At the edge of his farm, Menkir Tamrat walks over to a pepper plant and pulls back the dark green leaves to reveal dozens of shiny red peppers. “Looks like we have a whole bunch of ripe ones, red ones, ready to be plucked,” he says as he rubs his hands together. Over the next […]
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International, USABritain’s Labour Party suspended a senior activist close to recently reelected leader Jeremy Corbyn after she said that the national day to honor the victims of the Holocaust should not be solely about Jews. The Guardian on Friday quoted Labour as saying that while it did not comment on individual memberships, it is understood that
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InternationalWASHINGTON — Five years ago, Hillary Clinton made a little-noticed deal obligating Japan to continue paying nearly $2 billion a year to help defray the cost of U.S. troops stationed on its territory. The money is used to build housing and training areas for U.S. forces, pay wages to thousands of Japanese workers on U.S
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International, USAPolice in the El Cajon suburb of San Diego have released a surveillance video from a local business that shows an unarmed Ugandan refugee being shot dead in a car park on Tuesday. As two police officers close in on Alfred Olango his sister Lisa Peterson, who is standing nearby, shouts: “Officer don’t shoot him!”
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USANewsweek said its website was knocked offline by hackers Thursday evening after it published an article accusing one of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s companies of having violated the U.S. embargo against Cuba. Editor-in-chief Jim Impoco told reporters Friday that Newsweek’s website was unavailable for several hours the night before as the result of what
France condemned the bombing on Saturday of a hospital in Syria’s Aleppo, saying the shelling of healthcare structures and personnel in the besieged city constituted war crimes. “Their perpetrators will be held to account,” Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault said in a statement. “France is mobilising at the Security Council as we speak to put a
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International, Middle EastBy Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM — In a lengthy interview published on the last day of September 2016 in Ha’aretz and hours before the funeral for Shimon Peres yet another former Israeli spy chief offers a critical and penetrating view of contemporary Israel. Ephraim Halevy, age 82 with vast experience of Israeli affairs, secret and revealed,
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Middle EastBy Joe Spier CALGARY, Alberta, Canada — On September 1, George Frederick “Buzz” Beurling, recognized as “Canada’s most famous hero of the Second World War,” was posthumously honored by the Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum with the unveiling of a life-sized bronze statue of his likeness at a ceremony at Hamilton’s International Airport. Among the dignitaries paying
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International, Jewish History, Middle EastItalian police proudly unveiled two Van Gogh paintings recovered during a mafia raid. The masterpieces, stolen more than a decade ago in Amsterdam, were found in a house linked to an international drug trafficker in Castellammare di Stabia, near Naples. Valued at 89 million euros, both paintings were said to be in good condition and
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International, Music, Dance, and Visual ArtsWe believe our father would have wanted us to say a few words in English to all of you who traveled from across the world to join us at this devastating moment, as we say goodbye and pay tribute to a special man who we all loved dearly. He would have wanted us to thank
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Middle EastTel Aviv (dpa) – Leaders from around the world have given their view this week of the late Israeli statesmen Shimon Peres, including at his funeral on Friday. After more than six decades in politics, Peres had ample opportunity to share his own opinions on everything from peace to social media. Here is a selection
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Middle EastJerusalem (dpa) – Mount Herzl, also known as Har ha-Zikaron, is the site of Israel’s national cemetery in Jerusalem. The site is named after the Austro-Hungarian founder of modern Zionism, the writer Theodor Herzl (1860 – 1904), born Binyamin Ze’ev Herzl. Herzl’s pamphlet “The Jewish State” (Der Judenstaat) dealt with the foundation of an independent
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Middle EastPrime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and President Reuven Rivlin on Friday both shook hands with Palestinian Authority (PA) chairman Mahmoud Abbas at the funeral of former President Shimon Peres. Netanyahu told Abbas that he appreciated his coming to attend the funeral, while Netanyahu”s wife, Sara, told the PA chairman that she is looking forward to hosting
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Middle EastThe son-in-law and personal doctor of the late Shimon Peres, Prof. Rafi Walden, was critical of Arab MKs who refused to attend Peres” funeral tomorrow. “I am surprised and disappointed by them,” Walden said. “There was the famous saying of Abba Even that the Arabs never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity. This time,
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