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Then-US Vice President Joe Biden gestures during a speech in Tel Aviv, March 11, 2010. (DAVID FURST/AFP)
August 13, 2020, 9:45 am
Could Biden’s deep Israel ties ease Obama-era tensions?
With long history of support for Jewish state, experts say that if elected US president, Democrat would be embraced by Israel’s political and military class
By Ben Simon
Gabriel Bach, 93, a former judge of the Supreme Court of Israel and a former deputy prosecutor during the trial of Adolf Eichmann, poses for a picture while holding a photograph showing him (below) during Eichmann's (top) trial, at the yard of his home in Jerusalem on May 3, 2020.(Photo by MENAHEM KAHANA / AFP)
May 8, 2020, 9:35 am
60 years on, Israeli prosecutor recalls Eichmann trial
‘Not a day passes without me remembering,’ says Gabriel Bach, lead investigator and deputy prosecutor of key architect of Holocaust
By Ben Simon
Illustrative photo of a woman begging in Jerusalem. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)
February 23, 2020, 5:08 pm
Israel’s ‘most vulnerable’ citizens hit by political stalemate
The lack of a 2020 state budget is causing fear and cutbacks at organizations, educational institutions and social services that help the country’s weakest, experts say
By Alexandra Vardi and Ben Simon
This image taken from CCTV video obtained by the Turkish newspaper Hurriyet claims to show Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi entering the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, October 2, 2018. (CCTV/ Hurriyet via AP)
September 30, 2019, 10:14 pm
UN expert blasts Saudi prince over ‘problematic’ defense of Khashoggi killing
Agnes Callamard, the special rapporteur on extrajudicial killings whose probe found ‘credible evidence’ linking crown prince to the murder and attempted cover-up, dismisses defense
By Ben Simon
This Thursday, Sept. 27, 2018 file photo shows the website for British investigative group Bellingcat with one of the two suspects in the March poisoning of Sergei Skripal and his daughter in England. (AP/Alexander Zemlianichenko)
July 28, 2019, 5:59 am
Sophisticated phishing attack targets reporters investigating Kremlin
Journalists from Bellingcat, which uncovered Russian agents who poisoned spy, say hackers tried to steal ProtonMail credentials, urge Switzerland to investigate
By Ben Simon
A painting by Henri Matisse entitled "The Blue Blouse" is seen at the Kunstmuseum Bern in Bern, Switzerland on December 4, 2018 (Fabrice COFFRINI / AFP)
January 6, 2019, 8:28 am
The art of shedding light on gifts with possible Nazi ties
Bern’s Kunstmuseum wants to audit the provenance of all paintings donated by Georges F. Keller, after ties to a French dealer who traded art with the Nazis are revealed
By Ben Simon
Illustrative: Baby suffering from measles (CC BY CDC Global, Flickr)
December 1, 2018, 4:46 am
UN: Measles cases rise 30 percent worldwide
WHO says worrying trend of resurgent cases is a near global phenomenon, but causes vary in different regions
By Ben Simon
In this file photo taken on March 19, 2018 US candidate to the head of International Organization for Migration (IOM) Ken Isaacs looks on during a press briefing in Geneva. (AFP/Fabrice Coffrini)
June 29, 2018, 6:21 pm
UN migration agency rejects Trump nominee accused of anti-Muslim bigotry
Washington set to lose its historic control of the organization; Ken Isaacs’ inflammatory tweets appear to have made him an untenable candidate
By Ben Simon
Syrians walk along a damaged street in Aleppo's Tareeq al-Bab neighbourhood on January 18, 2017, a month after government forces retook the northern Syrian city from rebel fighters. (AFP Photo/George Ourfalian)
March 1, 2017, 7:01 pm
Syria regime, rebels committed war crimes in Aleppo – UN probe
Inquiry says civilians subjected to chemical attacks, executions and forced displacement during regime’s 5-month siege of opposition city
By Ben Simon
The UN Human Rights Council during a session with the Independent Commission of Inquiry on the 2014 Israel-Hamas war in the Gaza Strip on June 29, 2015 in Geneva, Switzerland. (UN photo)
February 27, 2017, 3:52 pm
With Trump at helm, US takes seat at UN rights council
Washington has reportedly considered withdrawing from the panel over its criticism of Israeli policy
By Ben Simon
A woman walks her dog on the Turkish side of the green line, a UN controlled buffer zone separating the divided Cypriot capital Nicosia, on January 13, 2017. (AFP PHOTO / Iakovos Hatzistavrou)
January 13, 2017, 10:49 pm
Cyprus talks stumble over fate of Turkish troops
Island has been divided since 1974, when Turkish troops invaded in response to an Athens-inspired coup seeking union with Greece
By Ben Simon and Fulya Ozerkan
File: People gather around the rubble of a hospital supported by Doctors Without Borders (MSF) near Maaret al-Numan, in Syria's northern province of Idlib, on February 15, 2016, after the building was hit by suspected Russian air strikes. (Ghaith Omran/Al Maarra Today/AFP)
February 18, 2016, 5:17 pm
Dozens of Syria health facilities said hit last year
Doctors Without Borders says several strikes were ‘double-tap’ attacks, indicating ‘targeting of rescue workers as a method of war’
By Ben Simon and Sara Hussein
Nigerian Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka (screen capture: YouTube)
May 14, 2014, 6:32 pm
Boko Haram chief an ‘obscenity,’ says Nigerian Nobel winner
Wole Soyinka: Head of group that kidnapped 200 schoolgirls is ‘high on religion and drugs’
By Ben Simon
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