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Israel will try to halt the shipment of advanced weapons to Lebanon’s Hezbollah from Syria as the militant group attempts to strengthen its defense capabilities, Chatham House Associate Fellow Yossi Mekelberg said.
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President Barack Obama said he doesn’t foresee circumstances that would require putting U.S. troops on the ground in Syria, where rebels are trying to topple the regime of Bashar al-Assad.
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The Bretton Woods economic conference would make a great movie: Dashing celebrity economist John Maynard Keynes of the U.K. squared off against U.S. Treasury official Harry Dexter White, who was later revealed to be a Soviet spy.
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Ray Irani inherited an unwieldy conglomerate including oil, movies and meatpacking when he took over as Occidental Petroleum Corp.’s chief executive in 1990.
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Occidental Petroleum Corp. shareholders ejected Chairman Ray Irani from the board in a vote at their annual meeting today, ending the former chief executive’s almost three-decade run at the company.
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A Hungarian court overturned a police ban on a planned anti-Semitic protest tomorrow, to coincide with a meeting of the World Jewish Congress in Budapest.
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President Barack Obama said he’s “comfortable” with the Food and Drug Administration’s decision to clear the Plan B One-Step emergency contraceptive for sale without A prescription on pharmacy shelves to girls as young as age 15.
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As he watched a white rhino take its final breath after poachers broke its back and hacked off its horn, major general Johan Jooste said he realized that South Africa is facing a war to save the endangered species.
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Israeli government bonds dropped, lifting the yield on the debt due March 2023 for the first time in more than a week, as Finance Minister Yair Lapid plans to boost this year’s budget deficit target.
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Israel Chemicals Ltd. advanced the most in more than a week on bets declines last month after Potash Corp. of Saskatchewan Inc. scrapped a proposed takeover bid were overdone.
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