Iran has vowed to press ahead with its missile programme, denouncing new US sanctions as “an effort to weaken the nuclear deal”. Bahram Ghasemi, Iran’s foreign ministry spokesman, said on Saturday Tehran considers the US move as “hostile, reprehensible and unacceptable”. “It’s ultimately an effort to weaken the nuclear deal,” he said, referring to the […]
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International, USAWashington (dpa) – North Korea has launched its second intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), the US, South Korea and Japan said Friday, with experts warning that US cities are now within Pyongyang’s range. The missile was launched at 11.41pm (1541 GMT) from Mupyong-ni, near the Chinese border, and travelled 1,000 kilometres before landing in the Sea
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International, USAWorld-renowned pianist Evgeny Kissin holds three passports, but the one that defines him has a menorah on it By Jenni Frazer LONDON — Classical pianist Evgeny Kissin says he wrote his book, “Memoirs and Reflections” because over the course of many interviews he has constantly been asked the same questions. Ironically, now everyone wants to
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International, Middle East, Music, Dance, and Visual ArtsPledging to support police officers on the front lines of the battle against violent criminal gangs, President Trump hoped to show Friday that he was in lockstep with law enforcement. But some law enforcement groups have sought to distance themselves from comments the president made during the speech in which he told police they shouldn’t
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USAA week after Anthony Scaramucci joined the White House as communications director, his wife, Deidre Ball, has reportedly filed for divorce. Scaramucci’s friends claimed Ball was not happy with him for joining the White House and his “naked political ambitions,” reports said. A source told Page Six that Scaramucci’s wife loved her Wall Street life
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USAA group called Indivisible Kentucky is garnering attention for the billboard they put up in Louisville. The billboard sent a loud and clear message to Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY): “You make us sick. #DitchMitch2020.” RELATED: Texas man buys a billboard to deliver a Texas-sized message about Donald Trump and the media Watch the video According
By David Anderson The Moderate Voice NEW YORK — I live in a 20 story apartment building in Chelsea, Manhattan. I was a little concerned yesterday when the building manager whom I ran into in the elevator whispered: “We need to chat in private.” I’ve had problems with one particular neighbor – so I assumed
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Travel and Food, USAWASHINGTON — President Donald Trump ousted his beleaguered chief of staff, Reince Priebus, naming Homeland Security Secretary John F. Kelly to replace him Friday in the latest White House shake-up as the administration struggles to emerge from bitter staff infighting and a stalled legislative agenda. Trump announced the abrupt reshuffle in three posts on Twitter
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USARussia has announced a tit-for-tat response to former President Barack Obama’s last batch of sanctions, requesting that a handful of U.S. diplomats leave Russia and closing two embassy compounds. Moscow lashed out at congressional fortification of the sanctions this week, dubbing it an example of “extreme aggressiveness of the United States.” The move is a
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International, USAKen Starr, the man who became a household name in America as the special prosecutor who carried out the investigation of President Clinton, recently wrote a blistering editorial in the Washington Post, blasting President Trump for treating his attorney general, Jeff Sessions, like a “piñata.” The op-ed piece titled, “Mr. President, please cut it out,”
Updated | President Donald Trump’s nomination for religious freedom ambassador has demonstrated anti-Islamic sentiments in the past and should be “disqualified” from holding the post, according to the biggest Muslim civil liberties group in the United States. The White House announced Thursday that Trump had nominated Sam Brownback, the Republican governor of Kansas, as his
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International, USAA North Korean missile has reportedly landed off the coast of Japan at a time of already heightened tensions in the region. North Korea launched Friday a yet unknown type of missile that may have landed in Japan’s Exclusive Economic Zone, a stretch of international waters where Tokyo enjoys special rights for industry, Reuters reported,
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InternationalAbuja (dpa) – The bodies of 48 people have been brought to a hospital in north-eastern Nigeria, following a recent firefight and kidnapping attempt involving Boko Haram militants, local media reported Thursday. Hospital and army officials told the local Punch newspaper that the corpses of 18 soldiers and 30 others had been brought to a
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InternationalMedia caricatures celebrate Palestinian victory and Israel’s perceived humiliation after new security measures removed from holy site By Times of Israel staff Cartoon published in Saudi Arabia’s Al Watan newspaper, July 28, 2017. (Screenshot) Arab-language media around the world celebrated the removal of security measures at the Temple Mount, and the return of Muslims to
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