US Defense Secretary James Mattis’ first official visit to Eastern Europe smacks somewhat of the cold war-era. The US are considering deploying a missile battery system in the region ahead of NATO exercises this summer. Mattis has called Russian missile deployment in the Baltic region ‘destabilising’ and U.S. allies are jittery about Russian and Belarussian
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International, USAThe content of Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos’ commencement speech at Bethune-Cookman University, a historically black college, was pretty standard: Listen to people who disagree with you, serve your country and give back. But the reception was raucous. Students booed and turned their back while President Donald Trump’s education chief spoke. The speech came after
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Science, Medicine, & Education, USAMoon Jae-in’s term as South Korea’s new head of state was officially launched early Wednesday, only one day after the nation held an unprecedented presidential by-election. Moon’s presidency began even before an inauguration ceremony as his election was a result of the rare by-election that sought to fill the top elected office vacated by former
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InternationalIssues with ballots caused voting to be temporarily suspended and hours extended at some polling stations in the Bahamas on Wednesday during the country’s national election. At one polling station on the island of New Providence, the vote in the Elizabeth constituency was halted for more than an hour after Free National Movement opposition candidate
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InternationalWASHINGTON — Key Republicans on Wednesday flatly rejected growing calls for an independent investigator or a special panel to probe possible ties between Russia and President Donald Trump’s campaign in the wake of Trump’s abrupt firing of FBI Director James Comey. While Democrats escalated their investigative demands — and threatened to stall Senate business as
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USAWASHINGTON — Pressure mounted Wednesday for the Justice Department to name an independent special prosecutor to look into whether anyone close to President Donald Trump worked with Russia to sway the election in Trump’s favor. A day after Trump abruptly fired FBI Director James Comey, top Senate Democrats doubled down on their demand for an
CONCORD, N.H. – Secretary of Health and Human Services Tom Price on Wednesday commended police in West Virginia for “doing what they thought was appropriate” in arresting a journalist who shouted questions at him, but added that it wasn’t his call to say whether they took the proper measures. Price said the reporter confronted him
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USAWhite House press secretary and former Easter Bunny Sean Spicer has a real tough job sometimes. And on Tuesday night, when President Donald Trump fired FBI director James Comey, it apparently became too much to handle. RELATED: Sean Spicer’s best moments are also his worst Spicer had planned to email out a statement announcing Comey’s
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Choices: The True Story of One Family’s Daring Escape to Freedom by J.E. Laufer; Little Egg Publishing Co; (c) 2017; ISBN 9781881-669067; 102 pages plus 3 pages of photographs. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — The story may be true, but the book officially is classified as fiction because it imagines conversations that the
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Donald H. Harrison, International, Jewish HistoryBy Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM — In a review in a recent issue of The New York Review of Books of Hitler: Ascent 1889-1939 by Volker Ullrich – the book has recently appeared in English – the distinguished Holocaust historian Christopher Browning writes: “There are sufficient areas of similarity in some regards to make the book
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, International, Jewish History, Middle East, USABy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — Back to my homeland? I’m no longer sure what is my homeland. I did not flee the US, in contrast to relatives of earlier generations who felt they had to leave Eastern Europe or Germany, but to take a job that looked interesting. Over time, I became more Israeli and
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International, Ira Sharkansky, Middle East, USAAmerican Jewish groups are up in arms over an official street marker in Manhattan honoring a Nazi collaborator responsible for the deportation of thousands of Jews to German concentration camps. The City of New York recently decided to honor historical figures welcomed in the city since 1886 with ticker-tape parades, transforming 13 blocks of Manhattan”s
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International, USATel Aviv (dpa) – Relatives of a Palestinian family killed in a 2015 West Bank arson attack have submitted a 3-million-dollar lawsuit against the Israeli government, which they say bears responsibility for the extremist attack. The suit, filed in the Israeli city of Nazareth on Monday, claims the state is responsible for the deaths of
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Middle EastWASHINGTON — The shock firing of FBI Director James Comey Tuesday casts a shadow over the future of congressional investigations into Russia’s attempts to interfere in the 2016 election on behalf of President Donald Trump. Comey, who has testified before the Senate and House intelligence committees on several occasions as well as before other committees
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