Emmanuel Macron graduated from one of the world’s most prestigous public administration universities. He later worked as an investment banker at Rothschild. Aged 29, he married a French high school teacher twenty-four years his senior. Her eldest daughter had been Macron’s classmate. In 2014, Emmanuel Macron was appointed France’s economy minister under François Hollande. Macron
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InternationalBy electing Ismail Haniyeh to head its political bureau, the terror group wants to show it is moderating – without, of course, accepting Israel By Avi Issacharoff Senior Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh gestures to the crowd at a rally marking the 28th anniversary of Hamas’s founding, in Gaza City, December 14, 2015. (Emad Nassar/Flash90) Saturday’s
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Middle EastThe centrist Emmanuel Macron decisively won France’s presidential election on Sunday, beating the far-right into submission with a liberal, internationalist agenda. With more than 99 percent of local areas counted, Macron had taken 65 percent of the vote to his far-right rival Marine Le Pen’s 35 percent. Sunday brought a remarkable campaign to an end.
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InternationalWASHINGTON — The White House said Sunday it’s now up to the Senate to address any problems with the health care bill passed by the House last week. President Donald Trump’s chief of staff, Reince Priebus, said on “Fox News Sunday that he is “excited where we’re at” on health care, adding that by pushing
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Science, Medicine, & Education, USAManila (dpa) – Philippine police were on high alert Sunday, after twin bomb blasts killed two people near a mosque in Manila, amid fears that more attacks could take place. The Islamic State extremist group claimed responsibility for the Saturday night bombings, which took place near the largest mosque in the capital. But Oscar Albayalde,
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InternationalPARIS — Political newcomer Emmanuel Macron will be France’s next president, pollsters projected Sunday night, delivering a resounding victory to an unabashedly pro-European former investment banker and strengthening France’s place as a central pillar of the European Union. A crowd outside the Louvre museum at a Macron victory party jubilantly waved red, white and blue
By David Anderson, J.D. NEW YORK — For his inaugural trip abroad our President has picked an unpredictable but thematically consistent itinerary. He’ll be stopping at the Vatican, presumably without the whole kerfuffle of a state visit in Italy, then on to Israel and Saudi Arabia. The commonality is that they are three of the very
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International, Middle East, USAArch-terrorist and mass-murderer Marwan Barghouti, who has led a hunger strike by jailed terrorists held in Israeli prisons, has been eating in secret while maintaining the pretenses of his own hunger strike, footage released Sunday reveals. Barghouti, who is believed to be responsible for the deaths of 26 people in suicide bombings and shooting attacks
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Middle EastSebastian Gorka, the White House special adviser on counter-terrorism, fielded questions on accusations that he endorsed and participated in far-right anti-Semitic organizations in Hungary at the annual Jerusalem Post diplomatic conference Sunday, “I have spent my life fighting against totalitarian ideologies,” Gorka said in response to the idea that he might have supported fascist groups.
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International, USABritish Jewish-born star was asked on Irish TV what he’d say to God if he, she or it existed. Viewed on YouTube 7 million times, his bitter answer led to a police investigation By Times of Israel staff Stephen Fry pictured at a 2012 Pride Parade in London (Photograph at WorldPride / Wikipedia) English comedian,
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International, Theatre, Film & BroadcastThe Progressive Party in Norway, one of the two ruling parties in the country (along with the Conservative Party) has announced that it intends to initiate a law banning circumcision in the country for males under the age of 16. Over the weekend, the party held a national assembly, in which the bill was put
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International, Jewish ReligionFormer NBA rebounding machine and notorious tough guy Dennis Rodman is backing his dude Kim Jong-un and claims the dictator “jokes,” loves the “Rocky” theme song and is “just like anybody else.” RELATED: Donald Trump just got a glowing endorsement from one of Kim Jong Un’s biggest supporters Watch the video In an exceedingly bizarre
Hanover, Germany (dpa) – German authorities on Sunday uncovered three World War II-era bombs as part of the second-largest operation to remove unexploded ordnance in the country’s history. The city of Hanover evacuated some 50,000 people from their homes before two British 500-kilogram bombs and one 1,000-kilogram bomb were found. The city wrote on Twitter
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InternationalTourists visit the Palace Museum in Beijing, May 6, 2017. [Photo/VCG] The Palace Museum in Beijing, also known as the Forbidden City, will expand the sale of online tickets on a trial basis in July. The trial run will last from July to October to test the feasibility of online sales of tickets for everyday,
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