Mayor of London Sadiq Khan is enjoying a popularity boost in the wake of Britain’s referendum on leaving the EU. Seen as a unifying figure among a political class left fractured by the Brexit vote, Khan’s star is on the rise. Politicians across the UK’s political spectrum – from conservative Boris Johnson to Labour Party […]
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InternationalAn Army veteran used his battlefield skills to save the life of America’s national bird-a bald eagle-and, just in time for the most patriotic holiday, July 4th. Jason Galvin used a rifle to shoot through a rope, freeing the eagle that had been trapped in a treetop for at least two days. WATCH: Eagle Snatches
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The World We Share, USAPrime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu approved Sunday night the construction of hundreds of housing units in Jerusalem and Maale Adumim, including 600 units for the Arab neighborhood of Beit Safafa, expanding the neighborhood into Givat HaMatos and creating Arab territorial continuity across southern Jerusalem. The housing plan approved Sunday night includes 560 units in Maale Adumim,
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Middle EastDuring the night IDF forces arrested two brothers of 17-year-old Mohammed Nasser Tarayra, the terrorist who murdered Hallel-Yaffa Ariel in Kiryat Arba. Tarayra’s sister was arrested yesterday after praising the attack and cursing the Jews. Continuing IDF operations concentrated on Hevron district and the village of Bani Na’im where the terrorist came from. During the
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Middle EastA group of Black Lives Matter activists temporarily shut down Canada’s largest gay pride parade on Sunday, when they stopped marching until the parade organizers agreed to their demands. BLM, which was invited to march in the gay-rights celebration as an honorary group, stopped two-thirds of the way down the parade route, began chanting “Shut
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InternationalNigel Farage, a prominent campaigner for a UK exit from the European Union, has resigned as leader of the UKIP party. He said he has done what he set out to do and helped win the referendum on whether or not to leave the EU. “I have never been, and I have never wanted to
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InternationalGENEVA (Press Release) – Peter Maurer, president of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has said that suffering in Syria and Iraq have reached ‘unprecedented levels’ and that many people, in both countries, are living in ‘abject fear and terrifying uncertainty’,with the situation worsening almost by the day. As the holy month of Ramadan comes
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By Raphael Poch JERUSALEM –As the two-year anniversary of Operation Protective Edge draws near, Israel’s national volunteer EMS organization, United Hatzalah, has implemented numerous changes on the operational and organizational levels as a direct result of lessons learned from incidents that occurred during the conflict. Manpower The biggest change that the organization has undertaken since the
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & EducationBy Sheryl Rowling SAN DIEGO — Question: My portfolio is managed by an investment manager. How can I tell if my manager is focusing on tax efficiency? Answer: This is a great question and reflects the dilemma investors face. Returns are not spectacular these days, yet taxes never seem to decline. Combined Federal and state tax rates can
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Sheryl Rowling, USAHundreds of Israelis of Ethiopian descent took to the streets of Tel Aviv on Sunday to protest what they consider the unfair and discriminatory attitude of the authorities and police brutality in particular. Protesters blocked major roads as they marched northward starting from the Sarona complex to the HaShalom Interchange. Some even sat down in
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Middle EastURSOON, Pakistan: Overnight flash floods killed at least 43 people in northern Pakistan, the majority in a remote village that did not receive an evacuation warning before the waters hit washing away most of the settlement, officials said yesterday. The heavy monsoon rains began late Saturday and were concentrated mainly in the northwestern province of
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InternationalWASHINGTON — Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., sometimes mentioned as a possible running mate for Donald Trump, shied away Sunday from making a vigorous case for Trump’s candidacy aside from sharply criticizing Hillary Clinton. As Trump prepares to make his pick as early as next week, Cotton passed on several chances to praise the billionaire candidate
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USALOS ANGELES, July 3, 2016 – I was cradling my one year old son in my arms last night while my wife and my older boy (he’s 5) watched one of those “How Is It Made” documentary episodes on Netflix in our apartment in South L.A. Our windows were hanging open to let the hot
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USALOS ANGELES, July 3, 2016 – The beauty of the American tale is that it is actually 300 million smaller stories rolled into the larger picture. For my family, independence literally separated life from death. My grandparents and my father escaped the Nazis. Everything they had was taken in the Holocaust. When they came to
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