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September 8, 2019 at 5:48 pm
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) —
Mark Sanford, the former South Carolina governor and congressman, joined the Republican race against President Donald Trump on Sunday, aiming to put his Appalachian Trail travails behind him for good as he pursues an admittedly remote path to the presidency.
"I am here to tell you now that I am going to get in," Sanford said in an interview on "Fox News Sunday." ''This is the beginning of a long walk."
When asked why he was taking on an incumbent who's popular within the party, Sanford, who has acknowledged his slim chances by saying he doesn't expect to become president, said: "I think we need to have a conversation on what it means to be a Republican. I think that as the Republican Party, we have lost our way."
Sanford joins Joe Walsh, ...
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September 8, 2019 at 4:56 pm
A former Hezbollah leader was found dead in his apartment outside of Beirut Sunday, Lebanese media outlets reported.
Sheikh Ali Hatoum, who was a senior member of the Iranian-backed Shia terrorist organization before his departure from the group two years ago, was found dead in his home in Bourj el-Barajneh, a suburb of Beirut.
Citing unnamed sources, Lebanon24 reported that there was “no security action related to the killing of the [Hezbollah]” official, noting that Hatoum was no longer affiliated with the terror group.
No cause of death has been reported thus far, and local officials are expected to make a public statement on the discovery of Hatoum’s remains.
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September 8, 2019 at 4:55 pm
Bezeq, Israel’s largest telecoms group, has been fined 30 million shekels ($8.6 million) for what the competition regulator said was an “abuse of the firm’s monopolistic position” in telecommunications infrastructure.
The antitrust authority also imposed a financial penalty of 500,000 shekels on a senior Bezeq official and said on Wednesday it intended to levy a further 8 million shekel fine on Bezeq for misinformation during the authority’s investigation.
The regulator said Bezeq blocked competitors from deploying wired communications networks using the company’s infrastructure, which “could adversely affect the development of competition in the supply of internet, television and wired telecoms services.”
Bezeq declined to comment.
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September 8, 2019 at 4:55 pm
A former cab driver was recently charged in Montreal for assaulting a Jewish man in a parking garage, according to the Montreal Gazette.
Video footage of the altercation on July 28 shows a yarmulke-clad man taking a photo of a taxi driver, who then gets out of the car and punches the victim repeatedly until a parking supervisor intervenes.
According to B’nai Brith Canada, which called the attack a hate crime, the victim was waiting for the taxi to move from the entrance of the building’s underground garage when the driver allegedly yelled, “I won’t move for any […] Jews.”
The victim tried taking a photograph of the taxi to file a complaint.
The cab driver fled the scene after the attack, though his company, Taxi Champlain, discovered his identity an...
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September 8, 2019 at 4:55 pm
A 45-year-old man is in critical condition after he was shot on Chai Landau Street in Beer Sheva
United Hatzalah volunteer EMT Eliah Yitzchak Tubul who was one of the first responders at the scene said: “We treated the injured man at the scene. He was in critical condition after he was shot in his upper body. After receiving the initial treatment he was transported by an intensive care ambulance to Soroka hospital for further care and treatment.”
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September 8, 2019 at 4:54 pm
Starbucks is opening the world’s largest Roastery in Chicago.
The company said the restaurant will open on November 15, overtaking Tokyo as its biggest location of the lavish offshoot. The four-story Chicago Roastery is 43,000 square feet and is replacing a former Crate and Barrel location in the city’s Magnificent Mile neighborhood.
Roasteries are intended to be tourist attractions in themselves. They feature specialty coffees and teas, on-premise roasters and massive coffee casks where freshly roasted beans are held.
Read more at CNN.
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September 8, 2019 at 4:54 pm
Here’s some less-than refreshing news about soda: even sugar-free versions were associated with a higher risk of death in a study of 452,000 people in 10 countries.
The study, published Tuesday by the Journal of the American Medical Association, found that people who drank two or more glasses of soft drinks per day were more likely to die from all types of ailments, compared with people who drank less than one glass per month.
“Results of this study appear to support ongoing public-health measures to reduce the consumption of soft drinks,” the researchers concluded.
Read more at Market Watch.
