Istanbul - Pakistan angrily criticized Donald Trump, frontrunner for the Republican presidential nomination, for saying he would force the country to free a jailed Pakistani doctor believed to have helped the CIA hunt down al Qaada leader Osama bin Laden.
Trump, a 69-year-old billionaire real estate developer, told Fox News on Friday that, if elected, he would get Pakistan to free Shakil Afridi “in two minutes”, saying that Islamabad receives a lot of development aid from the United States.
“Contrary to Mr. Trump’s misconception, Pakistan is not a colony of the United States of America,” Pakistani Interior Minister Cheudhry Nisar said in a statement on Monday.
The statement said Afridi’s fate would be decided “by the Pakistani courts an...
Miami - On a recent Saturday morning in South Florida, 50-year-old Edgar Ospina stood in a long line of immigrants to take the first step to become an American.
Ospina has spent almost half his life in the U.S. after emigrating from his native Colombia, becoming eligible for citizenship in 1990. But with Donald Trump becoming a more likely presidential nominee by the day, Ospina decided to wait no more, rushing the paperwork required to become a citizen.
“Trump is dividing us as a country,” said Ospina, owner of a small flooring and kitchen remodeling company. “He’s so negative about immigrants. We’ve got to speak up.”
Nationwide, immigrants like Ospina are among tens of thousands applying for naturalization in a year when immigration h...
Rio De Janeiro -The popular WhatsApp messaging service is not working in Brazil, apparently as a result of an ongoing judicial battle.
Local news reports say a judge in the remote northeastern state of Sergipe ordered the service suspended nationwide for 72 hours, starting Monday afternoon.
The G1 internet portal of the Globo television network says the suspension by Judge Marcel Maia Montalvao is a new chapter in a tussle between Brazilian law enforcement and WhatsApp’s parent company, Facebook.
In March, Facebook’s most senior representative in Latin America was detained in Sao Paulo for repeatedly failing to cooperate with an investigation into drug trafficking and organized crime. Diego Dzodan was held for one night for failing to give law enforcement informatio...
Havana, Cuba - The first U.S. cruise ship in nearly 40 years crossed the Florida Straits from Miami and docked in Havana on Monday, restarting commercial travel on waters that served as a stage for a half-century of Cold War hostility.
Carnival Cruise Line’s Adonia became the first U.S. cruise ship in Havana since President Jimmy Carter eliminated virtually all restrictions of U.S. travel to Cuba in the late 1970s.
Travel limits were restored after Carter left office and U.S. cruises to Cuba only become possible again after Presidents Barack Obama and Raul Castro declared detente on Dec. 17, 2014.
Hundreds of workers and passersby gathered to watch, some cheering, as the gleaming white 704-passenger ship operated by Carnival’s Fathom subsidiary pulled into the doc...
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May 2, 2016 at 12:14 pm
Chicago - A federal lawsuit claims Starbucks regularly overfills its cold drinks with ice instead of using the advertised amount of coffee or other liquid in its plastic cups.
The lawsuit was filed last week in Chicago on behalf of Stacy Pincus, a local woman who accuses Starbucks of misleading consumers. The lawsuit alleges that an iced beverage advertised at 24 ounces contains about 14 ounces of fluid, and that ice isn’t a fluid or beverage.
“A Starbucks customer who orders and pays for a cold drink receives much less than advertised — often nearly half as many fluid ounces,” the lawsuit states, adding that the practice is “by design and corporate practice and procedure.”
Starbucks said the lawsuit is without merit.
“Our customers und...
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May 2, 2016 at 12:12 pm
Osceola, IN - Ted Cruz is calling the Indiana primary “neck and neck” and says he’ll stay in the Republican presidential race for as long as he has a “viable path to victory.”
He spoke to reporters after greeting hundreds of people in northern Indiana at a popular breakfast stop a day before the state’s crucial primary.
Cruz is framing a potential fall election match-up between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton as the choice between two “big government, New York liberals.”
And he has been trying to rally the politically diverse, working-class swath of voters in northern Indiana, where the industrial economy remains viable but union jobs have declined in recent decades.
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May 2, 2016 at 11:32 am
Nine months after the deaths of two toddlers prompted Ikea to launch a safety awareness campaign about unstable dressers, a third fatality has the company and federal regulators reviewing whether that effort went far enough - and negotiating potential next steps for Ikea.
A company spokeswoman on Wednesday acknowledged its ongoing discussions with the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission about "additional actions" that the retailing giant might take.
She wouldn't elaborate on the negotiations, nor would a representative from the safety agency.
But calls for a full-blown recall of Malm dressers - a popular, low-cost line involved in all three deaths - mounted last week. Safety advocates said they were baffled, and increasingly concerned, that the commission has let Ike...
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May 2, 2016 at 11:08 am
Jerusalem - Israeli police say security guards and not officers fired the shots that killed two Palestinian siblings at a West Bank checkpoint last week.
A police statement on Monday says officers at the scene acted “according to regulations,” including firing warning shots in the air during the incident, and that security guards shot the brother and sister.
Israeli media reported the guards were civilian contractors. At the time of the incident, police said officers had also opened fire at the pair.
Police say the pair ignored calls to stop and that a woman threw a knife at officers. The siblings’ family and Palestinian witnesses have disputed the account, saying the siblings were some 20 meters (yards) away from security forces and could have been stopped w...
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May 2, 2016 at 10:55 am
Here you will see the FDNY responding to and battling a major 4 alarm fire at the Serbian Orthodox Cathedral of St. Sava on West 25th street in the Nomad area of Manhattan in New York City. G-d bless the men and women of the FDNY for all that they do for us all year round! They are truly new york's bravest.
