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Thai King in ‘unstable’ condition

Thai King in ‘unstable’ condition

  Bangkok – The Thai King, Bhumibol Adulyadej, is in an “unstable” condition in hospital after undergoing several medical procedures over the weekend, a palace… Read More ›

Yinchuan: The smart city where your face is your credit card

Yinchuan: The smart city where your face is your credit card

  Yinchuan, China – Like most people, I’d never heard of Yinchuan before going there. But the Chinese officials showing me around are eager to… Read More ›

Samsung tells users: Turn off your Galaxy Note 7 phone NOW

Samsung tells users: Turn off your Galaxy Note 7 phone NOW

  Samsung issued an alert to customers on Monday, asking users to immediately turn off their Galaxy Note 7 smartphones — which have been spontaneously… Read More ›

Clinton jumps to double-digit lead over Trump

Clinton jumps to double-digit lead over Trump

Poll taken after vulgar video, but before second debate, puts Democrat on 52%, GOP rival 38% in two-way race   Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton… Read More ›

Analysis: Trump still going after second debate, but Republican party in tatters

Analysis: Trump still going after second debate, but Republican party in tatters

Many GOP stalwarts have abandoned their own candidate just 4 weeks to go in a White House race like no other   WASHINGTON (AFP) —… Read More ›

Trump threatens more attacks on Bill Clinton if additional tapes leak

Trump threatens more attacks on Bill Clinton if additional tapes leak

Reeling from release of 2005 video that caught him making lewd comments about women, GOP nominee says former president was ‘a predator’   Wilkes Barre,… Read More ›

Israeli wines gain international recognition

Israeli wines gain international recognition

Editors from the US magazine Wine Spectator visited Israel to take a taste of wines produced in the holy land, and were surprised by what… Read More ›

The game with Hamas has changed

The game with Hamas has changed

Analysis: Hamas high value targets were hit following the rocket attack on the southern Israeli town of Sderot on Wednesday; hit with heavy, precision munitions,… Read More ›

ANALYSIS: In Israel, careers have ended over far less than Trump’s tape

ANALYSIS: In Israel, careers have ended over far less than Trump’s tape

When it comes to vile comments and violent actions against women, the buck – and the shekel – stops here.   American Republican presidential candidate… Read More ›

US-born Israeli MK to Trump: Enough is enough

US-born Israeli MK to Trump: Enough is enough

“When at every corner you see that the man is a savage, I tried to ignore and believe despite it all. I was wrong!”  … Read More ›

Depraved tape prompts GOP movement to dump Trump

Depraved tape prompts GOP movement to dump Trump

High stakes for second debate tonight • Republican nominee: Zero chance I will quit.   WASHINGTON – Republican leadership is furious and dismayed after a… Read More ›

Security Council agrees on Portugal’s Guterres next UN chief

Security Council agrees on Portugal’s Guterres next UN chief

Former Portuguese PM and UN High Commissioner for Refugees António Guterres has been chosen to replace Ban Ki-moon; the UNSC vote is expected Thursday, and… Read More ›

US again condemns Israeli settlements in West Bank

US again condemns Israeli settlements in West Bank

In an unusually strong statement, the State Department called plans to construct a ‘significant’ new settlement of up to 300 housing units and establish an… Read More ›

Obama’s message to Netanyahu during Peres’s funeral

Obama’s message to Netanyahu during Peres’s funeral

Analysis: While paying tribute to Shimon Peres, Obama employed his oratorical prowess to communicate to the PM his true feelings toward him by expressing his… Read More ›

Right-wing NGO denies working to evict Palestinians from Silwan

Right-wing NGO denies working to evict Palestinians from Silwan

Ateret Cohanim: There is “no force or coercion used in any circumstance – only free sale, free will and financial payments.”   Ateret Cohanim, a… Read More ›

US officials lobby Obama on need to strike at Assad

US officials lobby Obama on need to strike at Assad

The president is reportedly concerned over whether the US has international legal standing to strike Assad, whose government is still represented at the United Nations.… Read More ›

Coalition chairman: No unity gov’t because Herzog can’t deliver

Coalition chairman: No unity gov’t because Herzog can’t deliver

Labor MK Rosenthal: It would be bad for the party and bad for the country.   A national unity government cannot be brokered with the Zionist… Read More ›

All-night prayers for forgiveness keeping up the locals

All-night prayers for forgiveness keeping up the locals

Selichot tours through the Jewish Quarter in Jerusalem’s Old City before the High Holy Days are interfering with the residents’ sleep. All-night prayers for forgiveness,… Read More ›

Muscovite synagogue security guard seriously wounded by attacker

Muscovite synagogue security guard seriously wounded by attacker

A man with a container of gasoline and a gun reportedly came to the Moscow Choral Synagogue and asked to meet with the chief rabbi;… Read More ›

Still no peace between Peres and Rabin

Still no peace between Peres and Rabin

On one side, a decorated IDF chief of staff; on the other, an experienced politician; from day one to that fateful moment when three shots… Read More ›