Rio de Janeiro (dpa) – Brazil’s former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said his accusers “had nothing” Thursday after testifying in court in a massive corruption scandal. “I thought that my accusers were going to show a document, a payment, some proof. But they had nothing,” he said in an emotional speech to thousands
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InternationalWASHINGTON — President Donald Trump planned to fire FBI Director James B. Comey even if his attorney general had not recommended his dismissal, Trump said in an interview Thursday, contradicting his previous written statement and the accounts White House officials have provided over the past two days. “I was going to fire Comey — my
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USASurvey by religious pluralism group finds greatest support among secular, with 13% of religious Zionists backing them up By Times of Israel staff Young girls peak through a curtain next to the bride at an ultra-Orthodox wedding on January 18, 2016. (Yaakov Lederman/Flash90) A poll released Wednesday to mark the upcoming Lag B’Omer holiday indicates
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Middle EastSpeaking to CNN”s Jake Tapper on Thursday afternoon, Senator Kamala Harris of California renewed Democratic calls for Attorney General Jeff Sessions to resign over the firing of FBI director James Comey. “There is good reason to believe that he was not truthful when he testified before Congress,” Harris said, in reference to Sessions’s confirmation hearing,
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USAProtesting jailing of a woman as a draft dodger, men riot inside Tzrifin for several minutes before police evict them By Times of Israel staff Ultra-Orthodox demonstrators protesting for the release of jailed draft dodgers break into Tzrifin army base, May 10, 2017. (Screen capture: Channel 2) Dozens of religious men broke into an army
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Middle EastThe Texas House of Representatives has passed a bill that allows adoption agencies and foster carers to reject applicants based on their religious beliefs and lifestyle choices. The bill will let state-funded and private organizations make decisions about prospective parents based on their religious beliefs, meaning that couples who are gay, Jewish, Muslim or interfaith
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USAPrime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Thursday evening attended a conference of Likud activists and expressed his full support for the moving of the American Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. “Jerusalem is the eternal capital of the Jewish people. It is the capital of the State of Israel. All the embassies, and especially the Embassy
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International, Middle East, USATunis (dpa) – Tunisian authorities deployed security forces around a synagugue on a resort island on Thursday, one day before an annual pilgrimage to the site was set to begin. More than 3,000 people are expected to make the pilgrimage to Ghriba Synagogue on Djerba island in the south-east part of Tunisia, Ghriba Association head
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InternationalChinese rocket forces tested a new type of missile aimed at the country’s waters west of the Korean peninsula, the defence ministry announced in a rare public statement. The statement did not say what missile was tested or when the launch took place but the announcement was likely aimed at South Korea and the United
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International, USABALTIMORE — The FBI raided a Republican campaign consultant’s Annapolis office Thursday, causing Maryland Republican lawmakers to say they will stop doing business with the firm. Kelley Rogers, president of Strategic Campaign Group, said half a dozen FBI agents arrived at his Main Street office about 8:30 a.m. with a warrant to search and seize
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USAWASHINGTON—Acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe defended James B. Comey’s integrity and performance Thursday, distancing himself from White House claims that the ousted FBI director had damaged morale at the bureau. McCabe’s testimony to the Senate Intelligence Committee implicitly rebutted assertions by President Donald Trump earlier Thursday that Comey’s tenure had left the FBI “in turmoil.”
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USAA 17-year-old Danish girl charged with planning to bomb two schools in Denmark, including a Jewish school, was reportedly inspired by the terrorist who killed a security guard at a Copenhagen synagogue in 2015, JTA reported Thursday, citing Danish media. A Danish prosecutor alleged last month that the teen looked up to the 2015 synagogue
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InternationalDisplaying an exhibit panel on Ahavas Sholom, Newark’s oldest functioning synagogue, are, from left, Max Herman, Linda Forgosh, and Phil Yourish. Photos by Robert Wiener Harold Kravis surfs the Internet in pursuit of local Jewish history. The first location of Congregation B’nai Jeshurun, on Washington Street in Newark. Photo courtesy Jewish Historical Society of New
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Jewish History, USAU.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson signed his name Thursday to a document that affirms the need for international action against climate change, adding further uncertainty to the direction of climate policy under the Trump administration. The document, signed by Tillerson and seven foreign ministers from Arctic nations meeting this week in Fairbanks, Alaska, says
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