Gaza – The Palestinian Hamas movement wants to usher in a new political era to overcome the regional challenges that began affecting it when its exiled leadership left Damascus in 2011. Hamas, which has run the Gaza Strip since June 2007, has in the past years been in a state of political and economic deadlock.
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Middle EastWhen she was 10, Safia Mahjebin started skipping school. She used to ride the New York City subways, aimlessly. “I just love riding the train,” she says. “You ride from one end to the other, and then you go back. And then you get out at a few stops and just explore … some stations
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International, USABeijing (dpa) – China is pressing the US to resume talks with North Korea, with Foreign Minister Wang Yi saying Saturday that negotiations must go hand-in-hand with sanctions on Pyongyang. Wang made the comments while standing alongside US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson at a press conference in Beijing. Though UN Security Council resolutions have
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International, USAPresident Donald Trump welcomed Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny to the White House on Thursday, a day before St. Patrick’s Day. Kenny, who called Trump’s rhetoric “racist and dangerous” in May, used the opportunity to present Trump with a bowl of shamrocks and a lecture on the immigrant spirit. Kenny’s remarks were given with Trump
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International, USAPrime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Friday that Israel’s latest air strikes into Syria targeted weapons bound for Lebanon’s Hezbollah, and that it will continue to carry out such raids. Netanyahu’s statement came after Israeli warplanes struck several targets within Syria, and Syria fired missiles back in retaliation. “When we identify attempts to transfer advanced
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Middle EastTurkey’s divided nationalists could be the deciding factor in the upcoming referendum on expanding President Erdogan’s powers. Hardliners, perhaps surprisingly, say they are fighting to save their country’s democracy, amid media boycotts and intimidation. Istanbul (dpa) – Sinan Ogan was having a rough week. It was Friday night and hours earlier he received word his
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International, Middle EastSecretary of State Rex Tillerson and President Donald Trump appear to be on the same page when it comes to taking military action against North Korea. Tillerson said Friday that “strategic patience has ended” and that a military response was “on the table,” while Trump took to Twitter and said North Korea was “behaving very
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International, USAThe U.S. government took the legal battle over President Donald Trump’s travel ban to a higher court on Friday, saying it would appeal against a federal judge’s decision that struck down parts of the ban on the day it was set to go into effect. The Department of Justice said in a court filing it
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USALima (dpa) – At least seven people were killed Friday in a landslide in northern Peru, which has suffered months of widespread flooding and heavy rains. The victims were in several vehicles waiting for the road to be cleared in Rayampampa in La Libertad department, RPP radio reported. The worst flooding in Peru in decades
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InternationalSaad-Eddine El Othmani, a former foreign minister who belongs to the Islamist Justice and Development Party (PJD), charged with forming new government Saad-Eddine El Othmani (YouTube) RABAT, Morocco — Morocco’s king on Friday appointed a new prime minister to end a political deadlock that left the North African country without a government for five months,
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Middle EastPresident Trump’s new border wall is supposed to be 30 feet high and should look imposing to potential illegal immigrants, Homeland Security officials said in documents Friday that officially requested the first bids to begin building the barrier along the U.S.-Mexico border. But U.S. Customs and Border Protection, the agency overseeing the project, hasn’t yet
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International, USAJust more than 7,500 refugees entered the United States during Donald Trump’s first seven weeks as president, with almost the same number of Christians as Muslims, according to a study released this week. Of the 7,594 refugees who resettled in the U.S. between January 21 and March 10, 3,410 (45 percent) were Muslims, with 3,292
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International, Middle East, USAWASHINGTON — In their first face-to-face meeting, President Donald Trump told German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Friday that he fully supports NATO but will insist that member states, including Germany, pay their “fair share” to continue the crucial security alliance. Merkel and Trump met in private, spoke to reporters, and then had lunch in a
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International, USAThe military’s nude photo scandal has now reportedly expanded from social media sites to gay pornography sites with images of men in military garb performing sex acts and many also showed group sex, USA Today reported Friday. The Department of Defense created a joint task force to widen the scope of the Naval Criminal Investigative
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