TEHRAN, Iran — A U.S. citizen has been sentenced to prison for espionage in Iran, the latest foreign national to be jailed on spying charges in the Islamic Republic, state news media reported Sunday. Mizan news agency, the mouthpiece of Iran’s judiciary, identified the American as Xiyue Wang, 37, a researcher at Princeton University. Wang,
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Middle East, USAAfter her first appearance in 1957, septuagenarian Olympian Jane Katz has returned to Israel every 4 years to celebrate Jewish athleticism By Renee Ghert-Zand Dr. Jane Katz may have just competed in her fifteenth Maccabiah Games, but the swimmer still gets nervous before each race. “I’m running to the bathroom with everyone else. I do
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International, Middle East, Sports & Competitions, USAIstanbul/Ankara (dpa) – Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan vowed Saturday to carry out harsh measures against alleged putschists, stressing he would seek to bring back the death penalty, during a mass rally on a bridge in Istanbul attended by hundreds of thousands. “Those traitors will always be remembered with hatred,” Erdogan said, adding that Turkey
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Middle EastNature Authority says 8 of the 26 creatures living in the Judean desert have died since the spill two weeks ago into Nahal Ashalim By Times of Israel staff A dead ibex found in Nahal Ashalim on July 15, 2017. (Nature and Parks Authority) Two more dead ibexes were found Saturday in Nahal Ashalim, two
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Middle East, The World We ShareReport by Channel 10 news could undermine PM’s claim he did not intend to make a deal with the Yedioth Ahronoth publisher By Times of Israel staff US billionaire businessman Sheldon Adelson with Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem, August 12, 2007. (Flash90) In his recent testimony to Israeli police, US billionaire Sheldon Adelson recounted a conversation
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Middle East, USAMaryam Mirzakhani, the first woman to be awarded the prestigious Fields Medal for mathematics, has died in the U.S. The 40-year-old reportedly had breast cancer that spread to her bones. “A light was turned off today. It breaks my heart… gone far too soon,” her friend, NASA scientist Firouz Naderi, posted on Instagram. The Fields
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Middle East, Obituaries & memorials, Science, Medicine, & Education, USAOn July 15 2016, Turkey underwent an attempted coup against its government. The coup was prevented but repercussions are felt in every quarter of life in the county. The abortive coup paved the way for a number of radical changes and caused far-reaching social, economic and political consequences in Turkey. So what has changed in
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International, Middle EastBy Edwin Black WASHINGTON, D.C. — While the Jewish community in some quarters has lately been divided on Israel issues, some 5,000 evangelical Christians will gather in Washington, DC July 17-18 as a granite-like block of support to defend the Jewish State. They will be attending the Christians United for Israel (CUFI) policy conference held
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Middle East, USAHaiel Sitawe, 30, not supposed to be on patrol Friday, filled in for friend, police chief reveals at funeral; thousands attend funeral for Kamil Shnaan, 22, son of former Labor MK By Judah Ari Gross and Times of Israel staff Screenshot from the funeral of Haiel Sitawe, 30, in Maghar in northern Israel. Inset: Master
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Middle EastTwo years into a terror wave, attacks in Jerusalem’s Old City are not uncommon, but Friday’s strays from the norm in its proximity to holy site, identities of the shooters By Judah Ari Gross Nearly every aspect of Friday’s terror attack in Jerusalem, in which two police officers were gunned down, stands out as irregular,
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Middle EastIsraeli President Reuven Rivlin on Friday morning responded to the terror attack in Jerusalem’s Old City. In the attack, three terrorists descended the Temple Mount armed with weapons, and fired at a group of Israeli police officers who were standing near the Lions Gate. Two of the officers were killed and a third was injured.
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Middle EastBy Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — It was important that President Donald Trump open his meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin by raising the point of Russian meddling in American elections. It was equally important that he accepted Mr. Putin’s response. Russia — whether as the USSR or the Russian Federation — has spent decades
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International, Middle East, USATwo police officers were murdered on Friday morning in a terrorist shooting attack on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, and a third was lightly wounded. The officers have been identified as Command Sergeant Major Hayil Satawi and Command Sergeant Major Kamil Shanaan. Satawi, 30, lives in the northern Druze town of Maghar, served his mandatory
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By Yoni Peres KFAR ZEITIM, Israel — Avraham Herzlich was born and raised in Brooklyn in a secular Jewish family. He worked with computers, motorcycles and race cars. He was injured in a motorcycle accident. Lying in bed at the hospital, he was reading magazines, and came across an article on Israel which triggered his
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