MidEast

Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi rebels claimed an attack on a Saudi-led coalition warship near a strategic Red Sea waterway, China’s state-owned Xinhua News Agency reported Wednesday. The reported attack took place off the coast of the Yemeni city of Mocha, about 60 miles north of the Bab al-Mandeb Strait. An estimated 4.7...

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Rambam Medical Center in Haifa has received a large donation from a Palestinian Authority official who received life-saving care there, Times of Israel reported Monday. According to the anonymous benefactor, the donation is intended “to build peace through medicine.” The official decided to give tens of thousands of Israeli shekels to the Joseph Fishman...

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Israeli leaders welcomed President Baron Waqa of the Pacific island nation of Nauru to Jerusalem this week. In a meeting with Israeli President Reuven Rivlin on Sunday, Waqa spoke of the productive technology-sharing relationship between their two nations and said he was “very pleased” to visit Jerusalem. “I want to show our solidarity...

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Palestinian Authority officials confirmed on Wednesday that they will continue paying salaries to terrorists and their families, contradicting an assertion by United States Secretary of State Rex Tillerson that the policy had been stopped. “There have been talks about making the payments in a different way, but not ending them,”...

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Microsoft Corp. has signed an agreement to acquire Hexadite, an Israeli-American company whose automatic incident investigation and remediation solutions will help commercial Windows 10 customers detect, investigate and respond to advanced attacks on their networks with Windows Defender Advanced Threat Protection (WDATP). An official Microsoft statement released on June 8...

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Experts testifying at a congressional hearing indicated that effectively combating Hezbollah includes targeting its international financing network, the Free Beacon reported. Hezbollah, which was created by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps in the early 1980s, has morphed into a global terror network now financed by drug trafficking and other illicit...

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