A French historian was detained for 10 hours by US customs officials this week while on his way to an academic conference in Texas. Henry Rousso, 62, a specialist in the history of World War II who has taught at the Sorbonne in Paris and Columbia University in New York, was held for questioning after […]
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International, USADonald Trump has said he will miss the annual White House Correspondents’ Association dinner on April 29. “I will not be attending the White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner this year. Please wish everyone well and have a great evening!” the US president said on Twitter. His announcement comes amid escalating hostility between the US president
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USAAt least 12 said critically injured; police and mayor say driver was intoxicated, do not suspect terrorism By Times of Israel staff The scene in New Orleans shortly after a pickup truck rammed into a parade crowd, February 25, 2017. (YouTube screen capture) At least 28 people were hurt when a pickup truck driver plowed
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USASACRAMENTO, Calif.—A flurry of smartphone snapshots with a cardboard Donald Trump and blazing red “Make California Great Again” hats signaled that many of the GOP delegates at the California Republican Party convention this weekend have embraced the new president and his aggressive tactics to shift the nation to the right. But a fair number of
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USAFormer Palestinian Authority official Ashraf al-Ajami participated on Saturday in Arab-Jewish “Shabatarbut” (Culture on the Sabbath, events planned to include the secular) event in Acre. The event was led by Arab MK Zouheir Bahloul (Zionist Union), and attended by Coalition Chairman David Bitan (Likud) who shook hands with al-Ajami and posed with him in a
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Middle EastGeneva (dpa) – The 18-month prison sentence for an Israeli soldier who killed a wounded Palestinian assailant was “excessively lenient” and continues Israel’s culture of ignoring such crimes, a UN human rights office spokeswoman said Friday in Geneva. Soldier Elor Azaria was found guilty of shooting 21-year-old Fatah al-Sharif as he lay on the ground,
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International, Middle EastWashington (dpa) – President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski of Peru became the first Latin American head of state to visit new US President Donald Trump in a White House meeting Friday in Washington. “Peru has been a fantastic neighbour, we’ve had great relationships, better now than ever before,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office following
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International, USAEducation Secretary Betsy DeVos made a seemingly innocuous joke Thursday about no one getting a free lunch. But the comment came as DeVos, a staunch opponent of public schools, is taking over the nation’s free lunch program that provides nutrition to low-income students and is under attack from Republicans, raising questions about whether the administration
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Science, Medicine, & Education, USAIndia”s Prime Minister Narendra Modi has approved the $2.5 billion purchase of an advanced Israeli-made anti-aircraft missile system for his country”s army, JNS.org reported Thursday. “In a meeting of the cabinet committee on security headed by the prime minister, the proposal for procuring the MR-SAM air defense system for the army was approved and these
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International, Middle EastPresident Trump on Friday signed another executive order aimed at reducing federal regulations, this time directing all government agencies to form a “regulatory reform task force” that will identify unneeded red tape and remove it. In brief comments in the Oval Office, the president said each task force will report back to the White House
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USADozens of Lebanese citizens protested on Saturday near the Lebanese-Israeli border. Some of them crossed the border with Israel near the Israeli village of Kibbutz Manara. IDF forces pushed the crowds back using tear gas and smoke grenades. On Wednesday, Arab media reported that IDF planes attacked Syrian army targets on the Lebanese border and
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Middle EastATLANTA – The Democratic National Committee tabled a resolution Saturday that called on the party to reinstate a ban on corporate donations and on federal corporate lobbyists from serving as at-large members of the DNC. Christine Pelosi, daughter of House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, put forward the proposal to revive a ban that President Obama
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USACairo (dpa) – Egypt’s president Abdel Fattah al-Sissi ordered the government on Saturday to take all necessary measures to help Christians who escaped northern Sinai after the Islamic State militia killed at least six of them over the past month. This is the first official response by the state to the attacks targeting Christians in
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Middle EastJOHANNESBURG — South African authorities are under fire for allowing an anti-immigrant “march of hatred” in Pretoria Friday, soon after a series of violent attacks against Somalis, Nigerians and other foreigners. The results were predictable: Police arrested 136 people, many of them protesters and looters armed with clubs, sticks, pipes and rocks. Migrants, terrified of
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