The United States Treasury on Thursday announced fresh sanctions targeting the arms and financial networks of the government of Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad. It added eight individuals and seven entities, some with links to Russia and China, to its sanctions blacklist, which aims to hamper their work by locking them out of the global financial […]
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Middle East, USACLEVELAND — The balloons have dropped, the smiling family members have embraced, and Donald J. Trump has accepted the Republican nomination for the presidency. Here are our first impressions from Trump’s 75-minute address. — A tempered tone Trump’s improbable run has been propelled by the aura of unpredictability; his seemingly improvised, and often outlandish, riffs
Former Princeton professor and Sanders campaign adviser Cornel West spoke to reporters during a protest against the Republican National Convention in Cleveland on Tuesday, praising the “struggle against Israeli occupation” and condemning “Jewish reactionaries” supporting the candidacy of Donald Trump. West, an outspoken critic of Israel, was appointed by the Sanders campaign to the Democratic
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Middle East, USAThe first three nights of the Republican National Convention have been an exercise in anti-climax, an incoherent mess where the good parts (the Trump kids) have been overshadowed by weirdness (Ted Cruz’s truculence), irrelevance (a retired general’s weak cheers of USA) and more irrelevance (what does the soap opera star who grows avocados have to
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USACLEVELAND – A defiant Sen. Ted Cruz on Thursday refused to commit to voting for Donald Trump in the fall election, saying the pledge he took to support the eventual GOP presidential nominee was voided when Mr. Trump started attacking his family on the campaign trail. During an at-times contentious event with the Texas delegation
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USAPresident Obama praised Muslim Americans Thursday as patriots and heroes, and decried an increase of violence against Muslims in the U.S. “This is a difficult time for Muslim Americans,” Mr. Obama said at a White House reception marking the Islamic holiday of Eid al-Fitr. “Let’s be clear, Muslim Americans are as patriotic, as integrated, as
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USAWASHINGTON — Hours before he accepted the Republican presidential nomination Thursday, Donald Trump faced fierce international criticism for suggesting his administration might not defend NATO allies in Eastern Europe and might not speak out for human rights abroad. A day that Trump’s team had hoped would celebrate his improbable triumph in the GOP instead shifted
CLEVELAND — Silicon Valley billionaire Peter Thiel made history Thursday night when he said he was gay from the podium of the Republican National Convention. “Every American has a unique identity. I am proud to be gay. I am proud to be a Republican. But most of all I am proud to be an American,”
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USANEW YORK — In the end, Fox News is Rupert Murdoch’s baby, and now that it’s in trouble, he will take care of it. In a corporate move that no one saw coming, Murdoch, the executive chairman of 21st Century Fox, was named acting chairman of Fox News after the resignation of Roger Ailes, amid
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International, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USAPhiladelphia’s police union is blasting Hillary Clinton for inviting relatives of victims of police shootings to speak at the Democratic National Convention next week, but failing to include relatives of slain police officers. John McNesby, president of the Fraternal Order of Police Lodge 5, said the union was “shocked and saddened” by the planned choice
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USACLEVELAND — Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump ended June with more than $20 million in the bank, according to federal campaign finance filings, as he rebounded from earlier dismal fundraising efforts. But Trump still significantly lags behind Democratic rival Hillary Clinton in raising cash and spending to build a general-election campaign apparatus. Trump fulfilled his
By Alon Ben-Meir NEW YORK — Even before the failed military coup, Turkey’s President Erdogan governed like a dictator who had the last word on all state matters. The botched coup was nothing but, as he put it, “a gift from God” to purge what is left of Turkey’s democracy and cleanse the army and
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Alon Ben-Meir, International, Middle East, USAAs the Republican National Convention begins its third day on Wednesday, presumptive Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton is edging closer towards her VP pick. With just five days left until the beginning of the Democratic National Convention next Monday, Clinton is likely to announce her choice for running mate in the coming days. One adviser told
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Middle East, USAMIAMI — When a 23-year-old autistic man carrying a toy truck wandered from a mental health center out into the street Monday, a worker there named Charles Kinsey went to retrieve him. A few minutes later the autistic man was still sitting cross-legged blocking the roadway while playing with the small, rectangular white toy. And
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