Israel, U.S. Vow Defense Bond Despite Iran Rift Tuesday July 21st, 2015 at 10:30 PM
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U.S. and Israeli defense chiefs sought to contain a rift over the recent nuclear agreement with Iran, saying they wouldn’t let it get in the way of expanded cooperation against threats posed by Iran’s proxies.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu used a meeting on Tuesday with visiting U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter to voice his strong objections to a nuclear agreement between major powers and Iran.
JERUSALEM — Defense Sec. Ashton B. Carter met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday in the first high-level U.S. encounter with the Israeli leader since world powers struck a nuclear agreement with Iran, which Israel warned is a dangerous mistake.Read full article >>
US secretary of state John Kerry says he is disturbed by the anti-US hostility voiced by Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Khamenei after the two countries struck a deal over Iran's nuclear programme. In an interview broadcast on Tuesday by Al Arabiya, Kerry says Khamenei comments on Saturday, vowing to defy American policies in the region, was 'very troubling'. On Monday Kerry also revealed he walked away from the nuclear talks on three separate occasions Continue reading...
US Diplomat: Russia Concealing Information From its Citizensby webdesk@voanews.com (Mike Richman)
A top U.S. diplomat for human rights issues says he is very concerned about a campaign by Russia's government to conceal information from Russian citizens. In an interview Monday with VOA's Russian service, Assistant Secretary of State Tom Malinowski said he finds it worrisome when people in Russia are given only one side of the story and much is hidden from them. "And it’s especially tragic when the thing that’s hidden from them is, for example, the death of Russian...
US Appeals Court Overturns Some Blagojevich Convictionsby webdesk@voanews.com (Associated Press)
A U.S. federal appeals court Tuesday overturned some of the most sensational convictions that sent former Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich off to a lengthy stint in prison, ruling that prosecutors did not prove the Democrat broke the law as he appeared to try to auction off an appointment to President Barack Obama's old Senate seat. It wasn't immediately clear whether the stunning decision from the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago means the 58-year-old,...
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Kyrgyzstan Cancels Cooperation Treaty With USby webdesk@voanews.com (Reuters)
Kyrgyzstan cancelled a cooperation treaty with the United States on Tuesday, raising the stakes in a diplomatic row triggered by the award of a human rights prize to a jailed dissident. Kyrgyz Prime Minister Temir Sariyev ordered his cabinet to renounce the 1993 Bilateral Agreement with the U.S. It will not be valid starting Aug. 20, the government said in a statement. The agreement provided for U.S. aid to Kyrgyzstan to be brought into and out of the country without the levying of...
Defense Secretary Ash Carter has offered assurances that the United States will help counter Iranian influence in states surrounding Israel despite disagreements over the Iran nuclear deal.
A Ukrainian film director, Oleh Sentsov, has gone on trial in Russia on terrorism charges. He was arrested in Crimea last year, in a case widely viewed as politically motivated.
'Crushed Like Ants': Chinese Workers Meet Harsh Reality In Belarusby support@pangea-cms.com (RFE/RL's Belarus Service, Claire Bigg)
A recent protest held by hundreds of Chinese workers in Belarus highlights the plight of Chinese migrants in the reclusive ex-Soviet state.
President Barack Obama has asked U.S. military veterans to support the Iran nuclear deal, denouncing what he called “chest-beating” critics as “some of the same politicians and pundits” who were “quick to want to go to war in Iraq and said it would only take a few months.”
Russia Denies Political Motives In Move To Ban Dutch Tulipsby support@pangea-cms.com (RFE/RL)
Dutch flowers represent a sanitary "threat" to Russia and could be banned, the Russian agricultural safety regulator said July 21.
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WEB EXCLUSIVE: Experts from Bournemouth-based Real Crime magazine partnered with the Centre for Applied Criminology at Birmingham City University to reveal the five key traits.
Overall cosmetic appearance was rated as the most essential factor, girth was third and length only sixth out of eight aspects, say researchers writing in the Journal of Sexual Medicine.