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May 2, 2016 at 10:24 am
In the wake of an event that could have torn a community apart, Jewish and African-Americans living in northwest Baltimore turned to art to promote unity.
April 14, at the Weinberg Park Heights JCC, representatives of northwest Baltimore unveiled their art project titled, Look. Again. Understand the Other. to a crowd of over 50 people. The mural itself is 10 large-scale panels that explode with bold color, energy and a folk art interpretation of racial unity. Pieces of the powerful community mural, conceptualized and painted by Jewish, African-American and Latino middle school boys are now on display at the JCC as well as Cross Country and Fallstaff Elementary/Middle schools.
The Boy’s Mural Project, which initially engaged 24 middle schoolers, grew out of a need to address racial ...
Washington - It’s a U.S. taxpayer’s dream: make the Internal Revenue Service go away, and the largest conservative group in Congress is endorsing just that.
The Republican Study Committee, which counts over two-thirds of House of Representatives Republicans as its members, called recently for “the complete elimination of the IRS.”
The committee’s support for this idea, once confined to the fringes of conservative ideology, suggests it is more widely accepted on Capitol Hill than ever. But many in Washington, including some Republicans, have trouble taking it seriously.
Calls to abolish the IRS have not been well thought through, said Republican Representative Charles Boustany in an interview.
“Before we start making blanket statements about ab...
The 2016 presidential campaign rumbled through Indiana Sunday focused on Tuesday's critical primary, even as front-runners Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump itched to fully engage in the one-on-one battle they cast as inevitable.
But the underdogs in both parties made clear they had no plans to exit the race, at least until the Indiana results come in — and perhaps longer.
"We're going the distance," Trump rival Ted Cruz said on ABC's "This Week," arguing that Trump won't be able to get the majority of delegates required to clinch the nomination. "We're going into Cleveland, and it will be a contested convention."
On the Democratic side, Bernie Sanders insisted that his path to the nomination depends on the unlikely prospect of flipping superdelegates...
Jerusalem - Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked on Sunday said she is pushing to have Israeli law apply to the West Bank within one year.
Shaked made the comments while being interviewed on stage at a conference in Jerusalem organized by the Legal Forum for the Land of Israel, in spite of prior vehement opposition to the idea by the Justice Ministry bureaucracy, including former attorney-general Yehuda Weinstein.
Asked about the Hok Hanormot or “Normalizing Law,” for making Israeli law apply to the West Bank, she replied, “I established a joint committee along with the Defense Ministry to work on legislation for Judea and Samaria, with essentially the purpose being that ultimately any law which was passed in the Knesset w...
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On “Fox News Sunday” yesterday, Chris Wallace kicked off his interview with Donald Trump by asking Trump about violent protesters assaulting a supporter of his days ago.
Trump called Indiana Gov. Mike Pence’s endorsement of rival Ted Cruz “the weakest endorsement anyone has seen in a long time.”
Trump denied his comments toward Clinton have driven down his already extremely low support women in the polls. “Even women don’t like her. They don’t like her. It’s the women’s card, and she plays it, and I’ll let you know in about 6 months if she plays it well. It’s true. if she weren’t a women, she wouldn’t even be in this race.”
London - An Australian man long rumored to be associated with the digital currency Bitcoin has publicly identified himself as its creator, apparently ending one of the biggest mysteries in the tech world.
BBC News said Monday that Craig Wright told the media outlet he is the man previously known by the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto. The computer scientist, inventor and academic said he launched the currency in 2009 with the help of others.
His identity had been shrouded in uncertainty until now, and the media’s inability to pinpoint the person responsible had led to a series of investigations. Last year, some reports claimed Wright was the founder and had used a false name to mask his identity.
The BBC said Wright had decided to make his identity known to stop the spread of &...
On Fox News’ Sunday Morning Futures, Newt Gingrich spoke to Maria Bartiromo yesterday about Donald Trump and says he’s unstoppable now.
Donald Trump’s victories in a series of northeastern and Mid-Atlantic states over the past two weeks coupled with his lead on the eve of Tuesday’s Indiana’s primary have made one thing clear: He is the unquestioned favorite for the Republican presidential nomination.
Which raises the question: Who is Trump going to pick as his vice presidential nominee?
The short answer: No one knows. Trump relishes being unpredictable, so trying to game out how this most unconventional of politicians will make up his mind is a bit of a guessing game. Add to that the fact that Trump’s inner circle remains, largely, devoid of establishment types, and you quickly get into a situation where the people talking don’t know much and the people who do know aren’t talk...
Ted Cruz spoke yesterday with CBS’ “Face the Nation” to discuss his recent vice presidential pick, his chances against opponent Donald Trump, and former House Speaker John Boehner’s recent remarks.
Tehran - Iran’s Supreme Leader criticized the U.S. presence in the Persian Gulf region on Monday, saying American forces should go back to the Bay of Pigs, state media reported.
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei told a group of teachers Monday that American military drills in the region were proof of U.S. arrogance.
“They sit together, scheme and say that Iran must not hold war games in the Persian Gulf. What a foolish remark! They come here from the other side of the globe and stage war games. What are you doing here? Go back to the Bay of Pigs. Go and hold exercises there. What are you doing in the Persian Gulf? The Persian Gulf is our home,” said Khamenei. State TV broadcast part of his speech.
His remarks were an apparent reference to the 1961 failed invasion of Cuba ...
