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June 29, 2016 at 8:27 am
London - As continental powers pressure a nervous Britain to formally apply to exit the European Union, die-hard “remain” supporters are taking on the mission to put the brakes on the so-called Brexit.
The challenge is formidable: Britons turned out en masse for last Thursday’s vote to leave the EU, deciding the matter in a close but credible election long promised by the ruling government. Britain’s Conservative Party and opposition Labour Party have both pledged to respect the popular vote and work quickly toward easing the U.K. out of the EU.
Britain’s jilted partners have also shown little inclination to revisit the matter.
“I don’t think we should see any shadow boxing or any cat-and-mouse games,” European Commission President...
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June 29, 2016 at 8:24 am
San Francisco - Google is trying to make it easier for you to manage the vast pool of information that it collects about your online activities across phones, computers and other devices.
Among other things, a new privacy tool will enable the more than 1 billion people who use Google’s search engine and other services to block certain ads from appearing on every device that they log into, instead of having to make a special request on each individual machine.
Some users of Google’s search engine, Gmail and Chrome browser will start receiving notices about the new option beginning Tuesday, but it will take several more weeks before it’s available to everyone.
Google also is introducing a “My Activity” feature that will enable users to delete records ...
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June 29, 2016 at 8:19 am
New York - Amazon is expanding its lineup of Dash buttons, its “Jetsons”-style devices that let you reorder a particular product with a single touch. The online retailer says the buttons offer “quick and easy” convenience — but they won’t necessarily help you save money.
Amazon first introduced the buttons , which bear product logos and attach to household surfaces, around April Fool’s Day in 2015. On Wednesday, it added 50 more brands to Dash, including Campbell’s Soup, Nerf and V8 vegetable juice, bringing the total number of Dash buttons to 150.
Dash buttons are undeniably simple to use. You set them up with a smartphone via Wi-Fi, and can configure them to send order alerts to your phone in case you need to cancel. You’ll...
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June 29, 2016 at 8:15 am
Mississauga, Ontario - An explosion leveled one home and damaged at least two dozen others Tuesday afternoon in a town west of Toronto, killing one person, authorities said.
One woman died at the scene of the blast in Mississauga, Ontario, and about a dozen other people were treated for minor injuries, a Peel paramedic spokesman said. He said none of the injured had to be taken to a hospital.
Photos of the scene show heavy damage to nearby homes and debris spread over a wide area.
Police set up a large perimeter around the destroyed home and went door-to-door evacuating nearby residences.
Mississauga Mayor Bonnie Crombie said between 50 and 100 people had to be evacuated and a reception center was being set up at a nearby recreation center.
She said they would have to remain ou...
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June 29, 2016 at 8:13 am
Brussels - EU leaders met Wednesday without Britain for the first time to rethink their shaken union, make it more relevant to citizens and keep it from disintegrating after Britain’s unprecedented vote to leave — but conflicting visions of Europe’s future are complicating the high-stakes summit.
British Prime Minister David Cameron left Brussels on Tuesday night without any clear divorce plan, fending off pressure for a quick exit and punting the complex departure negotiations to his successor.
In Britain, nominations opened Wednesday for a new Conservative leader to replace him after his devastating political miscalculation in calling last week’s referendum.
With Britain’s fate in Europe uncertain, the 27 remaining presidents, chancellors and pri...
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June 29, 2016 at 8:10 am
Turkey - Turkish investigators pored over video footage and witness statements on Wednesday after three suspected Islamic State suicide bombers opened fire and blew themselves up in Istanbul’s main airport, killing 41 people and wounding 239.
The attack on Europe’s third-busiest airport was the deadliest in a series of suicide bombings this year in Turkey, part of the U.S.-led coalition against Islamic State and struggling to contain spillover from neighboring Syria’s war.
President Tayyip Erdogan said the attack should serve as a turning point in the global fight against terrorism, which he said had “no regard for faith or values”.
Five Saudis and two Iraqis were among the dead, a Turkish official said. Citizens from China, Jordan, Tunisia, U...
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June 29, 2016 at 8:04 am
Police are investigating a disturbing incident in Flatbush in what is possibly a hate crime.
Sources tell YWN that at around 5:15PM on Tuesday afternoon, two black teens yelled anti-Semitic slurs at a vehicle driven by an Orthodox Jewish woman at the intersection of Nostrand Avenue and Avenue J.
The two suspects then threw a rock and smashed a window of her minivan. The rock missed her 6-year-old child sitting in the back seat by inches. The child was child covered in shards of glass, but thankfully not injured.
