Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and his wife landed in Australia on Tuesday evening Israel time (Wednesday morning Australia time) after a visit to Singapore. The Prime Minister will meet with Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull and with Israeli and Australian business people. Afterwards, he will attend a large event with Australian Jewish community leaders at
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International, Middle EastPalestinian outrage to soldier sentence A “green light” for “executions” No immediate comment from Netanyahu Not clear if lawyers plan to appeal Palestinians have reacted with outrage to the 18-month prison sentence handed down to an Israeli soldier who killed a wounded and incapacitated Palestinian assailant. The trial has been one of the most divisive
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Middle EastWASHINGTON — Even as the newly installed Environmental Protection Agency chief sought to calm employees anxious about his longtime opposition to the agency, Scott Pruitt managed to rattle them a little more. Concerns about the direction he will take the EPA grew with publication over the weekend of his first interview as agency chief. During
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USAWASHINGTON — Days after he declined to denounce anti-Semitism, President Donald Trump finally condemned the reported increase in anti-Semitism in the United States that has been linked to his political rise. But it wasn’t enough. Trump was immediately pressed to speak more forcefully about the issue and to take specific steps to tackle hate crime
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USAHomeland Security Secretary John F. Kelly officially ordered federal agents this week to begin arresting and deporting more illegal immigrants, releasing them from the handcuffs the Obama administration had imposed, and making headway on one of President Trump’s chief campaign promises. While young adult illegal immigrant “Dreamers” are still exempted, agents were told there are
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International, USABy Shoshana Bryen and Stephen Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — The president is being asked by the Pentagon to provide U.S. ground troops to fight ISIS in Syria. If the president is wise, he will run as fast as he can the other way. There are four potential traps here: • The cost in American lives;
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International, Middle East, Shoshana Bryen, Stephen D. Bryen, USAUS Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley blasted the UN for its obsession with Israel during an address to the Security Council. “I just put out to the members of the Security Council to help me understand: When we have so much going on in the world, why is it that every single month we”re
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International, Middle East, USAUS President Donald Trump on Tuesday decried anti-Semitic threats against Jewish community centers as “horrible” and “painful,” promising to work to bridge divisions in the country. “This tour was a meaningful reminder of why we have to fight bigotry, intolerance and hatred in all of its very ugly forms,” Trump said in remarks after visiting
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USAThe White House on Monday night denounced the recent bomb threats against Jewish community centers across the United States, saying such actions are “unacceptable”. “Hatred and hate-motivated violence of any kind have no place in a country founded on the promise of individual freedom,” White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer said in a statement in
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USAFormer Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton condemned a string of anti-Semitic incidents and demanded President Donald Trump do the same when she took to Twitter Tuesday. In her tweet, Clinton referenced a series of bomb threats that targeted Jewish Community Centers throughout the country Monday. Jewish Community Centers in 10 states were evacuated in response
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USALegislation prohibits vendors, suppliers from refusing to serve consumers based on where they live, unless policy is clearly stated in advance By Stuart Winer and Raoul Wootliff View of the plenum hall in the Knesset on February 06, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90) In a move seen by some as a small step toward Israeli annexation of
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Middle EastAfter a weekend in which Jewish Community Centers and graveyards in many states were vandalized, Ivanka Trump spoke out. RELATED: Yet another major retailer has dropped Ivanka Trump’s line from its website The elder daughter of the President of the United States converted to Judaism after she married her husband, White House senior staffer Jared
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USARussian Ambassador to the United Nations Vitaly Churkin addresses members of the U.N. Security Council during a meeting about the Ukraine situation, at the U.N. headquarters in New York, March 6, 2015. [FILE PHOTO/Agencies] Russia’s combative ambassador to the United Nations, Vitaly Churkin, died suddenly in New York on Monday after being taken ill at
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International, USANATO jets intercepted a skein of Russian combat aircraft, flying alongside Russian bomber planes above the Baltic Sea last Tuesday and Thursday—twice in a week, Lithuania’s government reports. The uptick of Russian approaches to the airspace of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania since Moscow’s annexation of another former Soviet territory—Crimea in 2014—has unnerved and convinced them
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