Poland’s rightwing premier said Sunday that her country would not be “blackmailed” by its “largest” EU partners into accepting thousands of asylum seekers under a quota system for spreading them throughout the bloc. “We cannot be blackmailed by the threat that part of our EU funds will be cut off as punishment, because we don’t
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International, Middle EastPresident Trump said Sunday on Twitter that North Korea has “become a great threat and embarrassment to China,” after the secretive totalitarian nation announced it had detonated a hydrogen bomb and declared the test “a perfect success.” It was the sixth underground bomb tested since 2006, said North Korea’s state-run TV, and it was the
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USABy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — Victoria and The Crown (about Elizabeth II) are television dramas that portray the experiences of two young women who find themselves with the imperfectly defined power of the Monarch in a serious country having enough weight to affect the world. Both dramas appear reasonably true to prominent details of history,
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International, Ira Sharkansky, USATwo Jewish centenarians in Britain celebrated their 83rd wedding anniversary, becoming what is thought to be the country”s longest married couple. Helen and Maurice Kaye, aged 104 and 105, celebrated their anniversary last week surrounded by their family at home in Bournemouth, the Jewish Chronicle of London reported Thursday, noting the longevity milestone. The couple
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InternationalThe Palestinian Authority appoiiinted governor of the Hevron District, Kamal Hamid, disapproves of the Israeli government’s decision to grant the Hevron Jewish community authority to administer their own municipal affairs. Last Thursday, Central Command Chief Roni Numa signed an order regulating the municipal status of the Hevron Jewish community, the main result of which grants
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Middle EastPresident Donald Trump handed out box lunches and hugged children in a Houston emergency shelter on Saturday, as he witnessed the devastation wrought after Hurricane Harvey unleashed apocalyptic floods on America’s fourth-largest city. The sprawling Texas city was taking tentative steps back to normalcy after a week of flooding that damaged 40,000 to 50,000 homes
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USAFizzing with boyish exuberance, Saudi programmer Zainalabdin Tawfiq could be mistaken for a college freshman, but the popularity of his “honesty” app has shone a spotlight on the conservative kingdom’s nascent tech scene. Tawfiq catapulted to fame when he took time out of his day job as a business analyst last year to develop an
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Middle EastFacing a rising threat of terrorist attacks sponsored by Islamic State, Iran’s government is trying to improve relations with the country’s ethnic and religious minorities that have become a target for recruiting by the militant group. Those populations, concentrated in far-flung provinces, have long been alienated politically and economically from the rest of the country.
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Middle EastA forest fire broke out late Saturday in southeastern France, tearing through hundreds of hectares near urban areas and destroying one home, the fire department and local authorities said. “The fire is very violent, very virulent,” a local official in Var, Emmanuel Cayron, told AFP from the crisis center which has been activated. By the
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InternationalThe White House announced President Donald Trump’s preferred pick to head NASA on Friday night, but the choice is already proving unpopular, with Florida senators criticizing Trump’s choice. The man nominated is Oklahoma congressman Jim Bridenstine, who would become the 13th administrator of the national space agency upon Senate approval. The role’s responsibilities include serving
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USAMEXICO CITY — Making his final state of the union address before national elections next year, Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto on Saturday received a thunderous standing ovation when he vowed that Mexico would not compromise its national “dignity” in the country’s rocky relations with the Trump administration. “I have said it and I will
President Donald Trump, or whoever wrote his speech for him on Afghanistan-Pakistan policy, is right: Pakistan must step up to the plate and do more to eradicate safe havens for extremists on its soil. While it is essential that extremism is defeated at its ideological root, we cannot deny that politics—and foreign policy in particular—can
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USALOS ANGELES—Residents in Burbank at the foot of the Verdugo Mountains were ordered to evacuate late Friday as firefighters struggled to contain a raging wildfire that grew to 2,000 acres. Those living in the Brace Canyon Park area were ordered to “leave immediately” and head to an evacuation shelter in Sunland, according to an alert
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USAWASHINGTON – President Trump on Friday nominated Rep. Tom Marino (R-Pa.) to lead the Office of National Drug Control Policy as the nation’s “drug czar,” months after he had officially withdrawn from consideration. Marino, an attorney who has served in the House of Representatives since 2011, has a lengthy track record of supporting enforcement-side drug
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