Thousands of people rallied in Melbourne Saturday in support of 600 men refusing to leave an Australian-run migrant camp in Papua New Guinea (PNG) that closed this week. The center on Manus Island was ruled “unconstitutional” by a court in PNG last year. Australia is steadfastly refusing to accept the refugees, while New Zealand has […]
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InternationalThe State Department is facing questions from the Senate Foreign Relations Committee’s ranking Democrat over Paul Manafort’s possession of multiple U.S. passports. Sen. Ben Cardin of Maryland sent a letter Friday to John Sullivan, the deputy secretary of State, seeking information about the three passports belonging to Mr. Manafort, President Trump’s former campaign chairman, referenced
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USATEHRAN, Iran — Iran on Saturday held the heavily choreographed pageant of anti-Americanism that marks the anniversary of the 1979 takeover of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran amid worsening relations with the Trump administration and uncertainty about the fate of its nuclear agreement with world powers. This year’s anniversary was commemorated under cloudy, polluted skies
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Middle East, USAPresident Trump’s personal Twitter account was briefly suspended this week by a rogue contractor and not a company employee as previously claimed, according to a new report. Sources familiar with the matter said that a third-party contractor temporarily deleted the president’s Twitter account this week, The New York Times reported Friday, calling into the question
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USAThe recent flurry of social and economic reform coming out of Saudi Arabia has left some Saudis ecstatic, others more circumspect, and a few conservatives bewildered or even angry. Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman told a crowd of investors at a conference in late October that he was merely attempting to “return Saudi Arabia
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Middle EastLebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri announced his resignation on Saturday, citing Iran’s “grip” on the country and threats to his life. The surprise move risks plunging the small and already fragile Middle Eastern country deeper into turmoil. “I announce my resignation from the post of prime minister,” Hariri said in a speech broadcast from Saudi
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Middle EastA few words about President Donald Trump from Sen. Dianne Feinstein over the summer personified her well-worn reputation as a measured veteran elected official. And they’ll also surely be the centerpieces of Democratic campaigns attempting to unseat her. It was a boilerplate political event at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco on Aug. 29. Feinstein,
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USAU.S. President Donald Trump was en route to Japan on Saturday after a stopover in Hawaii, where he paid a solemn visit to the USS Arizona Memorial at Pearl Harbor, the site of the surprise Japanese naval attack in 1941 that plunged the U.S. into World War II. Before departing for Japan, his first stop
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International, USAGeorge W. Bush, George H.W. Bush The White House is pushing back after newly released excerpts from a book on former presidents George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush revealed that they both criticized President Donald Trump. “The Last Republicans” by Mark K. Updegrove, which will be released later this month, was previewed by The
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USATens of thousands of people attended a memorial rally for slain Israeli premier Yitzhak Rabin Saturday, with organisers banning political speeches and stressing a message of unity across political divides. “We want to hold the rally this year under a banner that unites rather than divides us,” said Darkenu, one of the organisers — a
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Middle EastIsraeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu delayed the vote on a proposal canceling the expulsion from northern Samaria communities destroyed as part of the 2005 “Disengagement” from Gaza. The Knesset’s Ministerial Committee for Legislation was scheduled to vote on the law on Sunday. If approved, the new law would allow Jews freedom of movement in the
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Middle EastA Spanish synagogue is unveiling Europe’s first feminist Torah scroll on Saturday, a move many Jews say signals major progress towards making Judaism more egalitarian. According to Orthodox Jewish law, only men are allowed to write a Torah scroll. And in many traditions women are forbidden from even reading the sacred texts. But Jewish women
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International, Jewish ReligionBy Jenni Frazer GLASGOW — Bishop John Keenan is half of the religious authority for a unique education project in Scotland. There, two primary schools, one Catholic and one Jewish, share a purpose-built campus. “I think,” jokes Bishop Keenan, “that the relationships here have gone beyond interfaith dialog. As far as I can see, the
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InternationalBy Dorothea Shefer Vanson MEVASERET ZION, Israel — The latest event on the world stage, the not-very-stellar re-election of Angela Merkel and rise of the AfD party in Germany, seems to fit into the pattern that has characterized elections all over the world in recent years, with the rise of right-wing parties. Some people think
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