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NovoCure – the company known for its novel approach to treat solid tumors with electric fields — has filed for an IPO to raise up to $300 million. The Israeli medical device pioneer received FDA approval in 2011 for its TTFields product designed to treat Glioblastoma brain cancer. Chief underwriters...

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Iran

Rep. Peter Roskam (R-Ill.) submitted a resolution today demanding that a vote on the nuclear deal with Iran be postponed until the White House releases the text of the side deals between Iran and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). Roskam argued that keeping the side deals secret violates the Iran Nuclear Agreement Review Act, which...

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Iran

The United States gets “nothing but grief” from the nuclear deal with Iran, the former head of U.S. military intelligence said today. Lt. Gen. (ret.) Michael Flynn, who served as the head of the Defense Intelligence Agency from 2012 to 2014, said in an interview published on the website Medium that the deal could...

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Diplomacy

America’s interpretation of the Iran nuclear deal is inaccurate, the speaker of the Iranian parliament told NPR in an interview today. Ali Larijani says the agreement is good enough. He adds that [the] United States’ reading of that deal, particularly when it comes to sanctions, is not good at all. And he’s hoping that the...

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Diplomacy

Sen. Joe Manchin (D -W.Va.) announced his opposition to the nuclear deal with Iran today, becoming the 58th senator and fourth Democrat to do so. West Virginia Public Broadcasting reported: “Whenever I am able, I will choose diplomacy over war because the stakes are so high for West Virginia, which has...

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Iran

Iran’s Defense Minister Hossein Dehghan said that Tehran will continue arming Hezbollah, Hamas, and “any group of the resistance to the U.S. and Israel,” and explained that the Islamic Republic still considered America to be the “Great Satan,” in an interview translated and transcribed by the Middle East Media Research...

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Europe

A series of violent anti-Semitic attacks have recently swept across Europe, with Ynet reporting yesterday that an elderly couple — Shmuel Blog and Auschwitz survivor Diana Blog — were assaulted during a burglary at their Amsterdam apartment last month. The couple was brutally beaten by two men who entered their home, bound...

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Iran

Despite its stated goal of preventing Iran from becoming a nuclear threat, the deal will allow it to become a “threshold nuclear state” by the time it expires, Gen. (ret.) James Conway, the former commandant of the of Marine Corps, and Gen. (ret.) Charles Wald, former deputy commander of United States...

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Europe

The nuclear deal with Iran will give Syrian President Bashar al-Assad a “fresh economic shot in the arm,” which will strengthen the dictator and add to Europe’s growing refugee crisis, Benjamin Weinthal, a research fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, wrote Saturday in an op-ed for the New...

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Europe

Streams of desperate refugees flooding Europe from the Middle East, Asia and Africa will soon get a helping hand from IsraAID, a non-profit, non-governmental organization founded in Israel in 2001 to bring lifesaving disaster relief and long-term support wherever needed. “We are running a campaign with the goal of inspiring...

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