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Ugandan president reshuffles top military officers, drops army chief

Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni has announced significant changes in the top army command on Tuesday that has seen his son, Maj Gen Muhoozi Kainerugaba, head of the elite Special Forces Command, move to a presidential advisory role. Equally notable, the president has replaced the army chief Gen Edward Katumba Wamala, moving him to a civilian […]

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Toyota announces 10 billion-dollar investment in US

Tokyo (dpa) – Japan’s biggest carmaker Toyota Motor Corporation will invest 10 billion dollars in the United States, company president Akio Toyoda said, days after US president-elect Donald Trump criticized its planned factory in Mexico, Japanese media reported Tuesday. Toyoda made the announcement during a news conference at the North American International Auto Show in

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USA

Murphy vows to defy ‘unconstitutional’ orders from Trump if elected N.J. governor

NEWARK — Phil Murphy, the Democratic front-runner in the 2017 race to replace Gov. Chris Christie, picked up the endorsements of New Jersey’s Democratic U.S. Senators on Monday and vowed to disobey orders from a President Donald Trump that would violate the constitution or are “un-American.” Murphy appeared at his campaign headquarters in downtown Newark

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Large theater detected at Sussita dig site

SUSSITA, Israel (Press Release) — The University of Haifa’s excavations at the Hippos (Sussita) site have uncovered the location of a large Roman theater. However, the theater’s location outside the city walls supports the hypothesis that the facility was used mainly for religious ceremonies rather than shows for the masses. Dr. Michael Eisenberg of the

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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education

Middle East Roundup: January 10, 2017

Poll: majority of Israelis support settlement building, believe Obama ‘unfriendly’ to Israel (JNS.org) A new survey published in the aftermath of the United Nations Security Council resolution against Israeli settlements, which passed after the Obama administration refused to veto the measure, says that 62 percent of Israeli Jews support continued settlement building and 57 percent

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Middle East

Smartphone App can analyze sleep disorders

BEER-SHEVA, Israel (Press Release) – Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) researchers have developed a new system to assess obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) severity while a patient is awake and analyze sleep-wake activity, using his or her smartphone. According to the American Sleep Apnea Association, it is estimated that 22 million Americans suffer from the

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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education

Paris conference to ask Israel and PA to commit to two states

The countries that will attend the Middle East peace conference in Paris on Sunday are expected to call on Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Authority (PA) chairman Mahmoud Abbas to publicly renew their commitment to the two-state solution, and to renounce officials in their respective governments who oppose it, Haaretz reported on Monday. The

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International, Middle East, USA

Trump appoints his son-in-law to be senior White House advisor

Washington (dpa) – US president-elect Donald Trump has appointed his son-in-law Jared Kushner to be one of his most influential White House counselors. Trump named the 36-year-old husband of his daughter Ivanka to be senior advisor to the president, the Trump transition team said Monday in a statement. “Kushner will work closely with chief of

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USA

Taiwanese officials deny president Tsai met Trump transition team

Taipei (dpa) – Taiwanese officials have refuted news reports that President Tsai Ing-wen met with members of US president-elect Donald Trump’s transition team during a weekend stopover in Houston, state-run media reported Monday. Taiwan’s Liberty Times reported that Tsai met with Edwin Feulner and Walter Lohman from the conservative Heritage Foundation as she was passing

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International, USA

Syria’s Assad ‘ready to negotiate everything’, if conditions are met

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has said the government is ready to negotiate on everything, including his position as president. However, he insisted this would have to be decided by all Syrians, by way of a referendum on the constitution. “Yeah, but my position is related to the constitution,” he said in an interview with various

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International, Middle East

US forces carry out raid aimed at Islamic State leaders in Syria

AMMAN, Jordan — A team of Army Delta Force commandos carried out a raid in Islamic State-held territories of eastern Syria, killing at least two militants with the extremist group, U.S. officials said Monday. The officials, who were not authorized to speak publicly about the classified operation, said a special operations team carried out the

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Middle East, USA

Greitens sworn in as Missouri governor, signals that outside status will remain

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — In Eric Greitens’ first official act as Missouri’s 56th governor, the Republican newcomer signed an order barring employees under his control from accepting freebies from lobbyists. It isn’t a new concept, or even one that may be judicially enforceable based on a 2002 court ruling. But it highlighted what the political

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