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China’s ‘Breaking Bad’? Chemistry professor busted for drug lab

China’s ‘Breaking Bad’? Chemistry professor busted for drug lab

  Hong Kong – A chemistry professor in China has been arrested for producing hundreds of kilograms of psychoactive drugs bound for the U.S., UK, Canada,… Read More ›

Iraqi court sentences 24 men to death over massacre near Tikrit

Iraqi court sentences 24 men to death over massacre near Tikrit

  A Baghdad court sentenced 24 men to death by hanging Wednesday over a June 2014 massacre committed by militants near the Iraqi city of… Read More ›

Wild trading as China tries to stop market crash

Wild trading as China tries to stop market crash

China stocks swung wildly on Thursday after regulators announced new measures designed to stop the market’s slide. The Shanghai Composite dropped 3% at the opening… Read More ›

Jewish Home backs death penalty for terrorists

Jewish Home backs death penalty for terrorists

Party leader Bennett says bill to execute murderers convicted on terror charges is ‘moral and right’   Jewish Home party leader Naftali Bennett on Wednesday… Read More ›

Croatia urges UEFA not to ban soccer team over on-field swastika

Croatia urges UEFA not to ban soccer team over on-field swastika

Prime Minister Milanovic says ‘draconian sanction’ would ‘destroy the squad’ and leave a ‘deep scar’   Croatia’s Prime Minister Zoran Milanovic on Wednesday pleaded with… Read More ›

Argentine president invokes Shylock in perceived anti-Semitic slur

Argentine president invokes Shylock in perceived anti-Semitic slur

Kirchner tells students to study Shakespeare villain to better understand debt crisis; local Jewish leaders and ADL outraged   Members of Argentina’s Jewish community and… Read More ›

Fight over one of the world’s largest tech companies turns anti-Semitic

Fight over one of the world’s largest tech companies turns anti-Semitic

A titanic row between Samsung and a hedge fund run by an American Jew sparks anti-Jewish assault in South Korean media   A bitter corporate showdown… Read More ›

Hamas: Israel asked for bodies of soldiers

Hamas: Israel asked for bodies of soldiers

Leader of Gaza’s ruling group says he received messages from Israel through European channels, asking for the bodies of two soldiers killed in 2014’s Operation… Read More ›

IDF official: Cutting service time will harm combat readiness

IDF official: Cutting service time will harm combat readiness

Plan will be announced in the coming days that may reduce service time, including months of training, while creating two new mixed battalions, increasing combat… Read More ›

Obama: Chances of Iran deal less than 50-50

Obama: Chances of Iran deal less than 50-50

The president spoke to a meeting of Senate Democrats in an attempt to reassure them that he would not accept a bad Iran deal, if… Read More ›

Expecting an Iran deal, White House and Congress prepare to do battle

Expecting an Iran deal, White House and Congress prepare to do battle

Congressional deadline for shorter review arrives; AIPAC prepares rare White House fight; virtual silence in Vienna; foreign ministers to return.     VIENNA – Negotiations… Read More ›

‘Only about 50 Jews left in Syria’s main cities’

‘Only about 50 Jews left in Syria’s main cities’

Deputy minister Ayoub Kara speaks to Syrian Jewish leader.   Likud Deputy Minister Ayoub Kara, the acting minister of the Regional Cooperation Ministry, spoke with… Read More ›

Tehran’s anti-Israel Quds day falls on date of new Iran deadline

Tehran’s anti-Israel Quds day falls on date of new Iran deadline

Annual event of fiery anti-Israel protests in Iran falls on last Friday of Ramadan, and attracts tens of thousands of people.   Regardless of whether… Read More ›

Analysis: Colonel’s promotion signals all clear on controversial Hannibal Protocol incident

Analysis: Colonel’s promotion signals all clear on controversial Hannibal Protocol incident

The Hannibal Protocol supposedly allows commanders to take aggressive action, including endangering the life of a captured soldier, to foil the capture.   Usually the… Read More ›

Prosecutors urge criminal probe of PM’s Residence expenses

Prosecutors urge criminal probe of PM’s Residence expenses

Netanyahu and wife Sara not listed as suspects in likely investigation, which follows damning State Comptroller report   State prosecutors have decided to initiate a… Read More ›

It looks like Apple Watch sales are tanking

It looks like Apple Watch sales are tanking

  Apple hasn’t revealed specific sales figures for the Apple Watch since its launch in April. However, analytics firm Slice Intelligence has pulled together some… Read More ›

GUNDLACH: A ‘Grexit’ would be the beginning of the end of the euro

GUNDLACH: A ‘Grexit’ would be the beginning of the end of the euro

  Greece’s ongoing and deteriorating banking crisis has made an exit from the eurozone, or a “Grexit,” an increasingly attractive option for the financially beleaguered… Read More ›

‘Events are now spinning out of control’ in Greece

‘Events are now spinning out of control’ in Greece

  Ambrose Evans-Pritchard at The Telegraph has just dropped a bomb on the situation in Greece. Writing in The Telegraph on Tuesday, Evans-Pritchard reports that… Read More ›

Texas – Facebook To Add More Computing Power With Texas Data Center

Texas – Facebook To Add More Computing Power With Texas Data Center

  Texas – Facebook is building a massive data center in Texas to provide more computing capacity for the online social network’s 1.4 billion users… Read More ›

Washington – 70 Years Later, WWII Bombardier Receives Presidential Honor

Washington – 70 Years Later, WWII Bombardier Receives Presidential Honor

  Washington – At 22, 2nd Lt. John Pedevillano was the youngest bombardier in the U.S. Army Air Corps’ 306th Bomb Group when he was… Read More ›