BOGOTA, Colombia — In the latest whiplash policy decision, Venezuela announced it is reopening the border with Colombia on Tuesday, just days after it had announced the 1,274-mile frontier would be closed until Jan. 2. The surprise declaration came from Ernesto Villegas, Venezuela’s communications minister, in a series of tweets. Villegas said Venezuelan President Nicolas […]
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InternationalIsraeli tourist among those injured in Berlin Christmas market attack (JNS.org) An Israeli tourist was among those injured in Monday’s terror attack on a crowded Christmas market in Berlin, in which 12 people were killed and 50 others were injured when a tractor-trailer plowed into the market. The Israeli Foreign Ministry confirmed Tuesday that an
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Middle EastI’m a news reporter and I’ve been writing about Mexican immigration for many years. Last month, I covered an anti-Trump rally in Memphis, Tennessee, where I live. At one point the protesters chanted, “Let’s be loud! Let’s be clear! Immigrants are welcome here!” I tweeted the chant. Responses came back quickly. Protest now at Cooper
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International, USAPresident-elect Donald Trump nominated Vincent Viola as Secretary of the Army, his transition team announced Monday. Viola is a West Point graduate, the founder of electronic trading firm Virtu Financial, former chairman of the New York Mercantile Exchange, owner of the NHL’s Florida Panthers and founder of the Combating Terrorism Center at West Point. “I
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USAWASHINGTON — Donald Trump has decided that Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim, one of his favorite villains during the presidential election, might not be so bad after all. He’s even “wonderful,” Trump now says. The two dined together Saturday at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida, after which Trump had only nice things to say about Slim,
A special French court has found the head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) guilty of negligence – by allowing the misuse of public funds over a large state payout to a business tycoon, when she was the country’s finance minister. The judges ruled that Christine Lagarde had failed to challenge a 400-million euro state
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InternationalThree people were hurt in a shooting near an Islamic centre in central Zurich on Monday, police said. Swiss media said a suspect was on the run after the incident near the main train station in Switzerland’s financial capital. Zurich police confirmed people had been hurt in an incident on Zurich’s Eisgasse, but gave no
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InternationalIn the dusty Mauritanian capital of Nouakchott, thousands of protesters armed with loudspeakers gathered outside the country’s Supreme Court on November 15. Demonstrators held messages of protests on paper, some worn around their heads to keep their hands free, and demanded the court uphold the death sentence against Mohamed Ould Cheikh Ould Mkhaitir, a Mauritanian
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InternationalWASHINGTON — President Barack Obama on Monday pardoned 78 people and shortened the sentences of 153 others convicted of federal crimes — the most individual clemencies ever granted in a single day by any president. As he nears the end of his second term, Obama has issued more commutations than the previous 11 presidents combined,
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USAIn a rerun of the Bastille Day terrorist attack in Nice, two men plowed a truck Monday evening through a Christmas market in Berlin, Germany, causing mass carnage for which the Islamic State quickly took credit. The Berlin police said on Twitter, according to a translation by The Washington Times, that “w e can confirm
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InternationalBy Jerry Klinger The most important synagogue in America is not located in the United States. Thirteen hundred miles, East-South-East from Miami, Honen Dolim (She who is Merciful to the Poor) stands on the tiny former Dutch Caribbean Island of St. Eustatius. Statia (St. Eustatius) is remote, difficult to get to and central to the
Lebanon on Sunday announced a new 30-minister government led by Saad Hariri, AFP reports. The new government brings together the entire political spectrum except for the Christian Phalangist party that rejected the portfolio it was offered. “This is a government of entente,” Hariri said of the new cabinet, formed six weeks after the election of
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Middle EastDonald Trump officially became president-elect Donald Trump shortly after 3:30 pm Monday, as he secured a majority of the Electoral College vote and easily overcame a last-ditch effort by protesters to keep him out of the White House. Despite efforts to convince Trump electors to deliver a conscience vote for a different candidate, Trump avoided
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USAA neo-Nazi group is targeting Jewish residents of a small Montana town, publicizing their personal information and calling upon white supremacists to harass them – a form of cyber bullying colloquially known as “doxing”. The doxing campaign, led by the neo-Nazi website The Daily Stormer, is targeting Jewish residents of Whitefish, Montana, where the mother
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