A man cries as he carries his daughter while walking from an Islamic State-controlled part of Mosul towards Iraqi special forces soldiers during a battle in Mosul, Iraq, March 4, 2017. [Photo/Agencies] BAGHDAD – The Islamic State (IS) militant group has confirmed the death of its top leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, a local news website […]
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Middle EastIran and Oman will deepen their ties amidst the continuing Gulf diplomatic crisis, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani announced today. At a meeting with Oman’s foreign minister, Rouhani said that: “Iran and Oman have for years had fraternal relations and the best must be made of these good relations to reinforce them.” Muscat’s foreign minister Yussef
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Middle EastObama bet everything on Israel ceasing settlement expansion, but the current White House has made it just one of many issues, leaving Ramallah no choice but to acquiesce By Raphael Ahren On March 9, 2010, then-US vice president Joe Biden started a visit to Israel by asserting the administration’s “absolute, total, unvarnished commitment to Israel’s
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Middle East, USABy Edwin Black WASHINGTON, D.C. — The issue of government subsidies for Palestinian terrorist salaries is again in the international spotlight. What began in November 2013, as a barely believable revelation — that taxpayers in Great Britain, the US, and other Western nations were bankrolling terrorist salaries — has now become a universally-acknowledged, impossible-to-deny, and impossible-to-defend embarrassment for governments.
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International, Middle East, USABy Alon Ben-Meir NEW YORK — It is hard to imagine that along with the catastrophe that has been inflicted on Syria for the past six years, another calamity is unfolding in Yemen of damning proportions while the whole world looks on with indifference. What is happening in Yemen is not merely a violent conflict
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Alon Ben-Meir, International, Middle East, USAAIRPORT CITY, Israel – SodaStream International Ltd. (NASDAQ:SODA), has launched its new environmental global campaign, “The Homoschlepiens.” The video released Wednesday features Mayim Bialik, AKA Dr. Amy Farrah Fowler from the hit TV series The Big Bang Theory, and Kristian Nairn, AKA Hodor of the legendary Game of Thrones. Set in the future, “The Homoschlepiens”
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International, Middle East, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USABy Steve Kramer ALFE MENASHE, Israel — On July 7, UNESCO declared the old city in Hebron as a Palestinian world heritage site, outraging Israelis who say the move attempts to erase the deep Jewish ties to the biblical town and its ancient shrine. So, is Hebron no longer incredibly significant to the Jews because
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Middle East, Steve Kramer, USAThe Israeli Foreign Ministry issued a statement Sunday that appeared to back a Hungarian government advertising campaign against Jewish billionaire George Soros that has been described as “anti-Semitic.” Billboards across the country show Soros, an 86-year-old Hungarian-American Jew, smirking alongside the line “Let’s not allow Soros to have the last laugh,” which the top Jewish
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International, Middle EastSAN DIEGO — Thirteen non-Orthodox rabbis, protesting the decision of Israel’s chief rabbi to not recognize certification of Jewish identity by certain American rabbis, have demanded that their names be added to Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi David Lau’s “black list.” A copy of their letter follows: Dear Israel Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi David Lau: We, the following
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Jewish Religion, Middle East, San Diego County, USAI was an angry teenager — angry at home; angry at school; angry with theocracy; angry about injustice; angry about hypocrisy. I was especially angry with anyone I thought was trying to mold me into a model of their choosing, and there were many people hell-bent on doing exactly that. When living in a conservative
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Middle East, Music, Dance, and Visual ArtsBy Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM — When Israel’s Labor Party announced that its members would vote this month to elect a leader of the party, some ten people indicated that they’d stand against the incumbent Isaac Herzog. Hostile cynics commented that this might have been the total party membership. In fact, there’re more than fifty thousand
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Middle EastJustice Ministry committee wraps up year-long evaluation on punishing the clients of prostitutes, to present findings to Ayelet Shaked next week; other lawmakers not waiting By Marissa Newman Justice Ministry Director-General Emi Palmorl (2R) addresses a Knesset committee on July 10, 2017. (courtesy) Female lawmakers on Monday announced they would present legislation punishing the clients
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Middle EastTEL AVIV, Israel — Israel’s Labor Party on Monday elected political newcomer Avi Gabbay as its leader in hopes the former telecommunications executive will help unseat Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Gabbay won 52 percent of the vote in a runoff election against Amir Peretz, a Labor Party veteran and a former party chairman, who received
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Middle EastAssailant shot dead as he tried to stab soldiers after vehicular attack near Tekoa settlement, outside Bethlehem By Judah Ari Gross The scene of an apparent car-ramming attack on a highway in the central West Bank on July 10, 2017 (Gershon Elinson/Flash90) A soldier was moderately wounded in a suspected car ramming attack outside the
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