Actions by Iranian vessels in several encounters with U.S. warships in the Gulf this week are cause for concern and increase risks of miscalculation, the White House said on Friday, according to Reuters. On Thursday, it was revealed that a U.S. Navy coastal patrol ship fired three warning shots at an Iranian ship that sailed […]
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Middle East, USAWASHINGTON — Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has “historically bad” support among Jewish voters in Florida, with large numbers rejecting his proposed temporary ban on Muslim immigration and most doubting his professed strong support for Israel, a new poll of Jewish voters has found. If the Florida polling figures released Friday by GBA Strategies, a
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USAI was walking along a beach in northern Istanbul just recently, after the July 15 coup attempt, when I was jarred by a Cold War image. Wedged into the sandstone cliffs lining the beach were two abandoned gun emplacements, which silently spoke of how this golden stretch of sand was once part of NATO’s first
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International, Middle East, USADamascus/Geneva (dpa) – The United States and Russia could not agree Friday on how to bring about a broad truce in Syria, but the top diplomats of the two key players in this conflict announced that such a deal was imminent. US Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov met for
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InternationalJust when the Olympic rush has ebbed in Brazil, the country is plunging into a different sort of sport: politics. The final phase for impeaching Dilma Rousseff got underway on Thursday. And the Brazilian president is not expected to survive another week in office. The process has inched slowly along for months. After numerous congressional
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InternationalAmericans may not have been able to visit Yosemite National Park with President Obama and the First Family earlier this summer, but they can get a glimpse of the president’s trip by watching a newly released virtual reality film of his experience. During Obama’s Yosemite trip ahead of the National Park Service’s 100th birthday, he
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The World We Share, USAThe last tiger in the war-torn Gaza Strip is settling in well to his new home in South Africa after being evacuated, a charity official involved in his rescue told Newsweek. Laziz, an eight-year-old male Bengal tiger, was removed from the Khan Younis zoo in the southern Gaza Strip, which has been dubbed the worst
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International, The World We ShareIf you’re going to celebrate anything while in Bogota, I think the only place to do it right is a restaurant called Andres Carne de Res. The legendary restaurant has been around since 1982, in an area called Chia, about 45 minutes outside of town. While on assignment at a gastronomy conference, I opted for
Rome (dpa) – Victims of the massive earthquake in central Italy were given state funerals on Saturday, a day of national mourning during which officials said the provisional death toll from the tragedy had increased to 290. The magnitude-6 quake struck a rugged mountain area between the regions of Umbria, Lazio and Marche early Wednesday,
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InternationalThroughout its 100-year history, US National Parks have served as a model for other countries trying to set up their own networks of protected spaces. Now China is quietly planning its own national parks system. And, like Costa Rica and India before them, the Chinese are looking toward America. “They’ve visited several locations in the
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International, The World We Share, USATORONTO – His Majesty King Harald V of Norway was sitting at the back of his sailboat, munching on a green apple, reflecting upon the day of sailing that had just been. A day that was not “good,” according to the king. It was not good because the king, a sailor since age two, a
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu averted a brewing coalition crisis Friday morning, settling a government dispute over infrastructure work by Israel”s train system on Shabbat. The haredi parties, Shas and United Torah Judaism, had issued an ultimatum Thursday evening, demanding the Prime Minister restrict work by the state-owned rail company during the Jewish holy day. Giving
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Jewish Religion, Middle EastNearly hundred years ago, women won the right to vote in the United States on Aug. 26, 1920. The anniversary is now known as National Women’s Equality Day. To celebrate, 13 quotes from inspiring females have been shared below: 1.“We’ve begun to raise daughters more like sons … but few have the courage to raise
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USAActress, comedian, and reality TV star Roseanne Barr blasted Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton this week, warning that a Clinton victory would “be the absolute death of Israel”. Barr, best known for her eponymously named sit-com Roseanne which ran from 1988 to 1997, was raised in a Jewish family in Salt Lake City Utah. A
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