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Diplomacy

Ahead of more restrictive United States sanction on Iran in November, both British Airways and Air France announced that they would be cancelling their service next month to Iran due to financial considerations, The Jerusalem Post reported Thursday. In announcing the end of its service to and from Tehran, British Airways...

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Diplomacy

The White House’s national security adviser, John Bolton, said the United States will cut funding for the United Nations Human Right Council and for the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, The Associated Press reported Thursday. The Trump administration pulled out of the 47-member body in June, accusing...

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Israel

Harvey, Irma, Maria, José and Nate will forever be names associated with the catastrophic 2017 Atlantic hurricane season. One year later, millions of people from Texas to the Caribbean still suffer physical and psychological fallout from those disastrous weather events. At the time, Israelis from IsraAID, Magen David Adom, Dream...

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Europe

Because terrorists use human shields to protect themselves or cause civilian casualties “without facing consequences,” it is imperative that “terrorists and their sponsoring regimes must be held accountable for their brutal practice of using civilians as human shields,” argued two experts in an op-ed published Wednesday in The Wall Street...

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Diplomacy

At a news conference Wednesday, John Bolton, the National Security Advisor of the United States, called Israeli airstrikes against Iranian military assets in Syria “a legitimate act of self-defense,” The Jerusalem Post reported. Bolton also noted that the U.S. under President Donald Trump had twice struck at Syria for its use...

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Diplomacy

Israel’s finance minister is eliciting support for a plan to strengthen the West Bank’s economy from the United States and European Union even as the Palestinian Authority is opposing such efforts, Bloomberg News reported Wednesday. During the past three years, Israeli Finance Minister Moshe Kahlon has been promoting a plan to build jointly-operated...

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The German government is under fire for efforts to circumvent U.S. sanctions on Iran, after German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas said “every day that the Iran [nuclear] agreement lasts,” is making the world safer, Benjamin Weinthal, a fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, reported for FoxNews.com on Wednesday....

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Israeli humanitarian NGO IsraAID announced today that it is sending an emergency response team to the southern Indian state of Kerala, which has been hit by the worst flooding in living memory. More than 350 people have been killed since the monsoon began at the end of May, and at least 220...

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Israel’s Rafael Advanced Defense Systems has been selected to provide weapons systems to the Australian Defence Force, The Jerusalem Post reported Wednesday. The announcement was made by Australia’s Minister for Defence Industry Christopher Pyne at a ceremony marking the creation of  VRA Systems, which is a joint venture between Rafael and Australia’s Varley...

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Defying calls from the anti-Semitic Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign, to cancel her performance at the Meteor Festival in Israel, American singer Lana Del Rey said in a statement, “I believe music is universal and should be used to bring us together.” Del Rey had received widespread criticism from the boycotts...

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