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Pro-Europe British politician, Conservative party MP Anna Soubry, center, speaks to members of the media at a People's Vote campaign press conference in London on December 11, 2018. (Oli SCARFF/AFP)
February 20, 2019, 3:02 pm
Three UK Conservative lawmakers defect to join Labour rebels’ Independent Group
Newly formed faction says Theresa May’s government is abandoning the political center, handling Brexit poorly
By Agencies and TOI staff
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas speaks during a meeting with Palestinian leaders at the Muqata, the Palestinian Authority headquarters, in the West Bank city of Ramallah, on February 20, 2019 (ABBAS MOMANI/AFP)
February 20, 2019, 2:52 pm
Abbas rejects all tax revenues from Israel over terror payment deduction
Dramatic move means PA is giving up $222 million every month, up to a third of its budget, putting it in danger of collapse
By TOI staff
Arafat Irfaiya, charged with the murder of 19-year-old Ori Ansbacher, at the Jerusalem Magistrate's court on February 11, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
February 20, 2019, 2:18 pm
Court extends remand for Ori Ansbacher’s killer by 8 days
Police request Arafat Irfaiya, Palestinian accused of brutal murder of Israeli teen, be kept behind bars until investigation completed
By TOI staff
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, meets with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow, July 11, 2018. (Israel Foreign Ministry)
February 20, 2019, 2:14 pm
Netanyahu puts off meeting with Putin as he pushes for right-wing unity deal
PM delays visit to Russia while scheduling talks with Jewish Home party leaders to ensure alliance with nationalist Otzma Yehudit
By TOI staff
ReWalk's new product, the ReStore soft suit to help rehabilitate stroke victims (Courtesy)
February 20, 2019, 2:01 pm
Israel’s ReWalk seeks FDA nod for robotic suit to help rehab stroke victims
Firm hopes to start sales of the ReStore exoskeleton suit in Europe and the US later this year, pending approvals
By Shoshanna Solomon
Corals at the Interuniversity Institute for Marine Sciences coral farm in the Red Sea city of Eilat, southern Israel, January 17, 2019. (Interuniversity Institute for Marine Sciences/Dror Komet via AP)
February 20, 2019, 1:52 pm
Northern Red Sea coral reefs may survive a hot, grim future
Israeli researchers find local strains of vital marine invertebrates can resist higher temperatures, opening possibilities of repopulating other areas devastated by global warming
By Alon Bernstein and Isabel Debre
Egyptian state prosecutor Hisham Barakat, on April 8, 2014 (AP Photo/Sabry Khaled, El Shorouk Newspaper)
February 20, 2019, 1:26 pm
Egypt executes 9 over 2015 killing of top prosecutor
Hisham Barakat most senior official killed since 2013 revolution; rights groups calls for end to executions, saying suspects tortured
By Samy Magdy
Israel Resilience party chief Benny Gantz speaks at a party gathering in Tel Aviv on February 19, 2019. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)
February 20, 2019, 12:57 pm
Low and lower: 8 things to know for February 20
After being pummeled, Gantz hits back at Netanyahu, only to be met with self-righteous cries of ‘shame on you’ from a Likud busy officiating a racist political wedding
By Joshua Davidovich
Civilians fleeing the Islamic State's group embattled holdout of Baghouz walk in a field on February 13, 2019. (Delil Souleiman/AFP)
February 20, 2019, 12:38 pm
Dozens of civilians, fighters quit Syria jihadist holdout, say US-backed forces
Syrian Democratic Forces slows down offensive to evacuate civilians from last patch of Islamic State territory
By Gihad Darwish and Rouba El Husseini
Sheldon Adelson at the inauguration of the US embassy in Jerusalem on May 14, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
From the WebFebruary 20, 2019, 12:37 pm
US court revives Palestinians’ lawsuit against Adelson, others for ‘war crimes’
Appeals court overturns 2017 ruling in $1 billion case, saying it wrongly concluded it concerns political questions that can’t be decided in US courts
Screen capture from video of UK Labour party MP Ruth George during a television interview, February 2018. (YouTube)
February 20, 2019, 12:13 pm
UK Labour MP suggests Israel funding lawmakers who’ve bolted over anti-Semitism
Ruth George later apologizes for her comments, saying she had no intention of ‘invoking a conspiracy theory’
By Stuart Winer and TOI staff
Illustrative photo of a Jewish cemetery (Foundation for the Preservation of Jewish Heritage in Poland)
February 20, 2019, 12:05 pm
Reports of Jewish cemetery desecration in Poland false, officials say
Warsaw denies accounts in Polish and international media of vandalism of 15 headstones in the city of Świdnica
By Cnaan Liphshiz
This photo from January 3, 2013, shows Google's headquarters in Mountain View, California. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez, File)
February 20, 2019, 11:37 am
Google to buy Israeli cloud data startup Alooma
Tel Aviv-based firm’s tools help enterprises move their data from multiple sources to one center; firm has raised some $15 million to date
By Shoshanna Solomon
In this photo from September 6, 2018, Georgette Mosbacher stands next to an American flag after receiving her credentials as new United States ambassador to Poland in Warsaw. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski, File)
February 20, 2019, 11:34 am
US envoy calls on FM Katz apologize to Poland for anti-Semitism remark
Georgette Mosbacher makes statement a day after condemning ‘offensive’ comment that ‘Poles ‘suckle anti-Semitism with their mothers’ milk’
By TOI staff and Agencies
Israeli troops in the al-Aroub refugee camp in the central West Bank arrest a Palestinian suspect who is believed to have thrown rocks at a nearby highway, on February 20, 2019. (Screen capture: Israel Defense Forces)
February 20, 2019, 11:28 am
IDF raids West Bank refugee camp in crackdown on rock throwing
Troops arrest 17 suspects in overnight operations, escort 2,000 worshipers to Nablus holy site; soldier lightly injured by stones
By Judah Ari Gross
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