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Stéphane Dujarric, Spokesman for the United Nations Secretary-General, said on Friday that, contrary to previous reports in The Jerusalem Post and the Financial Times, the Secretary-General did not say that UN special rapporteurs are "out of control"; he said that they are independent actors outside the Secretariat'…
Egyptian foreign minister Badr Abdelatty and his Kuwaiti counterpart Sheikh Jarrah Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah called for de-escalation and a return to diplomacy and negotiations between Iran and the United States during a phone call, according to Egypt's Foreign Ministry.
MANILA, Philippines — The Philippine Embassy in Saudi Arabia over the weekend said the condition of two sets of separated conjoined twins "is improving daily."
Michigan US Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed apologized for his past comments regarding the March attack on Temple Israel in suburban Detroit during a meeting with the state Democratic Party’s Jewish caucus at the party convention on Saturday.
Ofer Winter launched his new People of Israel party on Tuesday, kick-starting what could become a bloc-busting run for the Knesset.
Syria is rebuilding its electricity sector with more than $10 billion already pledged for generation, transmission and exploration, much of it from Gulf countries. But money is not its only advantage.
A sailor detained for more than nine months by Iranian forces has told of how he feared he would "die in jail" after being subjected to brutal treatment as missiles exploded nearby.
Amnesty International has called for the release of Palestinian paediatrician Hussam Abu Safiya, who has completed 600 days in Israeli detention.
Iranian leaders are acknowledging the economic toll of war with the US, with the supreme leader urging the government to address the hardship and the president saying foreign trade has shrunk by a third due to the American sanctions and blockade.
Israel continued attacks across southern Lebanon on Saturday, carrying out airstrikes, artillery shelling and demolitions, while Tehran pledged continued support for the country amid stalled negotiations over an IDF withdrawal.
Israel continued attacks across southern Lebanon on Saturday, carrying out airstrikes, artillery shelling and demolitions, while Tehran pledged continued support for the country amid stalled negotiations over an IDF withdrawal.
Israeli President Isaac Herzog joined prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu in condemning settler violence in the occupied West Bank village of Qusra, saying it was unlawful.
Israel’s Shin Bet security agency has confirmed that Benjamin Netanyahu’s son, Yair, was flown back to Israel from the US after a threat to his life, according to the Times of Israel.
Iran’s president Masoud Pezeshkian said Tehran does not seek war but will stand firmly against any aggressor, stressing that no power can force a nation determined to resist to surrender.
Iran’s parliament speaker, Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, has said that new regional treaties can herald a new stage in which Muslim neighbours rely on their own capacities rather than on foreigners, according to Tasnim News Agency.
Two elderly Palestinian sisters were injured after being attacked by Israeli settlers while picking figs from their land in the town of Silwad, northeast of Ramallah, Wafa news agency reported
US sanctions are increasingly damaging Iran’s ability to obtain hard currency and function economically, Professor Uzi Rabi told 103FM radio on Thursday, while warning against drawing a quick conclusion that an economic collapse would inevitably lead to the fall of the regime.
Call it escapism, clutching at straws in times of need, or a genuine belief in better things to come, but the idea of the Messiah has been a central concept not only of Judaism, but also Christianity and Islam, for many a year. It should be noted, mind you, that the latter two religions hold that the next time the M…
The US could use nuclear weapons against Iran after failing to topple its leadership with conventional means, former presidential counterterrorism adviser Joe Kent has told podcaster Tucker Carlson.
The US could use nuclear weapons against Iran after failing to topple its leadership with conventional means, former presidential counterterrorism adviser Joe Kent has told podcaster Tucker Carlson.
A Palestinian has succumbed to wounds sustained in an Israeli bombing on the al-Amal neighborhood in Khan Younis, Al Jazeera reported, citing the city’s Nasser Hospital.
Israeli forces shot at a girl and a young man in Gaza and targeted the northwest of Rafah city with artillery shelling, Wafa reported.
Iran’s speaker of parliament, Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, has mocked US treasury secretary Scott Bessent for his claim that the US “guided 130 million barrels out over the past 14 days” against Iran’s “zero”.
Israel will attack Iran again if it tries to rebuild its nuclear or missile programmes, Israeli Energy Minister Eli Cohen said Saturday.
Masked Israeli settlers attacked an NBC News team and a Palestinian woman on Saturday in Jalud, a village near Nablus in the occupied West Bank that has been the scene of relentless settler violence in recent weeks.
Matt Bradley and crew assaulted while interviewing woman who said settlers had driven family out of home
With millions facing hunger and displacement in Sudan, dissidents enduring prison and torture in Iran, and thousands of political prisoners languishing in Myanmar’s jails, the world is hardly suffering from a shortage of worthy humanitarian causes.
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MANILA, Philippines — Several domestic and international flights were grounded due to technical problems and airspace issues.
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ARCHIVO – Varios estudiantes caminan por el campus de la Universidad de Stanford, el 14 de marzo de 2019, en Santa Clara, California. (AP Foto/Ben Margot, Archivo)
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The Knesset will be asked over the coming month, meeting in special recess session, to vote on expansion of the defense budget for urgent IDF weapons procurement from NIS 70 billion to NIS 90b. (a rise from $20b. to $25b.).
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu issued a condemnation regarding intensifying settler attacks in the occupied West Bank villages of Qusra and Jalud, which he described as “criminal acts of violence.”
A planned protest entitled "Death to Zionism" by an anti-Israel group based in Basel, Switzerland, was denied approval for Saturday after the organizers failed to submit a permit request, and authorities cited concerns about calls for violence, according to a statement issued by local police.
From a row with Canada to proposed talks with North Korea’s Kim, is the US president trying to distract voters from his unpopular Iran war?
From a row with Canada to proposed talks with North Korea’s Kim, is the US president trying to distract voters from his unpopular Iran war?
A United States federal judge has ruled that President Donald Trump’s administration violated the constitutional rights of international students when it sought to punish them for criticising Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza.
Before a fatal strike killed most of his immediate family and transformed his fate, some doubted Mojtaba Khamenei would ever rule Iran.
Israeli forces struck multiple locations in southern Lebanon on Saturday evening, hitting a social care home, residential buildings and open areas, Lebanon's National News Agency (NNA) reported.
Soldados israelíes aseguran un edificio en construcción mientras varias ambulancias evacúan a palestinos heridos tras un ataque perpetrado por colonos israelíes en el poblado de Qusra, en Cisjordania, el sábado 29 de agosto de 2026. (AP Foto/Majdi Mohammed)
Shin Bet confirmed an Iranian threat against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's son, Yair, on Saturday after reports circulated following Yair's quick evacuation from Florida in the United States back to Israel.
Dozens of Israeli settlers attacked the Palestinian village of Qusra in the northern occupied West Bank on Saturday after nearly three weeks of tension in the area, drawing rare condemnation from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Israeli settler violence across occupied West Bank continued later on Saturday as settler groups launched new attacks on Palestinians in the villages of Burqa and Arrabeh, Palestine’s Wafa news agency reported.
The death toll from an earlier Israeli drone strike in Gaza City's Tal al-Hawa neighbourhood has risen to two, Wafa news agency reported.
Israeli settlers targeted a fourth house under construction in Qusra on Saturday, after six Palestinian residents went to the property to install metal netting for protection, according to a report by Al Jazeera.
By our second morning at the Khan Ein Karem Boutique Hotel, something had already begun to shift. Roi and Tomer, the hotel’s warm and attentive hosts, understand this quiet rhythm perfectly. Their hospitality philosophy is simple: Give visitors tranquility, space, and a nourishing breakfast, then let the valley do t…