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A 2-year-old toddler was lightly injured along with his 23-year-old father after he blocked the path of a Military Police vehicle using the child's stroller in Bnei Brak on Sunday.
A 15-year-old from Jerusalem was arrested on Sunday on suspicion of assaulting and moderately injuring Khaled Awaishat, a 48-year-old Arab bus driver, in Beit Shemesh earlier this week.
Hamas on Sunday condemned the escalating settler violence in the West Bank, claiming it to be part of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s “genocidal war” against Palestinians in a statement shared on the terrorist group’s English-language Telegram channel.
Russia and Israel both spread and amplified disinformation related to the mass entry of migrants into Spain's North African enclave of Ceuta last month, Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said on Monday, citing research by the European Union's foreign service, EEAS.
El presidente ruso Vladimir Putin (izq) con el presidente chino Xi Jinping en Samarkand, Uzbekistán, el 16 de septiembre del 2022. (Sergei Bobylev, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)
Edinburgh, Scotland – On May 11, 1967, a studious young Palestinian teenager named Raja Shehadeh sat down to compose his first dated diary entry.
US targets Iran’s Larak Island in first exchange of fire in more than a month, sparking reprisals against US forces in Jordan and UAE
ASHEVILLE, North Carolina — Finance leaders from the Group of 20 major economies open talks Monday at a US-hosted gathering, as the Trump administration seeks consensus on lifting global growth while ramping up economic pressure on Iran.
US President Donald Trump’s intensifying economic campaign against Iran is testing the limits of the security group Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin have spent years expanding as a counterweight to American power.
Niños juegan con agua durante los festejos por el cumpleaños del profeta Mahoma, el domingo 30 de agosto de 2026, en Teherán, Irán. (AP Foto/Vahid Salemi)
The CEO of the National Iranian Oil Company, Hamid Bovard, has denied that a key oil hub was being destroyed in Kharg Island, after US president Donald Trump's AI video showed it "being blown to smithereens".
The escalation in hostilities between the U.S. and Iran over the weekend shows the U.S. is running out of patience with the slower-moving sanctions approach, according to analysts.
Baseball in Israel made history when more than 100 children from 11 cities across the country took part in the first-ever Under-12 National Tournament on July 9 and 10, with games being played simultaneously on four fields.
The Israel National Basketball Team came up short against Latvia 85-70 in the second round of World Cup Qualifiers on Sunday night.
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The United Arab Emirates’ air force intercepted an Iranian drone over its territorial waters Monday, the Defense Ministry said, an attack that comes after the U.S. and Iran exchanged fire on the weekend, the first action in a month.
The UAE's defence ministry said it dealt with a drone over its territorial waters coming from Iran.
US President Donald Trump has published AI-generated clips showing a missile attack on Iran’s Kharg Island oil hub amid a new escalation between Washington and Tehran.US and Iranian forces earlier exchanged strikes for the first time since late July. On Sunday, the US Central Command said it had targeted two Iranian…
US President Donald Trump has published AI-generated clips showing a missile attack on Iran’s Kharg Island oil hub amid a new escalation between Washington and Tehran.US and Iranian forces earlier exchanged strikes for the first time since late July. On Sunday, the US Central Command said it had targeted two Iranian…
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Petrol prices in the UAE will rise for a second straight month in September, as global oil markets remain volatile with a peace deal between the US and Iran still out of reach.
A serving regional council head in southern Israel has been arrested on charges including bribery and fraud, alongside six other suspects, in a police raid on Monday morning, Israel Police announced.
Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich on Monday shared a statement in support of religious Givati Brigade soldiers who refused to board a Namer armored personnel carrier with a female paramedic during an operational mission in the Gaza Strip, saying he would demand answers from the IDF over its handling of the incident.
Dozens of ultra-Orthodox (haredi) protesters attempted to block access roads leading to the Tel Hashomer IDF recruitment base in an effort to prevent haredi enlistment into the military on Monday morning, as the second day of the August 2026 haredi draft cycle began.
US President Donald Trump stated that it was "a very good thing" that Iran struck Saudi Arabia, Qatar, the UAE, Bahrain, and Kuwait after the war began, as it lost the country's support in the Middle East in an interview with Fox News on Sunday night.
Donald Trump has reiterated that Iran must never obtain a nuclear weapon, saying that if it did, the Middle East "would have essentially been gone".
Israeli artillery shelling targeted southern Lebanon's Mansouri and Bayt al-Sayyad, both located in Tyre, overnight and early on Monday, the National News Agency reported.
Today on Trending Middle East, Jordan has intercepted eight Iranian missiles following a US strike on Iranian forces near the Strait of Hormuz. The exchange marks the first direct fighting between the two countries in more than a month.
Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said that an oil tanker caught fire near the Strait of Hormuz after it hit two naval mines, according to state media.
The US struck two rocket launchers on Iran's Larak Island in the Strait of Hormuz after detecting preparations to fire sea mines into the waterway, prompting the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps to launch a retaliatory missile-and-drone attack on two US bases in Jordan.
Iran's army said it attacked the United Arab Emirates' Al Minhad Air Base with drones early on Monday, Iranian state TV reported, citing a statement from the army.
The Iranian army said it attacked the UAE's Al Minhad Air Base with drones early on Monday, according to state media.
The Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) said Iran shot down a US MQ-9 drone over the Strait of Hormuz.
International airlines are continuing to adjust schedules for Middle East flights as airspace restrictions and operational uncertainty persist.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent speaks during an interview with The Associated Press in Asheville, N.C., Sunday, Aug. 30, 2026. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
Vice President JD Vance speaks at CompoTech headquarters, Monday, August 24, 2026 in Brewer, Maine. (Anna Moneymaker/Pool Photo via AP)
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United States Senator Ted Cruz backed President Donald Trump’s Truth Social post declaring “mission accomplished” in the war with Iran, while going further by calling for the collapse of the Iranian regime during a Meet the Press interview on Sunday.
Sultan bin Fahad’s Supreme can be perceived as a flattened, two-dimensional stage of a jazz room.
Shipping line Nippon Yusen is in talks with Japanese refiners to help them import oil from Latin America and Africa as they try and diversify their supply away from the war-hit Middle East.
Washington plans to impose sanctions on another bank this week as it steps up its campaign to economically isolate Tehran amid the deadlocked truce talks, the US Treasury chief has said.
Chinese President Xi Jinping is met by Kyrgyz President Sadyr Japarov upon his arrival in Bishkek for the SCO summit on Aug. 30. (Kyrgyzstan's Presidential Press Office via AP)
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The US Central Command (Centcom) said it targeted Iran as it posed an "imminent threat" in the Strait of Hormuz.
Despite announcing that he would not run with sitting politicians, People of Israel party chairman Brig.-Gen. (res.) Ofer Winter still met privately with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at his office before establishing the party to discuss joining Likud, N12 News reported on Sunday.
The US Treasury Department is likely to unveil weekly new secondary sanctions aimed at increasing economic pressure on Iran, with an initial focus on banks, US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told Reuters on Sunday.
Oil rose Monday, amid heightened concerns over supply disruptions after U.S. forces struck two Iranian rocket launchers on Larak Island on Sunday.
WASHINGTON, United States — The United States said Sunday it had attacked Iranian rocket launchers on a small island in the Strait of Hormuz, its first strikes on Iran in a month, prompting Tehran to retaliate.
MISSILE SYSTEM. A banner with a picture of US President Donald Trump next to an Iranian missile system is displayed at Azadi Square in Tehran, Iran, on July 30, 2026.