This proud mamma lion may have been destined to bring her newborn cub into a war zone – but now, after traveling for over 375 miles, she and her child are safe. Dana is one of five lions who were rescued from a zoo in Aleppo earlier this week. For the last several years, the
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Middle East, The World We ShareHouse Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi said Monday that the race-based clashes in Virginia this weekend should lead to White House chief strategist Steve Bannon’s firing, blaming the former media executive for what she said was President Trump’s weak initial response. Mr. Trump delivered a forceful denunciation of racists on Monday, but his critics continued to
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USABy Natasha Josefowitz, Ph.D. LA JOLLA, California –Columbia University recently sent out a letter asking their alumni to write about the impact of the classes at Columbia on their lives after graduation. I wrote the following as a response to their request and thought it might also be interesting as a column: At my graduation
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International, Science, Medicine, & Education, USASydney (dpa) – New Zealand has confirmed that Australian Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce is also a New Zealand citizen, media reports said Monday, as the top level of Australia’s government was struck by a dual citizenship furore. Joyce said earlier Monday that he might hold New Zealand citizenship and that he had asked Australia’s
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InternationalBillionaire is prime suspect in scheme involving use of fake documents in real estate deals abroad, police say; four others also raided, including former top banking official By Stuart Winer Israeli businessman Beny Steinmetz on May 17, 2007. (Moshe Shai/FLASH90) The Police National Fraud Unit on Monday detained Israeli diamond mogul Beny Steinmetz and four
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International, Middle EastSuspected Islamic extremists opened fire at a Turkish restaurant in the capital of Burkina Faso late Sunday, killing at least 18 people in the second such attack on a restaurant popular with foreigners in the last two years. The assault by security forces ended at around 5:00am GMT and the district is secure, Communications Minister
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InternationalWASHINGTON — Cast once again in the role of interpreter of President Trump’s comments, Vice President Mike Pence is touring Latin America and attempting to dispel his boss’ threat of military action against Venezuela. Trump on Friday said he would not “rule out” a “military option” to confront the crisis in Venezuela, where the increasingly
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International, USAAeronautics Defense Systems denies it illegally used its suicide drone against Armenian forces during demonstration in Baku; Defense Ministry says it is investigating By Judah Ari Gross An ORBITER 3 small tactical UAS (Unmanned Aerial System) model on display at the UVID 2014 Conference, at Airport city, Israel on September 17, 2014. (Illustrative photo: Miriam
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International, Middle EastOn the frontline of the North Korea crisis, residents of Guam staged a peace rally on Monday. Tensions between Pyongyang and Washington surged last week after the North said it was finalising plans to launch four intermediate range missiles toward waters off the US Pacific territory. “This is a friendly gathering,” said one man taking
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International, USAThe white supremacist forces arrayed in Charlottesville, Virginia, over the weekend — the largest gathering of its sort in at least a generation — represented a new incarnation of the white supremacy movement. Old-guard groups like the Ku Klux Klan, the Aryan Nations and the Nazi skinheads, which had long stood at the center of
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USAWASHINGTON — The chief executive of pharmaceutical giant Merck & Co. publicly resigned from a White House manufacturing council on Monday, declaring he felt “a responsibility to take a stand against intolerance and extremism.” The move by Kenneth Frazier, one of corporate America’s leading African American executives, came after President Donald Trump was criticized for
By Mark D. Zimmerman MELVILLE, New York — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is under multiple investigations that may lead to criminal charges. Echoing Donald Trump, Netanyahu has called the charges “fake news” and the investigations “a witch hunt.” What else has Netanyahu said in the past that seems to echo Donald Trump? A. “Will we
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Mark D. Zimmerman, Middle East, Trivia, Humor & Satire, USAMembers of the Jewish community in Monsey, New York are up in arms over the alleged mistreatment of a three-year-old haredi child who was reportedly thrown into the back of a police squad car after being left outside of his home. The incident occurred last Friday afternoon when the three-and-a-half-year-old boy returned home from summer
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USAIsrael’s security cabinet toured the South Hebron Hills last week alongside Prime Minister Netanyahu, raising fears that plans are underway to finish the separation fence in southern Judea. The right-wing Jewish Home is opposing the move, fearing the the fence would isolate the Eztion Bloc and turn it over to Palestinian rule. “It’s absolutely clear
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