Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit on Monday evening released a statement with regards to the questioning of Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu. The statement was released shortly after Netanyahu”s questioning by investigators from the National Fraud Unit concluded after three hours. In the statement, Mandelblit officially declared that the probe against Netanyahu has turned into an official […]
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Middle EastA drone with a video camera which crashed in a wooded area on Mount Hevron revealed a European Union (EU) espionage operation intended to spy on and gather intelligence about Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria. The footage from the drone was retrieved after it crashed in view of residents of the town of Ma’on
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International, Middle EastThe funeral for the mother and four daughters who were found dead in their Jerusalem apartment Sunday will take place tonight at 10:30 PM at the Har Hamenuchot [Mount of Those who are Resting] cemetery. Police suspect that the mother strangled her daughters to death before setting fire to the room and committing suicide. It
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Middle EastRio de Janeiro (dpa) – Twelve people died when a man opened fire at a New Year’s Eve party in Brazil and then turned the gun on himself, the country’s state news agency, Agencia Brasil, reported Sunday. Three people survived the shooting which happened before midnight in Campinas in Sao Paulo state. The man’s ex-wife
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InternationalAs the world celebrates a brand new year and a bevy of medical breakthroughs in 2016, the international scientific community could be one step closer toward discovering a cure for HIV and AIDs — in part thanks to billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates. The Microsoft founder has been steadily backing medical research for years with his
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International, Science, Medicine, & EducationFour months after a Falcon 9 rocket exploded on a Florida launch pad, SpaceX said Monday that the cause was a failed composite overwrapped pressure vessel used to store liquid helium. In the final update to its investigation, the space company said one of three such tanks in the rocket’s larger, second-stage liquid oxygen tank
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International, Science, Medicine, & Education, The World We Share, USAThe thick, colorful book titled, “Europa: An Illustrated Introduction to Europe for Migrants and Refugees,” aims to broaden the perspectives of Europe’s newest immigrants, with plenty of historical photos, maps and individual accounts and factual information. That’s according to Alia Malek, a Syrian-American journalist who was one of the book’s editors. Overall, the guidebook tries
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, InternationalBanjul (dpa) – Gambia’s president-elect Adama Barrow vowed Monday to take office on January 19 despite the refusal of outgoing President Yahya Jammeh to give up power. A court petition filed by Jammeh to challenge the results of the December 1 election did not prevent the winner of the poll from assuming office as mandated
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InternationalThe most difficult fact for any nation to accept, is the fact that it may be totally outmatched, in some critical field, by some foreign agency or organization. Under the administration of Harry Truman, “Operation Paperclip” was instituted. This controversial program—designed to bring thousands of Nazi scientists into the U.S. after World War II—was the
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International, USARiot police have clashed with protesters in Poland amid anti-foreigner sentiment in a northeastern town, after a young local man was stabbed to death on New Year’s Eve following a row at a kebab restaurant. A Tunisian national – said to have worked as a cook at the restaurant in Elk – has been charged
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InternationalHouse Democrats lobbed a preemptive salvo Monday against Republicans itching to kick-start their Obamacare repeal effort once the new Congress gavels in, calling the effort an “act of cowardice” and reckless “assault” on health care for millions and conservative orthodoxy alike, since repeal is projected to raise the deficit. They also said Republicans would pay
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Science, Medicine, & Education, USABerlin (dpa) – German police have detained a 38-year-old Syrian asylum seeker for allegedly asking the extremist Islamic State for 180,000 euros (189,000 dollars) to help finance a potentially spectacular terrorist attack. The accused had used a middle man to ask for the money to buy, according to the daily Bild, eight vehicles stuffed with
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International, Middle EastWashington (dpa) – Twins usually have a lot in common, including the day and year of their birth. But in the United States over the New Year’s holiday weekend, at least four sets of twins were born on different days and different years, according to media reports Monday. The births were recorded in the states
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USAAround 60 people have been killed in a prison riot in Brazil. The fighting was sparked by a war between rival drug gangs in the Amazon jungle city of Manaus. Officials say the death toll could rise as authorities get a clearer idea of the scale of the rebellion. BRAZIL PRISON – Dozens reported killed
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