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New York – More U.S. Retailers Probing Phony Egyptian Cotton

New York – More U.S. Retailers Probing Phony Egyptian Cotton

  New York – U.S. retailer Bed Bath & Beyond on Wednesday said it ordered an external audit of textiles from Welspun India, after Target… Read More ›

Toronto – Canadian Mounties Allow Officers To Wear Hijab

Toronto – Canadian Mounties Allow Officers To Wear Hijab

  Toronto – Canada’s national police force recently permitted its women officers to wear the hijab. The Commissioner of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police recently… Read More ›

Yorba Linda, CA – Documents: Soviets Worried About Detente After Nixon Quit

Yorba Linda, CA – Documents: Soviets Worried About Detente After Nixon Quit

  Yorba Linda, CA – Overseas reaction to President Richard Nixon’s resignation in 1974 was mixed: The Soviets expressed worry about the future of detente.… Read More ›

Bilinguals are more attractive, say 71% of Americans

Bilinguals are more attractive, say 71% of Americans

  Want greater success in your career and your love life, as well as a healthy brain long into old age? The answer could be… Read More ›

FARC-Colombia peace deal finalized

FARC-Colombia peace deal finalized

  Havana (CNN)Negotiators seeking to end the five-decades-old bloody insurgency in Colombia, one of the world’s longest-running conflicts, said Wednesday in Havana that they had… Read More ›

Iranian vessels conduct ‘high-speed intercept’ of US destroyer

Iranian vessels conduct ‘high-speed intercept’ of US destroyer

A US Navy official told CNN four Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps vessels conducted a “high-speed intercept” of the USS Nitze in waters near the Strait… Read More ›

Iran rounds up 450 social media users for ‘immoral activities’

Iran rounds up 450 social media users for ‘immoral activities’

Revolutionary Guard says ‘arrested or summoned’ users also guilty of ‘insulting religion’ and ‘illegal’ fashion-related posts   TEHRAN — Iran has “arrested or summoned” around… Read More ›

US paid Iran $1.3 billion, two days after $400m cash delivery

US paid Iran $1.3 billion, two days after $400m cash delivery

Obama administration says 13 separate payments of $99,999,999.99 and final payment of about $10 million part of resolution of decades-old military sale   WASHINGTON (AP)… Read More ›

In Paris, Jewish students find public schools a no-go zone

In Paris, Jewish students find public schools a no-go zone

With pervasive anti-Semitism from teachers and pupils, the last 15 years has seen a drastic shift towards private Jewish education   PARIS (JTA) — Twenty-five… Read More ›

Israeli aid group going to Louisiana to assist flood victims

Israeli aid group going to Louisiana to assist flood victims

Following a torrential downpour which has killed over 13 and forced tens of thousands from their homes, Israeli aid organization IsraAid is sending a delegation… Read More ›

Brussels Airlines caves into BDS, set to stop serving Israeli halva

Brussels Airlines caves into BDS, set to stop serving Israeli halva

After a Palestinian Solidarity Movement activist noticed Israeli made Ahva brand halva being served on a flight from Israel to Brussels, the activist notified his… Read More ›

Suddenly, Abbas wants democracy

Suddenly, Abbas wants democracy

Op-ed: Mahmoud Abbas is insisting on holding democratic municipal elections in October, despite the devastation this move is set to cause if forecasts prove accurate… Read More ›

We shouldn’t get carried away by Egyptian FM’s pro-Israel comment, says ex-envoy

We shouldn’t get carried away by Egyptian FM’s pro-Israel comment, says ex-envoy

Shoukry sparked an uproar on Sunday by saying, in answer to a question at a meeting he held with Egyptian students, that Israel’s actions against… Read More ›

Netanyahu calls Putin to discuss diplomatic process

Netanyahu calls Putin to discuss diplomatic process

Egypt’s Sisi said Russian leader wants to host PM, Abbas in Moscow for peace talks.   Just two days after Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi… Read More ›

The next complex chapter in the Syrian conflict: Turkey

The next complex chapter in the Syrian conflict: Turkey

Now the US has to act as a juggler, maneuvering between the contradictory interests of its two allies in the war against ISIS, the Kurds… Read More ›

Merkel party politician: Green Party minister ignored anti-Semitism at university

Merkel party politician: Green Party minister ignored anti-Semitism at university

Israel’s Foreign Ministry told The Jerusalem Post in July that HAWK “is not a university, it is a hatred factory.”   BERLIN – A leading… Read More ›

Clinton ready for ‘wacky’ debate with Trump

Clinton ready for ‘wacky’ debate with Trump

First of three televised face-offs between presidential candidates to be held in September near New York   WASHINGTON, United States — White House hopeful Hillary… Read More ›

Even the startup trying to disrupt health insurance can’t figure out Obamacare

Even the startup trying to disrupt health insurance can’t figure out Obamacare

  Oscar, the $2.8 billion health insurance startup, is pulling out of some Obamacare exchanges. According to a release from the company on Tuesday, the… Read More ›

Wall Street’s smart money is making big bets on a beaten-down industry

Wall Street’s smart money is making big bets on a beaten-down industry

  Wall Street’s smart money is falling back in favor with the beaten-down energy sector. Large private-equity investors moved to the sidelines of energy-related corporate… Read More ›

Bed Bath & Beyond paid less than $30 million for One Kings Lane, a startup that was once worth $900 million

Bed Bath & Beyond paid less than $30 million for One Kings Lane, a startup that was once worth $900 million

  At its peak, One Kings Lane was worth $900 million, nearly a member of the exclusive billion-dollar startup club. But when it was bought by… Read More ›