The United Nations is marking the new year with a change in leadership and five new Security Council members. But is it really the start of a new era? At midnight Saturday, Ban Ki Moon relinquished his role as UN secretary general to Antonio Guterres, who then made a global appeal for peace, urging all […]
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InternationalPresident-elect Donald Trump’s use of Twitter to have a direct conversation with the American people “freaks the mainstream media out” and represents a fundamental shift in how an administration disseminates information, the incoming White House press secretary said Sunday morning. Appearing on ABC’s “This Week,” Sean Spicer said major news organizations are transfixed by Mr.
By Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM — Many in Israel find it hard to know what the Obama administration really had in mind when it didn’t veto the Security Council resolution that condemns Israel’s settlement expansion and when it let Kerry make the speech that even Britain’s prime minister condemned. All official comments that I’ve seen
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International, Middle East, USADonald Trump, who a year ago criticized President Barack Obama for playing “more golf than Tiger Woods,” returned to the golf course Saturday, ditching the press pool tailing the president-elect. Trump actually joined golfing great Woods last week on the course, interrupting his schedule of transition meetings while at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida. And,
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Sports & Competitions, USAOn Friday, the San Francisco 49ers awarded Colin Kaepernick with the Len Eshmont Award, which is traditionally given to the player who “best exemplifies the inspirational and courageous play of Len Eshmont, an original member of the 1946 49ers team.” It was established after Len Eshmont passed away and is considered the most prestigious award
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Sports & Competitions, USAWASHINGTON — President-elect Donald Trump will take office with a chance to fill more than 100 seats on the federal courts because of an extraordinary two-year slowdown in judicial confirmations engineered by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. Since Republicans took control of the Senate at the beginning of the 114th Congress in 2015, senators have
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USAThis article originally was published on the International Business Times. Queen Elizabeth II cancelled several planned events for Christmas because of her health condition, giving rise to speculation about who would be the next to sit on the British throne if the world’s longest-serving monarch steps down. As false reports regarding the queen’s death circulate
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InternationalThis New Year’s Eve, just before midnight, millions of revelers will do the same thing they do every year. They will pause their celebrations to watch a short piece of comedic English dinner theater that hardly anyone in Britain has heard of. More than 50 years ago a German television channel made a recording of
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International, Theatre, Film & BroadcastTwo bombs exploded at a busy market in central Baghdad on Saturday killing at least 27 people and wounding more than 50 others, security officials and medics said. The attacks took place early Saturday morning in al-Sinaq, a busy market selling car accessories, food and clothes as well as agricultural seeds and machinery. Details were
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By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – Although I have known Nancy more than 50 years, and have been married to her for 48 plus, Gayle Midyette has even more bragging rights. She has known Nancy 60 years, ever since the Brownies matched them up as pen pals. They’ve only met in person a few
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Donald H. Harrison, Travel and Food, USATurkish airstrikes in Syria killed two Islamic State group emirs this week amid ongoing international negotiations over how to end the five-year-old Syrian civil war and halt the militant group also known as ISIS. Abu Ansari and Ebu Hussein Tunusi were both killed in separate airstrikes carried out by the government in Ankara, Turkish media
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Middle EastCheetahs are in a race for survival, with wildlife experts warning that the world’s fastest land animal is close to extinction. Experts estimate that there are only 7,100 cheetahs left in the world – a dramatic decline from 100 years ago, when the total population was estimated at 100,000. So imminent is the threat to
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International, The World We Share‘Obama doesn’t deal in revenge. It’s not how he makes decisions,’ Dan Shapiro tells Israeli TV By Joshua Davidovich Dan Shapiro speaking in Jerusalem on November 18, 2015. (Miriam Alster /Flash90) The American ambassador to Israel vociferously denied Thursday that the US decision to allow an anti-settlement resolution to pass the United Nations Security Council
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Middle East, USANearly 90,000 Christians were killed for their faith in 2016, equivalent to one every six minutes, according to a new study by the Italy-based Center for Studies on New Religions (Censur). The annual study, which is set for release next month, also indicated that between 500 and 600 million Christians were prevented from freely practicing
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