US billionaire George Soros launched a fresh broadside Friday at Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, accusing him of taking an anti-democratic turn and of creating a “mafia regime”. As a young leader of Hungary’s democratic movement before the fall of communism, Orban received a grant from the Hungarian-born Soros’s Open Society Foundation (OSF) to study […]
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InternationalFour men and one woman were Friday charged in France over a brutal attack on a Jewish family in a Paris suburb, judicial sources said. One man of 50, reportedly already known to police, three younger men and a 19-year-old woman allegedly took part in the September 8 assault at Livry-Gargan, northeast of Paris. The
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InternationalLauerHathaway As Matt Lauer’s fall from grace continues, footage resurfaced of comments he made to Anne Hathaway in 2012 — and it’s extremely brow raising. The actress dropped by “The TODAY Show” to promote her Oscar-winning role in “Les Miserables” when the news anchor lead her down a sketchy path. Watch the video RELATED: This
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Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USANorth Korea earlier this week launched a new intercontinental ballistic missile – the Hwasong-15 – that reached an altitude of about 4,500 kilometers and traveled about 1,000 kilometers. Pyongyang claims the missile could reach any target in the continental United States. What is this thing? On November 28, at 1:17 p.m. EST, the U.S. tracked
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International, USAPope Francis wrapped up a high-stakes Asia tour Saturday after meeting Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh in a highly symbolic gesture of solidarity with the Muslim minority fleeing violence in Myanmar. The Catholic leader visited a hospital in Dhaka run by the order of Mother Theresa on the final day of a visit to Bangladesh and
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InternationalBarack Obama Former President Barack Obama took shots at Fox News during a speech in India, joking that he wouldn’t have “voted for [himself]” if he watched the conservative-leaning news network. On Friday, Obama gave a speech in New Delhi, India, to the Hindustan Leadership Summit, during which he laid into the news network, saying
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International, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USABy Eric Cortellessa WASHINGTON — Former Prime Minister Ehud Barak insisted on Friday night that either moving the US embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem or recognizing the holy city as Israel’s capital would not be that big of a deal. “I don’t think that this is a consequential event,” he said at the Brookings
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Middle East, USAU.S. Senator Jeff Flake now says he will vote for the Republicans’ massive $1.5 trillion tax bill. And in return for his “yes” vote, he says he has obtained a commitment to pass legislation that would safeguard almost 800,000 undocumented young people who were brought to the U.S. as children. In a statement released Friday,
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USABy Jessica Steinberg When Jerry Seinfeld arrives in Israel at the end of December, he’ll be traveling with one of his oldest friends, comedian Mark Schiff. Schiff has been lucky enough to travel with Seinfeld for the last 15 years — on Seinfeld’s private jet, no less — opening for Seinfeld in arenas and theaters.
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Middle East, Trivia, Humor & SatireFlorida Senator Marco Rubio admits that the Republican tax cut plan to aid corporations and the wealthy will require cuts to Social Security and Medicare to pay for it. Rubio told reporters this week that in order to address the federal deficit, which will grow by at least $1 trillion if the tax plan passes,
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USAArab media is reporting that Egypt and Russia are on the verge of signing a military cooperation agreement that would allow each side to use the other’s air space and air bases for a period of five years. Russian media reported that Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev has endorsed the draft agreement crafted by the defense
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International, Middle EastBy TOI staff Israeli fighter jets launched air-to-surface missiles at a military base near the Syrian city of al-Qiswa, southwest of Damascus, according to a report in Sky News. The report claimed that the missiles were fired from within Lebanese airspace. Media outlets affiliated with the Assad regime and Lebanese terrorist group Hezbollah reported that
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Middle EastSen. Bob Corker of Tennessee on Friday announced he can’t support the Senate GOP’s $1.4 trillion-plus tax cut bill, citing concerns about looming federal deficits and the ballooning debt. “This is yet another tough vote. I am disappointed. I wanted to get to yes,” Mr. Corker said in a statement. “But at the end of
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USAFormer President Barack Obama and Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, met in New Delhi Friday to discuss promoting peace in the world, according to the Dalai Lama’s office. Obama, who is on a three nation tour, also met Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in India, where he arrived after visiting China. “It was very
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