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The Finance Ministry and the Population and Immigration Authority have accumulated millions of shekels in sick leave compensations belonging to Palestinian workers. Palestinian workers at a construction site near Ma’aleh Adumim, last year\  Credit: Gil Cohen-Magen Construction worker falls to … Read More

The European Union and Japan signed a huge free trade deal on Tuesday that cuts or eliminates tariffs on nearly all goods. The European Union and Japan signed a huge free trade deal on Tuesday that cuts or eliminates tariffs … Read More

China said it filed a complaint to the World Trade Organization on Monday challenging President Donald Trump’s plan for tariffs on $200 billion worth of Chinese goods. The announcement, from the Ministry of Commerce, came less than a week after the U.S. Trade … Read More

President Trump met face-to-face with Vladimir Putin three days after 12 Russian military officers were accused of hacking related to the 2016 election. HELSINKI — President Donald Trump said the Russia investigation has been a “disaster” for the United States … Read More

A grueling heat wave caused at least eight deaths across Japan since Saturday, and the dangerous conditions are not forecast to subside through the duration of the week. More than 2,000 people were treated at hospitals across southern and central … Read More

Watching FBI agent Peter Strzok battle with Congress, my initial reaction was pure anger. His repeated, arrogant insistence that he had done nothing wrong despite tons of evidence to the contrary convinced me he deserved immediate firing — if not the … Read More

Germany’s foreign minister says Europe can no longer rely on the US after President Trump labeled the European Union a “foe.” “We can no longer completely rely on the White House,” Heiko Maas told the Funke newspaper group Monday. “To maintain … Read More

After the turmoil of Trump in Brussels, EU leaders are in China and Japan today (16 July) and tomorrow for two important summits, a sign that Europe is looking to Asia, writes Fraser Cameron. Fraser Cameron is the director of the … Read More

Helsinki, Finland (CNN)US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin blew past the 90 minutes they were scheduled to spend with only interpreters at their sides on Monday, just hours after the US President blamed US policy for the dismal state of relations … Read More

Fate of Iran’s presence in Syria rests with Trump-Putin meeting ■ Israeli official to EU counterparts: Iran nuke deal is dead, and you insist on giving it Advil. Iran’s Army Chief of Staff Maj. Gen. Mohammad Bagheri and other senior … Read More

Despite toughening its stance to stem the flow of people, the Italian government says it will allow 450 rescued migrants to disembark in Sicily. Euronews correspondent Anelise Borges found herself at the heart of the cirsis when she spent ten … Read More

President Donald Trump meets with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Oval Office of the White House, Monday, March 5, 2018, in Washington.  (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday that he spoke with President Donald Trump … Read More

At a time of heightened uncertainty in the global economic environment, leaders of Europe and China are meeting to ponder ways to counter the fallout from US President Trump’s “America First” policies. US President Donald Trump’s attacks on the international … Read More

A German federal police report says that deportation orders were up 17 percent, but that actual deportations were down 4 percent. Meanwhile, the labor minister argues that some of those being deported shouldn’t be. More than half of the ordered … Read More

THE Hawaii volcano eruption has caused a lava island to form in the sea just off the coast of the Big Island, as the Mount Kilauea crater exploded with the force of a 5.2 magnitude earthquake. Lava channels flowing into … Read More