MidEast

Israeli experts will assist the northern Indian state of Punjab to develop a plan for the conservation and management of critical water resources to tackle declining ground water in the region, David Gerstman reported in the Algemeiner. Punjab’s water resources minister, Sukhbinder Singh Sarkaria, met Saturday with a team of...

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The United States will send 1,000 additional troops and more military resources to the Middle East amid soaring tensions with Iran, the Pentagon announced Monday. Acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan said in a statement that the troops were being sent “for defensive purposes to address air, naval, and ground-based threats”...

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Democratic Presidential candidate and South Bend, Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg said Sunday that if he were elected President he would not move the United States Embassy back to Tel Aviv from Jerusalem. The decision to relocate the Embassy honored bipartisan Congressional requirements first passed into law over 20 years ago...

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Iran issued an ultimatum to Europe on Monday, warning that within days the Islamic Republic will exceed the limit on its stockpile of uranium under the 2015 nuclear accord. The violation, which Tehran said would happen within ten days, could see Iranian enrichment levels reaching up to 20 percent – just...

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As Tel Aviv Pride, the largest LGBTQ event in the Middle East and Asia, kicked off in Israel last week, Iran’s foreign minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif, reiterated the Islamic Republic’s right to execute homosexuals. Paul Ronzheimer, a reporter for the German daily newspaper Bild, said on Twitter that he had...

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Israel’s Strategic Affairs Ministry said Monday that a two-year targeted campaign against the financial infrastructure of organizations that promote the anti-Semitic Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) campaign with links to terrorist groups resulted in the shut-down of dozens of fundraising accounts. “For years, boycott promoters have disguised themselves as ‘human-rights...

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