Saudi Arabia accused Tehran of being behind a drone strike that shut down a key oil pipeline in the kingdom, and a newspaper close to the palace called for Washington to launch “surgical” strikes on Iran, raising the specter of escalating tensions as the U.S.
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Flattery will get you everywhere.
Former media mogul Conrad Black, who has lavished praise on U.S. President Donald Trump in countless columns and a political biography, has himself a full presidential pardon on his fraud and obstruction convictions.

Israel Police completed its preparations for the second Friday of the month of Ramadan in Jerusalem.
Israeli police, border police and reinforcements will deploy on Friday morning in East Jerusalem and in the alleys of the Old City, to allow freedom of worship for tens of thousands of Muslims to pray, maintain order and security, and regulate movement.

A Holocaust survivor welcomed a U.S. Army veteran to her suburban Detroit home on Monday and thanked him for taking part in the 1945 liberation of the German concentration camp where she was being held.

Police on Wednesday, May 16, 2019, arrested a suspected who allegedly broke into shuls in the southern district, making off with hundreds of shekels. He was taken for a remand hearing on Thursday.
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A legislative proposal in New York would require new teachers to complete training on how to use an EpiPen if a student suffers a severe allergic attack.
The bill, pending in the Democrat-led state Legislature, is intended to use free, quick training sessions to ensure teachers can administer auto injectors in the event of an emergency.

They are strikingly young, but emphatic that they should not be considered newcomers. Rather, they are claiming the mantle of Old Europe at its most traditional.
Several of this year’s far-right candidates in Europe are well under 30 – as are some of their most ardent supporters.
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A fifth grader arrived Thursday morning at his school in the Ramat Negev Regional Council with a training grenade that exploded when he played. There were no casualties and no damage resulted.
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A Florida man is charged with spitting on an elderly Jewish couple after threatening to assault another group of Jews.
The Miami Herald reports that 33-year-old Daniel Starikov was arrested Wednesday for the March 22 (Friday night) assaults.

The chairman of the Bayit Yehudi party, Rabbi Rafi Peretz, arrived at the residence of HaGaon HaRav Chaim Kanievsky Shlita on Rashbam Street in Bnei Brak Thursday, in the shadow of coalition negotiations to form the next government.