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September 8, 2019 at 4:53 pm
Two people and 76 others were injured during violent protests on Friday along the Israel-Gaza border for a 73rd consecutive week, this time consisting of 6,200 Palestinians against Israel Defense Forces stationed there.
Ali Sami Al-Ashqar, 17, was killed east of Jabalia City, while Ashati refugee camp resident Khalid Al-Raba’i, 14, was killed east of Gaza City.
Rioters threw IEDs and Molotov cocktails at IDF troops. Repeatedly, two grenades were hurled at IDF jeeps near Han Younis.
The IDF caught two Palestinians breaching the northern Gaza border.
Violent demonstrations during which around 6,200 protesters assembled in several locations along the Gaza border fence,” said the IDF in a statement. “The demonstrations were of an especially violent nature, which included ...
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September 8, 2019 at 4:53 pm
Russia and Ukraine exchanged several dozen prisoners Saturday as they moved to dial down tensions in a swap that included captured Ukrainian sailors and a suspect in the 2014 downing of a Malaysia Airlines plane.
Thirty-five from each side were involved in the handovers, which has been highly anticipated and come less than four months after Ukraine’s new president, Volodymyr Zelensky, took office promising to open fresh channels of dialogue with Moscow.
Ukrainians, in particular, have long sought the release of those held by Russia in the five years since Moscow seized Crimea and began sponsoring a rebellion in eastern Ukraine.
At 1:25 p.m., planes from each country landed back home with the released detainees aboard.
Ukraine’s twin-engine Antonov-48 was met by a crowd of r...
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September 8, 2019 at 4:53 pm
A police cruiser crashed into the front of a Brooklyn health food store on Motzoei Shabbos, injuring five people, including two cops after it was slammed into by another vehicle, officials said.
The accident happened around 9:45 p.m. in front of the Landau’s Health Tree on 13th Ave in Borough Park, reports the NY Post. The NYPD Ford Explorer was traveling southbound on 13th Avenue when the driver of a mini-van slammed into it. Surveillance video shows the police cruiser mounting the curb and crashing into the front of Landau’s, striking at least two women. Paramedics rushed the pair to the hospital, where they were treated for non-life threatening injuries. The cops and the driver of the mini-van were also hospitalized and expected to be okay.
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September 8, 2019 at 4:51 pm
More than 6,000 Palestinians rioted on the Israel-Gaza Strip border on Friday in an “especially violent” manner, the IDF said.
The rioters — hurling explosive devices, grenades, firebombs and rocks — damaged the border fence in several locations, according to the Israeli military.
A number of Palestinians were said to have breached the border and briefly crossed into Israeli territory before returning to Gaza. Two were detained on the Israeli side of the border and taken in for questioning.
IDF troops responded with riot-dispersal means. Health officials in Hamas-ruled Gaza said two Palestinian teenagers were killed, and 70 other demonstrators were injured, including 38 by live fire.
Hamas warned that Israel would be “held accountable for these crimes.&rdq...
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September 8, 2019 at 4:51 pm
The acting chief of the UN nuclear watchdog policing Iran‘s nuclear deal with major powers, Cornel Feruta, will meet senior Iranian officials in Tehran on Sunday, a spokesman for the International Atomic Energy Agency said on Friday.
“The visit is part of ongoing interactions between the IAEA and Iran,” the spokesman said.
The trip comes before a quarterly meeting of the IAEA’s 35-nation Board of Governors next week and after an IAEA report suggested Iran‘s cooperation with the agency was less than ideal, saying: “Ongoing interactions between the Agency and Iran … require full and timely cooperation by Iran. The Agency continues to pursue this objective with Iran.”
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September 8, 2019 at 4:51 pm
Robert Mugabe, who ruled Zimbabwe for 37 years and plunged the southern African nation into political and economic chaos as he violently clung to power, has died. He was 95.
“It’s with the utmost sadness that I announce the passing” of Mugabe, Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa said Friday on Twitter. Mugabe died in Singapore, where he was hospitalized in April for an undisclosed ailment.
The one-time schoolteacher was a leading political driver of the 1970s independence war that ended white-minority rule. But he became an international outcast as he faced accusations of rigging elections, suppressing dissent and triggering an economic collapse by condoning the seizure of white-owned farmland. He finally resigned in November 2017, after the military seized control ...
