President-elect Donald Trump should put off efforts to dismantle the Obama administration’s nuclear deal with Iran during his first days in office, or risk having the issue consume his inaugural term in the White House, the top Senate foreign policy lawmaker warned Friday. The controversial deal struck between Washington and Tehran, designed to curb Iran’s […]
Longtime GOP Rep. Sam Johnson of Texas announced Friday he will not run for re-election in 2018. “After much prayer, I have decided I will not seek re-election to serve the Third District of Texas in the U.S. House of Representatives in 2018,” Mr. Johnson said in a statement posted to his campaign website. “This
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USAVice President Joe Biden, with House Speaker Paul Ryan of Wis., right, watching, delcares that Congress certifies Donald Trump’s presidential victory during a joint session of Congress, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Jan 6, 2017. [Photo/IC] WASHINGTON – The US Congress confirmed President-elect Donald Trump’s presidency by a tally of electoral votes Friday, finalised the
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USAAround 1,500 Arabs attended on Saturday the funerals of two terrorists who were killed by IDF troops last year. The funerals were held in the mixed Jewish-Arab city of Hevron. The terrorists,Hatem Shaludi, 25, and Mohammed Rajabi, 16, were shot dead after carrying out separate stabbing attacks against IDF soldiers in Hevron. Mourners attending the
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Middle EastPrime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu addressed members of the United States House of Representatives in a video statement Friday afternoon, thanking them for their support of Israel in the face of the anti-Israel resolution adopted by the United Nations Security Council in December. “After the outrageous anti-Israel resolution at the UN, the US House of Representatives
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Middle East, USAOutgoing US Secretary of State John Kerry said in an interview with CBS News on Friday that US President-elect Donald Trump’s plan to move the US Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem would cause “an absolute explosion in the region, not just in the West Bank, and perhaps even in Israel itself, but throughout the
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Middle East, USAMore Arabs are leaving Judea and Samaria every year, reported an Arab48 journalist. “A guy named Ahmad told me there were 44 kids in his high school class, all of them from Kfar Ramon. Only four of them still live there, the rest moved to the United States,” the journalist said. “There are no more
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International, Middle East, USAWith Gaza rulers fighting Salafists, including IS, a partial reconciliation sees Cairo opening a border crossing to allow goods into the Strip By Avi Issacharoff High-ranking Israeli officials and journalists alike have occasionally found themselves amazed at the waves of curses and vicious invective that Egyptian officials unleash when asked for their views on Hamas.
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Middle EastDonald Trump again suggested that partisan politics is the motivation behind a Senate committee’s probe into Russia’s election-related hacking and labeled those who would think a better relationship with Russia is “bad” as “stupid” people. The president-elect used Twitter Saturday morning to issue his latest statements, one day after a “constructive” briefing from intelligence officials
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International, USALos Angeles (dpa) – Hollywood actresses Debbie Reynolds and Carrie Fisher were buried in a Los Angeles cemetery on Friday in a private service. The ceremony at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in the Hollywood Hills was attended by family and friends including Fisher’s brother Todd and her daughter Billie Lourd, according to US media reports.
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Obituaries & memorials, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USAFormer cult leader Charles Manson, who was hospitalized earlier this week, was too weak to undergo surgery, reports said Friday. The 82-year-old, who inspired his followers to kill seven people in 1969, is serving nine concurrent life sentences for the murders and has been denied parole 12 times. Manson was admitted at a medical center
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USAWhile funerals are generally a time for mourning, a memorial parade in Taiwan took a different route for lamentation. Fifty pole dancers caused a traffic jam during local politician Tung Hsiang’s funeral in Chiayi Tuesday as they danced in black bikinis on top of cars, catching the eyes of crowds of bystanders for the duration
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InternationalIsrael announced Friday it will cut a substantial amount from its annual dues to the Unites Nations for 2017 as a sign of protest against the U.N. Security Council’s December vote condemning Israeli settlements in Palestinian areas as “a flagrant violation under international law.” Israel’s U.N. mission announced it will cut $6 million, which it
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International, Middle East, USACairo (dpa) – Some 19 people were killed and dozens more injured in a car bomb attack Saturday in the northern Syrian town of A’zaz, near a border crossing with Turkey, a monitoring group said. The blast hit the rebel-held town’s Islamic law court, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights stated. An official in a
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