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Italian FM: Peace deal could send signal of stability to Middle East

Italian FM: Peace deal could send signal of stability to Middle East

The foreign minister, on his first visit to Israel, said that European efforts should be “concentrated on the possible contribution to restart the process.”  … Read More ›

Analysis: When transparency is only a smokescreen

Analysis: When transparency is only a smokescreen

The government may have given in to one of the opposition and opposition-within-the-coalition’s demands, to release the gas plan to the public, but that’s unlikely… Read More ›

A direct line from ‘Arab Spring’ to Islamic State

A direct line from ‘Arab Spring’ to Islamic State

Expert: Only regional powers could restore order within a short period.   In the future, when some historians analyze this period of Middle Eastern turmoil,… Read More ›

US official: Suggestion West will ‘cave’ to Iran is ‘absurd’

US official: Suggestion West will ‘cave’ to Iran is ‘absurd’

In Vienna, official says: ‘If we were going to cave, I could be home already and I would be a really happy person’   World… Read More ›

NBC fires Donald Trump after he calls Mexicans rapists and drug runners

NBC fires Donald Trump after he calls Mexicans rapists and drug runners

  NBC is dumping Donald Trump. In a press release on Monday, NBC said it was severing business ties with the real-estate mogul and GOP… Read More ›

A potential ‘game changer’ for US housing

A potential ‘game changer’ for US housing

  U.S. home prices have increased by more than 30% from the lows in early 2012, as strong demand from investors and cash buyers helped… Read More ›

Uber is reportedly losing boatloads of money

Uber is reportedly losing boatloads of money

  Uber is reportedly operating at a loss of close to half a billion dollars, according to a bond prospectus viewed by Bloomberg. The Bloomberg… Read More ›

Brooklyn, NY – Prominent Chabad Rabbi Killed In Tragic Car Accident In Crown Heights

Brooklyn, NY – Prominent Chabad Rabbi Killed In Tragic Car Accident In Crown Heights

  Brooklyn, NY –  Rabbi Yekutiel Rapp, 66, a beloved and respected Crown Heights rabbi, has been tragically killed in a car accident. According to… Read More ›

New York – Commissioner Bratton To City Council: NYPD Can Reform Itself

New York – Commissioner Bratton To City Council: NYPD Can Reform Itself

  New York – Police Commissioner William Bratton renewed his opposition on Monday to a set of proposed regulations on use of force and other… Read More ›

New York – A World Apart: 2 Women With Birthdates In 1800s Still Alive

New York – A World Apart: 2 Women With Birthdates In 1800s Still Alive

  New York – When Susannah Mushatt Jones and Emma Morano were born in 1899, there was not yet world war or penicillin, and electricity… Read More ›

The very big risks of the Greek debt crisis

The very big risks of the Greek debt crisis

Greece is spiraling ever deeper into a financial and political crisis that could end with it becoming the first country to crash out of the… Read More ›

Copa America 2015: Gonzalo Jara’s poke in backside earns him ban

Copa America 2015: Gonzalo Jara’s poke in backside earns him ban

  Chile’s hopes of making the Copa America final on home soil were dealt a blow after key defender Gonzalo Jara was suspended for three… Read More ›

Solar plane faces most dangerous part of around-the-world flight

Solar plane faces most dangerous part of around-the-world flight

This is pretty much it: the most dangerous part of a historic solar-powered adventure playing out thousands of feet above the Earth. For folks who… Read More ›

Iranian Americans set up pro-nuke deal lobby

Iranian Americans set up pro-nuke deal lobby

Advocacy group will ‘maximize community’s political influence at the most high-stakes moment in US-Iran relations in a generation’   WASHINGTON — An Iranian-American group that… Read More ›

France preparing to resume business with Iran

France preparing to resume business with Iran

Foreign minister will reportedly travel to Tehran quickly if accord signed; 100 companies plan September delegation   France is gearing up for the resumption of… Read More ›

PM postpones gas vote after failing to clinch majority

PM postpones gas vote after failing to clinch majority

Coalition’s scramble to pass controversial bill on offshore drilling is unsuccessful; Netanyahu may make details of deal public   A parliamentary vote on a controversial… Read More ›

Palestinians’ words kill too

Palestinians’ words kill too

Op-ed: The ‘lone-wolf terrorist’ may be ‘alone’ in their actions, but they are driven and influenced by the mass, systematic, Nazi incitement on the Palestinian… Read More ›

Mariah Carey visits Western Wall

Mariah Carey visits Western Wall

After landing in Tel Aviv with her twins and Australian partner, American singer heads to Jerusalem for a tour of city’s holy site and dinner… Read More ›

From lone soldier to military prison

From lone soldier to military prison

Young American came to Israel alone to serve in the IDF, but ended up enthralled in a conspiracy to blow up the Dome of the… Read More ›

World powers propose mechanism to ensure access to sensitive Iran sites

World powers propose mechanism to ensure access to sensitive Iran sites

P5+1 proposes mechanism to ensure access to sensitive Iran sites.   VIENNA – World powers have “worked out a process that we believe will ensure that… Read More ›