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Iran MPs advance bill to stop UN nuclear inspections, step up enrichment

Proposal, days after top nuclear scientist was assassinated, requires several more votes to become law; lawmakers chant ‘Death to Israel’ during session

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US killer of Jewish college student sues state hospital where he’s confined

Stephen Morgan, accused of anti-Semitism in 2009 Connecticut shooting, says worker harmed him by telling media he’s allowed to play violent video games

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Biden weighs appointing Rahm Emanuel as transportation secretary

Jewish former Chicago mayor, who is among multiple candidates for the Cabinet position, faces opposition from progressives over cop killing of Black teenager in his city

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Nordigen introduces free European open banking API

Latvian fintech startup Nordigen is switching to a freemium model thanks to a free open banking API. Open banking was supposed to democratize access to banking information, but the company believes banking aggregation APIs from Tink or Plaid are too

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Vivenu, a ticketing API for events, closes a $15M Series A round led by Balderton Capital

vivenu, a ticketing platform that offers an API for venues and promoters to customize to their needs, has closed a $15 million (€12.6 million) in Series A funding led by Balderton Capital. Previous investor Redalpine also participated. Historically-speaking, most ticketing

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‘Bethlehem is dead’: Pandemic robs West Bank city of Christmas cheer

With tourists barred and PA imposing nightly curfew to curb mounting infections, Jesus’ birthplace set for massively scaled-down celebrations

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Blue and White MKs turn on party minister over her support for illegal outposts

Diaspora Minister Yankelevich claims her call to legalize wildcat communities toes the party line; leader Gantz clarifies that he supports only those built on state land

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Databand raises $14.5M led by Accel for its data pipeline observability tools

DevOps continues to get a lot of attention as a wave of companies develop more sophisticated tools to help developers manage increasingly complex architectures and workloads. In the latest development, Databand — an AI-based observability platform for data pipelines, specifically

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In potential ‘gamechanger,’ blood test may accurately predict Alzheimer’s

Research could launch revolution in treating degenerative disease, experts say, since current challenge is diagnosing it early enough

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WhatsApp is upping its wallpapers and stickers game

WhatsApp is finally upping its wallpapers and stickers game. The instant messaging service said on Tuesday that it will now allow users to set custom wallpapers for different chats in a bid to make it easier for users to easily

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