International

USA – SeaWord San Diego ends world-famous killer whale show

SeaWorld San Diego ended its long-running killer whale show on Sunday, following years of protests and falling attendance. SeaWorld Entertainment Inc. announced last year that it was ending its theatrical orca shows and breeding programme. The final performances, which featured whales cavorting with trainers and leaping high out of the Shamu Stadium pool, came only […]

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The World We Share, USA

Netanyahus said treated to expensive gourmet meals, new details into illicit gifts probe reveal

Australian businessman James Packer reportedly paid for meals worth thousands of shekels sent to PM’s private home in Caesarea, split costs of cigars, champagne with Arnon Milchan By Raoul Wootliff and Times of Israel staff Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife, Sara, tour Ramat Hanadiv, a nature park in northern Israel, April 25, 2016.

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International, Middle East, USA

Chad ex-dictator Habre’s lawyers launch appeal against life sentence

Dakar (dpa) – Lawyers for former Chadian president Hissene Habre filed an appeal on Monday against the life sentence handed to him in May by a special court in the Senegalese capital, Dakar. Habre had been found guilty of coordinating crimes against humanity – including illegal detention, repression and sexual slavery – in a trial

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International

Accused airport shooter told his maximum penalty ‘is death’

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Esteban Santiago, handcuffed, shackled and wearing a red maximum-security jumpsuit, spoke in a monotone Monday as he answered questions from a federal magistrate during a hearing that lasted about 30 minutes. Santiago, 26, who is accused of killing five people and wounding six others at Fort Lauderdale’s airport, was flanked by

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USA

UN Security Council condemns Jerusalem ramming attack

World body emphasizes ‘need for those responsible for this reprehensible act of terrorism to be held accountable’ By Times of Israel staff The scene of a truck-ramming attack in which a truck plowed into a group of Israeli soldiers, killing four and injuring 16, in the Armon Hanatsiv neighborhood of Jerusalem. January 08, 2017. (Yonatan

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International, Middle East

Everything That Donald Trump Thinks Is Overrated

During her acceptance speech for the Cecil B. DeMille award at Sunday night’s Golden Globe Awards, Meryl Streep took a rather large swipe at Donald Trump. “This instinct to humiliate, when it’s modeled by someone in the public platform, by someone powerful, it filters down into everybody’s life, because it kind of gives permission for

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Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USA

Middle East Roundup: January 9, 2017

Israeli security cabinet orders IDF to raze home of Jerusalem terrorist (Israel Hayom/Exclusive to JNS.org) Israel’s diplomatic-security cabinet approved several security measures in the wake of the Jerusalem truck-ramming attack that killed four Israeli soldiers and wounded at least 16 Sunday. Israeli government ministers voted unanimously to order the Israel Defense Forces to raze terrorist

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Middle East

President Obama: Donald Trump has been cordial, even if they’re “sort of opposites”

President Obama on Sunday said he and his Twitter-loving successor, Donald Trump, are “sort of opposites in some ways,” though he acknowledged that neither of them suffers from a lack of confidence. “It’s probably a prerequisite for the job, or at least you have to have enough craziness to think that you can do the

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USA

Akbar Rafsanjani, former Iranian president, dies at 82

Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, a former Iranian president whose support for social freedoms and outreach to the United States made him a powerful ally of moderates despite allegations of corruption and authoritarianism, died Sunday. The cause was a heart attack, state news media reported. Iran declared three days of mourning for one of its most significant

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Middle East, Obituaries & memorials

Zuma’s ex-wife given boost in South Africa leadership race

The chances of South African President Jacob Zuma’s ex-wife, Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, becoming the next leader of the African National Congress were given a boost on Saturday with the endorsement of the ruling party’s women’s division. The ANC will pick a new leader at a conference in December and, given its national dominance since coming to

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International

Civil rights leader Roy Innis, who moved from liberalism to libertarianism, dies at 82

Civil rights icon Roy Innis, who for over 50 years in public life confounded stereotypes and the conventional wisdom of politics, died Sunday morning in New York City after a long illness. He was 82. “Roy got up every day and followed his conscience on what he thought was right, and if that led him

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Obituaries & memorials, USA