Published by AFP Los Angeles (AFP) – The man convicted of shooting dead Robert F. Kennedy in a 1968 assassination that rocked the United States was granted parole Friday. Sirhan Sirhan, now 77, had tried on 15 previous occasions to be released from the life sentence imposed five decades earlier. The vote on Friday by […]
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A member of the U.S. House of Representatives is under fire for a tweet that compared coronavirus restrictions to the murder of 6 million Jews during the Holocaust. [JNS.org]
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The Denver Police Department announced on Thursday that they have arrested the last suspect in the murder of a Jewish yeshivah student there. [JNS.org]
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A prosecutor in Argentina told Israel Hayom he will not stop trying to apprehend those responsible for the 1994 deadly bombing of the Jewish community center in Buenos Aires, following news that one of the alleged terrorists was named Iran’s new interior minister. [JNS.org]
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Published by Azer News By Vugar Khalilov The President of Azerbaijan Airlines (AZAL), Jahangir Asgarov and Ambassador of Israel to Azerbaijan George Deek have discussed the cooperation in civil aviation between Azerbaijan and Israel in Baku, local media reported on August 25. Asgarov said that AZAL will resume the flights between the two countries after
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Published by Radar Online Adam Sandler’s father-in-law, Joseph Titone, was reportedly arrested at a Florida courthouse on Thursday for having a loaded gun in his briefcase. According to The Sun, Titone was stopped as he went through a security checkpoint within the Broward County courthouse. He allegedly later admitted to having a loaded gun in
Published by BANG Showbiz English David Duchovny claims Scientologists tried to recruit him at a wedding. The 61-year-old actor was attending the wedding of ‘Melrose Place’ star Jason Beghe when the scientologists “made a play” for him. The former ‘X-Files’ star said: “They made a play for me. I did squeeze the cans and I
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Published by Reuters By Trevor Hunnicutt and Matt Spetalnick WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden told Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett in White House talks on Friday that he was putting “diplomacy first” to try to rein in Iran’s nuclear program but if negotiations fail he would be prepared to turn to other unspecified options.
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Middle East, USAThe leader of neo-Nazi efforts to threaten journalists and the Anti-Defamation League for exposing antisemitism was sentenced to three years in prison by the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington, announced the Department of Justice. [JNS.org]
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The family of a rabbi who made his San Diego-area synagogue the center of a sprawling network of tax fraud has regained control of the synagogue’s finances, state filings show, replacing a board that had sought to bring accountability to the institution. [Louis Keene, the Forward]
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Published by Newstrail COVID-19 has wreaked devastating consequences and havoc on people across the globe. The magnitude of the suffering has been extraordinary in scope; and even with the helpful collaboration of public sector forces, the sole assistance of the government has proven inadequate. But we’ve seen amazing expressions of humanity unleashed by private individuals
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Published by Al-Araby German Chancellor Angela Merkel has postponed a planned trip to Israel this weekend over final evacuation efforts from Afghanistan after the Taliban takeover, her spokesman Steffen Seibert said Thursday. “The chancellor’s trip to Israel planned for August 28-30 has been cancelled in coordination with the Israeli prime minister due to current developments
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Published by AFP Washington (AFP) – President Joe Biden is being briefed on the bloody attack against Kabul’s airport, the White House said Thursday, delaying a planned meeting with Israel’s visiting prime minister and canceling another event. “The president has been briefed and he is in the Situation Room,” an official told AFP on condition
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Published by OK Magazine It’s official. Zoë Kravitzis now divorced from Karl Glusmanafter less than two years of marriage. The Big Little Lies star’s divorce from Glusman was filed back in December 2020 before being entered into records on Tuesday, August 24, according to documents obtained by Us Weekly. The former pair secretly tied the