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Life A Wearable Device For Around The Clock Fetal Monitoring
(Reuters)- Israeli medical experts have developed a wearable mobile monitor to keep a close watch on pregnant women and their fetuses as they go about their everyday lives. The PregSense monitor has sensors woven into an elastic harness to provide data around the clock on the status of the fetus and the mother’s health in…
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Fast Forward Israel Launches Air Strike On Gaza After Rocket Fired at Ashkelon
Israeli aircraft struck the northern Gaza Strip on Sunday in response to a rocket fired from the Hamas-controlled territory that hit southern Israel, the Israeli military said. The militant rocket landed in open ground and caused no damage or injuries, the army said. No casualties were reported in Gaza following the air strike, which struck…
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Fast Forward Retrial Granted in Death of Washington Intern Chandra Levy
A District of Columbia judge on Thursday granted a new trial to the man convicted of killing federal intern Chandra Levy in 2001, a case that contributed to a politician’s downfall. Superior Court Judge Gerald Fisher ordered the retrial for Ingmar Guandique, 34, after prosecutors dropped their opposition to defense lawyers’ request for a new…
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Fast Forward Did Islamic Radical Plan To Behead Pamela Geller?
The organizer of a May event in Texas highlighting cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed said on Thursday that she was the target of a man who federal prosecutors said had intended to behead police officers in Boston. However, Boston Police Commissioner William Evans said it did not seem that Usamaah Abdullah Rahim had developed a…
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Fast Forward Israeli Generals Back Nuclear Deal With Iran — Split With Netanyahu
In remarks carried by several Israeli media outlets, an unnamed senior military officer said that if agreed by its June 30 deadline, the deal would provide clarity on the direction of Iran’s nuclear program. Western powers fear that Iran harbors ambitions to build an atomic bomb and years of talks have centered on eradicating the…
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Fast Forward Israel Strikes Gaza After Islamic State Sympathizers Claim Rocket Attack
Israel retaliated on Thursday for rockets fired at it from Gaza with bombing raids against three militant training camps, and a radical group sympathetic with Islamic State claimed responsibility for the attacks on Israel. Witnesses and medics said the predawn attacks on two camps belonging to Hamas, which dominates the Gaza Strip, and to the…
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Fast Forward Ethiopians Block Tel Aviv Road in New Protest
Israeli police locked arms to push back hundreds of ethnic Ethiopian anti-racism protesters on Wednesday in Tel Aviv where many tried to block a major traffic artery. Police said two protesters of some 400 protesters at the scene were detained. Television photographers saw five demonstrators led away. There were no reported injuries in the confrontation…
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Fast Forward Israel Army Admits Pork Sandwich ‘Mistake’
An Israeli soldier was spared 11 days in detention for eating pork, a non-kosher food, the military said on Tuesday, after a public outcry. Secular standards sometimes clash with conservative Jewish law in Israel. Local media said the soldier, an American immigrant, was not aware that his ham sandwich, obtained off-base, was in breach of…
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