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US judge rejects bid by Swiss Bank UBS to limit its liability for Nazi-linked crimes
38+ min ago (222+ words) NEW YORK (Reuters) " A US judge on Tuesday rejected UBS's bid to clarify a $1.25 billion settlement from 1999 of Holocaust-related litigation against Swiss banks by shielding it from claims based on new revelations about Nazi-linked accounts. US District Judge Edward Korman…...
French couple allowed to leave Iran after more than three years in detention
1+ hour, 20+ min ago (362+ words) Two French nationals, who spent more than three years in an Iranian prison on espionage charges, headed home from the war-stricken country on Tuesday, President Emmanuel Macron said. Cecile Kohler, 41, and Jacques Paris, 72, had been under house arrest at the…...
Long Island town must pay $19M for blocking construction of Chabad synagogue
1+ hour, 19+ min ago (381+ words) JTA " After nearly two decades of legal sparring, a town on Long Island has been ordered to pay a local Chabad center $19 million, settling claims that officials unlawfully blocked the construction of a synagogue on its rabbi's property. Rabbi Aaron…...
Russia reportedly supplying Iran with spy imagery of US and Israeli targets
1+ hour, 44+ min ago (970+ words) Russian satellites have made dozens of detailed imagery surveys of military facilities and critical sites across the Middle East to help Iran strike US forces and other targets, including critical infrastructure in Israel, according to a Ukrainian intelligence assessment seen…...
Artemis II crew takes historic photo of Earth setting behind moon
4+ hour, 3+ min ago (239+ words) NASA's newest moon mission channels Apollo 8's iconic 'Earthrise' picture from 1968; White House calls it 'Humanity, from the other side' The crew of four " US astronauts Reid Wiseman, Christina Koch, and Victor Glover, as well as Canadian Jeremy Hansen " are…...
Iran deploys Legos and social media trolling in war for public opinion
2+ hour, 38+ min ago (856+ words) AFP " Flooding the internet with posts from embassies across the world, sharing Lego videos mocking Donald Trump and even maintaining live accounts in the name of its slain supreme leader " Iran has charged headlong into the battlefield of social media....
In glitzy interwar Warsaw, truth meets fiction as 2 young women hunt for missing mentor
3+ hour, 13+ min ago (803+ words) Renee Ghert-Zand is the health reporter and a feature writer for The Times of Israel. Five years ago, it was clear to author Judy Batalion that she was not done with the determined, resilient young Jewish women she had come…...
IDF says it has ‘completed deployment’ to anti-tank defensive line in south Lebanon
4+ hour, 40+ min ago (1077+ words) The Israeli military said on Tuesday it had completed deployment of ground troops along a strategic ridge in southern Lebanon from which Hezbollah could fire anti-tank guided missiles directly at Israeli communities. The so-called anti-tank line is located several kilometers…...
Trump: ‘A whole civilization will die tonight’ if ultimatum for Iran to open Hormuz expires
5+ hour, 24+ min ago (990+ words) Hours before his latest ultimatum was set to expire Tuesday night, US President Donald Trump threatened that "a whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again," if Iran doesn't agree to his demands for reopening the Strait…...
Iran claims Tehran synagogue badly damaged in Israeli airstrike; Israeli official: We don’t target synagogues
6+ hour, 38+ min ago (629+ words) Iranian media claimed Tuesday that a synagogue in central Tehran sustained significant damage following what it said was an attack by Israeli fighter jets. Israel's Foreign Ministry said it was looking into the matter, the Israel Defense Forces had no…...