MidEast

The United Arab Emirates sentenced a man to ten years in prison for smuggling parts to Iran for use in its nuclear program, the Associated Press reported Thursday. The man, an Iranian citizen identified only by his initials S.M.A.R., was convicted of smuggling an electric motor and other devices. While the UAE’s official press...

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All 100 members of the U.S. Senate signed a letter Thursday urging the United Nations to stop unfairly targeting Israel. The senators noted that while the U.S. co-founded the UN “with the intention of saving future generations from war,” today many member states and agencies “are using the U.N.’s privileged platform to...

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U.S. President Donald Trump is set to arrive in Israel for a two-day visit on 22 May, official sources in Jerusalem told The Times of Israel on Thursday. A delegation of some 25 U.S. officials landed in Israel on Thursday to start planning what is due to be the president’s first...

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Mobileye, the Jerusalem-based global leader in the development of computer vision and machine learning for autonomous driving, has announced an agreement with Nissan Motor to generate crowd-sourced data to create next-generation higher precision maps. The new agreement will use the Jerusalem company’s Road Experience Management (REM) data generation technology to...

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A Syrian drone was intercepted by a Patriot missile over the Israeli Golan Heights on Thursday evening, the Israeli military said. “The IDF will not allow any breach of Israel’s airspace and will act against any attempt of infiltration,” the military stated. According to the IDF, the drone was under “full [Israeli Air...

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A top Hamas official warned Wednesday that if Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas continues pressuring the Gaza-based terrorist group to submit to the PA, “it’s going to explode in his face and in all directions,” news agencies reported. Responding to Abbas’ threatened funding cuts to Gaza, including a plan to stop subsidizing the enclave’s electricity...

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