The two teens took off running down Nostrand Avenue towards Avenue K.
Police, Hatzalah and Flatbush Shomrim were called.
Officers from the NYPD’s 63 Precinct are reviewing security camera footage of the incident.
Two nice EMT’s from FDNY were seen assisting the wo...
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June 29, 2016 at 8:01 am
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The four remaining officers who face trial in the death of Freddie Gray are asking for their case to be dismissed arguing a "defect in the institution of prosecution."
In motions posted on the Court's website, Lt. Brian Rice, Officer Garrett Miller, Officer William Porter and Sgt. Alicia White, are all seeking the dismissal.
The request is based on what attorneys say are "defects" raised at the District Court and Circuit Court levels.
CLICK HERE to read the motion filed by Sgt. White. Identical motions have been filed by Officer Miller Officer Goodson and Lt. Rice.
Attorneys for all four officers cite an affidavit unsealed last week by Baltimore City Sheriff's Major Sam Cogen, who, along with State's Attorney Marilyn Mosby, was also su...
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June 28, 2016 at 8:29 pm
ISTANBUL — Suicide attackers armed with bombs and guns struck Turkey’s largest airport Tuesday night, blowing themselves up in a confrontation with the police. At least 31 people were killed in the attack and 147 more were injured, in addition to the attackers, according to the Turkish justice minister, Bekir Bozdag.
The governor of Istanbul, Vasip Sahin, told Turkish news outlets that three suicide bombers took part in the attack.
Another Turkish government official said that shortly before 10 p.m., the police fired shots at two suspected attackers at the entryway to the airport’s international arrivals terminal, in an effort to stop them before they reached the building’s security checkpoint. The two suspects then detonated their bombs, the official sa...
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June 28, 2016 at 6:54 pm
Washington - Republican U.S. Senator Ted Cruz on Tuesday accused the Obama administration of under-emphasizing the “threat of radical Islam” as he presided over a Senate hearing for the second time since suspending his presidential campaign in early May.
President Barack Obama and top Justice Department officials have come under fire from conservatives for avoiding the term “radical Islam” when denouncing attacks by violent extremists who claim inspiration from Islamic State, such as the Orlando nightclub shooter.
Administration officials have countered that focusing on the use of the phrase is a political distraction and gives fuel to Islamic State propagandists who say the United States has waged war against all of Islam.
Absent from Tuesday’s he...
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June 28, 2016 at 6:53 pm
Jerusalem - An Israeli university has canceled an award for a group of military veterans who criticize Israeli actions toward Palestinians.
Ben-Gurion University’s department of Middle Eastern studies had announced it would award a prize worth about $5,000 for Jewish-Arab understanding to the group Breaking the Silence.
University President Rivka Carmi overturned the decision, saying it would have likely been seen as a “semblance of political bias.”
Breaking the Silence accused the university of “buckling before the campaign of incitement being conducted against opponents of the occupation.”
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other Israeli leaders have attacked the group, saying it works to delegitimize Israel.
The New Israel Fund, a liberal Amer...
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June 28, 2016 at 5:32 pm
Abigail Trencher of Silver Spring was one of nine outstanding high school students from around the country selected to receive the prestigious Sarah Rivkah and Dr. Bernard Lander zt”l Scholarship, presented jointly by Touro College and NCSY, the international youth arm of the Orthodox Union. The scholarships, named in memory of Touro’s Founding President Dr. Bernard Lander zt”l and his wife Sarah Rivkah, were announced by Touro President Dr. Alan Kadish and Orthodox Union President Martin Nachimson.
Touro College a longtime partner of the Orthodox Union, offers scholarships to outstanding NCSY graduates who choose to attend one of Touro’s Lander Colleges in New York City: Lander College for Men in Queens (LCM), Lander College for Women/The Anna Ruth and...
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June 28, 2016 at 5:31 pm
During a press conference today following the release of his committee’s final report on the 2012 Benghazi attacks, Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-SC) refused to say that Hillary Clinton “lied” about her role in its aftermath.
Asked by one reporter if T-shirts and bumper stickers that read “Hillary Clinton Lied, People Died” are “true,” Gowdy replied, “You don’t see that T-shirt on me, and you don’t see that bumper sticker on any of my vehicles.” Asked more directly if he thinks she “lied,” Gowdy said, “That’s a word you couldn’t use in a courtroom.”
He urged reporters to read the full report before drawing any conclusions about Clinton’s actions.
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June 28, 2016 at 5:30 pm
Following the reinstatement of a pro-Israel Facebook page that was shut down on Monday, its administrator hailed the support of followers.
