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President Donald Trump gestures as he walks to board Marine One on the Ellipse, Friday, Aug. 14, 2026, near the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)
Scottish prosecutors will attempt to prove that pro-Palestinian activists accused of vandalizing one of President Trump’s Scottish golf resorts last year committed acts connected to terrorism. The move is the latest in a broadening effort in Britain to target protest groups with terrorism laws.
Course at Donald Trump’s Turnberry resort was painted with words ‘Gaza is not 4 sale’ and clubhouse was sprayed with graffiti
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent will step up efforts to isolate Iran economically as he hosts G20 counterparts next week, a US official said Thursday, in a gathering clouded by war and trade tensions.
Gilad Erdan, chairman of the Unity Party said Thursday morning that he is holding talks with Blue and White chairman Benny Gantz over a possible merger between the parties ahead of Israel’s upcoming election.
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An official IDF social media channel should never sound like a guide for avoiding the consequences of ignoring a draft order. Yet that is how a video published Wednesday on the IDF's haredi-facing Instagram account reasonably came across. The clip told haredi (ultra-Orthodox) men facing travel restrictions that a “b…
For more than a decade, the Houthis have inflicted immense suffering on Yemen and sown instability across the Middle East. Since taking control of the country’s north in 2014, the Iranian-backed rebels have deprived large segments of the population of basic services, launched projectiles into neighbouring countries …
Author Richard Flanagan’s appearance at the Brisbane Writers Festival has been cancelled days after he gave a speech in Sydney attacking the pro-Israel lobby.
The Israeli army has fired two shells on Friday in the western suburb of Damascus, according to the official news agency SANA.
A newlywed woman has been killed, and several people were injured in an Israeli air strike on the town of Arab Salim in southern Lebanon on Thursday.
Sun Theary, miembro de un equipo de desactivación de explosivos, recoge un proyectil de mortero de 60 mm, el jueves 2 de julio de 2026, en Siem Reap, Camboya. (AP Foto/Anton L. Delgado)
Iran has set out its conditions to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, saying that ending the wars in the Middle East was among them.
Israel has conveyed a message to the United States through security channels that a pilot program in southern Lebanon, which began being implemented following the signing of a memorandum of understanding between Beirut and Jerusalem, has failed, Walla reported Thursday.
A federal judge in the United States is facing a formal complaint over anti-Palestinian comments and alleged association with Islamophobic groups, in a case that highlights growing concern about possible pro-Israel bias in the judicial system.
What started as isolated smuggling operations by Yemen's Houthi rebels has turned into a network that stretches through Africa, senior Yemeni and regional security officials told The National as they revealed how the militants carefully built their routes.
Israel has been attacking parts of Syria since the fall of the Assad regime and carrying out incursions into the country’s south under the pretext of targeting weapons of the former government.
Former British-Israeli hostage Emily Damari has married partner Dami Amit in a ceremony held in Tel Aviv.
BEIJING — As the U.S. ramped up pressure this week on China with secondary Iran sanctions, the world's two largest economies have still managed to stay focused on ways to cooperate.
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Upending Hollywood’s ‘saviour-hero’ convention in war films, a tale about a humble chef offers a quiet, distinctly Chinese perspective
Upending Hollywood’s ‘saviour-hero’ convention in war films, a tale about a humble chef offers a quiet, distinctly Chinese perspective
Donald Trump hopes new sanctions could force Iran to the negotiating table. (Reuters: Evan Vucci)
The Israel Fire and Rescue Authority is preparing with reinforced forces ahead of an unusual rain event expected to hit Israel this weekend, amid concerns over flash floods and flooding.
The Foreign Ministry on Thursday sharply criticized a joint statement by 15 countries and the European Union condemning Israel’s entry into a UNRWA training center in Kalandia and the seizure of the agency’s facilities in eastern Jerusalem two days earlier.
US President Donald Trump addressed Iran’s situation on Thursday evening, saying that “Iran right now is not paying its soldiers. They are in deep trouble. They have very little capability left.”
