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2015 World Athletics Championships: Usain Bolt defeats Justin Gatlin

2015 World Athletics Championships: Usain Bolt defeats Justin Gatlin

Usain Bolt overcame the doubters and the form book to beat controversial rival Justin Gatlin to 100m gold at the World Athletics Championships in Beijing… Read More ›

PM on Barak tapes: Time to end ‘irresponsible’ security talk

PM on Barak tapes: Time to end ‘irresponsible’ security talk

Netanyahu finally responds to recordings in which his ex-defense minister calls him weak, reveals aborted plans to strike Iran   Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sought… Read More ›

Iran is laughing at leaky Israel, says Liberman after new Barak tapes aired

Iran is laughing at leaky Israel, says Liberman after new Barak tapes aired

While bashing former defense minister, Yisrael Beytenu leader also takes aim at PM for failing to tackle Iran effectively   Israel’s former foreign minister said… Read More ›

IS blows up 2,000-year-old temple in Syria’s Palmyra

IS blows up 2,000-year-old temple in Syria’s Palmyra

Antiquities chief says jihadists destroyed shrine of Baal Shamin, built in 17 CE and expanded in 130 CE   Islamic State group jihadists on Sunday… Read More ›

‘No ulterior motives for cancellation of Israel flights’

‘No ulterior motives for cancellation of Israel flights’

Airline due to shut down flights between Philadelphia and Tel Aviv starting January, say decision motivated strictly by economics. American Airlines, which announced last week… Read More ›

Released asylum seekers blocked from Tel Aviv, Eilat

Released asylum seekers blocked from Tel Aviv, Eilat

Some 1,200 to be released from Holot on Tuesday, Wednesday; those caught in Tel Aviv or Eilat to be detained at Saharonim. While some 1,200… Read More ›

Faulty finances: Israel’s economic growth below Spain, Greece

Faulty finances: Israel’s economic growth below Spain, Greece

Report in Finance Ministry notes decrease in exports, manufacturing as reasons for poor economic performance; Kahlon: ‘Figures worry me as finance minister, citizen of Israel.’… Read More ›

Will West and Arab states accept border changes that redivide region?

Will West and Arab states accept border changes that redivide region?

Almost 100 years ago, the Sykes-Picot Agreement carved out the modern Middle East; Is stage two in the works?   As a result of regional… Read More ›

Israel imports 77% of its oil from Iraqi Kurdistan, report says

Israel imports 77% of its oil from Iraqi Kurdistan, report says

Between May and August 11, $1 billion of oil was imported into Israel.   Up to three-quarters of the oil supply in Israel was imported from… Read More ›

Daniel on the way to the lion’s den

Daniel on the way to the lion’s den

Danny Danon is leaving the cabinet to take up his dream job, fighting the Israel-haters at the United Nations.   When Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu… Read More ›

For now, all quiet on the Golan

For now, all quiet on the Golan

Waiting for the storm to break: The Heights appear calm as tourists enjoy the end of summer holiday, amid warnings from Hezbollah.   The banks… Read More ›

Israeli MK among Ashley Madison’s leaked users

Israeli MK among Ashley Madison’s leaked users

Unidentified official denies having used website, files complaints with police; 170,000 Israelis said to have used cheating site. A recent hack into the website Ashley… Read More ›

The pot industry is being cannibalized by startups

The pot industry is being cannibalized by startups

  The pot industry is not just for growers anymore. Tech entrepreneurs with high ambitions are finding money in applying startup solutions to the budding… Read More ›

Ukraine’s president made one of the gloomiest predictions for the country’s conflict with Russia

Ukraine’s president made one of the gloomiest predictions for the country’s conflict with Russia

  KIEV (Reuters) – Military pressure on Ukraine from Russia and the separatists that Moscow supports is likely to last decades and future generations will… Read More ›

This swimming pool in the sky is the ultimate symbol of London’s affordability crisis  7

This swimming pool in the sky is the ultimate symbol of London’s affordability crisis 7

  Surely nothing bad could come from the decision to build an impossibly wondrous amenity that is accessible exclusively to a city’s very wealthiest’s residents.… Read More ›

Pyongyang – Over 1 Million Volunteers In N. Korea Step Up To Defend Country

Pyongyang – Over 1 Million Volunteers In N. Korea Step Up To Defend Country

  Pyongyang – North Korean media have reported that more than 1 million young people have volunteered to join or rejoin the military to defend… Read More ›

Tehran – Iran Unveils New Missile, Says Seeks Peace Through Strength

Tehran – Iran Unveils New Missile, Says Seeks Peace Through Strength

  Tehran – Iran on Saturday unveiled a new surface-to-surface missile it said could strike targets with pin-point accuracy within a range of 500 km… Read More ›

New York – Congressman Says NYC Federal Building Gunman Got ‘raw Deal’

New York – Congressman Says NYC Federal Building Gunman Got ‘raw Deal’

  Edgartown, MA – U.S. Vice President Joe Biden met on Saturday with Senator Elizabeth Warren, a popular progressive leader with a big support base… Read More ›

Giant panda Mei Xiang gives birth to second cub at National Zoo

Giant panda Mei Xiang gives birth to second cub at National Zoo

  And then there were two! Hours after giving birth to a cub, giant panda Mei Xiang delivered a second one Saturday night, the Smithsonian’s… Read More ›

34 Syrians killed by government rockets, shelling in Douma, opposition says

34 Syrians killed by government rockets, shelling in Douma, opposition says

  A new wave of Syrian regime attacks on the western city of Douma killed at least 34 people Sunday, an opposition activist group said.… Read More ›