MidEast

Maccabi Tel Aviv soccer star Eran Zahavi, the Israeli Premier League record holder for goals scored in a season, announced Wednesday that he will join the Chinese club Guangzhou R&F on a $12.5 million contract over the next two and a half years. Maccabi is to receive $8 million for Zahavi, reportedly the most...

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The U.S. Navy’s investigation into the capture of ten American sailors in January “concluded that Iran violated international law” when it seized the sailors, the United States Chief of Naval Operations announced Thursday. In his prepared remarks, Admiral John Richardson explained the ways Iran violated international law. The U.S. ships, which were captured in...

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Outlets affiliated with the Palestinian Authority and its dominant Fatah party have granted the honorary title of “shahid,” or martyr, to a Palestinian who murdered a 13-year-old Israeli girl early Thursday morning. Muhammad Nasser Tarayrah broke into the West Bank community of Kiryat Arba and stabbed Hallel Yaffa Ariel to death as she slept...

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A Palestinian man broke into an Israeli home in the West Bank and stabbed a 13-year-old girl to death in her bed as she slept early Thursday morning. Hallel Yaffa Ariel was killed by a Palestinian assailant who jumped the security fence around the settlement of Kiryat Arba, according to initial reports....

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Iran must declare all of its past and current nuclear activities to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in order for the agency to credibly conclude that the country’s nuclear program is for peaceful purposes only, former IAEA deputy director general Olli Heinonen wrote in a research paper for the Foundation for Defense of Democracies on...

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Germany has reached a preliminary agreement to lease up to five advanced drones from Israel for 600 million euros. The deal, which was signed with the state-owned Israel Air Industries last week, stipulates that the large Heron TP (Eitan) drones will be initially sent to Germany to be made operational and deployed in 2018, Ynet reported....

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