The US military has cleared Iranian sea mines from internationally recognized shipping lanes in the Strait of Hormuz, US Central Command (CENTCOM) commander Adm. Brad Cooper said in an operational update on Thursday evening.
CRISIS. US and Iranian flags are seen in this illustration taken March 23, 2026.
As Michigan US Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed made campaign stops with a prominent Jewish congressional leader on Wednesday, there was one subject neither he, nor his Democratic allies onstage, were interested in discussing.
When Endalkew Yemani Tesma fled Ethiopia in 2005, he did not know what awaited him on the way to Israel, nor that once he arrived, he would spend nearly two decades without permanent status.
The UN human rights office said on Thursday the Trump administration's designation of the Palestine Action group as a terrorist organization was "a disproportionate and unnecessary restriction" on free speech rights that amounted to an expansive use of the term terrorism and will have a chilling effect.
SQUAD. June Mar Fajardo (15), Scottie Thompson (9), and Dwight Ramos (24) in action for Gilas Pilipinas in the FIBA World Cup 2027 Asian Qualifiers.
Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa has appointed Mazloum Abdi, leader of the now-dissolved Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), as a presidential advisor.
Latest salvo from US president adds pressure to already fragile US-China ties before expected bilateral summit in Washington
Latest salvo from US president adds pressure to already fragile US-China ties before expected bilateral summit in Washington
The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) condemned Israeli attacks on Palestinians in Gaza and the occupied West Bank on Thursday at a meeting of foreign ministers in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, of the organisation's 57 member states.
Iranian security chief Mohsen Rezaei said Iran considers Lebanon’s security to be part of the security of the wider West Asian region in an interview with Al-Manar network on Thursday, according to Iran’s IRNA news.
It has been five years since the attack at Abbey Gate in Kabul, Afghanistan. US President Donald Trump put out a proclamation on August 26, the anniversary. “The terrorist was one of the thousands of prisoners released by the Taliban just 2 months earlier. As a result, 13 American service members were killed, 45 wer…
Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir has thanked the US president for sharing a report by Just the News that says: "USAID report finds more than 100 UNRWA employees participated in Hamas atrocities on Oct. 7."
Amid ongoing global oil supply disruptions due to the Iran war and Hormuz Strait crisis, and also as Ukraine's war on Russian oil refineries and export terminals heats up, the Trump administration has been scrambling to tap new reliable and long-term energy sources.
About 370 Palestinian children remain imprisoned in Israeli detention centres, according to a new report by the Palestinian Centre for Prisoners Advocacy, which it called "an unprecedented figure compared with previous periods".
The US war on Iran has caused a "beyond critical" shortage of advanced missile interceptors, especially Patriots, which have been used to shoot down Russian ballistic missiles, a Nato official and US official told the Associated Press (AP) in a report published on Thursday.
Applicants for immigrant visas to the US have had their appointments postponed, after the administration of President Donald Trump ordered a pause amid a continuing immigration crackdown.
Iran's security chief, Mohsen Rezaei, said on Thursday that Tehran is preparing a list for mediators of its conditions to open the Strait of Hormuz, including ending the war in the region.
Hundreds of haredi (ultra-Orthodox) individuals gathered to protest the expansion of the light rail in the Bar-Ilan Street area of northern Jerusalem on Thursday night, Ynet reported.
A displaced girl looks trough the door of her makeshift room that set on a basketball court inside a public school turned into a shelter for people whose villages in southern Lebanon were destroyed or occupied by Israeli forces, in Tyre, southern Lebanon, Thursday, Aug. 27, 2026. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)
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The US war on Iran has caused a "beyond critical" shortage of advanced missile interceptors, especially Patriots, which have been used to shoot down Russian ballistic missiles, a Nato official and US official told the Associated Press (AP) in a report published on Thursday.
At least three Palestinians have been killed in separate Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip, medics and local media reported.