MidEast

Sirhan Sirhan, the Palestinian assassin of Sen. Robert Kennedy who acted out of anger at Kennedy’s support for Israel, has been denied parole for the 15th time. Sirhan shot Kennedy at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, shortly after the senator won the 1968 California Democratic presidential primary. “This crime impacted the nation, and I daresay...

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When the Spanish soccer superclub Real Madrid—the world’s most valuable sports franchise, according to Forbes—decided to beef up their official mobile app, they turned to Sportech Interactech, the Spanish subsidiary of the Israeli company Interacting Technology. Sportech Interactech plans to use its tech expertise to acquire more users, enhance interactions among Real fans,...

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Iranian state television on Wednesday broadcast photos and a video of an American serviceman appearing to cry after he and nine other U.S. sailors were captured by the country’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) last month. Tehran had previously publicized footage of the detained sailors kneeling with their hands behind their heads, as well as...

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In order to recover its moral standing, the United States must take the necessary actions “to establish a new configuration of power” that will protect Syrian civilians from the Iran-backed regime of President Bashar al-Assad and his Russian allies, Leon Wieseltier and Michael Ignatieff wrote in an op-ed published in The Washington Post on Tuesday. Wieseltier,...

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Bipartisan bills have been introduced into both houses of Congress that would protect the rights of state and local governments to withdraw their business from companies or entities that engage in the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel. The bill, known as the Combating BDS Act of 2016, is sponsored by Sens. Mark Kirk...

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Gershad, an Iranian crowdsourcing app designed to allow users to avoid the morality police, known as the Ershad, became a massive success almost immediately after its launch, only to be blocked by regime authorities less than a day later. The app allows users to mark where they saw an Ershad patrol on a...

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