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The Dead Sea may soon shrink to a lifeless pond as Middle East political strife blocks vital measures needed to halt the decay of the world's lowest and saltiest body of water, experts say. The surface level is plunging by a meter (three feet) a year...
Tags: Dead Sea, Jordan River, Jordan Valley Authority, billion cubic, Arab-Israeli, Dureid Mahasneh, Red Sea, cubic meter, climate change, Ghor Haditha, Syria, Aleppo
The Foreign Minister took this action following a debate in the Dutch Parliament where MP van Bommel, of the opposition Socialist Party, claimed that this was a case of fraud – products marked "Made in Israel" arrive in the Netherlands, when in fact they...
Tags: Israeli, Dead Sea, occupying territory, Ahava Company, van Bommel, Palestinian, Israel, Jerusalem, Ahava, Zionism, Mitzpe Shalem, War Conflict, Western Asia, Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Levant, Politics
The government of the Netherlands has agreed to conduct an investigation into the conditions under which Ahava beauty products are manufactured in the illegal Israeli settlement of Mitzpe Shalom in the occupied Palestinian West Bank. Ahava has been the...
Tags: Palestine, West Bank, settlements, Israel, Ahava, Kristin Davis, Harry van Bommel, Palestinian West Bank, Palestinians, Netherlands, Amsterdam, Maxime Verhagen, Mitzpe Shalem, Israeli settlements, Economic and political boycotts of Israel, Politics, Dead Sea, Israeli, Kristen Davis
Lebanon’s Jeita Grotto was on Tuesday selected as one of 14 finalists in a global competition to choose the new seven wonders of the natural world, organizers said. The grotto is one of two finalists from the Middle East after the Dead Sea, shared by...
Tags: seven wonders, nature wonders, Britain, Amazon River, Dead Sea
Texan John Brown, who calls himself a Christian Zionist, has invested millions of dollars in the Zion Oil and Gas company to drill for oil in the Holy Land. According to Brown, the Bible promises the Jewish people an abundance of oil and even maps out...
Tags: Arab-Israeli, Israel Police, Israel Democracy Institute, Bituach Leumi, IRS, U.S, Dead Sea, Reuven Rivlin
Three district administrations in Indonesia's West Nusatenggara have finally agreed with PT Multicapital to establish a joint venture to acquire 10 per cent stake in US PT Newmont Nusa Tenggara (NNT), an operator of a copper mine in that region. The joint...
Tags: Indonesian Stock Exchange, Dead Sea, theme park, PT Newmont Nusa Tenggara, Japfa corporate, Komodo
The Grand Canyon and the Great Barrier Reef have been named finalists alongside 26 other world-famous natural landmarks in a global poll to choose the "New 7 Wonders of Nature." The Amazon rain forest, Dead Sea and Mount Kilimanjaro in Africa were among...
Tags: Bay of Fundy Tourism, New7Wonders of Nature, Seven Wonders of Nature, Canada, Jeita Grotto, The Great Barrier Reef, final round, Dead Sea, Amazon, Uluru
IDF forces arrested Thursday night a terror suspect in Bido, southwest of Ramallah. The terror suspect was brought to the General Security Services (Shin Bet) for further questioning.
Tags: Israel, Dead Sea, Samaria, Jordan, terror suspected
There is no need to rush into the pilot project for the Red-Dead conduit that Regional Cooperation Minister Silvan Shalom has announced, a water expert told The Jerusalem Post Sunday. "We don't know what all the consequences of pumping sea water into...
Tags: Dead Sea
Vatican archaeologists using laser technology have discovered what they believe is the oldest image in existence of St Paul the Apostle, dating from the late 4th century, on the walls of catacomb beneath Rome. Vatican newspaper Osservatore Romano, revealing...
Tags: nature wonders, St Paul, vatican archaeologists, Israeli, Vatican, Dead Sea