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Israel starts work on first new West Bank settlement in 20 years
Later, Kushner will meet with and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in the West Bank city of Ramallah. Around 400,000 Israelis now live in West Bank settlements, among around 2.8 million Palestinians. The Palestinians claim these areas for a future independent state. Ahead of Jared Kushner's visit to the region, today I met with Palestinian leaders to further our discussions on how to achieve peace.
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Banks slam SA budget levy hit
In the first year, starting 1st July 2017, the government says it will collect $97 million and unsurprisingly, the banks are not impressed, especially as the federal government's levy is also starting in just over a week. The budget contained about $30.5 million worth of new spending on infrastructure in regional South Australia in the next financial year, and commitments worth millions of dollars more over the next four years.
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Meira Kumar a better candidate than Ramnath Kovind: Ramgopal Yadav
The Congress , which is coordinating the opposition meet, expressed the hope leaders of all the parties which attended the May 26 lunch hosted by Gandhi would be present today. "We are bound to support the former Bihar Governor's presidential bid as he had discharged his duties with grace and poise", Tyagi said, adding that having made a decision to back Kovind's candidature it did not make sense to attend the meeting of the Opposition parties in Delhi today to decide on the presidential ...
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Pro-Islamic state militants storm school in southern Philippines
After the terrorists raided the village of Malagakit in North Cotabato province at dawn, the members of the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters (BIFF) positioned themselves in the school and engaged in a gunfight with government forces.
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Weather forecast for Eid al-Fitr holiday
Muslims open the festival with the Eid prayer called Salat. Here in Ghana, the month was religiously adhered to as vice president of the republic, Mahamudu Bawumia, engaged with Muslims on a personal level to worship Allah at the seat of government.
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Reds edge closer to Salah deal
The same article is stating that Liverpool are close to matching Roma's £35m asking price after failing with a £28m bid earlier this month. The 25-year-old had an outstanding season in Serie A in 2016/ 17, scoring 15 goals and notching 11 assists to help his stock soar after a disappointing couple of seasons at Chelsea.
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Iwundu, Mason taken back-to-back in NBA Draft 2nd Round
Now the question will be how the Magic use Isaac with a similarly built Aaron Gordon on the roster. Isaac, a 6 foot 10 inch forward, started in 32 games last season as a freshman at FSU and averaged 12 points per game. 25 pick, used on Andzejs Pasecniks, a forward out of Latvia going to Philadelphia for a future first round pick. George McCloud was taken seventh overall pick by IN in 1989, and Al Thornton was picked 14th overall by the Los Angeles Clippers IN 2007.
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Mueller Meets With Lawmakers to Establish Dialogue
Several congressional panels continue to investigate Russians meddling in the US election which has cast a shadow over the early months of Trump's presidency. This is the whole story in a nutshell: Trump has not been notified that he's the target of an investigation. I am being investigated for firing the FBI Director by the man who told me to fire the FBI Director! But the last time Comey assured Trump of that was March 30, and, as he acknowledged repeatedly in his testimony, he ...
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Sena announces support to Kovind
Meanwhile, the Shiv Sena has joined the list of Centre's allies extending support to ruling National Democratic Alliance ( NDA ) presidential candidate Kovind. Congress general secretary Ghulam Nabi Azad has rushed to Patna to dissuade Nitish from backing out, sources said. Votes in the presidential elections will be counted on July 20, three days after voting.
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North Korea tests rocket engine, possibly for ICBM
The North's leader Kim Jong-un described it as a "revolutionary breakthrough" for the nation's space program, according to the Korean Central News Agency. While his trip has been confirmed by officials from both Washington and Pyongyang to have had nothing to do with the college student, petitioners claim North Korea sought to bring the celebrity to the country in an attempt to distract people from the wrong being done behind the scenes.
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Obama Adm. Never Reached Out to Captured American's North Korean Roommate
Warmbier, 22, is in stable condition at the UC Medical Center, where he was taken after his arrival in OH late Tuesday after more than 17 months in North Korean captivity. Their website , which uses communist imagery while offering tours of North Korea for around 1,000 euros, generally promises a safe, good time with tours around North Korea's internal holidays and customs.
