MidEast

Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced on Sunday that he will be visiting Colombia next week to attend the inauguration of the country’s newly elect president Ivan Duque, The Times of Israel reported. Several presidents from Latin America are expected to attend Duque’s inauguration and Netanyahu is expected to have...

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The Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) has invested $2 million in the cybersecurity research center at Ben-Gurion University (BGU), RBC and BGN Technologies, the technology transfer company of BGU, announced. Funding for the partnership between the financial institution and the university will support the development of adversarial artificial intelligence (AI), including...

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In just four months the value of Iran’s currency, the rial, has dropped by half — now it takes 102,000 rial to buy a dollar — Agence France-Presse reported Monday. In March, the rial’s value had dropped to the point that it cost 50,000 rial to buy a dollar. The latest reported...

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Israel is subjected to an unprecedented discrimination campaign in the international sports industry, Joshua S. Block, President and CEO of The Israel Project, wrote in an op-ed for The Algemeiner on Friday. Block was referring to the case of seven-year-old Liel Levitan from Haifa, who recently won the European Chess...

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The Islamic Republic of Iran is using German companies to disguise their illicit support for Shiite militia forces in the fight against the internationally recognized government of Yemen, Benjamin Weinthal reported in The Jerusalem Post on Friday. Based on interviews with U.S. Treasury Department officials, Time Magazine revealed last week...

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In early July, Iranian diplomat Assadollah Assadi was arrested and charged with acting as a foreign agent and conspiracy to commit murder following his alleged involvement in a failed bomb plot targeting a gathering of Iranian opposition groups in Paris. This thwarted terror attack, the latest in a long Iranian...

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