Moscow – Ahead of Israel’s early parliamentary election next week, Russian President Vladimir Putin says the Kremlin has an interest in who wins power. Putin spoke Thursday at the opening of a meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the southern Russian city of Sochi. Putin says “over 1½ million immigrants from the Soviet […]

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London – Opposition politicians raged Tuesday at Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s five-week suspension of Parliament before the deadline for Brexit, which drew angry and unprecedented protests in the House of Commons. Parliament has been prorogued — or suspended — at the government’s request until Oct. 14, a drastic move that gives Johnson a respite from […]

Washington – Senate Democrats are moving on two fronts to block President Donald Trump from using special emergency powers to transfer money from military base construction projects like new schools to pay for new fences along the U.S.-Mexico border. First, Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer of New York announced Tuesday that he will force a vote […]

Washington – The Trump administration is stepping up its campaign to get other nations to boost pressure on Iran as world leaders prepare to meet at the United Nations this month. Even as President Donald Trump dismissed his hawkish national security adviser John Bolton, the administration pressed ahead with accusations of Iranian untrustworthiness and deceit. […]

Washington – President Donald Trump has fired national security adviser John Bolton. Trump tweeted Tuesday that he told Bolton Monday night that his services were no longer needed at the White House. He says Bolton submitted his resignation on Tuesday morning. Trump tweeted that he “disagreed strongly” with many of Bolton’s suggestions, “as did others […]

Washington – Will Bernie Sanders be America’s first Jewish president? That’s up to Democratic primary voters and then the rest of the electorate should he receive his party’s nomination. But the Vermont senator’s choice of a virulent opponent of Israel and a close ally of some of the country’s leading anti-Semites as an official campaign […]

Washington – “Certainly, Christians don’t want to see Turkish troops entering Syria given the past brutal history of the 1915 massacres of Christians carried out by the Turks,” says Chaldean Catholic Father Samir Kanoon of Qamishli, Syria. Northeast Syria is known to be a pluralistic safe haven for religious and ethnic minorities in a country […]

Jerusalem – Speaking on the sidelines of this week’s Middle East Forum “Israel Victory Project” conference near Tel Aviv on Sunday, titled “Moving From Concessions to Victory,” former Israel Education Minister and current Knesset hopeful Naftali Bennett said that “Israel’s victory means taking away the capability of our enemies to harm us.” He continued, directly […]