Pakistani lawmakers on Tuesday elected Shahid Khaqan Abbasi as the country’s prime minister, after Nawaz Sharif was ousted from the post last week. Former oil minister Abbasi is the ruling Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz) party’s pick for the job and a staunch ally of Sharif. He was nominated by the ex-PM to become interim leader. […]
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InternationalForget the seven deadly sins. In the universe of President Donald Trump, there is but a single deed more grievous than all the others. It’s leaking. Talking out of school — so to speak — is strictly verboten within the Trump inner circle. But it keeps happening. This time, it was a talk by Jared
DALLAS — A federal lawsuit accuses a Dallas-area financial adviser of orchestrating a “fake news” story with Fox News and the Trump White House to distract the public from the Russia investigation. The defamation suit filed Tuesday targets Ed Butowsky, a managing partner at Chapwood Investments LLC in Addison and an outspoken supporter of President
Trump administration key departures U.S. President Donald Trump ousted recently hired White House communications chief Anthony Scaramucci on Monday in the latest staff upheaval for the six-month-old administration. Here’s a list of officials who been fired or resigned since Trump was sworn in: Sally Yates Acting Attorney General Sacked January 31, 2017 U.S. President Donald
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USAWASHINGTON — The White House acknowledged Tuesday that President Donald Trump “weighed in as any father would” in helping draft a misleading statement for Donald Trump Jr. last month about his meeting with Russians during the presidential campaign. By the acknowledgment, White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders seemed to confirm the gist of a
Symbol for Venezuela’s struggle for democracy, violinist Wuilly Arteaga, was arrested during a national strike called by the opposition party. Venezuelan’s are against President Nicolás Maduro’s plans to change the constitution. According to the head of the NGO Penal Forum, Alfredo Romero, the violinist currently remains in custody at the command headquarters of the National
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International, Music, Dance, and Visual ArtsA transatlantic tussle is underway between two centenarians – to determine who is the world’s oldest skydiver! Officially, the record is held by British D-Day veteran Bryson Hayes, known as Verdun. He made it into the Guinness Book of Records) by taking the plunge in May, at the grand old age of 101 years and
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International, Sports & Competitions, USAATLANTA — Days after police widely criticized President Donald Trump for telling officers to be “rough” with people taken into custody, leaders of a prominent black policing group met with Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Tuesday to air their concerns that the remarks could deepen divisions between police and racial minorities. “We are not thugs.
Tel Aviv’s Milk & Honey Distillery plans to begin commercial sales of its aged liquor in 2019 By Jessica Steinberg The first 100 bottles of Israel’s first malt whiskey, made by Tel Aviv’s M&H Distillery, will be auctioned off on a Scottish whiskey site from August 11-21 (Courtesy M&H Distillery) Here’s a deal: The first
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International, Middle East, Travel and FoodWASHINGTON — Even as President Donald Trump renews his threat to undermine the Affordable Care Act, senior Republican and Democratic senators announced plans Tuesday to begin work on a new bipartisan effort to stabilize the 2010 health care law, often called Obamacare. The move — by Senate Health Committee Chairman Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., and Sen.
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USAPresident Donald Trump can’t be left alone to make decisions regarding matters of national security—at least, that is reportedly the view of his new chief of staff, John Kelly, and of his defense secretary, James Mattis. The two military men, who Trump affectionately refers to as “my generals,” hatched a plan during the initial months
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USABy Steve Kramer ALFE MENASHE, Israel — According to Wikipedia, “Eurabia” is a concept used to describe a “conspiracy theory” of globalist elements, coined by author Bat Ye’or in the early 2000s and described in her 2005 book titled “Eurabia: The Euro‐Arab Axis.” Unfortunately, it’s fact, not a conspiracy theory. France and the other EEC
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International, Middle East, Steve KramerPeru’s government is organizing a meeting of Latin American foreign ministers on what it calls Venezuela’s “illegitimate” vote Sunday approving a new government body charged with rewriting the country’s constitution. The meeting, planned for August 8 in Lima, represents some of the international concern expressed Monday about the approval of a National Constituent Assembly. Its
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InternationalArgentina’s foreign ministry is transferring digital copies of nearly 40,000 documents about World War II and the Holocaust to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) in Washington, D.C. “There are two avenues of interest to us when it comes to Argentina,” Anatol Steck—project director for Central Europe, Latin America and Israel at the international
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