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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is expected to announce his choice for the next Mossad director in the coming days, as the race to succeed outgoing intelligence chief David Barnea enters its final
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A senior University of Oxford academic has stepped down after multiple allegations of sexual misconduct, bullying, and unwanted advances toward female students and junior colleagues. The revelations, first examined in a Bloomberg
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A sanctioned Russian-Israeli billionaire is suing the British government in a high-stakes international arbitration case, challenging measures imposed on him after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Mikhail Fridman, co-founder of Alfa-Bank and
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