Grieving relatives of 24 mainland tourists who died in a bus inferno in Taiwan are demanding answers from authorities. It was the worst road crash ever involving visitors from the Chinese mainland. Two Taiwan residents, the driver and a tour guide, also died. The first group of 46 relatives arrived in Taiwan on Thursday to […]
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InternationalSenator Bernie Sanders has repeated a call for Democratic National Committee Chairperson Debbie Wasserman Schultz to resign as the revelations in a cache of leaked DNC emails roils the party on the eve of the Democratic National Convention, which will now not feature Wasserman Schultz in any capacity. “I asked and demanded Debbie Wasserman Schultz’s
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USAWASHINGTON — The convention the Republicans just wrapped up in Cleveland, with its prime-time plagiarism, back-stabbing rivals and missing dignitaries, may not be a tough act to follow, but Democrats are nonetheless in a state of high anxiety as the spotlight shifts to them this week. The party will stage its national convention in Philadelphia
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USAThe head of the Democratic National Committee will not speak at the party’s convention this week, after hacked emails revealed her and other top officials conspiring against primary candidate Bernard Sanders. DNC Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz is expected to gavel the Democratic National Convention in and out of session, but will not have a speaking
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USAA national day of mourning was being observed in Afghanistan on Sunday after a suicide attack in Kabul which left at least 80 people dead and more than 230 others injured. So-called Islamic State says it was behind the carnage, targeting the mainly Shi’ite Hazara minority. It is the first time the Sunni Muslim terror
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InternationalWhat do you get when two Israeli Muslims, an Israeli Jew and an Israeli Christian put their heads together? Well, since this isn’t a riddle, the answer is a stroke-defeating drug. Founded by the husband and wife team of Prof. Abed Higazi and Dr. Noha Higazi, PamBio, a biotech company, claims to have found a
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & EducationBerlin (dpa) – The International Olympic Committee (IOC) on Sunday decided against a ban of all Russian athletes from the Rio de Janeiro Olympics in connection with allegations of widespread and state-organized doping. The IOC said after an executive board teleconference it will leave the final decision on Russians to compete at the August 5-21
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International, Sports & CompetitionsPHILADELPHIA — Donald Trump reiterated his call for the U.S. to pull back from its commitment to NATO and said the Republican leader of the Senate was wrong to call the proposal “a rookie mistake.” “He’s 100 percent wrong. OK?” Trump said in an interview aired Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press.” “He’s 100 percent
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USAPHILADELPHIA — As Hillary Clinton looks to President Barack Obama to take a leading role in helping her win the White House, he offered a preview Sunday of his themes in the campaign. Obama warned on CBS’s “Face the Nation” that Donald Trump’s approach to fighting Islamic State would only strengthen the extremist organization and
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USASen. Bernard Sanders said he is still committed to unifying the Democratic Party and defeating Republican Donald Trump in November, despite an email leak that showed top Democratic National Committee officials trying to undermine his presidential primary campaign. Mr. Sanders called on his supporters to rally behind presumptive Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton, saying Mr. Trump
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USANew Delhi (dpa) – One of India’s most successful contemporary artists, Sayed Haider Raza, died Saturday in New Delhi. He was 94. An internationally acclaimed artist who spent a large part of his life in Paris, Raza’s most famous works were abstracts in dazzling colours around the bindu – dot in Hindi. Raza was suffering
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International, Music, Dance, and Visual ArtsLevi Jonathan Shirley, an American Jew who volunteered to fight for the Kurdish militia in northern Syria, was killed in action on July 14th in the fierce ongoing battle to liberate the city of Manbij from ISIS hands. The Kurdish militia said in a statement that the Nevada-born Levi joined the militia in February of
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Middle East, USALess than two months after Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu secured the support of Avigdor Liberman”s Yisrael Beytenu party, expanding his coalition from 61 to 67 seats, a new poll shows a dramatic shift in support – and the possibility of a Lapid-led government. The poll, conducted by Geocartographia for Kol HaZman, shows support for the
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Middle EastIsraeli Sports and Culture Minister Miri Regev (Likud) has said she will not attend the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games in Brazil this year, due to it falling too close to the Sabbath. The ceremony is due to take place on Friday, August 5, and would necessitate her traveling back after sundown – the
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