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A flag flutters outside the US embassy in Tel Aviv August 4, 2013. (Photo credit: REUTERS)

US Congressional Delegation Visits Israel to Study Moving the Embassy

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Mar 4, 2017 | Middle East

Tel Aviv – A US Congressional delegation will visit Israel on Saturday to look into the possibility of relocating the American embassy to Jerusalem. Local Israeli news agencies said that the delegation was on behalf of the Subcommittee on National Security of...

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Vice President Mike Pence and Speaker of the House Paul Ryan applaud as President Donald Trump arrives to deliver his first address to a joint session of Congress from the floor of the House of Representatives in Washington. REUTERS/Jim Lo Scalzo

Trump Delivers Conciliatory Speech…without Compromises

by Heba El Koudsy | Mar 2, 2017 | World

Washington – “Thank you”, tweeted US President Donald Trump in his first remark following a pacifying address to the Congress on Tuesday – a message intended to express the president’s appreciation to positive coverage by US and international media of his first...

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Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammed Javad Zarif.AP

Divisions in Tehran over Rapprochement with Gulf States

by Adil Alsalmi | Mar 1, 2017 | Middle East

London- Leaked information uncovered a dispute between members of the Iranian regime on issues related to reviving diplomatic ties with Gulf States and the position from Syria. According to the leaks, there is also a controversy on letters exchanged between Iranian...

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President Barack Obama meets with President-elect Donald Trump in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington November 10, 2016. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque

A Divided White House Still Offers Little Guidance on Replacing Obamacare

by Juliet Eilperin and Amy Goldstein | Feb 28, 2017 | World

A meeting Friday afternoon between President Trump and Ohio Gov. John Kasich, his former rival in the GOP primaries, had no set agenda. But Kasich came armed with one anyway: his hope to blunt drastic changes to the nation’s health-care system envisioned by some...

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Anna Mumaw (L) of Olympia, Washington attends the People’s Tribunal Against the Detention Center event organized by undocumented immigrants and formerly detained at the Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma, Washington on February 26, 2017. Jason Redmond / AFP

Immigration Agents Discover New Freedom to Deport Under Trump

by Nicholas Kulish, Caitlin Dickerson and Ron Nixon | Feb 27, 2017 | Features

Virginia- In Virginia, Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents waited outside a church shelter where undocumented immigrants had gone to stay warm. In Texas and in Colorado, agents went into courthouses, looking for foreigners who had arrived for hearings on other...