MidEast

Iran is sending arms and money to support the Taliban in Afghanistan, The Wall Street Journal reported (Google link) Thursday. Afghan and Western officials say Tehran has quietly increased its supply of weapons, ammunition and funding to the Taliban, and is now recruiting and training their fighters, posing a new...

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The Qatar-owned TV station Al Jazeera America (AJAM) is the target of a lawsuit filed by a former executive, Shannon High-Bassalik, alleging that the network discriminated against women and non-Arabs and promoted anti-Israel bias in its reporting, Politico reported Thursday. In her lawsuit, High-Bassalik, who has also worked at CNN, MSNBC...

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In a public debate last month against an advisor to Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollahi Ali Khamenei, Prof. Sadegh Zibakalam of Tehran University, who is associated with the reformist movement in Iran, argued that Iran’s enrichment program has been expensive for the country with little benefit. His remarks were translated Tuesday by the Middle...

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The United States and the other Western nations involved in the ongoing nuclear talks with Iran are prepared to reach an agreement with Iran over its nuclear program despite Iran’s refusal to fully come clean about all of its past nuclear research, the Associated Press reported today. After a November 2013 interim...

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Want to take a selfie without hands? Do you dream about connecting with your favorite Chelsea footballers? Struggling to cope with an overflowing email inbox? Israeli app makers have you covered. Here are a dozen made-in-Israel apps that could make your life healthier, more fun, and more efficient. 1. uHealth is a focus-...

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After the CEO of French telecom giant Orange made comments in Cairo earlier this week that were interpreted as withdrawing from the Israeli market and supporting a boycott of the Jewish state, international law expert and Northwestern University Law School professor Eugene Kontorovich wrote an analysis, published today in The Washington Post, that accused the company of hypocrisy due...

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