By JT – Mar 26,2017 – Last updated at Mar 26,2017 DEAD SEA — His Majesty King Abdullah, who will preside over the Arab League Council meeting at the summit level on Wednesday, will visit Washington days after the Arab summit ends, as Monarch and president of the Arab summit, a senior official announced Sunday. […]
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Middle EastSofia (dpa) – Former prime minister Boyko Borisov declared victory for his GERB party after Sunday’s snap parliamentary election and said he was looking to swiftly put a government in place. “A few months ago, we acted morally and resigned. Now we assessed our support and the outcome categorically demonstrated that we should lead the
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InternationalLondon (dpa) – Sinn Fein on Sunday pulled out of talks aimed at forming a power-sharing executive in Northern Ireland on Sunday, one day before the deadline to reach a deal. “This talks process has run its course. Sinn Fein will not be supporting nominations for speaker or the executive tomorrow,” said Michelle O’Neill, the
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InternationalBerlin (dpa) – German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservative party scored a convincing victory over their centre-left rivals in a state poll Sunday seen as the first test ahead of national elections. The Christian Democrats (CDU) won 40.7 per cent of the vote to the Social Democrats’ (SPD) 29.6 per cent in the small south-western state
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InternationalMorocco’s new Prime Minister Saad Eddine el-Othmani has succeeded in building a governing coalition, ending a five-month political deadlock after just eight days in office. El-Othmani, 61, of the Islamist Party for Justice and Development, or PJD, announced in a press conference in Rabat on Saturday that an “agreement has been reached” with six political
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Middle EastThe secretary-general of the Arab League told the Palestinian daily Al-Watan that the PA chairman was expected to present a new initiative during the League conference on Wednesday in Jordan. He said the initiative would offer new solutions to the “Palestinian issue” in light of “settlement expansion” and international withdrawal from support for the two-state
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Middle EastFrench President Francois Hollande arrived Sunday in Singapore, the first leg in the final foreign tour of his five-year term, and will go on to Malaysia and Indonesia. The tour ending Wednesday in Jakarta is dominated by economic and defence issues and is aimed mainly at strengthening ties with a region with high economic potential,
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InternationalWhite House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus insisted President Donald Trump does not want House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) to step down during an interview on “Fox News Sunday.” The president raised many eyebrows Saturday morning when he issued a vague tweet saying, “Watch @JudgeJeanine on @FoxNews tonight at 9:00 P.M.” with no further elaboration.
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USAYesh Atid party chairman and former Finance Minister Yair Lapid laid out his plans for cobbling together a coalition government after the next Knesset election, saying who would – and who would not be welcome in a Lapid government. Bolstered by recent polls showing his Yesh Atid party leading or effectively tied with the ruling
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Middle EastPhoto taken on March 25, 2017 shows the scene at the accident site in Tumd Right Banner of Baotou city, North China’s Inner mongolia autonomous region. A total of 83 homes were damaged in a powerful explosion that ripped through an apartment building in north China, killing three and injuring another 25, local government said.
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InternationalBratislava (dpa) – Controversial former Slovakian politician Frantisek Gaulieder died Saturday in mysterious circumstances, local media reported. The 66-year-old was apparently run over by a train, leading media to speculate that he might have been murdered or that he could have taken his own life. Gaulieder was a key player in a political scandal in
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InternationalBerlin (dpa) – Germany’s defence minister has demanded the US recognize and show appreciation for Germany’s engagement with the NATO military alliance. The US must “acknowledge what individual nations contribute on a daily basis to NATO,” Ursula von der Leyen told Italian newspaper La Repubblica in comments published Saturday. Germany assists NATO through its support
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International, USASenate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer said Sunday that Democrats are ready to work with President Trump to fix Obamacare if Republicans abandon their drive to repeal the law. The New York Democrat made the offer in the wake of Friday’s decision by Mr. Trump and House Speaker Paul D. Ryan to pull the GOP
Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair called for a new approach to Arab-Israeli peacemaking, and blamed the Ayatollahs’ regime in Iran for the intractability of the Middle East’s problems at the AIPAC annual policy conference Sunday. “If you had a benign regime in Iran, all of the problems in the Middle East would be resolvable,”
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