Lebanon’s prime minister on Saturday criticised a visit by an Iraqi Shiite militia leader to Lebanon’s ceasefire line with Israel, saying it violated local law. The trip by Qais al-Khazali, the founder and leader of the Asaib Ahl al-Haq militia, was organised by Lebanon’s Hezbollah, a powerful armed movement that has fought against Israel. A […]
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Middle EastA new Dustin Hoffman accuser just came forward with her own story of sexual harassment and abuse by the actor. Broadway star Kathryn Rossetter revealed several details about the incident during a recent interview with The Hollywood Reporter. Rossetter claimed that Hoffman groped and sexually harassed her during the production of “Death of a Salesman.”
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Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USAThe office of New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo defended its hiring practices after facing scrutiny from the FBI on Friday. Cuomo’s office dismissed an investigation that the governor’s practice of hiring individuals to work in his office but paying them via state agencies and public authorities, the Albany Times Union reported on Friday. The FBI
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USAQueen Elizabeth’s representative in Australia has officially signed same sex marriage into law following a landmark vote in the federal parliament. The first weddings can take place in a month’s time (Jan 9). The passing of the historic same sex marriage bill Thursday prompted songs and celebrations in the Australian parliament. The new law brings
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InternationalUnrelenting winds fanned towering flames Friday in southern California, where hundreds of thousands of people have been forced to flee multiple devastating fires in the Los Angeles area and new outbreaks near San Diego. Hundreds of structures including multi-million dollar mansions have been destroyed as thousands of firefighters battle wind-fueled wildfires on six different fronts.
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USAEgyptian archaeologists have discovered a mummy in one of two previously unexplored tombs across the Nile from the southern city of Luxor, the antiquities ministry said Saturday. The tombs were found in the 1990s by German archaeologist Frederica Kampp, though she had only reached the entrance gate “but never entered”, the ministry said. It said
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Middle EastCalifornia Assemblyman Matt Dababneh, a Democrat, announced his resignation Friday, just days after three women accused him of sexual misconduct, including a lobbyist, who accused him of following her into a restroom of a hotel and allegedly masturbating in front of her. The Democrat from Encino (Los Angeles County) is the second California state lawmaker
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USATurkey’s leader is seeking to spearhead Islamic reaction to the US declaration on Jerusalem, but it is uncertain if he can coordinate a meaningful response among often disunited Muslim nations. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who regards himself as a champion of the Palestinian cause, had fulminated against President Donald Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s
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International, Middle East, USAKatie Couric has finally broken her silence on Matt Lauer’s sexual misconduct scandal. On Friday, the “CBS Evening News” host posted a photo of herself with her daughter, Carrie Couric, from several years ago. One of Couric’s followers threw shade at the host for not saying anything about Lauer’s recent firing and sexual abuse allegations
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Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USACzech President Milos Zeman on Saturday accused EU states of being “cowards” in their response to his US counterpart Donald Trump recognising Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. “The European Union, cowards, are doing all they can so a pro-Palestinian terrorist movement can have supremacy over a pro-Israeli movement,” said Zeman, presenting himself as a defender of
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International, Middle East, USAThe hand-wringers at the United Nations, the European Union, the Catholic Church and within the political ranks of progressive, globalist, Islamic apologist minds worldwide are predicting nothing but gloom and doom, violence and mayhem, death and quite possibly destruction, from President Donald Trump’s announced intent to move the U.S. Embassy to Israel from Tel Aviv,
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Middle East, USABy Avi Issacharoff Although Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh has enthusiastically described the Palestinians’ violent protests against US President Donald Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital as a “blessed intifada,” what has actually been taking place on the ground in the territories is nothing like the outbreak of the first intifada 30 years ago. It
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Middle EastBy TOI staff and Alexander Fulbright Thousands of people gathered in Tel Aviv on Saturday night for an anti-corruption demonstration aimed at Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who is being investigated in a pair of graft probes, and amid government efforts to push through the so-called police recommendations bill. Netanyahu’s close political ally and chairman of
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Middle EastPresident Trump blasted CNN Saturday for an erroneous report about his son Donald Trump Jr., saying the network made a “vicious and purposeful mistake.” “They were caught red handed, just like lonely Brian Ross at ABC News (who should be immediately fired for his “mistake”),” the president tweeted. “Watch to see if @CNN fires those
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