes,” she said to a crowd gathered Saturday outside the town hall.
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USAPresident Donald Trump has poked the internet bear before by retweeting GIFs put out on social media by his supporters, and the latest example is a GIF of Trump hitting Clinton with a golf ball. RELATED: Donald Trump branded Kim Jong-un with an absurdly accurate nickname As former presidential candidate Hillary Clinton continues her tour
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USAHamas said Sunday it had agreed to steps toward resolving a decade-long split with Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas’s Fatah, announcing it would dissolve a body seen as a rival government and was ready to hold elections. The statement comes after Hamas leaders held talks with Egyptian officials last week, and with the Gaza Strip run
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