More 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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Middle EastFormer Mexican President Vicente Fox essentially told President-elect Donald Trump Friday to f— off. Fox, a longtime critic of Trump’s campaign promise to build a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border, tweeted that Mexico will not pay “for that f—– wall.” “Be clear with US tax payers. They will pay for it,” Fox told Trump in
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International, USALegislation proposed Thursday in the Texas Senate would trump local anti-discrimination ordinances by giving private business the right to prohibit transgender customers from using the restroom of their choice. A so-called “bathroom bill” floated by Republican state Sen. Lois Kolkhorst would prohibit local municipalities from establishing restroom and locker room policies for private businesses, effectively
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USAMexico City (dpa) – Mexican activists angry about a 20-per-cent hike in the cost of petrol called Friday for a weekend escalation in protests that have left six dead and 900 under arrest. In messages on the social network WhatsApp, protesters planned a major demonstration for Saturday in Mexico City’s central Zocalo square, as well
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InternationalVermont Senator Bernie Sanders criticized Hillary Clinton and the Democratic Party Thursday for catering mostly to the rich and elite sectors of society, which he believed led to their electoral downfall, according to an NPR interview. Sanders, who unsuccessfully ran against Clinton for the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination last year, said that the Democrats failed
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USARio de Janeiro (dpa) – At least 31 people were killed Friday in the second prison riot in Brazil this week, justice officials said, lowering the death toll slightly from figures given earlier. The bodies of some of the victims had been beheaded or dismembered, Uziel Castro, justice secretary in the northern state of Roraimo
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InternationalMario Soares, widely seen as the father of Portugal’s modern-day democracy, was a towering figure in the country’s political scene who spearheaded its entry into the European Union. Soares, the founder of Portugal’s Socialist party who died on Saturday at the age of 92, spent decades in politics, serving as foreign minister, prime minister and
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