International

Grasse school shooting suspect: What we know so far

A 16-year-old student has been arrested after allegedly opening fire at Alexis de Tocqueville high school in the southern town of Grasse, injuring eight people including the headmaster. The suspect has not been publicly identified. The suspect was armed with a rifle, two handguns and two grenades, a police source said, adding: “The individual does […]

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International, Science, Medicine, & Education

Rabin’s memory still fuels mourning, love, anger

Israeli diplomat Itamar Rabinovich, said the late Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin seemed “willing to go the distance” to make peace with Arabs. Photos by Robert Wiener Rabin’s eldest daughter, Dalia, said, “Israel has not become a more tolerant society” since her father’s death. Photos by Robert Wiener Princeton University professor and former American ambassador Daniel

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Middle East, USA

JCC Threats Linked To Decline In Preschool Enrollment

Following waves of bomb threats targeting Jewish Community Centers across the country, more than a quarter of JCC preschools have reported a decline in enrollment. In a survey carried out last week by the Jewish Community Center Association of North America, in which 90 of its 116 members responded, 26 replied that enrollment has fallen.

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Science, Medicine, & Education, USA

Impeachment complaint filed against Philippines’ Duterte

Manila (dpa) – A Philippine party-list representative on Thursday filed an impeachment complaint against President Rodrigo Duterte, the first attempt to unseat the leader in his eight-month administration. In his complaint before the House of Representatives, lawmaker Gary Alejano accused Duterte of culpable violation of the constitution, betrayal of public trust, graft and corruption, bribery

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International

A Kremlin rival says he’s ready to be Russia’s president

With all the attention on Russian interference in the 2016 US presidential elections, one could be forgiven for failing to notice that the race for the Kremlin is already on. President Vladimir Putin’s current term ends in 2018. In a video message last December, Alexey Navalny, the anticorruption crusader and relentless Kremlin critic, announced himself

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International

Tillerson says Asian allies critical amid N Korea nuclear threat

Tokyo (dpa) – US Secretary of State Tillerson said on Thursday cooperation with Japan and South Korea is “critical” to deal with a growing nuclear missile threat from North Korea. US President Donald Trump’s top diplomat told Japanese Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida in Tokyo that strengthening US relations with Japan and trilateral cooperation with South

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International, USA

Meet the Judges Blocking Trump’s New Travel Ban

Hours before President Donald Trump’s second executive order temporarily banning travel to the U.S. from certain countries and suspending the refugee resettlement program was set to take effect, it was halted by a federal district court judge in Hawaii. Shortly after that, another district court judge, in Maryland, also issued an order against it. First,

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International, USA

With Friedman’s confirmation looming, US Jews range from despondent to exhilarated

While left-wing J Street says the ambassador-designate shows ‘breathtaking disdain for the vast majority of American Jews,’ the right-wing ZOA says he reflects ‘widely-held views of the American public’ By Eric Cortellessa David Friedman, nominated to be US Ambassador to Israel, testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Feb. 16, 2017, at his confirmation hearing

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Middle East, USA

Trump budget calls for slashing biomedical and science research funding

President Trump’s proposed budget chops $6 billion, about a fifth of the total budget, from the National Institutes of Health, a move that could decimate biomedical research in a number of areas and stagger academic institutions around the country that depend on NIH grant money to keep their scientific research programs afloat. Research funding at

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Science, Medicine, & Education, USA