Berlin (dpa) – German Social Democratic Party (SPD) leader Sigmar Gabriel is likely to be the main challenger to Chancellor Angela Merkel at next September’s election after his chief rival pulled out of the race to head up the SPD campaign, media reports say. The left-leaning SPD is expected to back next month the 57-year-old […]
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InternationalRALEIGH, N.C. — Gov.-elect Roy Cooper filed a lawsuit Friday challenging the North Carolina General Assembly’s special session law that revamps the state elections board. Cooper’s attorneys asked a Wake County Superior Court judge to block the law from taking effect while the lawsuit pends. Judge Donald Stephens granted the request after a hearing Friday
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USAWASHINGTON — After President Barack Obama on Thursday announced retaliatory measures against the Russian government for what the U.S. has concluded were efforts to interfere in the election, President-elect Donald Trump’s response was terse and dismissive, saying it was time to “move on to bigger and better things.” But after Russian President Vladimir Putin said
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International, USAThe Dong Ward municipality in South Korea’s largest port city of Busan on Friday handed over a confiscated statue symbolizing the victims of Japan’s wartime sexual slavery to a civic group, paving the way for it to be installed in front of the ward’s Japanese Consulate. Two days before the handover, the civic group attempted
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InternationalShe is only 11 but already words like “genius” are being used to describe the musical talents of London schoolgirl Alma Deutscher, who has just wowed the crowd in Vienna with the world-premiere of her self-penned opera “Cinderella”. She played violin and piano during the performance and was rewarded with a standing ovation. It is
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International, Music, Dance, and Visual ArtsBy Rabbi Ben Kamin OCEANSIDE, California — Great heat has been generated by the recent American decision to abstain at the UN Security Council on Israel’s settlements in the West Bank (or Judea and Samaria, as some of us Jews call the area). I have strong mixed feelings about the matter except in one category:
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Middle East, USAArmy to set up initiatives to train and integrate minority groups, increase numbers of Arab-speaking soldiers By Times of Israel staff Israeli Minister of Defense Avigdor Liberman visits the IDF Bedouin Desert Reconnaissance Battalion army base on July 26, 2016. (Ariel Hermoni/Ministry of Defense) In recent months the Israel Defense Forces has stepped up efforts
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Middle EastRebuking the Obama administration’s non-veto, powerful lobby asks people to encourage their representatives to come out against the move By Eric Cortellessa American Orthodox Jewish Rabbi Shmuley Boteach speaks on December 28, 2016 as people take part in a protest calling on the US to ‘defund the UN’ in the wake of the December 23
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International, Middle East, USAFrench songwriter, composer and singer Pierre Barouh, who penned and sang the international hit “A Man And A Woman” from the eponymous 1966 film, died Wednesday aged 82, his wife … Barouh, who had been in hospital for five days, died following a heart attack, Atsuko Ushioda told reporters. Raised in the western Paris suburbs
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International, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, Theatre, Film & BroadcastNEW YORK (Press Release) — Leaders of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations on Friday, Dec. 30, called on President Hollande of France to cancel or, at least, postpone the international meeting on Middle East Peace scheduled for January 15, 2017 in Paris, calling it ill-conceived, poorly timed and damaging to prospects
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International, Middle EastNovelist and writer Asli Erdogan went on trial in Turkey on Thursday as part of a widespread crackdown by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s government, including the arrests of dozens of journalists and teachers. The 49-year-old novelist, who is not related to the president, was charged with spreading “terrorist propaganda” after she was taken into custody
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InternationalIsraeli security forces prevent stabbing attack near Jerusalem (Israel Hayom/Exclusive to JNS.org) Israeli security forces at the Qalandiya checkpoint north of Jerusalem foiled a terrorist attack Friday morning. The terrorist was arrested and there were no injuries reported among the Israeli troops. According to available details, a Palestinian woman who arrived at the checkpoint on
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Middle EastSlogans don’t leave a lot of room for error — especially if they’re meant to entice you to drop a bunch of money to travel to a new location. The good ones are pithy and evocative at the same time. They fill you with wonder in just a few words. It’s a challenging task for
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International, Travel and FoodBuenos Aires (dpa) – An Argentine court on Thursday reopened a case against former president Christina Fernandez de Kirchner that was filed by a prosecutor four days before he was found dead in suspicious circumstances in January 2015. The Federal Criminal Court of Cassations ruled that the case filed by Alberto Nisman, which alleged that
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