Award-winning US author of historical novels including Ragtime and Billy Bathgate died of complications from lung cancer, his son confirms
EL Doctorow, the author of popular American historical novels including Ragtime, Billy Bathgate and World’s Fair, has died in New York at the age of 84.
The award-winning writer and academic died on Tuesday of complications from lung cancer, his son Richard told the New York Times.
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Sen. Lindsey Graham, a fellow presidential candidate, found out the hard way
The celebrated writer, also known for "Billy Bathgate" and "The March," died from complications of lung cancer, his son said
A lawyer in Jordan reportedly says that an uncle of the Chattanooga gunman was taken into custody the day after the attack.
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Iran Deal Looms as U.S. Defense Secretary Meets With Netanyahu by HELENE COOPER and JODI RUDOREN
A face-to-face session between Defense Secretary Ashton B. Carter and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel on Tuesday was fraught with tension.
Photographers raised their cameras in honor of Rodrigo Rojas during a 2003 ceremony in Santiago for victims of the Chilean dictatorship. Mr. Rojas was set on fire during a protest in 1986.
In his last trip to Africa, many found the president’s comments on gay rights overbearing and have faulted gay rights as a requirement for foreign aid.
PRAGUE (Reuters) - The Czech Republic has received no information on the whereabouts of five of its citizens who went missing in Lebanon last week and is treating the case as a possible kidnapping, Foreign Minister Lubomir Zaoralek said on Tuesday.
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BISHKEK (Reuters) - Kyrgyzstan canceled a cooperation treaty with the United States on Tuesday, raising the stakes in a diplomatic row triggered by the award of a human rights prize to a jailed dissident.
CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuela said on Tuesday it had arrested two former military officers on drug charges including one man linked by the government to Mexico's Sinaloa cartel and wanted by the United States.
NEW YORK (AP) -- Writer E.L. Doctorow, who wryly reimagined the American experience in such novels as "Ragtime" and "The March" and applied its lessons to the past and future in fiction and nonfiction, has died. He was 84....
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Reuters) - Suspected Boko Haram militants burned down houses, including the family home of Nigeria's new army chief, in a village in the northeast of the country on Tuesday, a policeman, military source and witnesses said.
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JERUSALEM (Reuters) - U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter never expected to win over Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu about the merits of the nuclear agreement with Iran but tried to put a brave face on their sometimes blunt, closed-door exchange on Tuesday.
Clinton besting Bush, Rubio in Florida money raceby By SERGIO BUSTOS and JACK GILLUM
MIAMI (AP) -- Florida's presidential primary is nine months away, but the state's influential donors are already speaking with their wallets. So far the news is better for Jeb Bush than for Marco Rubio in the Republican money race between home-state heavyweights - but it's even better for Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton....
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Is Chechen Stability Tenable Or Deceptive?by support@pangea-cms.com (Liz Fuller)
For the past seven years, Chechen Republic head Ramzan Kadyrov has been perceived as exercising total control over his fiefdom, thanks to a handful of ruthlessly competent aides.
The Islamic State is gaining a capacity to govern. But while the group still relies on brutality, its shift may have the West rethinking a military-first strategy.
DUBAI (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said a speech by Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei on Friday vowing to defy American policies in the region despite a deal with world powers over Tehran's nuclear program was "very disturbing" .
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UNITED NATIONS/DUBAI (Reuters) - The U.N. Security Council on Monday backed Iran's nuclear agreement with world powers but the Islamic Republic's Revolutionary Guards attacked the resolution, underlining powerful opposition to the deal.
DUBAI, (Reuters) - The United States said on Tuesday it was very disturbed by anti-U.S. hostility voiced by Iran's top leader after a nuclear deal, as both countries' top diplomats sought to calm opposition to the accord from political hardliners at home.
Iowa's top newspaper is calling on Donald Trump to bow out of the presidential race.
The Des Moines Register says the billionaire cares more about promoting his brand than helping the country, reports CBS News correspondent Nancy Cordes.
An editorial says, "If he were merely a self-absorbed, b-list celebrity, his unchecked ego could be tolerated as a source of mild amusement. But he now wants to become president."
Iowa is the first key caucus state.
The newspaper's editors didn't mince words, saying Trump is "polluting the political waters and keeping qualified candidates from getting their message out."
