International

Netanyahu, Abbas face criticism after funeral for Israel’s Peres

Tel Aviv (dpa) – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu should not have shaken Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’ hand at the funeral of Shimon Peres, Israel’s justice minister said on local radio Sunday. Ayelet Shaked, of the conservative Jewish Home party, told the station in an interview that she did not know what other action Netanyahu should […]

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Middle East

Reform movement to protest Israel’s laws on mikvahs, Kotel

Reform and Conservative congregations in the US have launched a campaign of protest against the government of Israel. The Reform and Conservative movements cited as reason for the effort the ritual bath (mikvaot) bill banning use of public facilities for conversions not performed by recognized authorities -which passed its second and third readings in the

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Jewish Religion, Middle East, USA

Chris Christie: Donald Trump best qualified to close tax code loopholes

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie said Sunday that Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump’s big tax write-off in the 1990s shows that he is best suited to reform America’s byzantine tax code. Mr. Christie, a former primary rival who who now leads the Trump campaign’s transition team, stressed that Mr. Trump followed the law and that

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USA

Rudy Giuliani: Donald Trump’s huge tax write-off show ‘absolute genius’

Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani said Sunday that Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump is an “absolute genius” for claiming nearly $1 billion in deductions in a 1996 tax return that likely got him out of paying income taxes for years. “It shows you what a genius he is, how smart he is, how

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USA

A Maasai warrior is rallying men to fight female genital mutilation

Dressed in colorful red, blue and white cloth, with necklaces of white beads adorning his chest, 28-year-old Olelein Kanunga sings and dances with his fellow Maasai warriors. He is carrying a long dark-brown stick, symbolizing that he is their leader. The dance, the attire, the symbolism — it’s all very traditional. But Olelein is also

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International

US families ordered out of Guantanamo as hurricane approaches

The commander of the U.S. Navy base at Guantanamo Bay Saturday ordered the evacuation of families and other nonessential personnel from the outpost in southeast Cuba because of Hurricane Matthew’s approach. It was not immediately known how many people would be flown off the base, or where they would go. But military sources with knowledge

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International, USA

Shimon Peres’s secret

Former President Shimon Peres confidentially revealed to the Jerusalem Post two years ago that he had intervened to stop Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu from bombing Iran. Steve Linde, formerly the editor-in-chief of the newspaper, revealed Peres”s comments in an article on Thursday. Linde said that Peres had dropped the bombshell in a meeting with Linde

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Middle East

Kerry: We’re ‘on the brink’ of ending talks with Russia

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry warned on Thursday that Washington was “on the brink” of ending its talks with Russia on the Syrian conflict over the assault on Aleppo, AFP reported. “I think we are on the verge of suspending the discussion because, you know, it’s irrational in the context of the kind of

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International, Middle East, USA

PA suspends official for slamming Abbas attendance at Peres funeral

The Palestinian Authority on Friday suspended a senior official who criticized PA President Mahmoud Abbas’s attendance at Shimon Peres’s funeral earlier in the day. Osama Mansour, who is a military liaison with Israel, posted comments on Facebook in which he blasted the president for going to the funeral in Jerusalem. “There are no personal relationships

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Middle East

9/11 families focus on unproven connection of Saudi officials to attacks

WASHINGTON — With Congress opening the way for the families of 9/11 victims to sue Saudi Arabia, victims’ families are focusing on an unproven theory that a Saudi consular official in Los Angeles and a Saudi intelligence operative in San Diego directly assisted two of the 19 hijackers. The alleged Southern California connection is the

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Middle East, USA