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These Three Americans Are Still Imprisoned In North Korea
At the direction of the President, the Department of State has secured the release of Otto Warmbier from North Korea . The 22-year-old was medically evacuated after a US State Department's special envoy to North Korea Joseph Yun travelled to Pyongyang and demanded the young man be released on " humanitarian grounds ".
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Mamata Banerjee trying to divert our movement: GJM chief
She said such terrorist organisations were abetting the violence in the region. Earlier in the day, Morcha protestors resorted to fresh violence after the police raided and allegedly vandalised the residence of Assistant General Secretary of Morcha Binay Tamang on Friday night.
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Signatures for Sen Melaye's recall arrive INEC
The lawmaker representing Kogi west senatorial district, Senator Dino Melaye has said moves by his constituents to recall him from the senate will fail as the names and signatures on the list presented to the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC were either of dead people or forged.
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Bengal govt offers talks for peace in hills, Gurung booked
Reacting to the police case against Gurung and his wife, a senior GJM leader charged the police with implicating them in false cases. He said it was the constitutional duty of the state government to maintain peace and public order and steps would be taken accordingly.
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12 killed in Taliban attack on Afghan police
Insider attacks have been occurring with deadly regularity since 2011. As American military officials complete plans that will likely send several thousand additional US troops to Afghanistan , a flurry of setbacks in the war has underscored both the imperative of action and the pitfalls of various approaches.
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Ivanka Trump visits Capitol to talk family tax policies
The bill, which was also introduced by Sen. This has been an issue Trump has championed since her RNC speech last summer . The objective of the meetings June 20 and June 21 is to "hear members' ideas and begin discussions around developing a holistic approach to child care affordability/accessibility and paid family leave ", the official said.
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Millions of yoga practitioners hit the mat for worldwide event
I am delighted to see the vigour & enthusiasm with which people are joining the #YogaDay2017 celebrations all across India & the world. At that time, Prime Minister Narendra Modi was present during the yoga session. "If 1.25 billion Indians and people around the world can attain this state of well-being, then humankind can also tide over problems born out of human thoughts".
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Clamping down, Trump team puts the 'brief' in press briefing
Toward the end of the (very short) briefing, Spicer was asked to answer "just very plainly ... does President Trump believe that the Russian government interfered in the 2016 elections?" However, when Spicer was missing from the White House press briefings for a long time in May, and deputy press secretary, Sarah Huckabee Sanders , covered for him, she discovered how reporters missed Spicer.
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Holocaust survivor wins Israel airline case over gender bias
It insisted that there was no gender discrimination on El Al flights, that the flight attendant had made it clear to Ms. Rabinowitz that she was in no way obligated to move, and that she had changed seats without argument . The airline was owned by the Israeli government before it was privatized in 2006 . Anat Hoffman, the executive director of IRAC, described El Al's accommodation of such demands to The Guardian a year ago as "one more way that ultra-Orthodox extremists get away with ...
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Trump nominates Jets owner Woody Johnson as ambassador to UK
Trump nominated Jets owner Woody Johnson to be ambassador to Britain. Before switching to Trump's campaign, Johnson worked for Jeb Bush as finance chairman during the presidential campaign. Since Trump has come to office, he has served on the President's Export Council and the President's Commission on White House Fellows. "On behalf of the entire organization, we would be extremely proud to see Woody nominated and confirmed as U.S.
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Two soldiers killed in BAT attack along LoC in Poonch
He said there were at least two intruders, one of whom has been killed. "The BAT attackers had crossed the LoC and come 600 metres into the Indian side". They said after the BAT operation, shelling intensified in the sector. "Two AK rifles and one Pistol was recovered from the encounter site", said a police spokesman.
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Hezbollah sets up border posts under guise of NGO
The man had reportedly turned himself in to the Lebanese military and Israeli military sources have said that the IDF has turned to the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) and asked for its involvement in the case. Israel and Hezbollah fought a monthlong war in 2006 that ended in a stalemate. Israeli Major-General Amir Eshel told a security conference Wednesday that Israel was keeping a close eye on Lebanese Shiite Muslim militant group and political party Hezbollah and its deep ...