“The response I received was nothing short of amazing,” Uri Silberman, administrator of The Israel Network page told The Algemeiner on Tuesday. “Dozens of pro-Israel activists reached out to me and told me they had contacted someone of influence, or gave me the details of someone of influence to contact to help with the situation. Even after the page was restored, I was receiving messages from people telling me that they had contacted a source at Facebook.”
As reported by The Algemeiner on Monday, anti-Israel activists launched what Silberman said was a “coordinated attack” on T...
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June 28, 2016 at 5:15 pm
Istanbul - Two Suicide Bombers blew themselves up at Istanbul’s main international airport after police fired at them on Tuesday, killing at least 10 people and wounding several others, a Turkish official said, in what appeared to be the latest in a string of attacks in Turkey’s biggest city this year.
Turkish media quoted Justice Minister Bekir Bozdag as saying 10 people were killed in the attack on Tuesday.
Turkey’s state-run news agency quoted Bekir Bozdag as saying: “According to the information I was given, a terrorist at the international terminal entrance first opened fire with a Kalashnikov and then blew himself up. We have around 10 martyrs (dead) and around 20 wounded.”
The official said the attackers detonated the explosives at the entra...
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June 28, 2016 at 5:05 pm
Philadelphia, PA - He may be known as a rabbinical student at Yeshiva University, Abba to his son Koby and as the youth director at the Young Israel of Holliswood in Queens, but these days, Akiva Neuman is most closely associated with the title “Ninja Rabbi.”
The 25 year old Neuman, who grew up in Highland Park, New Jersey, took part in the Philadelphia qualifying match for American Ninja, a sports competition reality television show, making his way through a challenging obstacle course proudly wearing his yarmulka and tzitzis.
Now entering its eighth season, American Ninja contestants compete in a series of courses hoping for a chance to compete in the show’s Las Vegas finals on a physically grueling, four stage obstacle course consisting of over ...
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June 28, 2016 at 5:03 pm
Turkish officials say two suicide bombers targeted Istanbul airport, were fired upon by police.
At least 15 people have been killed and scores more wounded in a terrorist attack at Ataturk Airport, located just outside of Istanbul in Turkey.
Turkish officials have confirmed that two suicide bombers detonated their explosives in the attack.
Turkey's Justice Minister told reporters that at least 10 people were killed in the attack, but senior Israeli officials in Turkey told Arutz Sheva the death toll is at least as high as 15.
The attack took place in the international departures area, according to CNN.
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June 28, 2016 at 5:02 pm
Gorman, CA - A fiery minivan wreck in northern Los Angeles County killed two mothers and their four children early Tuesday, while the two hysterical fathers of the families were held back from the flames.
The minivan was partially in the right-hand lane after a minor wreck on Interstate 5 near the community of Gorman, about 65 miles north of downtown Los Angeles. A semi-truck going about 55 mph slammed into the van from behind, sending it off the road and down an embankment, where it quickly caught fire, CHP Officer Frank Romero said.
The two fathers, who were in the driver’s and passenger seats at the time of the crash, suffered burns trying to save their wives and four children, Romero said.
They were identified as 34-year-old Aaron Hon Wing Ng of San Francisco and 45-y...
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June 28, 2016 at 5:01 pm
London - Britain’s Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn says he won’t resign despite a vote of no confidence from his party’s lawmakers.
Corbyn said Tuesday the vote has no constitutional legitimacy. He said he will not “betray” his supporters by resigning.
The main opposition party’s lawmakers earlier passed an overwhelming vote of no confidence and many called for him to step down as party leader.
He has been criticized severely for his weak performance during the European Union referendum campaign, which ended with Britain voting to leave the EU.
The Labour Party backed staying in the bloc but many said Corbyn campaigned poorly. He may now face a formal leadership contest.
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June 28, 2016 at 5:00 pm
A recent opinion piece featured in South Africa’s The Mail and Guardian accused Israel of carrying out crimes similar to those of Nazi leader Adolf Hitler, media watchdog HonestReporting revealed on Monday.
The author of the op-ed, Aayesha J. Soni, is a South African physician and vice-chairperson of the Media Review Network — an organization that believes “Muslim perspectives on issues impacting on South Africans are a prerequisite to a better appreciation of Islam.”
Calling Israeli Ambassador to the UN Danny Danon’s recent appointment to chair the world body’s Law (Sixth) Committee a “horrible irony,” she accused the Jewish state of breaking “more UN resolutions than any other...
