“This will be the first official visit by a Danish Head of Government to China since 2008, and we will now take our bilateral relationship to a new high,” Rasmussen told Chinese media in a written interview ahead of his visit to China on May 2-5 at the invitation of Chinese Premier Li Keqiang. Chinese […]
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InternationalThe first 100 days of the presidency have been a strain on President Trump’s family, especially for first lady Melania Trump and their son, Barron, Mr. Trump told The Washington Times in an exclusive interview. “There is no question, it is a big burden on the family,” the president said in an Oval Office session.
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USAKathmandu (dpa) – Renowned Swiss climber Ueli Steck was found dead near Mount Everest on Sunday, tourism officials said. Dubbed the “Swiss Machine” for his daring speed-climbs in the Himalayas, the 40-year-old was attempting to summit Everest via a rarely used route. He was found on neighbouring mountain Nuptse. “He slipped from a slope near
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International, Obituaries & memorialsThis year’s White House Correspondents’ Dinner certainly struck a more somber note than in years past, but comedian Hasan Minhaj lightened the mood when he took the stage. No one was spared from The Daily Show correspondent’s barbs: both present journalists and the conspicuously absent president were hit by some of Minhaj’s jokes. Below are
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Trivia, Humor & Satire, USAIn a final tribute before chainsaws would cut this giant down due to poor health, gardeners adorned a 130-year-old Monterey cypress tree with Tibetan prayer flags. The tree has stood on the the great lawn of the famous Lotusland gardens in Montecito, California for more than thirteen decades. With the announcement that the tree, which
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The World We Share, USAThe Jerusalem District Court last week ordered the Jerusalem Municipality and the Israel Land Authority to respond to the petition filed last week by Regavim against the United Nations over an illegal construction boom at the UN headquarters in the Armon Hanatziv neighborhood, which belongs to the State of Israel. The state, for its part,
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International, Middle EastFrench centrist candidate Emmanuel Macron visited the Holocaust Memorial in Paris on Sunday, one week before he faces off against far right leader Marine Le Pen in the country’s presidential election. Amid worries about rising nationalism, and on the day France remembers thousands of Jews who were deported to Nazi death camps, Macron warned the
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International, Jewish ReligionMIAMI �� U.S. Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, the first Cuban American elected to Congress and the deal of Florida’s congressional delegation, said Sunday that she would retire at the end of her term next year after 38 years in elective office. “We just said, ‘It’s time to take a new step,’ ” the Miami Republican said.
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Dream Job: Wacky Adventures of an HR Manager by Janet Garber; lulu.com; (c) 2016; ISBN 9781483-447476; 159 pages. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — Melanie is a supervisor in a human relations office at an urban hospital in this work of fiction. What goes on there would be hard for anyone besides author Garber
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Donald H. HarrisonFleeing anti-Semitism in Hungary, Shobha Nehru, nee Magdolna Friedmann, wound up marrying into the family of India’s first PM By Times of Israel staff Shobha Nehru. (Screen capture: YouTube) A Jewish-Hungarian woman who escaped European anti-Semitism and married into India’s most prominent political dynasty died last week at age 108. Shobha Nehru, born Magdolna Friedmann
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International, Jewish History, USADespite previous criticism from Jewish groups, Pope Francis on Saturday repeated his assertion that some migrant holding centers in Europe amount to “concentration camps”, The Associated Press reports. A German reporter asked the Pope if he had made a linguistic slip when he first made the remarks last week, adding that they had been met
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InternationalRome (dpa) – Former prime minister Matteo Renzi was expected to be comfortably re-elected leader of Italy’s ruling Democratic Party (PD) on Sunday, setting him up for a showdown with the populist Five Star Movement (M5S) in general elections. The PD primaries are taking place from 8 am to 8 pm (0600-1800 GMT), and results
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InternationalActor Tom Hanks is divulging the details of his luxury yacht vacation with Barack and Michelle Obama. Earlier this month, pictures started circulating of former President and first lady Obama vacationing on a yacht in French Polynesia. Soon, it was revealed that he was on the 450-foot luxury yacht with Tom Hanks, Bruce Springsteen and
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International, Theatre, Film & BroadcastUS President Donald Trump on Saturday invited his Philippine counterpart Rodrigo Duterte to the US in a “friendly” call in which the leaders discussed the “threat” of North Korea and the “war on drugs”, the White House said. The announcement comes amid rising tensions over Pyongyang’s nuclear and missile programs following its latest test-fire, as
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