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A major counter-terrorism investigation is underway in Britain after a bucket bomb was detonated during rush hour on Friday on a packed London underground train at Parsons Green tube station. ISIS later claimed responsibility for the attack, as authorities raised the terror threat level from severe to critical, meaning that another...

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Diplomacy

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu continued his tour of South America with visits to Colombia and Mexico. Netanyahu met with Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos in Bogota and they discussed deepening bilateral cooperation in the fields of agriculture, water technology, innovation and cyber defense. Netanyahu said that under the Colombian President’s...

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Israel

Israel is fast becoming a powerhouse in the development of advanced automotive technology and international companies and governmental bodies are taking notice. The latest partnership to be announced is between the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, South Korea’s Hyundai Motor Group, and KAIST (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and...

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Diplomacy

The Trump administration announced on Thursday that it would once again waive sanctions against Iran’s banking and oil industries in line with the 2015 nuclear deal, but signaled that it would take a tougher stance towards enforcing the deal’s implementation. The announcement of the waiver came hours after the United...

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Europe

An unprecedented study of anti-Semitism conducted by the Institute for Jewish Policy Research (JPR) in Britain revealed that one in three citizens holds at least one anti-Semitic attitude, and showed an “unambiguous” link between anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism, The Times of Israel reported Tuesday. More than 4,000 members of the public contributed...

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Israel

The anti-Israel boycott bill currently being considered by Congress would prohibit individuals and organizations to “boycott Israel at the behest of international governmental organizations,” and would not affect a person’s ability to criticize Israel, wrote two former Democratic administration officials in an op-ed published Tuesday in The Washington Post. Jonathan...

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Iran

The United States Congress voted on Wednesday to adopt two measures that would block the sale of aircraft to Iran. The measures were amendments to the 2018 spending authorization bill. One of the amendments would prohibit spending the money necessary to authorize the sales, and the other would block Office...

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Israel

During the week of August 15-23, 2017, volunteers with Israel’s Eye from Zion humanitarian organization held an “eye camp” in Chuka, Kenya. They received 723 patients in three locations, from infants to senior citizens, performing free treatments and surgeries—85 percent of the surgeries to remove cataracts and 10% to correct astigmatism. Medical...

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MidEast

Faced with the loss of funds if the Taylor Force Act becomes law, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas must clearly outlaw terrorism as an important first step to show that the PA is seriously working to fight terror, two experts wrote in an op-ed published Tuesday in The Wall Street...

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Diplomacy

On Wednesday, the Palestinian Authority (PA) withdrew its attempt to gain full membership in the United Nations’ World Tourism Organization (UNTWO) due to American pressure. The chairman of the UN’s tourism body announced during a meeting in Chengdu that UNTWO will postpone a vote on accepting the PA as a...

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