The tomb of General de Gaulle, one of France’s most revered figures, has been vandalised. CCTV captured the moment a man climbed onto the former president’s grave and kicked the base of the cross which rose above it, until it smashed to the ground. It has sparked outrage at the village cemetery of Colombey-les-deux-Eglises in […]
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InternationalPM says Meyer Habib an ‘engine’ developing France-Israel relations who continuously looks out for interests of French olim By Times of Israel staff French-Jewish lawmaker Meyer Habib with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem in May 2017. (Screenshot) Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu threw his weight this week behind the reelection campaign of French-Jewish lawmaker
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International, Middle EastSen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina said Sunday he is highly suspicious of the latest bombshell allegations to roil White House – that President Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, tried to set up a secret channel of communications between the transition team and the Kremlin. Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak was taken aback by the request, which
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International, USACory Godbolt, of Bogue Chitto, Mississippi, has been arrested and charged in the murder of eight people, including a sheriff’s deputy. The Clarion-Ledger reports that Godbolt’s murder spree started late Saturday night when a sheriff’s deputy responded to a homeowner who wanted Godbolt removed from their property. He was arrested this morning after a manhunt
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USAGerman Chancellor Angela Merkel has suggested Donald Trump has made it difficult for her country and others in Europe to depend on the U.S. Speaking after the close of the G7 summit, which saw all the world leaders involved except Trump recommitting to the Paris climate deal, Merkel said the time to rely on others
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International, USAWhile it was a dry year for cinema coming out of the Jewish state, the Tribe is heavily represented in this year’s screenings By Jordan Hoffman CANNES, France — Time to pack up, head home and not think about how many flaky, butter-drenched croissants I stuffed in my maw during my 12-day stay in the
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International, Middle East, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USAHomeland Security Secretary John Kelly on Sunday said “it’s borderline, if not over the line of treason” to leak highly classified information gleaned from foreign intelligence, citing Britain’s alarm at seeing details of its probe into the Manchester terror bombing in the U.S. press. President Trump ordered the Justice Department and other agencies to conduct
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International, USAThe late Sy Brenner was a prisoner in a German prisoner-of-war camp, where his Jewish identity was not known because a battlefield comrade had broken off the bottom of Sy’s dogtag, on which “H” for “Hebrew” identified his religious preference. Sy wrote about his experiences in the memoir titled “The Night I Got Killed.” He
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International, USABy Steve Kramer ALFEI MENASHE, Israel — 120 years ago, the First Zionist Conference under the leadership of Theodor Herzl was held in Basel, Switzerland. Before his untimely death, Herzl predicted that the modern State of Israel would emerge within 50 years. Herzl was wrong – it took 51 years until the State of Israel
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Jewish History, Middle EastThe prisoners’ protest was not entirely successful for the jailed Fatah leader and convicted terrorist. And only one of his demands was met. But he is now a Palestinian national symbol By Avi Issacharoff After 40 days and 40 nights of fasting, the Palestinian prisoner hunger strike came to an end just before dawn on
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Middle EastMINYA, Egypt — Islamic State claimed responsibility for an attack on a bus loaded with Coptic Christians the day before near the southern city of Minya, which officials said killed 29 people. “A security team of caliphate soldiers set up an ambush for dozens of Christians as they headed to the church of St. Samuel,”
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Middle EastDIPLOMACY – Split ‘6-1’ on climate change at G7 as Trump holds out US President Donald Trump refused to endorse the Paris global climate change accord – saying he needed more time – but backed a pledge to fight protectionism at a meeting of the G7 in Italy on Saturday. The summit of Group of
A federal judge on Friday dismissed a lawsuit brought against former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton by relatives of two Americans killed during the 2012 attack in Benghazi, Libya. Mrs. Clinton neither enabled the Benghazi attack by using her now-infamous private email server nor defamed its victims’ parents afterwards, U.S. District Court Judge Amy Berman
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Middle East, USAHall of Fame pitcher Jim Bunning, who went on to serve in Congress as a Kentucky politician, died overnight at the age of 85, the Philadelphia Phillies announced Saturday. “We are saddened to announce the passing of Hall of Fame pitcher and former U.S. Senator, Jim Bunning,” the Phillies wrote on Twitter. “Our thoughts and
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