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September 8, 2019 at 4:50 pm
A 73-year-old woman in the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh has given birth to twin girls.
Doctors delivered the twins, who were born following IVF treatment, on Thursday.
Mangayamma Yaramati said she and her husband, who is 82 years old, have always wanted children but had been unable to conceive until now.
“We are incredibly happy,” her husband Sitarama Rajarao told BBC Telugu on Thursday, hours after the babies were born.
Read more at BBC.
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September 8, 2019 at 4:50 pm
A Jewish businessman had a huge shock yesterday when he discovered a luxury sports car hidden on his property.
Motti Stern of Newark Faith Equities was paying a visit to one of the company’s properties in Newark, New Jersey, when he walked in on $700,000 limited edition Lamborghini sports car hidden in the garage.
Realizing the car was stolen and hidden away, Motti contacted the authorities, who were able to return the vehicle to its rightful owner, who was extremely grateful to get his property back.
Motti was able to make a huge Kiddush Hashem when the owner realized he was Jewish and saw how determined he was to return the stolen car.
“There are lots of bad people out there but it’s not the Jews,” the owner told Motti in an Instagram chat obtained by Kol...
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September 8, 2019 at 4:49 pm
Israeli teen Dvir Schnerb was certified to be an EMT for Israel’s national emergency service Magen David Adom on Tuesday, less than two weeks after a terrorist bomb in southern Samaria killed his sister and left him seriously injured.
Schnerb, 19, was wounded by a remotely detonated bomb that killed his 17-year-old sister, Rina, and injured their father while they were hiking near the popular Ein Bubin Springs on Aug. 23.
The ceremony announcing Schnerb’s certification as an EMT took place a few hours after he was released from the hospital.
He said at the event that as a volunteer EMT, he will honor his sister’s memory by working to save other people’s lives. He thanked the medical professionals who saved his own life, remarking, “You all gave me a gift, t...
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September 8, 2019 at 4:49 pm
On Friday United Hatzalah volunteers responded to two separate incidents where children were left in hot cars.
The first incident occurred in Modi’in when a 1-year-old infant was left in the car for an elongated period of time. The child suffered heatstroke. United Hatzalah volunteers responded to the scene and treated the child before he was rushed to the hospital in moderate condition.
The second incident occurred not long afterward in Netanya when a 9-month-old baby was locked in a car for a number of hours on Efraim Elnekave Street. United Hatzalah’s Dispatch and Command Center received a call alerting them to the incident and volunteer EMTs rushed to the scene. United Hatzalah volunteer EMT Mendy Oshky said: “When we arrived at the scene family member...
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September 7, 2019 at 10:16 pm
A 60-year-old man and his son, 17, were stabbed during a trip to the dentist in the Palestinian village of Azun on Saturday after it was known that they were Jews.The father, Yosef Peretz, was lightly injured in the arm, and his son was moderately injured with stab wounds in his back by a 15-year-old Palestinian boy.
“We came to the dentist. When we left, [the attacker] asked us: ‘Are you Jews or Arabs?’ We answered ‘Jews.’ And I looked at his hand and saw the pocket knife,” Peretz told Channel 12.He spoke with reporters in Meir Medical Center in Kfar Saba, where he and his son were treated.“For a year now, I have been coming to this dentist for treatment and everything was fine. I never thought something like this would happen. The dent...
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September 7, 2019 at 10:16 pm
The Israeli Air Force struck Hamas positions in the northern and central Gaza Strip on Saturday night in retaliation for an earlier drone attack against and IDF humvee positioned along the border fence.
The military confirmed that the strikes, which lasted close to an hour, hit naval combat equipment belonging to the terror group and two military compounds.
The IDF conducted the attacks in response to the drone attack earlier on Saturday in which a drone dropped an IED on an IDF vehicle, according to the IDF spokesperson.The Palestinian Ministry of Health reported that there were no injuries in the airstrikes on Saturday night.
Explosions were heard at various sites in the northern and central Gaza Strip and multiple strikes were reported by Palestinian media.
