Gambia’s leader of some 22 years Yahya Jammeh announced late Friday he would no longer accept defeat in recent elections, plunging the West African country into turmoil with a demand for fresh polls. Investigations into the December 1 vote have revealed a string of “unacceptable errors” on the part of electoral authorities, Jammeh said in […]
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InternationalCarrying what they can, thousands of people are continuing to flee from their homes in the embattled eastern neighbourhoods of the city of Aleppo in Syria. What Russia says The Russian Defence Ministry, quoted by the Interfax news agency, says more than 20,000 civilians have left eastern Aleppo on Saturday. The Ministry also says more
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International, Middle EastOAKLAND, Calif. — As investigators tried to find the cause of a warehouse fire that killed 36 people, Oakland city officials faced more scrutiny over their handling of complaints about the building in the years before the blaze. Despite numerous complaints about conditions both inside and outside the warehouse, city officials have not produced any
In the wake of the US presidential election, a Utah mosque has opened its doors to the non-Muslim community. They’re holding Friday night information sessions called, “Meet the Muslims.” The Utah Islamic Center is tucked inside a strip mall in Sandy, a suburb of Salt Lake City. Shoes fill the entryway shelves and spill out
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USAIn 60 Minutes interview, Israeli leader acknowledges relations with Obama have not always been smooth, though he insists it was never personal By Times of Israel staff Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks to CBS’s 60 Minutes in an interview set for broadcast on December 11, 2016 (CBS screenshot) US President-elect Donald Trump feels “very warmly”
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Middle East, USAAccra (dpa) – Ghanaian opposition candidate Nana Akufo-Addo ousted President John Dramani Mahama in this week’s presidential elections, taking 53.85 per cent of the vote, the electoral commission announced Friday. Mahama took 44.4 per cent according to results from 271 out of a total 275 constituencies. “I’ll not let you down. I’ll do all I
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InternationalPresident-elect Donald Trump’s transition team questioned the veracity of assessments by U.S. intelligence officials that Russia-backed hackers interfered in this year’s elections, challenging assertions that the CIA determined Russia sought to help the Republican nominee win the presidency. “These are the same people that said Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction,” the transition team
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USANEW YORK – The American Jewish Committee (AJC) presented a donation on Friday to help rebuild the Islamic Center of Fort Pierce, Florida, severely damaged in an arson attack in September. “An attack on any house of worship is an affront to all Americans, regardless of their religious affiliation,” said Robert Silverman, AJC Director of Muslim-Jewish Relations.
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Jewish History, USABy Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – Some details are beginning to emerge about the major exhibition planned by the San Diego History Center about the Jews of San Diego. Bill Lawrence, executive director of the center that previously was known as the San Diego Historical Society, said the exhibit will run between nine months
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Donald H. Harrison, Jewish History, San Diego County, USAI Only Wanted to Live; the Struggle of a Boy to Survive the Holocaust by Arie Tamir; published by Arie Tamir, 2015; translated from the Hebrew by Batya Jerenberg By Dorothea Shefer-Vanson MEVASSERET ZION, Israel — Some kind of morbid fascination, possibly even masochism, seems to impel me to download and read yet another Holocaust memoir,
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Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, International, Jewish HistoryBy Joel H. Cohen NEW YORK — Early one December at my cousin’s retirement party, we were introduced to his replacement as engineering company head and the man’s wife, both not Jewish. The young woman was very outgoing and, though we were meeting for the first, she was as friendly as if we had been
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Jewish Religion, USAWashington (dpa) – US president-elect Donald Trump said Thursday the man he has named to be US ambassador to China will lead the way to an improved relationship between the US and China. Trump said Iowa Governor Terry Branstad knows China, has led six trade missions to the country and “knows how to deliver results.”
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USAWASHINGTON — Fast-food executive Andrew Puzder, President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to be the next Labor Department secretary, turned around the Southern California-based parent company of Carl’s Jr. and Hardee’s with help from scantily clad women hawking oversized burgers in racy ads. More recently, he’s raised his own profile by becoming an outspoken national advocate on
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USARALEIGH, N.C. — A Forest City, N.C., man who resigned as Santa in the town’s Christmas house after apparently telling a 9-year-old boy to “lay off” the burgers and fries has been hospitalized since Wednesday with a blood clot in his lung, his niece says. The man, Earl Crowder, woke up Wednesday with trouble breathing
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