File photo of Nicolas Sarkozy (L), former president and current head of the Les Republicains political party, and French President Francois Hollande after their meeting at the Elysee Palace in Paris, France, January 22, 2016. Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy will run for next year’s presidential election, he announced on his Facebook account August 22, […]
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InternationalThursday is the 100th anniversary of the law that created the US National Park Service. The vast system includes parks featuring spectacular scenery and sites that are historically and culturally famous all over the world. Seattle (dpa) – The US system of US national parks is one of extremes. There is a park where the
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The World We Share, USARIO DE JANEIRO – Andre De Grasse and Penny Oleksiak became the faces of Canada’s Summer Olympic team, despite their youth and inexperience. De Grasse, who at 21 won three sprinting medals in Rio, is heading back to the University of Southern California to finish his sociology degree. Oleksiak, the 16-year-old who stormed to the
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International, Sports & CompetitionsLos Angeles (dpa) – Two Renaissance paintings seized by the Nazis during World War II will remain the property of a California museum after a US court Monday ruled against a claim by the family of the Jewish art dealer from whom they were taken. Judge John F Walter of the US District Court in
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International, Jewish History, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, USAIn an appearance on late-night television, Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton tried to laugh off recent questions over her health, saying such attacks are part of Republicans’ “wacky” strategy against her. “This has become one of their themes,” Mrs. Clinton said, asking host Jimmy Kimmel to take her pulse and make sure she’s alive during
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USAWASHINGTON — The head of the Organization of American States has declared the continued imprisonment of Venezuelan opposition leader Leopoldo Lopez the end of democracy in Venezuela. In an OAS eight-page open letter to Lopez, a former mayor of Caracas, Secretary-General Luis Almagro said Lopez was the victim of a lying and horrific political system.
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InternationalEmails just released by the State Department appear to show Clinton Foundation officials brokering a meeting between then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and a top military leader of Bahrain — a Middle Eastern country that is a major foundation donor. Soon after the correspondence about a meeting, Clinton’s State Department significantly increased arms export authorizations
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International, USAWASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) – In advance of the first presidential election in 50 years without a fully operable Voting Rights Act (VRA), an American civil rights group is urging the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) to expand its election monitoring mission in the United States and to target resources to states
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International, USAThe wife of Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels had a Jewish father, according to a new document discovered in the Berlin archives. The document was published in the German newspaper Bild, the London-based Jewish Chronicle reported last week. It shows that the father of Magda Goebbels was a Jewish businessman named Richard Friedlander, who married
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International, Jewish HistoryCHICAGO, Illinois (Press Release)– A handful of African-American leaders who are top advisors to the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews (The Fellowship), and who represent more than 9 million people, today rejected the anti-Israel stance of the Movement for Black Lives, an offshoot of the Black Lives Matter movement. The Fellowship advisers representing three African-American
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Middle East, USAVirginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe announced Monday that he has individually restored the voting rights of 13,000 felons, a move undertaken after the state Supreme Court rescinded a prior executive action that restored the right to vote en masse to more than 200,000 former inmates. The Democratic governor said individual restoration orders were mailed out to
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USAWashington (dpa) – US President Barack Obama returned to Washington from his final summer vacation as president late Sunday to an agenda that will feature battles with a Republican-controlled Congress and regular campaigning for fellow Democrat Hillary Clinton. Along with First Lady Michelle Obama and daughters Sasha and Malia, Obama spent just over two weeks
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USAThe Rio Olympics ended its 16-day run Sunday with a festive blowout celebration in the picturesque city. For Israel, the Games marked a better-than-average showing, a small but noticeable improvement over past years, even if Israeli Olympians failed to bring home the gold. Ilana Koshbetzki, captain of the rhythmic gymnastics team, which finished sixth on
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