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Israel plans to build hundreds of new homes in West Bank settlements. The announcement came as an effort foundered Wednesday in parliament to skirt an Israeli Supreme Court ruling ordering the demolition of apartment buildings in a settlement unauthorized by the state.

Iran has once again criticized nuclear watchdog group the International Atomic Energy Agency, this time for acting like an intelligence organization.

Ulpana is a tiny Israeli settler outpost in the West Bank that has been making headlines after the Israeli Supreme Court said it had to be demolished.

A new report on Germany's delivery of nuclear-capable submarines to Israel is raising important questions about the two countries' relationship.

When New York Times reporter, Jessica C. Andrews, questioned Ken Borochov, the visionary behind the Mordekai brand, about his expanding jewelry line's popularity among the younger demographic, he wasn't too keen about the line's faddish perception.I want the pieces to be timeless. He claimed, I don't look at trends; I go for what I feel myself. When further questioned about his use of neon, one of this season's latest trends.

Madonna is scheduled to perform in Paris on Bastille Day (July 14) and later in the coastal city of Nice in August.

Iran has finally admitted, though not officially, that its top military force is operating in Syria. But how are the elite soldiers of the Quds Force helping the Assad regime? And what will they do as the crisis develops?

International Atomic Energy Agency chief Yukiya Amano said two weeks ago he expected a framework co-operation deal to be signed with Iran when he returned to Vienna from a rare trip to Tehran.

The recent discoveries of gas in the eastern Mediterranean creates a whole new energy paradigm for two nations -- Cyprus and Israel -- which formerly were believed to possess no natural resources at all. Their subsequent alliance has further upset the geopolitical balance in the Near East.

The U.S. has been carrying out secret cyberattacks on Iran's nuclear facilities. President Barack Obama sped things up within his first month in office.

There have been a lot of talks regarding the involvement of the United States and Israel behind a Stuxnet cyber attack, but with no concrete evidence to confirm the same. However, a latest report tends to claim that the US has indeed played a crucial role in that matter.

On Thursday, Israel returned the bodies of 91 Palestinians to the West Bank and Gaza in hopes that the gesture would ease tensions between Israel and Palestine. Meanwhile, politicians suggest a unilateral move to partially remove Israeli forces from the West Bank.

Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak said Wednesday that Israel should consider unilateral action if peace talks with the Palestinians prove to be impossible, a statement widely interpreted as a call for his country to withdraw from the West Bank.

Gold medal-winning snowboarder Shaun White is known for his moves on the halfpipe, but it was his moves on model Bar Refaeli, recently named No. 1 on Maxim's Hot 100 list, that raised eyebrows during a night out in New York City.

The Middle East situation is purely theoretical to the other nations on our planet, but not to Israeli Jews.

About 6 million Poles died during World War II, more than half of them Jews.

The situation is so dire, Maliki declared, that states could conceivably go to war over the precious substance.

Turkey's indictment of four Israeli military officials on Monday raises questions about its diplomatic ambitions in the Middle East.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu condemned the P5+1 group on Tuesday for being too lenient on Iran.

According to experts, the virus is so complex it could have only been created by a nation state - leading to speculation it was launched by the United States or Israel to damage or spy on the region's governments.

Researchers at the Russian security firm Karpersky have discovered a new highly sophisticated malicious program that has been used as a cyber weapon to collect private data from thousands of computers in Middle East countries like Iran and Israel and also in North Africa.