Florida Senator and 2016 Republican presidential contender Marco Rubio visited Israel over the weekend as part of a four-member delegation from the US Senate, wrapping up a tour of the Middle East. Rubio, a staunch ally of Israel, visited Israel twice before: once prior to winning his first term as senator in 2010, and again […]
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Middle East, USAOne of the heads of a Jewish center on the campus of Virginia Tech University (VT) called the scattering of more than 100 hand-drawn swastika leaflets in front of his building on Saturday a “disgusting act of hatred, ” according to a report by Algemeiner. The co-director of VT”s Chabad Librescu Jewish Student Center, Rabbi
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USAThe Orange Coast College professor who was secretly filmed in class calling President Trump’s election an “act of terrorism” has reportedly been chosen as “Faculty Member of the Year” by the community college. Executive Director of College Advancement Doug Bennett told Campus Reform that a committee of faculty, staff and administrators made the decision to
Scientists have discovered the fossil remains of a 430-million-year-old crustacean previously unknown to science — a proto-shrimp that they’re naming in honor of British naturalist and television personality David Attenborough. The new species, described in Proceedings of the Royal Society B, could shed fresh light on crustacean evolution. Cascolus ravitis may not sound like the
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International, Science, Medicine, & EducationFunds from Gulf countries, EU sent through Israeli crossing to Hamas-ruled Palestinian enclave By Times of Israel staff A photo aired by Channel 2 showing a portion of some NIS 300 million in cash ready for tranfer to Gaza, March 20, 2017. (Channel 2) Israel on Monday facilitated the transfer of some NIS 300 million
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Middle EastThe ranking member of the Senate Armed Services Committee called for a special prosecutor and an independent commission to investigate Russia’s role in President Trump’s election Monday following a visit to CIA headquarters. Sen. Jack Reed, Rhode Island Democrat, made the request after he said officials showed him classified evidence proving Russian President Vladimir Putin
Martin McGuinness, Northern Ireland’s former deputy first minister, died Tuesday of a rare health disease. He was 66. A key figure in the Northern Ireland peace process, McGuinness had been suffering from amyloidosis, a rare genetic disease, according to the Irish Times. The former leader of the Sinn Fein political party died at the Altnagelvin
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InternationalNorth Korea has reacted without fear to U.S. secretary of state Rex Tillerson’s threat that “strategic patience is over.” Tillerson had warned that “all options were on the table” in a meeting in South Korea on Friday, and that a “ comprehensive set of capabilities” were being created to deal with the country. A North
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International, USAWASHINGTON — After the heads of the FBI and the National Security Agency denied President Donald Trump’s claim that then-President Barack Obama had wiretapped him, Trump’s Twitter account provided the best clue to how the White House would respond: Tuesday morning, it was silent on the subject. Trump had started the day Monday with a
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International, USAHeads of army, Mossad say Shiite extremism presents biggest threats to Israel’s security, speaking at Netanya conference By Judah Ari Gross IDF Chief of Staff Gadi Eisenkot, July 13, 2016 (IDF Spokesperson’s Unit) The head of the Israel Defense Forces said on Tuesday that Hezbollah’s military commander in Syria, Mustafa Badreddine, was killed by his
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Middle EastSaglana Salchak recently celebrated her fifth birthday. [Photo by Yury Darbaa/Siberian Times] Most preschoolers struggle to go to school on their own, let alone trek 5 miles (8 kilometers) of snowfield packed with wolves in subzero temperature in Siberia. However, a four-year-old girl Saglana Salchak in Russia’s Tuva republic did just that last month to
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InternationalBALTIMORE — A day after the eldest son of Henrietta Lacks admonished HBO for an upcoming movie about his mother and the use of her cells, a second son threw his support behind the drama starring Oprah Winfrey that will air next month. David Lacks Sr. was among a group of family members who issued
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Science, Medicine, & Education, USAThrough Radio Gesher, students at Western Ontario University and Sapir University in Sderot become on-air pen pals, sharing personal stories and pop culture By Dana Wachter LONDON, Ontario — Maybe it’s a matter of the grass being greener on the other side, but university students in Canada and Israel seem to disagree on which country
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