A painting by Henri Matisse in the collection of Cornelius Gurlitt in Munich was stolen by the Nazis from its Jewish owner, a German task force confirmed. The confirmation on the work “Seated Woman” was announced Wednesday by the task force set up by the German government to research more than 1,000 works confiscated from…
An Israeli man has admitted to killing his two American-Israeli children to take revenge on his wife for divorcing him. The man contacted police late Wednesday night to tell them what he had done. The children, aged 14 and 10, were stabbed to death in their father’s home in the Yashresh moshav in central Israel,…
Jean-Marie Le Pen denied making anti-Semitic statements on his blog and asked his daughter, Marine Le Pen, to repost the blog on the website of the far-right National Front party which she heads. Jean-Marie Le Pen, who is the party’s honorary president and founder, made the request Wednesday in a letter he wrote to his…
An Argentinian neo-Nazi group has received government approval to become a registered political party. Argentinian neo-Nazi Alejandro Biondini registered a new organization, called Bandera Vecinal, or Local flag, and received approval to become a registered political party and to participate in 2015 presidential elections. After it signed up the required 4,000 members, the nationalist organization…
Shelly Sterling on Wednesday was granted a trial next month in Los Angeles to resolve a dispute with her estranged husband Donald Sterling over who controls the NBA’s Los Angeles Clippers, leaving its $2 billion sale up in the air. Shelly Sterling has asked a probate court to confirm her as the controlling owner of…
The Palestinian attorney-general said on Thursday an autopsy has found that a live bullet killed a Palestinian teenager in an incident that a human rights group has termed a possible Israeli war crime. “A fragment from a live bullet was found inside the body of the martyr,” Abdel-Ghani Al-A’wewy told Reuters after the autopsy on…
(Reuters) — A combination of over-confidence, neglect of his district and voter anger at congressional leaders fueled Republican Eric Cantor’s stunning primary loss in Virginia, an upset that rocked the Republican Party. Cantor’s loss on Tuesday to a political unknown, college professor and Tea Party challenger David Brat, followed a series of missed warning signs…
A New York customer service provider allegedly forced employees to pray, thank God for their jobs and say “I love you” to managers and colleagues at work — and fired those who protested. The Long Island-based United Health Programs of America and its parent company, Cost Containment Group, required workers to practice a spiritual belief…
The stakes are getting higher – politically and financially – in Florida’s heated campaign over a November referendum to allow doctors to prescribe marijuana. The latest financial reports by the two main groups fighting the legalization of medical marijuana show a total of more than $7.7 million has been raised to oppose the constitutional amendment…
An attorney for Shelly Sterling submitted a request on Wednesday for an emergency court hearing to confirm her as the controlling owner of the Los Angeles Clippers in an attempt to block estranged husband Donald Sterling from stopping the $2 billion sale of the NBA team. A spokeswoman at the Los Angeles Superior Court said…
FIFA president Sepp Blatter and delegates at the FIFA Congress called on the Israeli government on Wednesday to fully commit to FIFA’s plans to ease restrictions on movement for Palestinian footballers. “I call on the Israeli government to facilitate this movement and I go so far as to say its co-operation is crucial,” Blatter told…
