IRBIL, Iraq — A U.S. warplane shot down a Syrian jet on Sunday near the Islamic State-held city of Raqqah, officials said, marking the latest escalation between the U.S. and Syria since the blood-soaked civil war began six years ago. The Pentagon said the U.S.-led coalition took the unprecedented move after a Syrian Su-22 attack […]
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Middle East, USAFrench President Emmanuel Macron wrapped up his extraordinary string of electoral victories on Sunday as his fledgling new party picked up a large majority of seats in legislative polls marred by the lowest turnout on record. The takeover is complete. Just over a month after his stunning election to the Elysée Palace, France’s youngest-ever president
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InternationalBritish Brexit minister David Davis is in Brussels to open divorce talks with the EU with a message that there should be “no doubt — we are leaving the European Union”. Days after a suggestion from French President Emmanuel Macron that Britain could still choose to remain, Davis said there would be no backtracking from
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InternationalRep. Adam Schiff, the ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, said Sunday the investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 U.S. presidential election is just beginning while Sen. Angus King said he doesn’t understand why President Donald Trump and his attorney general appear uninterested in the issue. Trump’s focus has been to get investigators
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International, USABy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — Some might prefer “Maneuvering between the bullets” for the title of this column. Whether bullets or raindrops, the concern is for the efforts of Israeli officials and others to avoid the pitfalls that appear at numerous places on our political and social landscapes. Recent examples involve the problem of reducing
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle EastIncarcerated former PM set to come before parole board, as state seeks to investigate his handling of sensitive info By Times of Israel staff Former prime minister Ehud Olmert at the Jerusalem Magistrate’s Court on February 10, 2016. (Ohad Zwigenberg/POOL) Jailed former prime minister Ehud Olmert was attended his first parole board hearing Sunday, while
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Middle EastNetanyahu announces decision amid backlash from right-wing ministers over scheme to add 14,000 housing units to Qalqilya By Times of Israel staff A view of Qalqilya from the Israeli side of the security barrier (Yossi Zamir/Flash90) Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced Sunday that the cabinet would hold another debate on whether to allow the Palestinian
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Middle EastVice President Mike Pence will soon lead the U.S. if President Donald Trump fires Russia investigation special counsel Robert Mueller, a Bush administration ethics lawyer said Saturday. Trump’s legal team and surrogates are “building a case for firing Mueller,” wrote Richard Painter in a tweet after he appeared on Fox News Saturday. Painter was President
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USAA member of President Trump’s legal team on Sunday said that there’s “no investigation into the president of the United States. Period.” “Let me be clear: The president’s not under investigation,” Jay Sekulow said Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union.” “As [fired FBI director] James Comey said in his testimony that the president was
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USAAt least 25 people have been killed and 20 more injured in central Portugal in a forest fire that has yet to be controlled, according to the government. Jorge Gomes, Portugal’s secretary of state for the internal affairs, said on Sunday that 22 people burned to death in their cars when they found themselves trapped
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InternationalNaomi Eytan seeks injunction that’ll let her play with her team at the ‘Jewish Olympics’ in Israel this summer By Stuart Winer Cricketer Naomi Eytan in action (courtesy) A teenage girl campaigning to keep her place in Israel’s otherwise all-boys national cricket team so that she can play in the upcoming Maccabiah Games took her
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Middle East, Sports & CompetitionsVice President Mike Pence’s home state of Indiana is paying $100,000 for extra lawyers to tackle a large backlog of records requests targeting government emails Pence sent through his private AOL account as governor. Pence was governor of Indiana for four years before becoming Vice President of the United States in January. His successor Eric
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USAThe Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Fitzgerald, damaged by colliding with a Philippine-flagged merchant vessel, is seen at the US naval base in Yokosuka, Japan June 18, 2017.[Photo/Agencies] TOKYO — All seven bodies of US sailors missing after a collision between the US Navy’s guided-missile destroyer USS Fitzgerald and a Philippine container vessel have been
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International, USANews service admits it was inappropriate to ignore Israeli victim and focus on slain Palestinians who instigated the violence By Times of Israel staff Israeli security forces at the scene of a terror attack near Damascus Gate in Jerusalem on June 16, 2017 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90) The BBC on Sunday apologized for a headline it published
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