LGBT supporters are fighting back against the Islamic State militant group (ISIS) on the Syrian battlefield after three years of persecution in which their community suffered stonings, executions from rooftops and a deadly shooting at an LGBT nightclub in Orlando, Florida. A group of international volunteers fighting with Kurdish forces against ISIS in northern Syria […]
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Middle East, USAMINNEAPOLIS — Joe Morino brought an incredulous friend to see the orange street sign he just spotted in the Cedar-Riverside neighborhood of Minneapolis. The official-looking metal sign read: “WARNING: TWIN CITIES POLICE EASILY STARTLED.” It featured a graphic silhouette of a police officer, a gun in each raised hand, shooting in both directions. “There’s a
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International, USAWASHINGTON — Attorney General Jeff Sessions faced increasing questions about his future on Monday, a day that began with a fresh public slap from his boss, President Donald Trump, and continued with new calls to testify about his conversations with the Russian ambassador last year. Sessions, the first senator to endorse Trump and a strong
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USAAn Israeli guard shot and killed two Jordanians late Sunday at an Israeli embassy compound in the Jordanian capital, Amman, after one of them lunged at him with a screwdriver, Israeli officials said Monday. The victims included a Jordanian carpenter and the owner of the building used by Israeli embassy staff who was hit by
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Middle EastThousands of protesters gathered at the Philippines House of Representatives as President Rodrigo Duterte delivered his second annual state of the nation address. In a two-hour speech Duterte promised an unrelenting war on drugs, defending a crackdown that has killed thousands of Filipinos. Duterte said critics were wrongly blaming police for most of the deaths
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InternationalWASHINGTON — “I did not collude” and “had no improper contacts” with Russia or any other foreign government, Jared Kushner, the president’s son-in-law and senior adviser, declared in a statement ahead of meetings with congressional investigators. Kushner’s representatives released the 11-page statement early Monday morning. He is scheduled to meet Monday with staff and members
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International, USAMIAMI — Attorneys for former Panamanian President Ricardo Martinelli, who is being detained in Miami on an extradition request to his homeland, filed an emergency petition with the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday that asserts his constitutional rights have been violated because his bid for bond was denied. Martinelli’s legal team argued that federal courts
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International, USASeventeen employees of a Turkish opposition newspaper went on trial today accused of aiding a terrorist organisation. The hearing coincides with an escalating dispute with Germany over the arrest in Turkey of 10 rights activists, including one German, as part of a crackdown since last year’s attempted coup against President Tayyip Erdogan. The case is
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InternationalA half-hour outside of Washington, DC, there’s a six-bedroom townhouse with a white portico. It was the house of Jane Kambalame, a diplomat in the United States from Malawi. Her job was to advocate for Malawian citizens. But there was one Malawian who didn’t get Kambalame’s help: Kambalame’s maid, Fainess Lipenga. For three years, Lipenga
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International, USASecretary of State Rex Tillerson is growing increasingly frustrated with the Trump administration and could quit before the year is through, according to reports. Two sources familiar with Tillerson’s conversations with friends told CNN over the weekend that he has grown so frustrated with President Donald Trump and the Trump administration that there may soon
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By Eva Trieger SAN DIEGO – A two-state solution to peace in the Middle East… Are there truly only two options: A truly Jewish democratic Israel or an occupying Israel? According to a self-described, “pro-Israeli” Jordanian Abe Haak, that is an erroneous assumption. Brought to San Diego by the StandWithUs organization, Haak said it
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Middle East, San Diego CountyBy Sam Ben-Meir DOBBS FERRY, New York — In its attack on the very foundations of science, Trumpism constitutes an epistemic disaster: we are facing a crisis in terms of knowledge and objective inquiry. Epistemology (or the theory of knowledge) is concerned with, among other things, what right we have to the beliefs we hold
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Sam Ben-Meir, The World We Share, USA
By Jerry Klinger HAIFA, Israel — She was an American ship, largely American crewed and American funded. Every American on board the Exodus 1947 knew, if they were captured, they faced years in a British prison and the loss of their American citizenship. Yet, they went. They had to do what they had to, even
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Jerry Klinger, Jewish History, Middle EastBy Mark D. Zimmerman MELVILLE, New York — Kermit the Frog is in the headlines, with the news that longtime Kermit puppeteer and voice Steve Whitmire was fired by Disney, curent owner of the Muppets. Whitmire became the voice of Kermit when creator Jim Henson died in 1990. While Kermit has only rarely been officially voiced
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