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Jeremy Corbyn, the leader of the United Kingdom’s Labour Party and its candidate for prime minister in the general election that takes place Thursday, addressed a rally at which members of a proscribed Islamist group chanted “Gas, gas, Tel Aviv,” the Daily Mail reported Tuesday. Corbyn attended a highly controversial...

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Diplomacy

United States Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that she defends Israel at the UN because “if there’s anything I have no patience for, [it’s] bullies.” Netanyahu greeted Haley on the first day of her trip to Israel, thanking her “for all your help and standing...

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MidEast

Saudi Arabia’s foreign minister said on Tuesday that if Qatar wants to restore diplomatic ties with other Arab states, it must stop funding the Muslim Brotherhood and the Gaza-based terrorist group Hamas. “We want to see Qatar implement the promises it made a few years back with regard its support of...

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Iran

Despite claiming a pair of lethal terrorist attacks that rocked Tehran on Wednesday, the Islamic State remains “essentially aligned” with Iran, a terrorism expert wrote. At least 12 people were killed earlier in the day in twin attacks on Iran’s parliament and the mausoleum of the Islamic Republic’s founder, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khamenei....

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Iran

Qatar paid up to $1 billion in ransom to Iranian figures and affiliated Shia militias as well as to al-Qaeda linked jihadist groups in return for the release of members of its royal family kidnapped in Iraq, the Financial Times reported Monday. The government in Doha secured the release of...

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Israel

Israeli researchers have developed a new therapy to treat atherosclerosis (hardening and narrowing of the arteries, also called arteriosclerosis) and prevent heart failure, using a new biomedical polymer that reduces arterial plaque and inflammation in the cardiovascular system. Atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease causes 56 million deaths annually worldwide, according to the...

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Iran

Iran is believed to be secretly building advanced centrifuges that would greatly shorten its breakout time to a nuclear weapon, Adam Kredo reported Monday for the Washington Free Beacon. Ali Akbar Salehi, head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, indicated in early April that Iran could mass-produce advanced centrifuges and would...

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MidEast

Hamas has amassed an army of 27,000 men in preparation for its next war with Israel, including a unit dedicated to attacking civilians inside Israeli territory, Avi Issacharoff reported Monday in The Times of Israel. “Hamas is built like an army in every way,” Issacharoff reported, with fighters broken up into six regional...

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Europe

Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn, who hopes to become the United Kingdom’s next prime minister after Thursday’s vote, has previously argued that the militant Islamist group Hamas should be removed from the Britain’s list of terrorist organizations, The Telegraph reported Sunday. In a statement to Qatari-owned Al Jazeera on April 16,...

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Israel

The U.S. Senate passed a bipartisan resolution recognizing the 50th anniversary of Jerusalem’s unification and reaffirming U.S. law calling for the city to “remain the undivided capital of Israel” by a vote of 90-0 on Monday. The resolution was sponsored by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R – Ken.) and co-sponsored by Senate Minority...

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