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Jewish Groups Denounce Israel For Deporting Africans

Jewish human rights groups are denouncing Israel’s plans to deport almost 40,000 African asylum seekers, defending refugees that Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu calls ” infiltrators.” On Sunday, Netanyahu’s 28-member executive cabinet voted unanimously to give African asylum seekers three months to leave the country or face deportation to an undisclosed country. If they refuse to […]

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This $10 flea market photo may feature one of history’s most notorious outlaws — and the man who killed him

Time Travelers – come travel back in time/Facebook When lawyer Frank Abrams paid $10 for an old photo at a flea market in North Carolina, he had no idea that what he had just purchased was probably the only known photograph of one of the Wild West’s most notorious outlaws, Henry McCarty, best known as

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Iran military chief: Any new Mideast war will end with Israel ‘eradicated’

By TOI staff The commander of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards on Thursday threatened that any future war in the region will result in the annihilation of Israel. “It is a proven claim that today we say any new war will lead to the eradication of the Zionist regime,” Ali Jafari told Iranian reporters in Tehran according

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Nobel literature academy ensnarled in #MeToo sex scandal wave

The Swedish Academy, which awards the Nobel Literature Prize, has been rattled by a sex scandal as a high-profile man with close ties to the institution has been accused of assault against several women. The #MeToo campaign exposing sexual misconduct which began in Hollywood has shaken artistic, media and political circles in Sweden, one of

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Ultra-Orthodox minister resigns over Shabbat train coalition crisis

By TOI staff Health Minister Yaakov Litzman on Friday informed Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that he is stepping down after the government signed a deal for ongoing infrastructure work on rail lines to continue this Shabbat. The government is now trying to reach a deal whereby Litzman, who leads the Hasidic faction within the ultra-Orthodox

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Ivanka Trump Defends Malia Obama’s Privacy, Calls Her ‘Off Limits’

Ivanka Trump came to the defense of former first daughter Malia Obama Friday on Twitter after multiple reports appeared in the news detailing the eldest Obama daughter’s life in college. “Malia Obama should be allowed the same privacy as her school aged peers,” Trump wrote. “She is a young adult and private citizen, and should

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USA

As he investigates Trump’s aides, special counsel’s record shows surprising flaws

WASHINGTON — When he was named special counsel in May, Robert S. Mueller III was hailed as the ideal lawman — deeply experienced, strait-laced and nonpartisan — to investigate whether President Donald Trump’s campaign had helped with Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election. The accolades squared with Mueller’s valor as a Marine rifle platoon

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Sen. Al Franken vows to regain Minnesota’s trust after harassment allegations

WASHINGTON — Sen. Al Franken plans to stay in the U.S. Senate and try to win back Minnesotans’ trust. The Minnesota Democrat, who has been accused by four women — two of them anonymously — of inappropriate contact, issued a Thanksgiving afternoon apology and pledge. He wrote that he “feels terribly that I’ve made some

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More than 200 killed as Egypt militants attack mosque in Sinai

At least 235 people were killed and scores more injured when gunmen stormed a mosque in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula, setting off explosives and firing on worshippers during Friday prayers, authorities said. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the assault in the town of Bir Abd, about 25 miles from the North Sinai provincial

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Trump, Flynn Coordination A ‘Scandal,’ Expert Says

The information-sharing deal between President Donald Trump’s legal team and that of former national security adviser Mike Flynn has been a “scandal,” as well “ethically dubious” and could be construed as form of “witness tampering,” according to a top legal expert. University of New Hampshire professor and attorney Seth Abramson shared his opinions in a

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Saudi crown prince calls Iran’s supreme leader ‘new Hitler’

Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has denounced Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei as the “new Hitler of the Middle East”, as tensions simmer between the regional rivals. Saudi Arabia and its arch-rival Iran have traded a bitter war of words after a missile fired from Yemen was intercepted near Riyadh airport on November

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