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Pedestrians and bicyclists wait outside the pedestrian gate on the south side of the Golden Gate Bridge, which is closed due to protesters, April 15, 2024, in San Francisco. (Lea Suzuki/San Francisco Chronicle via AP, File)
An IRGC spokesman has announced Wednesday that Iran and Oman have reached agreements on their share of the Strait of Hormuz and its revenues, according toTasnim news agency. So essentially the "fee" scheme has been set. There's talk of reopening the strait on an "interim" basis, Bloomberg says.
Israel will continue building illegal settlements in the West Bank in preparation for a “major” wave of Jewish immigration, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said. Israel’s most recent settlement expansion triggered rebukes from its Arab neighbors and Western partners.
Israel will continue building illegal settlements in the West Bank in preparation for a “major” wave of Jewish immigration, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said. Israel’s most recent settlement expansion triggered rebukes from its Arab neighbors and Western partners.
A scheduled visit to Toronto and Montreal by West Jerusalem's Deputy Mayor Arieh King was cancelled on Tuesday after Canadian authorities barred the hardline politician from entering the country.
Hapoel Beersheba came up short against Sabah FK late Tuesday night in agonizing fashion as it fell 5-2 (6-4 on aggregate) and was knocked out of UEFA Champions League contention in a dramatic clash in Azerbaijan.
You can call attacks by extremist Israeli settlers on Palestinian villages in the West Bank outrageous. You can call them disgusting. You can call them terrorism.
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The IDF struck and destroyed a structure in the Jabalya area of the Gaza Strip that was used as an ambush position for Hamas terrorists and as a storage facility for various types of weapons on Tuesday, the military said on Wednesday.
A person carries a shopping bag in Philadelphia, Dec. 10, 2025. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)
The US threat to sever Iran’s economic lifeline with a raft of new sanctions, coupled with Tehran’s warnings of military retaliation and further restrictions on oil exports, has raised the stakes across the region.
Israel's Diaspora Affairs Minister Amichai Chikli has explained his own strategy more candidly than any critic could.
Iran's bazaar shopkeepers are feeling the pinch from a collapsing currency, weaker consumer demand and rising costs, as a new round of US sanctions threatens to deepen an economic crisis.
Palestinos pasan junto a un almacén de distribución de alimentos dañado en un ataque israelí contra una vivienda cercana en Deir al-Balah, en el centro de la Franja de Gaza, el 26 de agosto de 2026. (AP Foto/Abdel Kareem Hana)
Stock futures are are flat and Treasuries slipped while oil stumbled heading into today's PCE report and NVDA earnings. As of 8:00am ET, S&P Futures are unchanged and Nasdaq futures drop 0.2% as NVDA and MRVL both rise 0.2% with Semis flat, Memory down 80bp, Korea down 46bp, Software down 1.3%, but Unprofitable Tech…
Passengers leave the baggage claim hall at Terminal 3 of Dubai International Airport in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Wednesday, Aug. 26, 2026. (AP Photo/ Fatima Shbair)
Iran diplomacy faces hurdles as economic pressure deepens amid record currency lows
China is the world’s biggest crude importer and the largest buyer of Iranian oil. It imported about 12.4 million bpd of crude last year, with roughly half coming from the Middle East. Beijing has also been a reliable buyer of Iranian oil, accounting for 90 per cent of Iran’s sanctioned oil exports. Iranian crude flo…
Dutch Foreign Minister Tom Berendsen on Wednesday dismissed Israel's decision to expel his officials from a Gaza support centre in retaliation for a ban on trade with illegal Israeli settlements.
US President Donald Trump has reportedly submitted a landmark nuclear cooperation agreement with Saudi Arabia for congressional review and renewed demands that Riyadh normalize relations with Israel as part of the deal.
US President Donald Trump has reportedly submitted a landmark nuclear cooperation agreement with Saudi Arabia for congressional review and renewed demands that Riyadh normalize relations with Israel as part of the deal.
Oil prices slipped by another 3 per cent to a near one-month low on Wednesday, as expectations that the US will not attack Iran for now and “constructive” talks between Tehran and Oman provided hope for easing tensions.
“America’s impatience in this war has brought the US into the conflict without coherent policy, without clear strategy, and without even trying to create a coalition to support the operation,” Dr. Lynette Nusbacher, a military historian and former head of the Strategic Horizons Unit in the UK Cabinet Office, told Th…
US authorities are investigating a data breach at a small maker of water utility technology, highlighting infrastructure cybersecurity threats, even though the Kansas firm was apparently not part of a suspected Iranian-affiliated campaign against water plants in Minnesota and other states that began in July.
