A 21 minute audio file has surfaced online, in which the Hamza Bin Laden, the son of Al Qaeda founder Osama Bin Laden, threatened the U.S. for assassinating his father. According to Reuters, the file, entitled “We are All Osama,” features Hamza Bin Laden in a 21-minute speech threatening attacks on the U.S. and its […]
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International, Middle East, USABarack Obama met with Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy in Spain on Sunday, the last big EU state that the US president had yet to visit. Rajoy is still struggling to form a cabinet after an election on June 26. Spain still remains split between four political forces and unable to form a government after 200
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International, USAPresident Obama indirectly excused Hillary Clinton’s careless handling of classified material Saturday by saying the State Department is overwhelmed daily by a “massive influx of information” due to improvements in technology. While cautioning that he wouldn’t comment on Mrs. Clinton’s case, the president said at a news conference in Poland that he’s “concerned” about FBI
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USASome one thousand Israelis marched in defiance Sunday, at a protest rally from the site of the deadly drive-by shooting which claimed the life of Rabbi Michael Mark 10 days ago, to his hometown of Otniel in Har Hevron. The demonstrators called on the government to act decisively to end the ongoing wave of Arab
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Middle EastA prominent Black Lives Matter activist livestreamed his own arrest at a late Saturday protest in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, as tensions continued to rise between American police and racial minority groups. The demonstration was one of several in US cities following the death of two African-American men shot dead by white police officers, their dying
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USAThe Israel Prisons Service parole board is to meet next Wednesday to discuss a request for early release by disgraced former president Moshe Katsav, who is serving time for rape and other sexual abuses. Three months after his last parole bid was rejected, the president was scheduled to appear before the board on July 20
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Middle EastAUSCHWITZ-BIRKENAU, Poland – A sombre and visibly moved Prime Minister Justin Trudeau wiped away tears several times Sunday as he paid his respects at the biggest and most notorious of the network of death camps run by the Nazis. Walking alongside Auschwitz survivor Nate Leipciger of Toronto and the President of the Montreal Board of
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International, Jewish HistoryTel Aviv (dpa) – Israel is to host Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry on Sunday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced, in the first such visit in nearly a decade. Netanyahu said he would meet Shoukry twice, in the afternoon and evening. “I am pleased to announce that Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry will arrive today
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Middle EastZionist Union chairman MK Yitzhak Herzog said on Saturday that the Labor party primaries will be held in the second half of 2017. “The party’s Central Committee will convene in the coming weeks, and decide when the primaries for the party leadership will take place. If they decide I am not good enough to lead
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Middle EastOn Saturday, South Sudan marked the fifth anniversary of its independence from Sudan with a military lockdown in its capital Juba after fighting broke out between troops loyal to President Salva Kiir and soldiers who support Vice President Riek Machar. The violence erupted Thursday near the presidential compound at the heart of the city and
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InternationalAustralia’s prime minister has declared a narrow victory on the eighth day of vote counting in marathon federal elections. Malcolm Turnbull may just gain a majority – or else he may be forced to rely on independents to form a government. His coalition had 74 MPs at 0900 GMT – just two short of a
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InternationalThe US Democratic party’s slide toward an increasingly anti-Israel position, led by Senator Bernie Sanders, has been halted, at least temporarily. During a meeting of the Democratic party drafting committee Saturday, supporters of Senator Sanders proposed an amendment to the Democratic party platform which would urge an “end to occupation and illegal settlements,” in Judea
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Middle East, USARolling tanks and firing artillery recently shattered a delicate truce between Armenia and Azerbaijan. The latest flare-up of this decades-old conflict claimed more than a hundred lives—and tensions remain sky-high despite a cease-fire. Meanwhile, the terrorist group ISIS orchestrated two deadly attacks in the Russian republic of Dagestan. Russia itself continues to menace the Republic
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International, USAPresumptive Republican Presidential nominee Donald Trump is considering retired Lieutenant General Michael Flynn as a potential vice-presidential running mate, according to multiple reports. Trump’s potential vice president list includes Indiana Governor Mike Pence, former House speaker Newt Gingrich and New Jersey Governor Chris Christie. Many of Trump’s associates have reportedly urged the real estate mogul
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