(AFP) France was set to hold a minute’s silence on Monday to honour the 84 victims of the Nice truck attack, but a period of national mourning was overshadowed by bickering politicians. Church bells will toll across the country, and the country will fall silent at midday, a now grimly familiar ritual after the third […]
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InternationalHundreds of people gathered at the Netzer Hazani synagogue Monday afternoon for the funeral of 20-year-old IDF Sergeant Shlomo Rindenow, a lone soldier from the US who died in a hand grenade explosion Sunday. Rindenow was killed along with First Sergeant Hussam Tapesh, who was buried earlier Sunday in his hometown of Beit Jan in
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Middle EastA 77-year woman who spent Bastille Day last Thursday in the city of Nice with her sister died on Monday, becoming the first Jewish fatality from the massive terror attack that ravaged the southern French town. Her death brings the total death count to 85, excluding the terrorist, who was shot dead by police in
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InternationalTurkish cleric Fethullah Gulen, the former ally of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan whose followers Turkey blames for this weekend’s failed coup, said on Sunday that he would obey any extradition ruling from the United States. At the same time, reported Reuters, he repeated his previous assertions that Erdogan had staged the putsch. “I am not
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Middle East, USAPalestinian Authority (PA) chairman Mahmoud Abbas on Sunday urged the African Union member states and its officials to support the French initiative to organize an international peace conference aimed at reaching a solution to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, the Ma’an news agency reports. In a speech at the African Union”s 27th summit held in Kigali, Rwanda,
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International, Middle EastCLEVELAND – Accusations of racism, race baiting and use of racial dog whistles are age-old staples of American politics, but these recriminations have reached a fever pitch this year against Donald Trump. The likely Republican presidential nominee’s blunt rhetoric about illegal immigration and the threat of radical Islamic terrorism, as well as his clumsy handling
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan broke down in tears at the funeral for his former campaign manager and others, killed in the violence during the foiled military coup attempted by a rogue group of soldiers, Turkish news agency Sozcu reports. A total of 265 people died during the attempted coup, 161 of whom were civilians
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Middle EastThere’s a good chance you’ve heard of Nate Silver. After getting his B.A. in economics at the University of Chicago in 2000, Silver took a job as an economic consultant with KPMG, the consulting company, but quit after a couple of years and made good money playing online poker. He also came up with a
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USATurkey has arrested more than 6,000 during purges of the army and judiciary following the failed coup attempt over the weekend. More than 290 people were killed and some 1,400 wounded in the abortive uprising Friday night and Saturday. While Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan blamed an exiled Muslim cleric for inspiring the attempted overthrow
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Middle EastTwo people have been injured in a stabbing attack at El-Aroub Junction in the Gush Etzion region near Hevron. The victims are both Israeli men in their twenties, and were lightly wounded in the attack. Magen David Adom paramedics are on the scene, as are security forces. The terrorist was shot and seriously injured by
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Middle EastBrussels (dpa) – Boris Johnson, Britain’s new foreign secretary with a reputation for undiplomatic language, said his country would not abandon its leading role in European cooperation as he prepared to meet his EU counterparts in Brussels on Monday. Johnson, a lead campaigner for Britain to leave the European Union in last month’s referendum, was
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InternationalMilwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke is set to speak at the Republican National Convention this week, but the vocally anti-Black Lives Matter law enforcement officer is already making headlines with his message. In the wake of a shooting in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, over the weekend that left three police officers dead and three more wounded,
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USAIn 1952, TV manufacturers with such now-forgotten brand names as Philco, Admiral and Westinghouse were the exclusive sponsors of network coverage of the Democratic and Republican national conventions. They sought to motivate Americans to head to their local appliance dealer to purchase their first televisions, and ABC, CBS and NBC helped by offering viewers hours
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USACLEVELAND — Donald Trump’s climb to the top of the Republican ticket shattered the rules of presidential politics. Now, his nomination is promising to break with tradition like no other political convention in the modern era. Trump’s brash brand of reality-TV politics is expected to produce a crowd-pleasing four days in Cleveland. It’s sure to