International

Video: Alicia Machado Goes Completely Nude For PETA

Former Venezuelan Miss Universe Alicia Machado has joined environmental group “People for Ethical Treatment of Animals” (PETA) with a very resounding message: “I prefer to be naked than to wear furs”. The actress and host, who Donald Trump used to bully for being overweight, posed without clothes in a campaign against the use of animal

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The World We Share, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USA

‘We didn’t expect this’: A historic yellow fever outbreak spreads in Brazil

IPANEMA, MINAS GERAIS, Brazil – His nicotine-yellow eyes and haunted stare gave José de Moraes the look of a man who had been to the brink of death and back again. “I am debilitated,” he said. A 54-year-old city council employee, de Moraes caught yellow fever two months ago, the same strain that has killed

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International, Science, Medicine, & Education, Travel and Food

United Spent Big To Fight Regulations Protecting Passengers

United Airlines, the Chicago-based giant at the center of a public relations storm for its forcible removal of a passenger from a weekend flight, has spent more than $41 million during the past decade to lobby the federal government, often battling consumer-friendly causes. A MapLight/International Business Times review of records kept by the Center for

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Travel and Food, USA

An Alabama “Steel Magnolia” dropped the hammer on her cheating governor husband in the most awesome way

When it comes to politics and sex scandals, it is unfortunate that wives have been聽placed in the position of having to decide whether or not to publicly stand by their man, and this happens to Democrats and Republicans alike. Some that come to mind right away are Democrats Hillary Clinton sticking with Bill Clinton after

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USA

Fox News host Bill O’Reilly takes a vacation amid sexual harassment allegations

Fox News host Bill O’Reilly said he will take a previously planned vacation as he faces mounting pressure over multiple sexual harassment allegations. O’Reilly announced his plans during his Tuesday night broadcast of “The O’Reilly Factor” on the Fox News Channel, saying he typically takes a vacation around this time of the year. “I grab

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Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USA

Trump Launched Missiles While Eating Chocolate Cake

President Donald Trump likes to live in the lap of luxury, and he’s not going to let presidential tasks like launching 59 Tomahawk missiles into Syria disrupt the decadent lifestyle to which he’s become accustomed. In a new interview with Fox Business, Trump described the Palm Beach scene from which he authorized the airstrike last

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International, Middle East, USA

NC legislator compares Hitler to Abraham Lincoln in Facebook post

RALEIGH, N.C. — A North Carolina state lawmaker said in a Facebook post Wednesday that President Abraham Lincoln was a “tyrant” similar to Germany’s Adolf Hitler. Rep. Larry Pittman, a Concord Republican, was responding to commenters on his campaign Facebook page who were criticizing his bill that would have directed state government to defy a

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USA

Liberal Harvard Professor Rips Democratic Hypocrisy on Spicer

Alan Dershowitz, a famed Harvard law professor and progressive in good standing, lashed out at activists and Democratic Party officials who are trying to make political hay out of White House press secretary Sean Spicer’s . Spicer created a firestorm at the daily briefing Tuesday when he said even Hitler never sunk so low as

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International, Middle East, USA

Chilean anti-Israel activist turned away at West Bank border crossing

Head of the Palestinian Federation in Chile barred over alleged efforts to promote boycott of Jewish state By Times of Israel staff The Allenby Bridge border crossing between Jordan and Israel (Shay Levy/Flash90) A Chilean Palestinian BDS activist was barred from entering the West Bank on Monday, weeks after the Knesset passed a bill allowing

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International, Middle East

Leftist MK: Get rid of ‘chametz law’

Opposition MK Tamar Zandberg (Meretz) on Wednesday announced she would fight the law forbidding public showing of chametz (leavened products) during the Pesach (Passover) holiday. The new proposal would cancel the existing law and allow the public display of chametz during Pesach. It will be proposed immediately following the end of the holiday. Zandberg claims

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Jewish Religion, Middle East

Xi urges Trump to use peaceful means in Korean Peninsula

Tokyo/Beijing (dpa) – Chinese President Xi Jinping told US President Donald Trump in a phone call Wednesday that Beijing wanted to achieve the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula by peaceful means. Japan’s Defence Ministry told dpa on Wednesday that the Japanese Navy plans to soon conduct a joint military exercise with a US aircraft carrier

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