MidEast

Israel-based Teva Pharmaceutical Industries, the world’s largest generic medicines producer, and the American computing giant IBM announced on Wednesday that they will expand their global e-Health alliance to “[discover] new treatment options and [improve] chronic disease management,” The Times of Israel reported. Both initiatives will be hosted on IBM’s Watson Health Cloud...

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Representatives of the Baha’i religion accused the government of Iranian President Hassan Rouhani on Tuesday of “ongoing efforts to destroy the Baha’i community,” the Associated Press reported. In a 122-page document, the Baha’i International Community outlined the Rouhani administration’s efforts to intensify its “campaign to incite hatred against Baha’is,” including by spreading over...

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Mohammad Shtayyeh, a former Palestinian negotiator and current advisor to Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, presented a deceitful account of Israeli-Palestinian diplomacy over the course of the Obama administration in a New York Times op-ed published on Wednesday. The tone of the op-ed, which calls on the United States to support the French initiative “for...

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Two eight-year-old Palestinian children who were apprehended with knives near Migdal Oz in the West Bank on Wednesday told authorities that they were sent to carry out a terrorist attack, The Times of Israel reported. “A short while ago forces identified and apprehended two Palestinian children under the age of ten near the community...

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If ISIS or other terror groups expand their operations against Western nations, Europe should look to Israel as “a welcome guide in navigating the difficult moral, legal and tactical terrain ahead,” a Nobel Peace Prize winner wrote Thursday in The Telegraph. Lord David Trimble, the Nobel laureate and former First Minister of...

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The fictional superhero Wonder Woman was named an Honorary Ambassador for the Empowerment of Women and Girls. Two actors who played her, Gal Gadot and Lynda Carter, spoke at the world body’s headquarters on October 21 at an event that also celebrated the 75th anniversary of the crime-fighting demigoddess. “Wonder Woman seeks to...

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