Cairo (dpa) – Bombings at two Coptic Christian churches in two Egyptian cities on Palm Sunday killed at least 36 people and left dozens wounded. The first bomb took place in the Mar Gerges Church in the Nile Delta city of Tanta, north of Cairo, leaving 25 dead and 78 injured, the Health Ministry said. […]
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Middle EastBy Barry Shaw NETANYA, Israel — The news in early April circled two attacks in Syria. One was the horrendous chemical weapons launched from Syrian warplanes. The world was sickened by the sight of dead and dying children and babies choking on the poison that descended on them from a threatening Syrian sky. The other
Russian officials have led the criticism against the U.S. decision to strike a Syrian airfield Thursday with cruise missiles despite admitting they received advance notice of the military attack. “Yes, this information was provided… via the existing channels,” Dmitry Peskov, spokesman for Russian President Vladimir Putin, told state news agency Itar-Tass. Peskov refused to comment
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International, Middle East, USAThe dates with death continue to loom over Arkansas. Gov. Asa Hutchinson is moving ahead with the state’s plan to execute several men in an 11-day window this month, even as a federal court has granted a temporary reprieve to one of the condemned. The state’s parole board this week recommended that Hutchinson commute the
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USAAcclaimed actor Tim Pigott-Smith has passed away at the age of 70. Known to many as Sir Philip Tapsell from “Downton Abbey,” he had graced TV screens across the world since the 1980s when he was sprung into fame for his performance in “The Jewel in the Crown.” Pigott-Smith, who lived in London, had been
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International, Obituaries & memorials, Theatre, Film & BroadcastJake Tapper is calling out Ivanka Trump for her stance on the citizens of Syria following the United States’ retaliatory airstrike. After the horrific sarin gas attack against Syria’s citizens Tuesday, which killed over 100 and injured at least 300, the United States conducted a successful airstrike against Shayrat air base late Thursday evening. On
Britain’s foreign minister, Boris Johnson, canceled plans Saturday to visit Moscow, just hours before he was due to depart London, as tensions escalated between the U.S. and Russia over Syria. Russian leaders, who have dubbed as illegal the U.S. action to punish the government of President Bashar al-Assad for its use of chemical weapons, ramped
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International, Middle East, USAThe United States is moving a Navy carrier strike group towards the Korean Peninsula, a move that is likely to heighten tensions in the region amid ongoing concerns over North Korea’s nuclear weapons program. (more) Credit: U.S. Navy A U.S. official, speaking on condition of anonymity, told the Reuters news agency that Carrier Strike Group
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International, USABy Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM — Micha Goodman is one of the most interesting young scholars of Judaism in Israel today. His books on two seminal works of Medieval Jewish philosophy – Moses Maimonides’ Moreh Nevuchim and Yehuda Halevi’s Kuzari – have been best sellers in Israel, as has his third book on Deuteronomy, Moses’
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Middle EastOver 100 volunteers, police searching for Sivan Lavi whose 12-year-old died in a tragic accident two days ago By Times of Israel staff A picture of Sivan Lavi released by police on April 8, 2017. (Israel Police) Hundreds of volunteers and police were searching the Tel Aviv area for a woman who went missing Saturday,
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Middle EastA Syrian man who survived a Sarin gas attack that occurred in 2013 appeared on CNN with Brooke Baldwin Friday and praised President Donald Trump for striking a Syrian military airfield with Tomahawk missiles in response to a sarin gas attack, calling for him to take matters a step further against Bashar al-Assad. Kassem Eid’s
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Middle East, USATel Aviv – Israel planned to arrest former Palestinian President, the late Yasser Arafat, and deport him from the West Bank in 2002, a former high-ranking Israeli official revealed Friday. Former Israeli Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz said he and then Prime Minister Ariel Sharon had planned the arrest of Arafat under the “Operation of the
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Middle EastAssassinated outside the Kremlin, the dissenting politician has become something of a cult figure and is the subject of films, poetry and song By Julie Masis Two years on, Russia hasn’t forgotten the tragic murder outside the Kremlin of Boris Nemtsov, the Jewish anti-Putin politician. He’s become something of a cult figure in a country
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International, Theatre, Film & BroadcastSpringfield, Pennsylvania authorities are investigating an attack on a Jewish cemetery in which 30 headstones were vandalized. On Friday, Springfield resident Mora Ezra discovered the vandalism while visiting Mt. Sharon Cemetery to pay respects to her father. However, it is not clear when the vandalism actually occurred. Photos taken show headstones broken in half or
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