Trump drew the ire of many fellow Republicans with some tough words about the military service of Arizona Sen. John McCain, who was a POW during the Vietnam War.
"He's [considered] a war hero because he was captured. I like people who weren't captured," Trump said.
In a fiercely worded editorial, the Register warns that comments like that "threaten to derail not just his campaign but the manner in which we choose our nominees for president."
Trump also said, "Jeb Bush would be a joke on immigration."
Trump's name-calling, the paper says, has turned him into "the distraction with traction - a feckless blowhard who can generate headlines ... not by provoking thought, but by provoking outrage."
Translation?
"He's a jackass," says South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham, a fellow GOP presidential contender.
Another Trump rival for the Republican nomination, former Texas Gov. Rick Perry, weighed in against what he called "the cancer of Trump-ism."
Perry said on Fox News, "Being a disciplined candidate is really important and that is, I think, what his challenge is gonna be."
Trump told CBS News' Charlie Rose his opponents are just taking shots at him to get attention.
"I'm leading the polls," Trump said. "And they've got zero. I mean, one has 1 percent. One has another 1 percent. One has zero.
A new national poll has Trump 11 points ahead of his nearest GOP opponent, though some respondents were surveyed before Trump made his comments about McCain.
"He graduated last in his class at (the U.S. Naval Academy at) Annapolis," Trump also said of McCain.
Republican strategist Rick Davis ran McCain's presidential campaign in 2008. He says there's no question Trump has singlehandedly changed the tone of this race.
"The reality is up until this point in this campaign has been civil, smart. ... If not for Donald Trump, we wouldn't be having this conversation," Davis said.
Trump did finally apologize to McCain Monday night. Sort of. After he was browbeaten into it by Fox News's Bill O'Reilly.
"I want you to say something to Sen. McCain tonight, man to man, right to him right now," O'Reilly said.
"Certainly, if there was a misunderstanding, I would totally take that back, but hopefully, I said it correctly," Trump replied.
And if it wasn't correct, Trump went on to say, he did correct himself shortly thereafter.
The questions this morning are will other editorial boards begin to follow the Register's lead, and will any of it matter to trump?
It's a safe bet he'll have something to say about it at a morning campaign event in Bluffton, South Carolina.
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But he displays first hint of changing his tone about John McCain as controversy continues over his comments
Oil train traveled within authorized speeds before derailing in Montana, US officials say
HUSSEIN LOOKOUT, Israel — From this outpost overlooking southern Lebanon, top U.S. and Israeli officials stood together Monday as they sought to play down divisions over the recent nuclear deal with Tehran and get on with efforts to counter Iranian influence and other threats along Israel’s borders.Read full article >>
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US government sources say Isil now using encryption and human couriers to avoid detection
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Donald Trump, billionaire presidential candidate, questioned whether John McCain is a war hero - but what did he do during the Vietnam war?
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McCain to Trump: Apologize to US Military Familiesby webdesk@voanews.com (VOA News)
U.S. Senator John McCain, a decorated military veteran and former prisoner of war, has called on Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump to apologize for belittling the wartime suffering of captive U.S. troops. McCain, who spent more than five years as a POW during the Vietnam War, spoke on U.S. television Monday during a campaign appearance, two days after Trump publicly mocked his military record. Trump said of the former captive: "he's not a war hero. He is a war...
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Military Plans Increased Security at Recruiting Stations After Chattanooga Attack
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Some critics have assailed The Sun for publishing a video of the salute, but others have commended it for prodding a historical reckoning.
An African Union-backed court in Senegal forced former Chadian President Hissene Habre to appear for the start of his trial for war crimes. Report by Asana Greenstreet.
Trump explains why he won't say sorry for comments about John McCain's military service; instead says McCain owes his supporters an apology
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UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Russia is pushing for a greater U.N. role in an investigation into what caused the downing of a passenger plane in eastern Ukraine after dismissing a proposal by Malaysia, Australia, the Netherlands, Belgium and Ukraine for a U.N.-backed tribunal.
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Putin’s Strategy is Divide and Conquer by James Nadeau
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