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timesofisrael.com —  1+ hour, 58+ min ago

...Former Military Intelligence chief Tamir Hayman said Saturday he believed a return to some form of nuclear deal between Iran and world powers was preferable for Israel over no deal at all.... ...Asked about the recent assassination of a senior Iranian military commander in Tehran, attributed to Israel, Hayman, now the managing director of the Institute for National Security Studies. said Iran is being sent a message that Unit 840, a shadowy division within the Islamic Revolutionary...

timesofisrael.com —  4+ hour, 3+ min ago

...Security forces were also preparing for possible violence in the West Bank, possible rocket fire from Hamas and other terror groups in the Gaza Strip and even an attack by Iran proxy Hezbollah along the northern border with Lebanon.... ...Marchers are set to walk along Jaffa Street to Damascus Gate, where access will be blocked for Palestinians. They will continue into the Old City through Hagai Street in the Muslim Quarter and finish at the Western Wall....

timesofisrael.com —  1+ hour, 6+ min ago

...(New York Jewish Week) -- When Alan Rosen, the third-generation owner of Junior's Restaurant, read the headlines back in April about a 12-year-old Brooklyn boy who was shot and killedwhile eating in the backseat of a car, the only thing he could think was, "enough already.".... ...After several phone calls, he was connected with the NYPD, then New York Police Foundation and, eventually, Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez. Ultimately, Rosen and Gonzalez collaborated on organizing a gun buyback event through the New York City Police Foundation....

yellowad.co.uk —  1+ hour, 33+ min ago

...English "General at Sea" Robert Blake drives out the Dutch fleet under Lieutenant Admiral Maarten Tromp at the Battle of Goodwin Sands off Folkestone.... ...James Church, Paddington. Chemist John Pemberton begins to advertise his drink Coca Cola. The trademark "Escalator" is registered by Otis Elevator Co. Alexander Obrenovich, King of Serbia, and Queen Draga, are assassinated in Belgrade by the Black Hand (Crna Ruka) in a coup d"etat....

algemeiner.com —  8+ hour, 2+ min ago

...Officials in the oil producing region of Khuzestan, where Abadan is located, said the death toll had risen to 29 people, and another 37 were injured in Monday's collapse of the 10-storey residential and commercial building.... ...Reuters could not independently authenticate the footage. Unverified video from Khuzestan's port city of Mahshahr showed protesters shouting: "They stole oil and gas, took our blood."....

jpost.com —  3+ hour, 49+ min ago

...The United States is in talks with Turkey over its potential incursion into Syria, as experts warn that a new military operation could test recently improved relations between Ankara and Washington.For more stories from The Media Line go to themedialine.org US State Department spokesman Ned... ...and the local population ahead of scheduled elections next year.Oytun Orhan, the coordinator for Levant Studies at the Ankara-based Center for Middle Eastern Studies, told The Media Line that there is a strong possibility the US would impose financial penalties against Turkey over a military...

jpost.com —  21+ hour, 35+ min ago

...a day after China and Russia vetoed a US-led push to impose more United Nations sanctions on North Korea over its ballistic missile launches, publicly splitting the UN Security Council for the first time since it started punishing Pyongyang in 2006.The vetoes came despite what the United... ...The US Treasury Department in a statement said it targeted Air Koryo Trading Corp as well as Russian financial institutions the Far Eastern Bank and Bank Sputnik for contributing to procurement and revenue generation for North Korean organizations.Washington also designated Jong Yong Nam,...

timesofisrael.com —  12+ hour, 6+ min ago

...They are the last areas under Ukrainian control in Luhansk, one of two provinces that make up the Donbas and where Russia-backed separatists have already controlled some territory for eight years.... ...Phillip Breedlove, former head of US European Command for NATO, said Friday during a panel mounted by the Washington-based Middle East Institute that Russia appears to have "once again adjusted its objectives, and fearfully now it seems that they are trying to consolidate and enforce the...

jpost.com —  12+ hour, 3+ min ago

...A vehicle with a one-year-old child inside was stolen on Saturday afternoon from Nitzanei Oz in central Israel.... ...As well as requiring consent from all involved in sexual acts, it also provides for a ban on advertising prostitution. The activists were calling for further steps from the bill, which still needs to be approved by the Senate....

timesofisrael.com —  7+ hour, 16+ min ago

...According to the reports, the man was hospitalized on Friday at the Sheba Medical Center in Tel Aviv, and was released after a short while. He was confirmed to be infected with the virus on Saturday.... ...Addressing the World Health Assembly on Friday, Sylvie Briand, director of the Pandemic and Epidemic Diseases Department at the WHO, said experts did not know if the outbreak had reached the "peak of the iceberg [or] if there are many more cases that are undetected in communities."....