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Breaking News Knife-Wielding Palestinian Killed by Israeli Troops at West Bank Checkpoint
Israeli paramilitary police officers in the occupied West Bank shot and killed a Palestinian who ran toward them brandishing a knife on Thursday, police said. Police spopkeswoman Luba Samri said the 18-year-old Palestinian had got off a bus at a main West Bank junction and appeared suspicious to border policemen stationed there. “The suspect did…
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Breaking News Benjamin Netanyahu Nixes Paris Meeting With Mahmoud Abbas — Despite ‘Anytime Anywhere’ Vow
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Wednesday that he had told French President Francois Hollande that he would not meet Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas if France pushed ahead with an international peace conference in Paris later this month. France has been trying to convince Netanyahu to meet with Abbas in Paris, in an effort…
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Breaking News Germany Bluntly Urges Israel To Drop ‘Illegal’ Settlement Land Grab Bill
Germany urged Israel in unusually strong language on Wednesday to scrap legislation that would legalize Israeli settlement homes built on private Palestinian land in the occupied West Bank, saying this would break international law. Germany tends to be more reserved than other European nations in its criticism of Israel due to the legacy of the…
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Breaking News Economics Nobel Winner Oliver Hart Says ‘Meh’ to Donald Trump Budget Plan
President-elect Donald Trump’s plans to increase spending on infrastructure while cutting taxes would endanger public finances, Economics Nobel laureate Oliver Hart said on Wednesday. With much infrastructure in the United States in bad shape, increased spending could be good even if the details in Trump’s plans were “not so impressive,” he said. “But then also…
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Breaking News Poland Gives Final ‘No’ to Roman Polanski Extradition
Poland’s supreme court on Tuesday upheld an earlier verdict that Oscar-winning filmmaker Roman Polanski cannot be extradited to the United States over a 1977 child sex conviction, bringing a definitive end to the Polish case. The top court’s verdict marks a defeat for Polish Prosecutor General and Justice Minister Zbigniew Ziobro, who wanted to hand…
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Breaking News Starbucks Chief Howard Schultz Steps Down — Stock Plunges 3%
Starbucks Corp on Thursday said Howard Schultz will step down as chief executive to focus on its high-end coffee shops as Chief Operating Officer Kevin Johnson takes over as CEO. Starbucks signaled the change in July, saying that Schultz was moving away from day-to-day operations to focus on the development of high-end stores and long-term…
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Breaking News Senate Votes 99-0 To Extend Iran Sanctions
The U.S. Senate passed a 10-year extension of sanctions against Iran on Thursday, sending the measure to the White House for President Barack Obama to sign into law and delaying any potentially tougher actions until next year. The measure passed by 99-0. It passed the House of Representatives nearly unanimously in November, and congressional aides…
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Breaking News CIA Chief Warns Donald Trump Against ‘Folly’ of Scrapping Iran Nuclear Deal
Outgoing CIA Director John Brennan has said it would be the “height of folly” for U.S. President-elect Donald Trump to tear up Washington’s deal with Tehran because it would make it more likely that Iran and others would acquire nuclear weapons. “It could lead to a weapons program inside of Iran that could lead other…
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