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Child Molester Moves In Next Door To Victim
The Dyer family is demanding that law be changed. In 2004, Oklahoma man Harold English was arrested and eventually pleaded guilty to sexually abusing his step-niece, Danyelle Dyer . She's even had other women reach out to her. Dyer told KFOR that she and her parents have been talking to lawmakers, but sharing her story in the meantime has been "very empowering".
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Will never reveal dressing-room details: Virat Kohli
Kohli also said that the team had learnt from the defeat in the Champions Trophy final to Pakistan on Sunday. Kohli has also deleted his post from micro-blogging site Twitter, which he posted after Kumble replaced Ravi Shastri as the coach of the Indian team ahead of the West Indies tour in July a year ago.
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JD.com Pays $397 Million for Stake in Fashion Retailer Farfetch
Farfetch will leverage JD's existing logistics, internet finance, technology capabilities and social media resources, including its WeChat partnership, to expand its sales channels in China, as well as allow Chinese consumers to access luxury brands online.
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Trump disputes Comey testimony, says he would testify under oath
Comey - who testified that he had taken contemporaneous notes of all his conversations with Trump - said he believed the president had fired him because of the Russian Federation probe, told "lies" about Comey's record at the bureau and sought to redirect the probe away from former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn.
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US charges New York man with trying to join Islamic State
The charge of attempting to provide material support to a designated foreign terrorist organization carries a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison. Court documents reveal that he advised an individual - who, unbeknownst to him, was an undercover law enforcement officer - that the individual could pose as a "refugee aid worker" while traveling to join the Islamic State in order to avoid questioning from authorities at global borders.
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Trump speaks to Qatar emir, offers help in resolving crisis: White House
According to Euromonitor International analyst Monique Naval, the packaged food industry in Qatar can be severely affected given the unprecedented event of those countries cutting ties with Qatar and Qatar's heavy dependence on imports from GCC, especially from Saudi Arabia .
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The death of Otto Warmbier escalates North Korea situation
Wednesday brought yet another round of talks between the United States and China, in which the two superpowers once again discussed the threat posed by North Korea . Warmbier's family declined to have an autopsy performed on him following his death Monday, the Hamilton County Coroner's Office in OH said, deciding that only an "external examination" would be performed.
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Trump Drives Golf Cart Onto the Green Like He Owns the Place
Not everyone is so happy to see Mr. Trump steering a golf cart onto the green. Though it's hard to tell where the putting surface begins and ends, carts should still be a considerable distance from the green. The president appears to run his cart up on the green to give his partner his putter. "The best security in the history of golf". The carts behind Trump are following general golf etiquette, as they wait patiently just a few feet away from the fringe of the green.
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In Iowa, boisterous Trump turns back the clock to campaign
But much of Trump's attention was on the suburbs of Atlanta, in the 6th Congressional District race. "Smart. Having him represent us, he went from massive paydays to peanuts, to little tiny, I'm waiting for them to accuse him of wanting that little amount of money".
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Virginians holding vigil for slain Muslim teen
Torres struck Nabra with the bat and then abducted the 17-year-old, taking her into his vehicle to another location, where he assaulted her again, authorities say. Ibrahim Hooper , a spokesman for the Council on American-Islamic Relations, said there is a strong possibility the crime wouldn't have happened if the teenagers weren't Muslim.
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ISIS demolishes historic mosque in Mosul in 'declaration of defeat'
The US has labelled the act as "barbaric". The battle for the Old City is becoming the deadliest in the eight-month offensive to capture Mosul , Islamic State's de facto capital in Iraq. Several US officials have told CNN in recent days that US and coalition officials had been observing the mosque in recent days and saw fighters and explosives at the site.
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Russian president pleads for family privacy
Flynn is the subject of several federal investigations into whether Trump associates colluded with Russian government officials during the 2016 presidential campaign. When asked whether a " secret war " was underway between Russia and the U.S. in the cybersphere, the Russian president simply said that for every action, there is always an equal and opposite reaction.