Updated | Otto Warmbier, an American college student who was detained in North Korea for more than a year before returning home earlier this month, died Monday. The University of Cincinnati Medical Center, which was treating the 22-year-old for brain damage, confirmed his death to WCPO. His family gave a statement to ABC News. “It […]
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International, USABy Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Donald Trump’s straight talk about veneration of violence in Palestinian society has had important consequences. It was the catalyst for Norway and Denmark to disassociate from the Palestinian Authority (P.A.) habit of naming public spaces for terrorists. UNRWA, the Red Crescent (UAE), and the U.N. secretary general have
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International, Middle East, Shoshana Bryen, USANew Delhi (dpa) – India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party on Monday named state governor and Dalit leader Ram Nath Kovind as its nominee for the presidential polls, a move seen as part of the party’s outreach towards the country’s downtrodden castes. Kovind, 71, currently governor of the eastern state of Bihar, is a long-time BJP
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InternationalIsrael is secretly supporting Syrian rebels operating near its occupied Golan Heights territory, providing money, food, fuel and medical supplies, according to fighters who claim to receive the aid. Israel has previously treated wounded Syrian rebels in its hospitals but interviews with rebels conducted by the Wall Street Journal suggest that Israel is directly supporting
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Middle EastPrince William recently broke protocol when he hugged a victim of last week’s deadly West London fire. As of late, there are 58 recorded deaths following the incident that happened on Wednesday, June 14. According to People, there is a royal protocol wherein ordinary people may only touch the prince through a handshake. Prince William
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InternationalBill Gates, the richest person in the world, may soon lose the top spot in the list of billionaires. Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon.com is merely $5 billion away from becoming the richest person. After Amazon announced it was buying Whole Foods, the surge in Amazon stock added $1.8 billion to his net worth,
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International, USAPolice “downed” a suspected attacker in Paris on Monday after the assailant crashed a vehicle into a police van on the Champs-Élysées, the French capital’s famous shopping avenue. French officials, speaking to the Associated Press on condition of anonymity, said the incident was a suspected attack on police. They said the suspect, wearing a white
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InternationalRussia has shut down a vital communication line with its U.S. counterparts in Syria, threatening to target any aircraft operating above Russian and Syrian regime-controlled territory in the country. Moscow outlined the changes in Syria war policy via a terse statement by officials from the Russian Ministry of Defense released Monday, local news reports state.
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International, USAA man has been charged with murder in Virginia after a 17-year-old girl was killed as she left late-night Ramadan prayers at a mosque on Sunday. Nabra Hassanen of Reston, Fairfax County, Virginia, was reported missing around 4 A.M. local time on Sunday, the Washington Post reported. Darwin Martinez Torres, 22, has been arrested and
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USAFrance’s far-right leader Marine Le Pen won a seat in parliament for the first time on Sunday, but it was a bittersweet victory that masked an underwhelming election cycle for her National Front (FN) party. The feisty 48-year-old, who lost by a 20-point margin to Emmanuel Macron in May’s presidential run-off, won handily in her
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InternationalBy Mark D. Zimmerman MELVILLE, New York — It was just announced that grocery store chain Whole Foods is being acquired by Amazon for $13.4 billion. Whole Foods once found themselves in the middle of which of the following Jewish-related controversies? A. In 2015, charges were leveled against the Whole Foods store at Columbus Circle in New York
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Trivia, Humor & Satire, USAA vehicle collided with pedestrians in a largely Muslim area of London early Monday local time, causing “a number of casualties,” police said. The incident occurred on Seven Sisters Road in the Finsbury Park section of north London. Police closed the street and the transportation authority issued a traffic advisory. Two hours after London’s Metropolitan
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InternationalPrime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu took part on Sunday in the “Sheva Brachot” celebration following the wedding of Health Minister Yaakov Litzman”s (United Torah Judaism) grandson, which was held at the minister”s home in Jerusalem. The “Sheva Brachot” [“seven blessings”] celebration marks the first seven days of a newly-wed couple”s marriage, and is traditionally accompanied by
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Middle EastBarack Obama has taken to Twitter to share a heartfelt Father’s Day message to his two daughters. The Democrat former president wrote on social media on Sunday: “Of all that I’ve done in my life, I’m most proud to be Sasha and Malia’s dad. To all those lucky enough to be a dad, Happy Father’s
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