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Foreign Ministry workers plan to go ahead with a labor strike aimed at disrupting the expected visit of US President Donald Trump, despite obtaining a further assurance from the Finance Ministry that a wage agreement will be implemented, Channel 2 television reported Thursday. Although a meeting the night before between representatives from the Foreign Ministry, the treasury and the Prime Minister's Office produced a commitment to apply a previously formulated deal, the diplomats said they will not relent until they see the agreement not only signed but also put into practice.
A Saudi-funded lobbying campaign involving U.S. military veterans that targeted a new law allowing Sept. 11 victims' families to sue the Middle Eastern country in U.S. courts saw some organizers disclose their activities late or vaguely, stymieing public knowledge of the scale of foreign influence in the campaign.
FILE -- This April 30, 2017 photo provided by the Syria Democratic Forces , shows a fighter from the SDF carrying weapons as he looks toward the northern town of Tabqa, Syria. A top Syrian Kurdish official... .
Rep. Elijah Cummings just released three damning new documents on former Trump administration National Security Adviser Michael Flynn. Flynn's lawyer, Robert K. Kelner, has argued that the retired general briefed the Defense Intelligence Agency, from which he retired in 2014 , before and after his 2015 Russian Federation trip.
House Republican leaders of the oversight committee have launched a probe into whether the Obama administration put U.S. national security at risk with his prisoner swap with Tehran last year to finalize the Iran deal. TGP recently reported on the specifics of the Iranians who were freed in this deal.
White House aide Sebastian Gorka- caught sporting the medal of a Nazi-tied fraternal organization-told a conference of th Jerusalem Post that the media has attacked him and President Donald Trump because of their unwavering support for the Jewish State. In an onstage interview with editor-in-chief Yaakov Katz at the Marriot Marquis in Manhattan, the Hungarian-American deputy assistant to the president admitted he had often worn the badge that the Vitezi Rend , an ultra-nationalist anti-Semitic order known to have collaborated with the German occupiers during World War II, had bestowed upon his father in 1979.
Parents seeking to adopt children in Texas could soon be rejected by public or private agencies with religious objections to them being Jewish, Muslim, gay, single, or interfaith couples, under a proposal advancing... Parents seeking to adopt children in Texas could soon be rejected by public or private agencies with religious objections to them being Jewish, Muslim, gay, single, or interfaith couples, under a proposal advancing in the Republican-controlled Legislature. Paris Hilton's younger brother, Conrad Hilton, has been arrested in Los Angeles for allegedly stealing a car and violating an ex-girlfriend's restraining order.
That hackers, most likely Russia-linked, were trying to throw the French election to Marine Le Pen this weekend by releasing thousands of emails from her opponent Emmanuel Macron, probably struck too late to achieve their goal. They were counting on the rule that candidates may not speak on election day, so Macron cannot defend himself from any controversies created by the emails.
As Iraqi forces continue to make slow progress in the fight against the Islamic State group in Mosul, fo... . FILE - In this May 2, 2017 file photo, a child stares at a baker making fresh cookies at a food distribution point in western Mosul, Iraq.
This week, in a joint appearance at the White House with Palestinian Authority president Mahmoud Abbas, Trump talked in general terms about working together to reach an agreement to live in peace, and in more specific terms about defeating ISIS and security cooperation with Israel , but said nothing at all about Palestinian self-determination or a Palestinian state. In a joint news conference with Abbas, Trump said that attaining peace in the bitter conflict between the Israelis and Palestinians may not be "as hard as people have thought".
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Despite bleak prospects for success, President Donald Trump promised on Wednesday "to do whatever is necessary" to forge an Israeli-Palestinian peace deal. At a White House meeting with Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas, Trump pledged to reinvigorate the stalled Mideast peace process that has bedeviled his predecessors and said he would serve as "a mediator, an arbitrator or a facilitator" between the two sides.
Donald Trump's national security adviser described his boss's foreign policy approach as "disruptive" on the eve of the U.S. president's first White House meeting with the Palestinian leader, saying his unconventional ways could create an opportunity to ultimately help stabilise the Middle East. WASHINGTON: Donald Trump's national security adviser described his boss's foreign policy approach as "disruptive" on the eve of the U.S. president's first White House meeting with the Palestinian leader, saying his unconventional ways could create an opportunity to ultimately help stabilise the Middle East.
I realize it's important to fill up your dance card, but this is looking rather grim. Only yesterday Allahpundit was left scratching his head over the fact that President Trump had extended an invitation to Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte to come visit the White House.
A U.S. service member in Iraq who was killed Saturday by an explosive device outside Mosul has been identified as 1st Lt. Weston C. Lee, 25, of Bluffton, Georgia, the U.S. Department of Defense said Sunday.
FILE - In this Sept. 17, 2015 photo, an Emirati gunner watches for enemy fire from the rear gate of a United Arab Emirates Chinook military helicopter flying over Yemen.
Israeli officials said Thursday they did not believe President Donald Trump would move the U.S. embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem and he is expected to sign a waiver on a congressional mandate on the action next month, according to news reported. A law mandating a move of the embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem was passed in Congress in the mid-1990s, Haaretz reported, and Trump is expected to follow all U.S. presidents since and sign the waiver because of national security reasons.
Scientists created an artificial womb enough like mom's to help tiny lambs grow for a month _ boosting hopes that it might one day help extremely premature babies. Scientists created an artificial womb enough like mom's to help tiny lambs grow for a month _ boosting hopes that it might one day help extremely premature babies.
On Wednesday, Gates pleaded guilty to the felony gun charge, after being denied bail earlier this month at Bridgeview Courthouse in IL. In a statement to TMZ , Gates' lawyer Herschel Rush said the charges carried a maxium of 10 years in prison, so the team is "very pleased with the result of 30 months".
U.S. President Donald Trump, right, reaches out to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a joint news conference at the White House in Washington, Feb. 15, 2017. Israel and the White House are in preliminary discussions about a visit to Israel by U.S. President Donald Trump as early as next month, an Israeli government official said on Wednesday.