While the indictment of François Fillon on Tuesday was hardly unexpected, it signals an extraordinary turn of events in the French presidential campaign. Political scientist Philippe Breton has gone so far as to say it’s a “moral crisis” for France. “I am innocent, my wife has worked with me for years, as is the case
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InternationalWASHINGTON — President Donald Trump directed the Environmental Protection Agency on Wednesday to shelve aggressive vehicle fuel economy targets that have been a foundation for battles against climate change and harmful pollution in California and across the country. The move attacks one of the Obama administration’s signature achievements and dims the future of electric vehicles,
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The World We Share, USABy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — Neither the Jews nor the Palestinians have been masters of their fate. Both are small nations, subject to forces much more powerful. But the grandchildren of miserable Jews who came to Israel in the 1940s and 1950s as refugees from the Holocaust and Muslim persecution have created a vibrant democracy, ranked
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle EastIn a massive cyber attack, Twitter accounts belonging to organisations like Amnesty International and UNICEF have been hacked, apparently by supporters of Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. A swastika and the words ‘Nazi Germany’ and ‘Nazi Holland’ in Turkish feature on hijacked Twitter handles, alongside the message “See you on April 16”. That is when
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International, Middle EastWhen her 7-year-old son, Noah, came home from school with a black eye, Virginie Selem decided she had finally had enough. “He told me someone at school had called him a dirty Jew,” says Selem, a mother of three living in Alfortville, a middle-class suburb southeast of Paris. Selem describes her family as not especially
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InternationalWashington (dpa) – US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson used a separate email account with a pseudonym to discuss climate change and other topics during his time as ExxonMobil’s chief executive, according to a letter released Tuesday. Tillerson’s use of the pseudonym Wayne Tracker is described in a letter from New York Attorney General Eric
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USAWASHINGTON — Two Russian spies, one well-known Russian hacker and one Canadian have been charged with stealing sensitive information from 500 million Yahoo user accounts in one of corporate America’s biggest-known hacks. The 47-count indictment — which includes charges of conspiracy, computer fraud and abuse, economic espionage, theft of trade secrets, wire fraud, access device
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International, USASecretary of Defense James Mattis has asserted that climate change is real, and a threat to American interests abroad and the Pentagon’s assets everywhere, a position that appears at odds with the views of the president who appointed him and many in the administration in which he serves. In unpublished written testimony provided to the
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The World We Share, USAFor the first time in a 273-year history, the world’s oldest golfing club will finally allow women to become members. After the issue failed to pass by a narrow margin during a vote in May 2016, members of the Honourable Company of Edinburgh Golfers voiced their disappointment at barring women from becoming members at the
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International, Sports & CompetitionsKABUL, Afghanistan — The Afghan defense ministry said Wednesday that two dozen army personnel have been arrested for questioning following the security breach that allowed four assailants to enter the country’s main military hospital and kill 50 people a week earlier. Defense officials issued the new death toll — nearly twice as high as what
By Alon Ben-Meir NEW YORK — Although Prime Minister Netanyahu is known for his focus on the Palestinian and Iranian threats to Israel’s national security, in recent months he has increasingly sounded the alarm over Iran in particular rather than the Palestinians. As the defeat of ISIS in both Iraq and Syria is all but
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Alon Ben-Meir, Middle EastKremlin officials and Russian lawmakers are denying published reports that Moscow has deployed a team of special forces and drones to a military base in Egypt near the Libyan border. The denials came Tuesday, following multiple reports that Russian military activity had been spotted near the Mediterranean coastal town of Sidi Baranni, 100 kilometers from
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International, Middle EastMichael Krasny’s ‘Let There Be Laughter’ offers funny jokes and insightful commentary as antidote to trying times By Renee Ghert-Zand You know how a lot of people have trouble remembering jokes? Well, Michael Krasny isn’t one of them. An English professor and the longtime host of the most-listened-to locally produced public radio program in the
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USAWASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s nominee to be the top U.S. trade negotiator, getting a hearing before the Senate after a long delay, passionately defended Trump against concerns that his business interests abroad could compromise America’s trade objectives. Robert Lighthizer, Trump’s choice to be the U.S. trade representative, is well regarded by many on both
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