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Pleasing Trump, Charter promises $25B broadband investment on top of 20,000 new US jobs

The chief executive of Charter Communications committed in a meeting with President Trump on Friday to invest $25 billion on broadband infrastructure while joining a trend of business leaders touting previously announced job creation at the White House. In the case of Charter, Chief Executive Thomas Rutledge said he expected to hire 20,000 new U.S. […]

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Police to recommend criminal probe of Jewish Home MK on sexual harassment claims

Source say enough evidence accumulated for formal investigation of Nissan Slomiansky By Times of Israel staff Jewish Home MK Nissam Slomiansky seen during a vote on the so-called Regulation Bill, a controversial bill that seeks to legitimize illegal West Bank outposts, in the Israeli parliament on December 7, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90) Police are set to

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Middle East

After UNHRC adopts 5 anti-Israel resolutions, UK vows to oppose all future such moves

London supports 2 of the votes, but slams bias and ‘selective focus’ on Israel, puts council ‘on notice’ that it had better change By Times of Israel staff The Human Rights Council during an interactive dialogue with the Independent Commission of Inquiry on the 2014 Israel-Hamas war in the Gaza Strip on June 29, 2015

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Middle East – Arab airlines beat Trump’s electronics ban with sarcasm and jokes

US President Donald Trump’s controversial ban on electronic devices on flights from Muslim-majority countries began Saturday. But instead of condemning the move, Arab carriers took advantage of it as a fun PR boost and to promote their products… The US announced, to much fanfare on March 21, a ban on electronic devices for passengers on

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IDF chief said to promise rabbis increased gender separation

Eisenkot reportedly vows separate bathrooms, sleeping quarters by end of 2017; army says he only seeks to enforce existing policies By Times of Israel staff IDF Chief of Staff Gadi Eisenkot attends a Defense and Foreign Affairs Committee meeting at the Knesset, on February 22, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90) IDF Chief of Staff Gadi Eisenkot has

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Middle East

US-led coalition says it may be responsible for airstrike that killed more than 200 Iraqi civilians

MOSUL, Iraq — The U.S.-led military coalition fighting to dislodge the Islamic State from the Iraqi city of Mosul said Saturday it may have been responsible for an airstrike that killed more than 200 civilians in the western part of the city. The U.S. Central Command, which oversees military operations in the Middle East, said

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Middle East, USA

Thousands attend funeral of slain Hamas terrorist as group vows revenge

Top official says killing of Mazen Faqha ‘has clear marks of Mossad’ as organization claims Israel is trying to ‘wage clandestine war’ By Times of Israel staff The body of Hamas official Mazen Faqha is carried by members of the Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas, during his funeral in Gaza city on

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Premier Li and Australia’s Turnbull watch football game

Chinese Premier Li Keqiang and Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull (L4) watch a football game in Sydney, March 25, 2017. [Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn] Premier Li Keqiang and his Australian counterpart Malcolm Turnbull watched a football game on Saturday in Sydney, the latest sports event the premier has participated in with other countries’ leaders. Both

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Mike Pence: Democrats’ victory on health care ‘won’t last long’

Vice President Mike Pence said Saturday that congressional Democrats won’t be able to savor very long the survival of Obamacare, after Trump administration and House Republican leaders lost a bid to repeal and replace the law. “Nancy Pelosi, the leader of the Democrats, actually said yesterday was a victory for the American people,” Mr. Pence

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Palestinians pin hopes on Merkel’s support for two-state solution

Berlin (dpa) – Chancellor Angela Merkel reaffirmed on Friday Germany’s commitment to a two-state solution for peace in the Middle East, fanning Palestinians’ hopes that she will mediate a future peace deal. “I still do not see a reasonable alternative to the goal of a two-state solution,” Merkel said after meeting Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas

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Congress members urge Trump to back ‘two-state solution’

A bipartisan group of 191 Congress members on Friday sent a letter to President Donald Trump, in which they urged him to reaffirm support for a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian Arab conflict. The letter was spearheaded by representatives Gerry Connolly (D-VA) and David Price (D-NC). “As strong supporters of Israel, we write to urge

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Middle East, USA

Mitch McConnell is a top Republican untouched by GOP’s health care mess

WASHINGTON — One key Republican Washington power player — Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell — emerges from the wreckage of Friday’s GOP effort to overhaul Obamacare relatively unscathed. While McConnell had supported the bill, which failed to get enough Republican support and was pulled from the House floor, the Kentucky Republican never asked his 52-member

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