MidEast

A rocket fired by Palestinian terrorists in the Gaza Strip landed between two houses in the southern Israeli city of Sderot on Sunday, prompting the IDF to carry out airstrikes against Hamas targets in Gaza. The rocket, which was claimed by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, fell in a residential area beside...

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Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif is kicking off a six nation tour of Latin America on Sunday amid increasing fears of Tehran’s influence over the region. Zarif will begin his visit in Cuba on Sunday, then travel to Nicaragua, Ecuador, Chile, Bolivia, and Venezuela, according to Iranian media. More than 60 Iranian business leaders will...

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The United Nations and its associated agencies purchased $91.8 million worth of goods and services from Israel in 2015, twice as much as they spent on Israeli products just two years earlier, The Jerusalem Post reported on Friday. The UN spent just $45 million on Israeli products in 2013, a figure that increased to $69.8...

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The timing of the $400 million payment to Iran for the release of three American hostages “suggests” that the Obama administration was already talking to officials of Iran Air, which delivered the cash home from Geneva, while it was still listed as a terrorist organization, a former Treasury official said on...

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A Jewish man wearing religious garb was stabbed by an attacker shouting “Allahu Akhbar” in the French city of Strasbourg on Friday, Agence France-Presse reported. French Chief Rabbi Rene Gutman told AFP that witnesses heard the assailant shout the Arabic phrase as the man was stabbed in the abdomen outside his home....

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When British physicist Stephen Hawking theorized, 42 years ago, that radiation emanates from black holes, no existing technology was powerful enough to prove it. Now, Israeli professor Jeff Steinhauer can say definitively that “quantum Hawking radiation” is an actual phenomenon. Steinhauer’s findings, published August 15 as the lead article in...

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