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Jews around world concerned by far-right breakthrough in German election
BRUSSELS/BERLIN (Reuters) – Jewish groups in Europe and the United States expressed alarm on Sunday at the far-right Alternative for Germany’s success in Germany’s parliamentary election and urged other parties not to form an alliance with the AfD. Early projections gave the AfD 13.5 percent of the vote, allowing it to enter the Bundestag for…
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What does today’s German Election mean for Israel?
–Netanyahu sets policy: We won’t meet diplomats who meet with Breaking the Silence –Jewish groups: Fire German official who called pro-Israelis ‘traitors’ An objective observer can fathom why German elections matter for Israel. German and Israeli national flags . (photo credit:REUTERS) The German federal election on Sunday has tremendous significance for Israel, largely because the…
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North Korea news: Trump warns state ‘may not be around much longer’ over H-bomb threat
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Trump threatens ‘Little Rocket Man,’ says Kim may ‘not be around much longer’
President Trump sent another belligerent tweet directed at North Korea Saturday night, saying that if the country’s foreign minister was speaking for North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in his threatening speech at the United Nations, “they won’t be around much longer.” “Just heard Foreign Minister of North Korea speak at U.N.,” Trump tweeted. “If…
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As Mexico earthquake survivors heal in hospitals, rescuers aren’t giving up in the search for others
The search continues Sunday for victims buried under the rubble of an office building along Avenida Alvaro Obregon in Mexico City’s Roma district. (Gary Coronado / Los Angeles Times) Maria de Jesus, 35, has two legs in casts, deep scrapes on her arms and fresh stitches that run from the back of her head to…
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United Nations calls Myanmar crisis ‘the most urgent refugee emergency in the world’
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees said Sunday that the exodus of Rohingya Muslims from Myanmar to Bangladesh is “the most urgent refugee emergency in the world” right now. Filippo Grandi told reporters in the Bangladeshi town of Cox’s Bazar that the needs of the more than 430,000 people who have fled terrible violence…
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Australia’s tough flu season may be bad news for U.S.
The U.S. may be in for a bad flu season, if Australia is anything to go by. Experts usually look to the southern hemisphere’s influenza season to predict what might start happening here in the fall, and what they are seeing doesn’t look good. Australia is suffering through one of its worst flu seasons in…
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Anti-migrant, anti-Muslim, anti-Merkel: Germany’s AfD
The Alternative for Germany (AfD), which rails against immigration and Islam, is set to become the country’s first hard-right nationalist party to clear the five-percent hurdle and enter parliament in the post-war era. Close to France’s National Front and the UK Independence Party, the AfD is an anti-establishment party that harnesses xenophobia and popular discontent…
