Israel’s population crossed the 8 million mark, as revealed by Central Bureau of Statistics data, released on the eve of the country’s 65th Independence Day. The number of Jews among Israel’s population has reached the symbolic figure of 6 million – the same figure of Jews who perished in the Holocaust. The Jewish population composes […]
The painstaking work to identify a bombing suspect from reams of Boston Marathon footage yielded a possible breakthrough as investigators focused on a man seen dropping off a bag, and then walking away from the site of the second of two deadly explosions. The discovery of the image — found on surveillance footage from a […]
The word is almost a cold comfort in post-9/11 America — a way to describe the inconceivable, to somehow explain the twisted urge to commit mass murder. So when the bombs exploded in Boston, the word quickly became inescapable: “terrorism.” Dictionaries, and people who study the age-old activity, define terrorism as the use of violence […]
[PHOTOS IN EXTENDED ARTICLE] Rescue workers searched rubble that witnesses compared to a war zone early Thursday for survivors of a fertilizer plant explosion in a small Texas town that
Former Pakistani military ruler Pervez Musharraf and his security team pushed past policemen and sped away from a court in the country’s capital on Thursday to avoid arrest after his
[NEWER UPDATES ON TOP] 12:12AM EDT: (Reuters) Hundreds of people were likely injured in a fiery explosion on Wednesday night at a fertilizer plant near Waco, Texas, that damaged or destroyed numerous buildings including a school and nursing home, authorities said. The blast was reported at about 8 p.m. CDT (0100 GMT on Thursday) in West, […]
A man who confessed to killing a long-missing New York City boy is asking a judge to throw out the murder case against him. His lawyer says the confession was
Minister of Housing (Bayit Yehudi) Uri Ariel released a statement earlier in the week that he plans to actualize Israel’s right to build in the area between Jerusalem and Maale Adumim, known more commonly as “E1”. Israeli planned construction has been met with an outcry from the international community, including Israel’s staunchest allies for actualizing […]
American Airlines said its operations returned to normal on Wednesday after it canceled nearly 1,000 flights on Tuesday because of a computer outage. The airline also said it halted 81
With diplomatic talks between Israel and the PA (Palestinian Authority) expected to resume in the near future, officials in the Bayit Yehudi party are already signaling that oppose an additional
An Israeli college has established a journalism center named for a Wall Street Journal reporter who was kidnapped and killed in Pakistan. The Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya launched the Daniel Pearl
The FBI has identified a Mississippi man suspected of mailing letters containing poisonous ricin as 45-year-old Paul Kevin Curtis. FBI Special Agent in Charge Daniel McMullen said Curtis was arrested
MK (Likud) Miri Regev was officially appointed to head the Knesset Internal Affairs & Environment Committee. Regev announced shortly following the appointment that she plans to begin by visiting Har
“The defense establishment faces and will continue facing significant challenges in the coming years from a number of fronts, both near and far along our borders from neighboring and non-neighboring nations” stated Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon during an Independence Day ceremony. The senior minister added that in recent years, conventional threats have diminished since there […]
Senate Republicans backed by a small band of rural-state Democrats scuttled the most far-reaching gun control legislation in two decades on Wednesday, rejecting calls to tighten background checks on firearms
Al-Arabia provides photos documenting Hizbullah fighters are operating in Syria, primarily to protect Shiite villages located near the border to Lebanon. The Hizbullah troops are not taking part in the
A judge on Wednesday finalized a $700,000 settlement between McDonald’s Corp. and members of Michigan’s Muslim community over claims a suburban Detroit restaurant falsely advertised its food as prepared according
As evidence of a slowing global economy grows, investors are showing some caution just one week after U.S. stocks hit an all-time high. Stocks fell Wednesday amid fresh signs of
[NEWER UPDATES ON TOP] 5:55PM EDT: (AP) A politician says investigators poring over photos and videos from the Boston Marathon bombing have an image of a man dropping off a
Israel Police Chief Yochanan Danino is leaving on Wednesday 7 Iyar 5773 for the USA where he will hold working meetings with senior officials, including heads of the FBI. Danino
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