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Yahoo has killed its online video hub, Screen

Yahoo has killed its online video hub, Screen

  Yahoo’s online video hub Screen is no more. The company has shuttered the Screen service in the latest sign of CEO Marissa Mayer’s ongoing… Read More ›

Building Teslas is much harder than anyone in Silicon Valley thought

Building Teslas is much harder than anyone in Silicon Valley thought

  Over the weekend, Tesla reported deliveries for the fourth quarter of 2015 and the full year. The number — 55,580 — was on the low… Read More ›

China weakens Yuan again

China weakens Yuan again

  Moments ago, the People’s Bank of China (PBOC) announced its Tuesday fixing level for the yuan — and it’s weaker again. The USD/CNY rate… Read More ›

Brooklyn, NY – Hasidic House In Bed-Stuy, Repeated Target Of Harassment, Vandalized By Anti-Semitic Graffiti

Brooklyn, NY – Hasidic House In Bed-Stuy, Repeated Target Of Harassment, Vandalized By Anti-Semitic Graffiti

  Brooklyn, NY – Chasidic residents who say they have been subjected to repeated harassment since moving into a newly renovated three family home near… Read More ›

Toronto – Canada Investigates Why 6-year-old Is Listed As Travel Risk Share Tweet Share Mail

Toronto – Canada Investigates Why 6-year-old Is Listed As Travel Risk Share Tweet Share Mail

  Toronto – Canada’s public safety minister has promised to investigate the case of a six-year-old boy whose name appears to be on a travel… Read More ›

Tel Aviv, Israel – Unusual Shooting Attack Sets Off Panic In Israeli Heartland

Tel Aviv, Israel – Unusual Shooting Attack Sets Off Panic In Israeli Heartland

  Tel Aviv, Israel – For all its years of strife, Israel has rarely seen anything quite like this: an armed, wanted Arab killer on… Read More ›

Saudi Arabia-Iran feud jeopardizes U.S. efforts on ISIS, Syria

Saudi Arabia-Iran feud jeopardizes U.S. efforts on ISIS, Syria

Washington – The growing rupture between Saudi Arabia and Iran is threatening U.S. efforts to end the Syrian civil war and stop ISIS in the Middle… Read More ›

Saudi Arabia-Iran row spreads to other nations

Saudi Arabia-Iran row spreads to other nations

  The fallout of Saudi Arabia’s execution of a Shiite cleric is spreading beyond a spat between the Saudis and Iranians, as other Middle East… Read More ›

White House outlines gun control moves

White House outlines gun control moves

The Obama administration will announce a series of executive actions on Tuesday to combat gun violence in the U.S. Among other things, the actions would… Read More ›

In the Iran-Saudi Arabia conflict, a clash of civilizations

In the Iran-Saudi Arabia conflict, a clash of civilizations

The cold war between the two regional powers is likely to heat up, reviving an age-old sectarian war between Sunni and Shiite Islam in which… Read More ›

Turkey: Saudi-Iran tensions will hurt ‘powder keg’ region

Turkey: Saudi-Iran tensions will hurt ‘powder keg’ region

Ankara says death penalties ‘are of no help to making peace’ in Middle East after Tehran fumes over Riyadh’s execution of Shiite cleric   Turkey… Read More ›

Iran voices ‘regret’ over attacks on Saudi embassy

Iran voices ‘regret’ over attacks on Saudi embassy

Riyadh defends carrying out executions, says severed ties with Tehran shouldn’t affect peace talks on Syria, Yemen   Iran has expressed “regret” over two attacks… Read More ›

Shooter does not represent Israel’s Arabs

Shooter does not represent Israel’s Arabs

Op-ed: While there may be incitement in the Arab sector, only few of its members have turned to hostile activity. The unequivocal condemnation issued by… Read More ›

Chinese man arrives in Israel by boat – without meaning to

Chinese man arrives in Israel by boat – without meaning to

Chinese national sets out from Greece and is blown off course by the strong winds, finding himself on a beach in Israel without knowing how… Read More ›

UN rights envoy resigns, accuses Israel of denying access

UN rights envoy resigns, accuses Israel of denying access

Makarim Wibisono says repeated requests to access West Bank and Gaza Strip have gone unanswered for 18 months; Israel says decision to prevent access came… Read More ›

Dragnet for fugitive Tel Aviv gunman passes its fourth day

Dragnet for fugitive Tel Aviv gunman passes its fourth day

Israelis urged to stick to normal routine, send kids to school despite jitters.   Security remained high in and around Tel Aviv on Monday as… Read More ›

Netanyahu slams MKs for differentiating between attacks

Netanyahu slams MKs for differentiating between attacks

PM condemns Joint List MK Osama Sa’adi and Bayit Yehudi MK Bezalel Smotrich for refusing to equate all acts of terror.   Terrorism is terrorism,… Read More ›

Iran, Saudi Arabia and the Israeli angle

Iran, Saudi Arabia and the Israeli angle

Former head of Military Intelligence says the reverberations from the diplomatic crisis will be felt around the region.   Jerusalem on Monday was closely monitoring… Read More ›

Reporter’s Notebook: Sending your kids to school amid hunt for an armed gunman

Reporter’s Notebook: Sending your kids to school amid hunt for an armed gunman

My phone started buzzing with countless text messages from parents in my son’s preschool WhatsApp group. It seemed most of the parents were facing the… Read More ›

Hamas releases new footage of Shalit, barbecuing in captivity

Hamas releases new footage of Shalit, barbecuing in captivity

Video includes images of abducted soldier making coffee with his captors; family castigates ‘godless’ Hamas for skewed propaganda   The Palestinian terror group Hamas on… Read More ›