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Jordan sends 800 asylum seekers back to Sudan

Jordan sends 800 asylum seekers back to Sudan

Minister says migrants, who had filed for asylum, were not refugees, just there for medical treatment   Jordan Wednesday repatriated 800 Sudanese who had sought… Read More ›

Jordanian air force pilots pay ‘working visit’ to Israel

Jordanian air force pilots pay ‘working visit’ to Israel

Amman’s military ties with Israel come under scrutiny after one airman refuses to join delegation, is booted from the service   Jordanian media reports that… Read More ›

Breaking the silence? No, distorting reality

Breaking the silence? No, distorting reality

Op-ed: The organization of IDF soldiers and veterans isn’t publishing anonymous testimonies about individual cases, but a false testimony about an unbalanced army, an unbalanced… Read More ›

Israeli satellite is a ‘total loss’

Israeli satellite is a ‘total loss’

Commercial satellite valued at $158 million declared completely destroyed after four years in service; communication was lost last month. Israel’s Amos-5 commercial satellite has lost… Read More ›

Egyptian warplanes using Israeli airspace

Egyptian warplanes using Israeli airspace

Egyptian Air Force makes unprecedented flights over Israeli territory, likely with IDF permission, en route to bombing Islamic State targets in the Sinai. Egyptian Air… Read More ›

Terrorist who rammed infant, 10 others in capital, affiliated with Hamas

Terrorist who rammed infant, 10 others in capital, affiliated with Hamas

Report that leg of toddler was amputated unconfirmed by family and hospital; female Border Police officer thwarts attempted downtown attack.   Less than 24 hour… Read More ›

High Court grants state more time to solve Duma terrorist attack

High Court grants state more time to solve Duma terrorist attack

Justice defers to state’s judgment that arrests will soon lead to indictments.   The High Court of Justice on Tuesday gave the state more time… Read More ›

Official: Israel to meet Quartet delegations that include EU reps

Official: Israel to meet Quartet delegations that include EU reps

Government says it does not want to “punish” US, Russia and UN for EU’s move on labeling settlement products.   Israel will continue to hod… Read More ›

Young United Hatzalah volunteer loses battle with illness on 10th birthday

Young United Hatzalah volunteer loses battle with illness on 10th birthday

Raphael’s dream was to one day get healthy and become a full medical emergency volunteer.   A young volunteer for United Hatzalah passed away Sunday after… Read More ›

Netanyahu taps Hebrew U. professor as economic czar

Netanyahu taps Hebrew U. professor as economic czar

Haredi, opposition MKs protest Avi Simhon’s appointment, say he ‘hates families blessed with children’ and the poor   Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Saturday announced… Read More ›

Bomb threats forced evacuations in malls across three states

Bomb threats forced evacuations in malls across three states

  (Reuters) – Thousands of shoppers were evacuated from malls in at least three states on Saturday as bomb threats or scares disrupted one of… Read More ›

There is one debate dominating Wall Street ― and nobody has the answer

There is one debate dominating Wall Street ― and nobody has the answer

  Wall Street is pretty much in agreement that the Federal Reserve will lift interest rates on December 16.  What isn’t clear is what that will… Read More ›

Hotels are making a strange change to rooms because they think it’s what millennials want

Hotels are making a strange change to rooms because they think it’s what millennials want

  When the sports journalist Dan Wetzel checked into his Charlotte, North Carolina, hotel room last Saturday, he was troubled to find it was missing… Read More ›

Iraq – How Saddam’s Fighters Help Islamic State Rule Share Tweet Share Mail

Iraq – How Saddam’s Fighters Help Islamic State Rule Share Tweet Share Mail

  Iraq – Mohannad is a spy for Islamic State. He eavesdrops on chatter in the street markets of Mosul and reports back to his… Read More ›

Menorah found vandalized on Manhattan’s Upper East Side

Menorah found vandalized on Manhattan’s Upper East Side

Even after being toppled over, the Carl Schurz Park menorah was found still lit up in the morning.   NEW YORK – The NYPD Hate… Read More ›

Japanese authorities make another grim ‘ghost ship’ discovery

Japanese authorities make another grim ‘ghost ship’ discovery

Four bodies have been found inside a capsized boat discovered floating off the north coast of Japan’s main Honshu island — the latest of the… Read More ›

U.S. strikes kill leaders of Al-Shabaab and ISIS in Libya

U.S. strikes kill leaders of Al-Shabaab and ISIS in Libya

  Washington – A senior leader of the al Qaeda-affiliated group Al-Shabaab in Somalia and the senior ISIS leader in Libya were each killed in recent… Read More ›

Beijing issues first red alert as air pollution hits hazardous levels

Beijing issues first red alert as air pollution hits hazardous levels

Hong Kong – Beijing’s city government issued its first red alert for pollution on Monday, ordering schools to close, halting outdoor construction and restricting car use… Read More ›

US, other world powers want end to UN probe on Iran nukes

US, other world powers want end to UN probe on Iran nukes

Confidential resolution shows leaders seeking to end IAEA study of past activity, shift to enactment of nuclear deal   VIENNA (AP) — Once a vociferous… Read More ›

FBI: San Bernardino killers were radicalized ‘for quite some time’

FBI: San Bernardino killers were radicalized ‘for quite some time’

Syed and Farook trained at gun range days before massacre, investigators aren’t certain how they became Islamic extremists   SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. (AP) — The… Read More ›