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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 ›

Newark, NJ – Man Who Led ATM Scheme That Stole $5M Sentenced To 10 Years

Newark, NJ – Man Who Led ATM Scheme That Stole $5M Sentenced To 10 Years

  Newark, NJ – A Romanian native who led a scheme that used card-reading devices to lift bank information from ATMs and steal millions of… Read More ›

Thailand: Migrant workers on trial accused of raping, killing British backpackers

Thailand: Migrant workers on trial accused of raping, killing British backpackers

  The trial of two 22-year-old Burmese migrants, Zaw Lin and Wai Phyo, accused of the murder of two British tourists on a Thai resort… Read More ›

Authorities search longtime Subway pitchman Jared Fogle’s home

Authorities search longtime Subway pitchman Jared Fogle’s home

Investigators raided the Indiana home of longtime Subway pitchman Jared Fogle on Tuesday, seizing electronics in a search that the sandwich chain says might be linked… Read More ›

China stocks hammered as market crash continues

China stocks hammered as market crash continues

China stocks plunged in early trading on Wednesday, even as regulators worked to contain a crisis that has wiped trillions of dollars off the country’s… Read More ›

Netanyahu: Iran wants to ‘take over the world’

Netanyahu: Iran wants to ‘take over the world’

Prime minister slams emerging nuclear deal, declares Tehran ‘more dangerous’ than Islamic State   Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Tuesday that Iran poses more… Read More ›

US leaving Israel in the dark on Iran talks, say Israeli officials

US leaving Israel in the dark on Iran talks, say Israeli officials

American negotiator Wendy Sherman tried to call Israel’s national security adviser Yossi Cohen, but couldn’t reach him, US officials insist   The American negotiating team… Read More ›

US floats possibility of open-ended Iran nuclear talks

US floats possibility of open-ended Iran nuclear talks

White House says it won’t walk away from ‘useful’ negotiations despite repeated missed deadlines and significant gaps between the sides   After missing a second… Read More ›

Ultra-Orthodox Israeli minister slams Reform Judaism

Ultra-Orthodox Israeli minister slams Reform Judaism

Religious Services Minister David Azoulay says he doesn’t consider members of the denomination to be Jews; prime minister criticizes remarks. Israel’s minister for religious affairs… Read More ›