Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah admitted on Monday that the terrorist group had transferred advanced weapons to Gaza, reports Haaretz. The head of the Lebanese group claimed that Hezbollah”s arsenal of weapons was a force of “security and stability” in Lebanon in the face of these threats. He added that Hezbollah “transferred arms, including Kornet missiles, […]
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Middle EastA top official in France’s Socialist Party is facing a legal inquiry after tweeted an image with anti-Semitic overtones against President Emmanuel Macron, sources close to the inquiry said Monday. Gerard Filoche, a member of the Socialists’ national bureau, also risks exclusion from the party over the Twitter post last Friday night. It showed Macron
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InternationalSaudi Foreign Minister Adel Al-Jubeir denied on Monday that his country is getting closer to Israel. His comments came in an interview with the Egyptian CBC television network and were translated by Yediot Aharonot. “There are no relations between Saudi Arabia and Israel. There is the Arab peace initiative that constitutes the road map to
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Middle EastChancellor Angela Merkel was left battling for political survival Monday after high-stakes talks to form a new government collapsed — plunging Germany into a crisis that could see it hold fresh elections. Europe’s biggest economy now faces weeks, if not months of paralysis with a lame-duck government that is unlikely to take bold policy action.
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InternationalSen. Al Franken showed no sign of giving up his Senate seat Monday, even as calls on the left for him to resign intensified following a second allegation of sexual harassment. Leading progressive groups Indivisible and CREDO Action joined Justice Democrats and UltraViolet in urging the Minnesota Democrat to resign after another woman, Lindsay Menz,
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USAHezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah has rejected claims made by Arab foreign ministers that the Lebanese group is arming rebels in Yemen. In a televised speech on Monday from Beirut, Nasrallah, whose Shia group is represented in the Lebanese parliament and has a strong military wing, called the claims made at the previous day’s Arab League
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Middle EastMINNEAPOLIS — CNN on Monday reported that a second woman is accusing Minnesota Sen. Al Franken of unwanted sexual touching, with this alleged encounter occurring after he was elected. The national news network says it was contacted by 33-year-old Lindsay Menz, of Texas, and she is accusing Franken of grabbing her buttocks while posing together
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USABy Shoshanna Solomon The University of Juba, in South Sudan, has joined IsraAID, an Israel-based humanitarian non-governmental organization, and other partners to set up a first center for the studies of science and technology in the East-Central African state. The Center for Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) will train South Sudanese youth to become
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International, Middle EastSouth Korea and Japan have welcomed a move by the United States to redesignate North Korea a state sponsor of terrorism in order to put additional financial and diplomatic pressure on the totalitarian government. South Korea’s foreign ministry said Tuesday it sees the decision “as part of the international community’s joint efforts to take North
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International, USAQueen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip celebrate 70 years of marriage on Monday, becoming Britain’s first reigning couple to mark a platinum wedding anniversary. The decades-spanning marriage of the Queen — the nation’s longest serving sovereign — has outlasted those of all prior British monarchs. The royal couple will not hold any public events but
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InternationalEight women came forward with claims of sexual harassment against CBS This Morning co-host Charlie Rose, according to a report released on Monday by The Washington Post. The women—Reah Bravo, Kyle Godfrey-Ryan, Megan Creydt—and five others who only agreed to speak with The Washington Post on conditions of anonymity, recalled the 75-year-old making unwanted sexual
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Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USAVeteran broadcaster Charlie Rose was suspended by CBS News on Monday following a Washington Post report that he sexually harassed eight women who worked on his PBS talk show . Rose, 75, acknowledges and apologizes for the behavior recounted in the Post investigation, which details unwanted sexual advances towards the women, appearing nude in their
Transportation and Intelligence Minister Yisrael Katz (Likud) responded on Monday to the Trump administration”s proposed peace plan, as reported on the weekend by Hahadashot (formerly Channel 2 News). Katz spoke at a conference hosted by Arutz Sheva and the Orthodox Jewish Chamber of Commerce held at the King David Hotel in Jerusalem. “Less than a
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Middle East, USAPainter and Holocaust survivor Samuel Bak on Monday opened a museum of his allegorical work inspired by Jewish history in the Lithuanian capital Vilnius, more than half a century after he held his first exhibition as a nine-year-old inside its wartime ghetto. As a boy he was sent to live in the ghetto after the
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