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New York is vying to become global high-tech hub
Just as a trench dug in the 1800s created a shortcut to the nation's interior and helped make New York a global trading hub, the city is now hoping for another "Erie Canal moment" with a high-tech research complex to be built on an island in the East River.The idea is to create an applied-sciences university where engineers are also trained as entrepreneurs from day one. Proponents say New York, home

2 Israeli police convicted in Palestinian death
A Jerusalem court on Monday convicted two Israeli police of negligent homicide for abandoning an injured Palestinian man on a roadside, where he was found dead two days later.

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Turkish court charges Israeli military members

A Turkish court on Monday formally pressed charges against members of Israel's military for the killing of nine people aboard a Turkish ship trying to break Israel's blockade of Gaza in 2010,

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Attempts to revive language spoken in Jesus' time

Two villages in the Holy Land's tiny Christian community are teaching Aramaic in an ambitious effort to revive the language that Jesus spoke, centuries after it all but disappeared from the Middle

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Palestinian shot, wounded in settler attack
Palestinians say dozens of Israeli settlers set Palestinian-owned fields on fire in an attack that left a farmer wounded by a gunshot.

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Soon, smartphones to remind you where you've put your keys
Intel is said to be investing in smartphones that "learn" about their owners and predict what they do - doing tasks for them without being asked.

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