Global Affairs

Russia’s Defense Ministry has announced the establishment of a hotline with Israel in order to ensure the two countries’ air forces will not clash in Syria, The Times of Israel reported today. “Mutual information-sharing on the actions of aircraft has been established through a hotline between the Russian aviation command center...

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Indian President Pranab Mukherjee said he was “disturbed” by the recent wave of violence in Israel, as he met with his Israeli counterpart Reuven Rivlin Wednesday. “India attaches high importance to its relationship with Israel; we are disturbed by the recent violence,” Mukherjee, who is the first Indian president to visit Israel, told Rivlin....

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Former Secretary of State and Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton is further distancing herself from the foreign policy of the administration she served by calling for the removal of Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad and imposing a no-fly zone over that country. On the campaign trail yesterday, Clinton said of Syria,...

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Argentine President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner allegedly received bribes from the Iranian regime as part of her negotiations to absolve the Islamic Republic of responsibility for the July 1994 bombing of the AMIA Jewish Center in Buenos Aires, in which 85 people were murdered and more than 100 wounded. The claim...

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Facebook will use an Israeli satellite to provide free internet access to sub-Saharan Africa, CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in a statement Monday. The technology giant plans to use the AMOS-6 satellite, built by Israel Aerospace Industries and operated by Israeli company Spacecom, as part of its Internet.org initiative. The program,...

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Activists from the Coalition for a Democratic Syria (CDS) gathered in front of the Russian embassy in Washington on Friday to protest against the recent salvo of Russian airstrikes in Syria. Despite unfavorable weather conditions, a dozen activists demonstrated before the embassy gate, waving Syrian flags and calling for an...

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