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Diplomacy

Ambassadors from European countries engaged in nuclear negotiations with Iran said that they will likely miss their June 30 deadline, while the sanctions regime that forced Iran to negotiate continues to erode, The Times of Israel reported Tuesday. Gerard Araud, the French ambassador to the United States, told a panel...

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Israel

The Israeli Air Force struck at terrorist targets in the Gaza Strip early Wednesday in response to a rocket fired from Gaza that fell in southern Israel Tuesday, The Times of Israel reported today. The IDF said in a statement that it targeted four sites of terror infrastructure in the...

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Europe

The espionage trial of Washington Post reporter Jason Rezaian began today in Tehran, with the prosecution citing a letter Rezaian sent to the White House promoting closer ties between Iran and the United States as evidence, The New York Times reported today. Jason Rezaian, the Washington Post correspondent accused by...

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A Hezbollah-allied newspaper, As-Safir, recently published a series reports on the massive infrastructure, including a network of tunnels, that the Iranian-backed terrorist organization has been building on Lebanon’s border with Israel, The Times of Israel reported Saturday. According to the Times, Hezbollah is “painting a picture of a military force highly prepared for...

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As many as five rockets were fired into Israel from Gaza this evening, the result of a feud among Palestinian terrorists, The Times of Israel reported today. One projectile was located near Gan Yavneh, minutes after the red-alert sirens sounded in the Lachish region and Ashdod, the Israeli army said...

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Iran

Iranian-backed Iraqi militias have claimed that they will lead the Iraqi campaign to free the recently captured Sunni-majority city of Ramadi from the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), Reuters reported today. The announcement raised fears that such a move will exacerbate sectarian strife even further. Iraq’s Shi’ite militia announced on Tuesday...

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Diplomacy

The Palestinian Authority rejected compromise terms that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu outlined for restarting peace talks with Israel, The Times of Israel reported today. The Palestinian Authority refuses to resume negotiations with Israel without Israeli recognition of the pre-1967 borders as the basis for talks and of East Jerusalem as the future...

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Diplomacy

The espionage trial of Washington Post reporter Jason Rezaian, which started today in Tehran, is part of “an aggressive campaign to bully the United States and its partners into weakening” the terms of the nuclear deal being negotiated by Iran and the P5+1 nations, a staff editorial in The Washington...

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Israel

Berkshire Hathaway, the investment firm headed by Warren Buffett, has invested $22.5 million in eVolution Networks, a company that has developed a technology to use cell phone base stations more efficiently saving energy, The Times of Israel reported Thursday. With its Smart Energy Solution (SES) technology, eVolution conducts both a thorough...

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Human Rights

With the capture of the ancient city of Palmyra and the town of Al-Tanaf on the border with Iraq, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) now controls half of the territory in Syria, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. The Times of Israel reported Friday: In...

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