MidEast

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu held a secret meeting with Indonesian Vice-president Jusuf Kalla on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York, The Jerusalem Post reported Sunday. According to a report from Israeli Army Radio, Netanyahu met last week with several Muslim leaders including Egyptian President Abdel...

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Medtronic, an Irish-American medical device company, announced last Friday that it was purchasing Israel’s Mazor Robotics for a hefty $1.64 billion, the biggest exit ever for an Israeli biotech company. Mazor’s signature piece of technology, a robotic-assisted procedure, represents the future gold standard of spine surgery, which is now poised to be executed...

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VitalMiner, a new software system to measure hemodynamic instability – unstable blood pressure – in intensive-care patients is hailed as a potential lifesaver by Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, where it is being piloted. “Earlier prediction of physiological deterioration of patients by using ‘smart’ monitoring software and machine learning algorithms...

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The United States will no longer give funding to Gaza that empowers the Islamist terrorist organization Hamas or fund Palestinian incitement towards Israel, the U.S. Special Representative for International Negotiations, Jason Greenblatt, said on Thursday in New York at the sidelines of the UN General Assembly. JNS reported on Sunday...

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Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said Monday that it had launched at least six ballistic missiles into eastern Syria, targeting militants the paramilitary force blames for a recent attack on a military parade in Iran, in order to “convey a clear message to Saudi Arabia, the U.S. and Israel.”...

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A 21-year-old Syrian-born Palestinian man was arrested in Berlin two weeks ago on suspicion of planning a terror attack in Israel, using chemical weapons, The Times of Israel reported Sunday. At the time of his arrest, the Syrian migrant was allegedly actively recruiting ‎members for a cell that was to...

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