President Recep Tayyip Erdogan began on Sunday a key visit to the Gulf region aimed at defusing the standoff around Turkey’s ally Qatar, saying no one had an interest in prolonging the crisis. Erdogan arrived in Jeddah to meet the Saudi leadership before heading to Kuwait, and on Monday to Qatar for his first face-to-face […]
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Middle EastFrench President Emmanuel Macron’s popularity has suffered the biggest slide in three months since Jacques Chirac, according to a poll published on Sunday in a French newspaper. Macron’s honeymoon seems to be over as a sweep of budget cuts affecting the army, housing benefits and feminist associations has dented his popularity. The poll, published in
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InternationalWhile this may look like an ordinary gas station on the outside, something extraordinary happens on the inside. The gas station’s owner opens the doors of his facilities to the local homeless community every day, rain or shine. style=”display:inline-block;width:300px;height:250px” data-ad-client=”ca-pub-8420654331411867″ data-ad-slot=”1313712966″> Pilar Love, a 44-year-old caregiver for an autistic teen, witnessed it firsthand when she
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USAWASHINGTON — Three members of Donald Trump’s inner circle face congressional investigators this week, and with the president talking about pardons for his family and warning Special Counsel Robert Mueller not to probe to deeply, the stakes could hardly be higher. Members of Congress on the Intelligence and Judiciary committees want to unearth new details
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USAThe White House communications director has just one favor to ask of newly-promoted press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders; keep using the same make-up. Speaking to CNN’s State of the Union on Sunday, Anthony Scaramucci described Huckabee Sanders as “phenomenal” at her job, but decided he needed to further comment on her appearance. “I think Sarah
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USAWASHINGTON — Six months into his presidency, an embattled Donald Trump may finally have found the mouthpiece he wants — a fellow New York tycoon who gushes about his “love” for the president and blames White House woes on poor communication, not a burgeoning scandal. Anthony Scaramucci, Trump’s new communications director, appeared confident and polished
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USALEXINGTON, Ky. — The Kentucky Senate Democratic Caucus voted to remove former governor and current state Sen. Julian Carroll as minority whip on Sunday and called on him to resign following a TV report that Carroll propositioned and allegedly groped a then-30-year-old man in 2005. The fallout continued from Saturday when the story first broke
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USABy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — The Temple Mount, Friday prayers, metal detectors, and the incitement of Muslim religious and political leaders were as exciting and worrying as we’ve seen for some time. Commentators and prominent officials were adding to the noise, with competing assessments of how we’ve gotten here, who was responsible, and what should
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Story by Donald H. Harrison; photo by Shor M. Masori SAN DIEGO – Miriam Libicki, whose graphic memoir about life as a clerk in the Israel Defense Forces was on sale at the annual Comic-Con Convention, has been plunging into issues of personal identity: hers and those of Russian-born friends. She grew up in Ohio
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Donald H. Harrison, Middle East, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, Shor M. MasoriJERUSALEM (Press Release) – On Friday night United Hatzalah volunteer EMS personnel left their families at their dinner tables and ran into, not away from, a terror attack that took place right next to their homes. Doron Mah Tov lives in the town of Halamish and was the first medical responder at the scene of the heinous
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Middle EastBy Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM — Tensions between Palestinians and Israel have been building up for some time now. The confrontation could have come, and may still come, in the South along the Gaza border, As Hamas that rules Gaza is losing ground, partly because of closer relations between Israel and the Gulf States, it
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Story by Donald H. Harrison; photos by Shor M. Masori SAN DIEGO – Rabbi Laurie Coskey takes it as an article of her civic faith that “until third grade children learn to read, and after third grade they read to learn.” If a child doesn’t read by the end of third grade, the rabbi
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Donald H. Harrison, San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education, Shor M. Masori, USAWashington (dpa) – The top Democrat on the US Senate panel investigating Russian election meddling warned Friday that President Donald Trump should not pardon associates who could be implicated in a separate criminal probe into the matter. “The possibility that the president is considering pardons at this early stage in these ongoing investigations is extremely
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USAPresident Donald Trump’s eldest son Donald Trump Jr., as well as the former campaign chairman of his 2016 presidential campaign Paul Manafort, made a deal with leaders of the Senate Judiciary Committee which will see them avoid being subpoenaed for a public hearing in exchange for testifying privately, it was reported Friday. The private testimony
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