US Senate Democrats on Wednesday urged Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to rein in a "surge" of violence by West Bank settlers and mass arrests of Palestinians by Israeli security forces in the occupied territory.
Iran will not allow military vessels to transit through the Strait of Hormuz under an agreement the Islamic Republic is currently negotiating with Oman, Iran's Deputy Foreign Minister told state TV late on Tuesday night.
Palestinians walk past a food-aid warehouse damaged in an Israeli airstrike that targeted a nearby house in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza Strip, Wednesday, Aug. 26, 2026. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)
China’s largest offshore oil and gas producer saw net profits jump over 23 per cent in the first half amid turbulence in the Middle East
China’s largest offshore oil and gas producer saw net profits jump over 23 per cent in the first half amid turbulence in the Middle East
Iran and Oman have agreed on a temporary shipping corridor through the Strait of Hormuz to allow commercial vessels to transit the strategic waterway, as Tehran dismissed U.S. claims that mines had been cleared and warned that the strait could remain closed unless its conditions are met.
Efforts to rebuild domestic food production face severe challenges and have come at deadly cost
In effort to prime chatbots to make pro-Israel arguments the site published 124 reports, over 560,000 words in nine days, Guardian analysis shows
Brent crude futures dropped for a third session as Iran and Oman advanced plans for a temporary maritime corridor through the Strait of Hormuz.
For the film festival circuit, this was supposed to be the year when Gaza and the Middle East faded into the background.
Qatar told Tehran it was unaware of the fate of Iranian pilots missing since their aircraft were shot down after entering Qatari airspace.
National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir’s Otzma Yehudit called for Ra’am chairman MK Mansour Abbas to be disqualified from running for the Knesset following remarks he made on Wednesday morning, claiming Arab parties were forced to accept Israel as a Jewish state to avoid being barred from elections.
The leader of a Kurdish-led militia in Syria said that the group would disband and be integrated into the Syrian army, dissolving a once-powerful American ally and handing President Ahmed al-Sharaa greater control over the country.
Iran has held new talks with neighbouring Oman on management of the Strait of Hormuz, blockaded over nearly six months of conflict, with Oman's foreign minister saying he was hopeful a temporary corridor through the waterway could be announced soon.
Israel has continued to occupy an UNRWA centre in East Jerusalem for a second day, with local news outlet Wafa saying soldiers raised the Israeli flag outside the facility.
Germany's military mission to Iraq formally ended on Wednesday, in the first major departure from the Kurdistan Region as part of the US-led, anti-ISIS coalition’s broader withdrawal from the country by September 30, Iraqi authorities announced.
Emirates Global Aluminium’s smelter restoration work at its Al Taweelah plant has reached 25 per cent after it incurred significant damage in an Iranian strike in March.
Black radar-absorbing finish on upgraded ship-launched weapon would improve penetration and visual camouflage over deep water, say analysts
More than 1,000 years before Homer wrote of Odysseus’s voyage home across the Aegean, seafaring traders from modern-day Lebanon were ranging even farther, selling their prized cedar wood from the slopes of Mount Lebanon throughout the eastern Mediterranean.
Israeli forces on Tuesday seized the last remaining facility run by the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, Unrwa, in occupied East Jerusalem.
In Likud and among Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s associates, officials are already analyzing the scenario that could emerge the day after the election, where neither bloc secures 61 seats, no narrow government is possible, and the political system reaches a deadlock.
Yair Netanyahu, the prime minister’s son, launched a sharp attack against the new party founded by Ofer Winter, “Amcha Yisrael,” on Tuesday.
A 67-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of stabbing a Bank Mizrahi employee on Salma Street in Tel Aviv, Israel Police announced on Wednesday morning.
Oklahoma nurse and activist N’kiyla Jasmine Thomas, who ran a campaign with anti-AIPAC messaging, defeated centrist Jim Priest in a Democratic Senate primary runoff on Tuesday that marked the latest victory for a progressive politician in a solidly conservative state.
Israel Police on Tuesday arrested a 33-year-old Bnei Brak resident suspected of stabbing a bus driver in Ramat Gan last week.
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director-General Rafael Grossi met with US Energy Secretary Chris Wright and discussed nuclear non-proliferation issues, including Iran and Grossi's recent visit to Syria, Grossi announced in a post on X/Twitter on Tuesday evening.