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French ex-culture minister confirmed as new UNESCO head

UNESCO member states on Friday overwhelmingly approved the nomination of France’s former culture minister Audrey Azoulay to head the embattled cultural agency. They confirmed the nomination by the agency’s board last month of Azoulay, 45, who becomes UNESCO’s second woman director general. “The unity you have shown in this vote is a good omen for […]

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MASA expects to send 13,000 to Israel this school year

NEW YORK (Press Release) – Masa Israel Journey, the global leader in long-term international career development and leadership experiences in Israel for young adults from around the world, has hit record numbers for participation in school year 2017-18. Some 13,000 young people between the ages of 18 and 30 are anticipated to participate in Masa

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Federal judge rules FBI exhausted search for Hillary Clinton’s emails

A federal judge tossed a lawsuit Thursday that would have pushed the State Department and FBI to do more to try to track down Hillary Clinton’s emails, ruling the government has done all it reasonably could to locate the former secretary of state’s messages. Two watchdog groups, Judicial Watch and Cause of Action, had sued

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US sanctions 10 more Venezuelan government leaders

MIAMI — Denouncing last month’s regional Venezuelan elections as irregular, the Trump administration imposed new individual sanctions Thursday against 10 Venezuelans it accused of undermining democracy, censoring the news media and engaging in the corrupt administration of government-run food programs. The Treasury Department froze U.S. assets, banned U.S. travel and prohibited Americans from doing business

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Chinese ‘love’ Trump’s Mandarin-speaking granddaughter

While media coverage of Donald Trump’s meeting with Chinese leader Xi Jinping Thursday focused on trade and North Korea, it was the wide-eyed crooning of the US leader’s granddaughter that stole Chinese netizens’ hearts. In a video that Trump showed Xi during their stroll through the historic Forbidden City Wednesday, his granddaughter, Arabella Kushner, greets

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Alleged Rand Paul attacker pleads innocent; lawyer suggests it was a property dispute

BOWLING GREEN, Ky. — The neighbor charged with attacking U.S. Sen. Rand Paul and breaking several of his ribs pleaded not guilty during a short court hearing Thursday morning. Rene Boucher, a retired anesthesiologist, remained free on bond after his arraignment in Warren District Court. He is charged with fourth-degree assault, a Class A misdemeanor

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Guy Makes Hilarious Commercial to Sell His Girlfriend’s Used Car–and Bidding Soars

Max Lanman knew that a description on Craigslist would not do his girlfriend’s 1996 Honda Accord justice. So instead of making a boring ol’ internet ad, he filmed his own car commercial for the automobile – and it is hilarious. The cheeky minute-long video is shot in almost the exact same style as typical modern

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GOP tells Roy Moore to step down if allegations of teen sex are true

Top Republicans in Washington said their candidate in Alabama’s Senate race, former state Chief Justice Roy Moore, must drop out of the election if allegations that he enticed an underage girl into a sexual encounter decades ago are true. The Washington Post reported that a woman says Mr. Moore initiated the encounter when she was

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Federal judge in Baltimore considers whether to freeze Trump ban on transgenders in the military

BALTIMORE — Attorneys with the American Civil Liberties Union urged a federal judge in Baltimore on Thursday to freeze President Donald Trump’s impending ban on transgender Americans serving in the military. The attorneys sought an injunction in U.S. District Court, arguing that the judge should stop the rollout until the ACLU can present its argument

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North Korea’s Alliance With Syria Reveals A Wider Proliferation Threat

The longstanding cooperation between the two regimes seems to have intensified during Syria’s war, with troubling implications for future missile, chemical, and even nuclear proliferation in the Middle East. North Korea’s decades-old military alliance with the Assad regime is stoking fears inside the Trump administration that Kim Jong-un is not only profiting from Syria’s six-year

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Texas church might be demolished and replaced by memorial after shooting

The pastor of the Texas church where a gunman carried out a massacre has discussed knocking down the building and replacing the structure with a memorial, a spokesman for the national Southern Baptist Convention said Thursday. The First Baptist Church of Sutherland Springs, Texas, about 35 miles outside San Antonio, has remained closed since gunman

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For first time in 100 years, Luftwaffe in Israel’s skies in huge air drill

By Judah Ari Gross OVDA AIR BASE – Way down, down in the Negev Desert — or, more accurately, in the skies above it — the countries of Falcon Land and Nowhere Land are waging a vicious aerial war, with dozens of fighter jets dogfighting and bombing each other’s infrastructure. So far there have been

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