Fizzing with boyish exuberance, Saudi programmer Zainalabdin Tawfiq could be mistaken for a college freshman, but the popularity of his “honesty” app has shone a spotlight on the conservative kingdom’s nascent tech scene. Tawfiq catapulted to fame when he took time out of his day job as a business analyst last year to develop an […]
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Middle EastFacing a rising threat of terrorist attacks sponsored by Islamic State, Iran’s government is trying to improve relations with the country’s ethnic and religious minorities that have become a target for recruiting by the militant group. Those populations, concentrated in far-flung provinces, have long been alienated politically and economically from the rest of the country.
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Middle EastA forest fire broke out late Saturday in southeastern France, tearing through hundreds of hectares near urban areas and destroying one home, the fire department and local authorities said. “The fire is very violent, very virulent,” a local official in Var, Emmanuel Cayron, told AFP from the crisis center which has been activated. By the
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InternationalThe White House announced President Donald Trump’s preferred pick to head NASA on Friday night, but the choice is already proving unpopular, with Florida senators criticizing Trump’s choice. The man nominated is Oklahoma congressman Jim Bridenstine, who would become the 13th administrator of the national space agency upon Senate approval. The role’s responsibilities include serving
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USAMEXICO CITY — Making his final state of the union address before national elections next year, Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto on Saturday received a thunderous standing ovation when he vowed that Mexico would not compromise its national “dignity” in the country’s rocky relations with the Trump administration. “I have said it and I will
President Donald Trump, or whoever wrote his speech for him on Afghanistan-Pakistan policy, is right: Pakistan must step up to the plate and do more to eradicate safe havens for extremists on its soil. While it is essential that extremism is defeated at its ideological root, we cannot deny that politics—and foreign policy in particular—can
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USALOS ANGELES—Residents in Burbank at the foot of the Verdugo Mountains were ordered to evacuate late Friday as firefighters struggled to contain a raging wildfire that grew to 2,000 acres. Those living in the Brace Canyon Park area were ordered to “leave immediately” and head to an evacuation shelter in Sunland, according to an alert
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USAWASHINGTON – President Trump on Friday nominated Rep. Tom Marino (R-Pa.) to lead the Office of National Drug Control Policy as the nation’s “drug czar,” months after he had officially withdrawn from consideration. Marino, an attorney who has served in the House of Representatives since 2011, has a lengthy track record of supporting enforcement-side drug
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USAPresident Trump’s chief of staff, John Kelly, has curtailed the flow of conservative-media reports reaching his boss amid a bid to block his access to unvetted articles, according to The New York Times. Hardly one month into his tenure as Mr. Trump’s latest chief of staff, Mr. Kelly has made a noticeable impact on the
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USAAGT dad Screen Shot 2017-09-01 at 1.34.30 PM The future couldn’t look any brighter for 13-year-old Evie Clair in terms of chasing her dreams. All season long, the Arizona native has been wowing judges with her incredible voice on NBC’s “America’s Got Talent.” But staying positive can be quite a challenge for the teenager when
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Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, Science, Medicine, & Education, USARussia on Saturday summoned the top US envoy in Moscow to protest a search by American officials of a diplomatic facility in Washington, due to be shuttered in the latest twist of the two countries’ diplomatic tit-for-tat. The foreign ministry said it called in acting US mission head Anthony Godfrey and handed him a “note
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International, USALOS ANGELES, September 3, 2017 – While many Americans are enjoying Labor Day Weekend, a large chunk of residents in Southeast Texas and Louisiana do not have that luxury. Hurricane Harvey devastated the area with over 52 inches of rain and residents are now under mandatory evacuation to avoid floods. The overall response by President
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USAHOUSTON — The big-rig truck was full of cats. Theo, who had a bit of a sneeze. Vennessa, who was acting like a diva. Two Thomases. And Buck, who, to everyone’s surprise, was a girl. They had been living in shelters in southeast Texas. But with Hurricane Harvey leaving untold numbers of family pets stranded,
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The World We Share, USAA petition asking the White House to declare liberal bankroller George Soros a domestic terrorist has garnered over 100,000 signatures, or more than enough to necessitate a response from the Trump administration. The petition was posted on the “We the People” section of the White House website Aug. 20 and needed to crack the 100,000-signature