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North Korea Calls UN Condemnation ‘Provocative’

North Korea on Saturday expressed great displeasure over the United Nations Security Council’s strong condemnation of the East Asian country’s four ballistic missile launches between July and August. In a press statement approved by the 15 members, the council denounced the North’s ballistic missile activities as fueling tensions and called them “grave violations” of the […]

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Expert in nuclear politics to guest teach at SDSU

SAN DIEGO (Press Release)–Dr. Oded Brosh, a leading expert on nuclear politics, will serve as the Jewish Studies Program’s Visiting Israeli Professor in Fall 2016 and Spring 2017. Dr. Brosh is a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Policy and Strategy and Director of M.A. Specialization in Diplomacy and Conflict Studies at the Lauder

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The West Must Do Far More to Keep Putin at Bay

Last month in Warsaw, Poland, NATO leaders vowed to make the alliance “stronger in defense and deterrence.” While progress was made, there is reason to doubt its adequacy. America continues to decline to provide Ukraine and Georgia with advanced defensive weapons or to challenge Russia’s airpower supporting the Syrian regime’s siege of Aleppo. Is the

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Medical Community Demands End to Syria Hospital Attacks

Nearly two dozen doctors from around the world have penned an open letter to President Barack Obama, Prime Minister Theresa May, Chancellor Angela Merkel other heads of state calling for an immediate stop to attacks on medical facilities and health professionals in Syria. The letter, which includes the signatures of two Nobel Prize winners, comes

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Iran blasts Kerry for saying it supports rebels in Yemen

Iran on Friday denied American accusations it has delivered missiles to Yemeni rebels, retorting it was U.S. support for a Saudi-led coalition backing the government that had prolonged the conflict, AFP reported. Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said the comments by Secretary of State John Kerry on a visit to Saudi Arabia on Thursday were

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Nigeria: Christian Group Slams Kerry’s ‘Divisive’ Visit

A prominent Christian group in Nigeria has accused U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry of being “discriminatory…and divisive” during a recent trip to the West African country. Kerry was in Nigeria on Monday and Tuesday and was hosted by the Sultan of Sokoto, Muhammadu Sa’ad Abubakar III, the most senior Islamic cleric in the country.

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Hillary Clinton needs to ‘show her soul’ to voters: Joe Biden

Vice President Joseph R. Biden said he’s advised Hillary Clinton to “show your soul a little more” to voters, and he believes too many Democratic leaders don’t understand the middle class anymore. In an interview with the Atlantic published Friday, the vice president said Mrs. Clinton is understandably fearful of revealing too much of herself

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Libertarians Johnson, Weld Need a Surge to Make Debates

An important question that has the potential to affect the outcome of the presidential race is whether Gary Johnson, the Libertarian Party presidential candidate, can manage to join Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Hillary Clinton onstage at the first presidential debate just a month from now. A former Republican governor of New Mexico, Johnson himself

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Florida Jews could help Clinton carry state, poll suggests

WASHINGTON — Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has “historically bad” support among Jewish voters in Florida, with large numbers rejecting his proposed temporary ban on Muslim immigration and most doubting his professed strong support for Israel, a new poll of Jewish voters has found. If the Florida polling figures released Friday by GBA Strategies, a

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A visit to Yosemite National Park with President Obama

Americans may not have been able to visit Yosemite National Park with President Obama and the First Family earlier this summer, but they can get a glimpse of the president’s trip by watching a newly released virtual reality film of his experience. During Obama’s Yosemite trip ahead of the National Park Service’s 100th birthday, he

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China is looking to the US as it builds its first national park system

Throughout its 100-year history, US National Parks have served as a model for other countries trying to set up their own networks of protected spaces. Now China is quietly planning its own national parks system. And, like Costa Rica and India before them, the Chinese are looking toward America. “They’ve visited several locations in the

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