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Washington – Clinton Avoids Campaign Diet Pitfalls With Hot Peppers, Yoga

Washington – Clinton Avoids Campaign Diet Pitfalls With Hot Peppers, Yoga

  Washington – Gone are the Bojangles fried chicken and biscuits. When supporters offer Tex-Mex, she takes a salad. And forget about cake (most of… Read More ›

Mullah accused of shooting, killing Afghan-American woman in Kabul

Mullah accused of shooting, killing Afghan-American woman in Kabul

An Afghan-American woman was leaving the gym of her apartment complex in Kabul, Afghanistan, when a mullah allegedly shot her to death, according to a… Read More ›

How Nirbhaya rape case points to India’s deep-rooted problem with women

How Nirbhaya rape case points to India’s deep-rooted problem with women

New Delhi – There’s crime and then there’s evil, pure and simple. By any standards, the events of December 12, 2012 can only be described as… Read More ›

Massive rescue effort underway after landslide at south China waste dump

Massive rescue effort underway after landslide at south China waste dump

Close to 3,000 people were part of the massive rescue effort underway Monday after a landslide in south China, state media reported. A man-made pile… Read More ›

From Boston to Beit Shemesh, slain Ezra Schwartz honored with service and sports

From Boston to Beit Shemesh, slain Ezra Schwartz honored with service and sports

A month after his murder by Palestinian terrorists, a look at mitzvah projects — from ‘epic wiffle tournaments’ to polar plunges — inspired by 18-year-old… Read More ›

With fanfare and warning to Israel, Hezbollah buries Samir Kuntar in Beirut

With fanfare and warning to Israel, Hezbollah buries Samir Kuntar in Beirut

Thousands turn out for funeral of terrorist said to have been killed in IDF strike on Syria; Shiite group calls assassination a ‘stupid act’  … Read More ›

Russian-Israelis embrace tinsel, trees and Santa Claus — but don’t call it Christmas

Russian-Israelis embrace tinsel, trees and Santa Claus — but don’t call it Christmas

Novy God, New Year’s in Russian, is celebrated as a secular holiday, but that doesn’t stop some Israeli Jews from criticizing its observance   TEL… Read More ›

Jerusalem bus stops get security upgrade

Jerusalem bus stops get security upgrade

Around 300 stops are receiving steel pillars to prevent cars from ramming into waiting crowds, following vehicular attack last week that wounded 11. The Jerusalem… Read More ›

How Hezbollah may take revenge

How Hezbollah may take revenge

Following the assasination of Samir Kuntar attributed to Israel, the IDF has increased its alert level along the Lebanese border; it is now confronting a… Read More ›

Nasrallah: Israel responsible for Kuntar’s death, we will retaliate

Nasrallah: Israel responsible for Kuntar’s death, we will retaliate

Hezbollah chief delivers televised speech following targeted killing of notorious terrorist; says he knew Kuntar would be targeted because ‘Israel never forgives’. Hezbollah Secretary General… Read More ›

UN: Those who reject Syrian refugees are allies of extremists

UN: Those who reject Syrian refugees are allies of extremists

UN High Commissioner for refugees tells Security Council that those fleeing Syrian civil war can’t be blamed for the terror they are risking their lives… Read More ›

Hamas activity in Turkey an obstacle to Ankara-Jerusalem reconciliation

Hamas activity in Turkey an obstacle to Ankara-Jerusalem reconciliation

Hamas’ Saleh al-Arouri left Turkey months ago after intensive US, Israeli pressure, but on Monday an official in Jerusalem said with regard to the two… Read More ›

Yazidi politician in Iraq: The international community has abandoned my people

Yazidi politician in Iraq: The international community has abandoned my people

What happened to Yazidi people was a genocide, Vian Dakhil says.   ERBIL, KURDISTAN REGION, IRAQ – “In the beginning, the international community and many… Read More ›

Survivor of Kuntar’s slaughter: ‘I will never let them frighten me again’

Survivor of Kuntar’s slaughter: ‘I will never let them frighten me again’

Hezbollah accused Israel of killing Kuntar in an air strike in Damascus. Israel welcomed his slaying but did not say it was responsible.   Smadar… Read More ›

Netanyahu said to mull holding early Likud primaries

Netanyahu said to mull holding early Likud primaries

Netanyahu said to mull holding early Likud primaries   Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu intends to advance the Likud party primaries and hold them in two… Read More ›

‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ shatters box-office record with $238 million

‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ shatters box-office record with $238 million

  The opening weekend box-office run by “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” is nothing short of historic. It goes without saying that the seventh episode… Read More ›

OPEC’s in jeopardy, and its members can’t hold on forever

OPEC’s in jeopardy, and its members can’t hold on forever

  Where’s the floor? Is this the new normal? Answers have proven elusive and predictions unreliable as the oil market continues to lurch to and… Read More ›

‘We’re America’: Why Apple’s CEO thinks we can have both encryption and national security

‘We’re America’: Why Apple’s CEO thinks we can have both encryption and national security

  Apple CEO Tim Cook remains a strong supporter of encryption, even as governments continue to question the method of securely gathering data in wake… Read More ›

New York – Firefighters Sue Siren Maker Over Their Hearing Loss Share Tweet Share Mail

New York – Firefighters Sue Siren Maker Over Their Hearing Loss Share Tweet Share Mail

  New York – There were times by the end of his shift that firefighter Joseph Nardone’s head would be pounding, his eyes crossing from… Read More ›

Prague – Prague Zoo Claims To Have The Longest Salamander On Earth

Prague – Prague Zoo Claims To Have The Longest Salamander On Earth

  Prague –  Prague Zoo says it likely has the longest Chinese giant salamander now on Earth. The critically endangered animal is the largest amphibian… Read More ›