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Milwaukee County Executive David Crowley is projected to win the Democratic nomination for Wisconsin governor, over democratic socialist state Assembly member Francesca Hong.
Pakistan's interior minister is visiting Iran to discuss regional security, stability and other developments, the Pakistani foreign office said on Wednesday.
The IDF announced on Wednesday that after a lengthy investigation, the burial place of IDF soldier Shlomo Haimson, whose burial place had been unknown for almost 78 years, has been located.
A new dawn has arrived in Britain. Andy Burnham has replaced Keir Starmer as prime minister. The Labour Party has arrested its seemingly irreversible slump, having learned its lessons, and is ready to resume governing, while addressing the concerns of ordinary people. Faith in politics has been restored.
MANILA, Philippines — When Chinese military hardware failed to prevent US strikes on Venezuela and US-Israeli strikes on Iran, Beijing largely stayed silent on the equipment’s performance. While it expressed grave concern over the operations, its limited response spoke volumes.
IDF reservists are growing frustrated with constantly pursuing Israelis who try to cross the Syrian border, particularly from the "HaBashan Pioneers" movement, multiple soldiers told Army Radio in a report published on Wednesday.
Lebanon’s parliament voted Tuesday to abolish the death penalty, a major move welcomed by international bodies and human rights organizations.
Russian-Israeli historian Artyom Kirpichenok, 51, reportedly disappeared after arriving in Israel last week.
Nadeen Ayoub, who made history last year as the first Palestinian woman to compete at Miss Universe, will help select her successor as applications open for Miss Palestine 2026.
Jericho, occupied West Bank – Where Palestinian homes once stood among orchards and swimming pools on the southwestern edge of Jericho, there is now only flattened earth.
Hardliners opposing talks with the US demand President Pezeshkian’s resignation, deepening political tensions over how to end the war
Hardliners opposing talks with the US demand President Pezeshkian’s resignation, deepening political tensions over how to end the war
Moody's Ratings has placed Dubai-based developer Binghatti Holding’s ratings on review for a potential downgrade on the company’s deteriorating liquidity profile and the uncertainty about its ability the generate cash flows amid war-driven uncertainty.
Dozens of settlers clashed with the IDF on Wednesday morning near Kusra, in the northern West Bank, after the military evacuated a tent that was set up in the area.
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Pakistan is making a final push to revive a US-Iran peace deal, with four days left before the 60-day negotiating window agreed to by Washington and Tehran expires.
Kurdish news media is reporting that Iranian missiles and drones have targeted a number of locations in Iraq's Erbil, including attacks in the districts of Soran, Khalifan and Harir.
Israeli attacks on southern Lebanon remain ongoing, with one military drone targeting a gathering of people, leaving several wounded.
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) operation to remove nuclear material from a site in Syria may be used as a model for a similar operation to extract Iran's highly enriched uranium, Israeli security officials assessed this week.
Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity News,
Washington: During five intense days last month, Iran launched waves of drones and missiles at US troops on three bases in Jordan, hoping to break through the formidable American air defences.
Children wade in the water with cargo ships at anchor in the background and a fisherman nearby, in the Strait of Hormuz off Bandar Abbas, Iran, Tuesday, June 30, 2026. (Amirhosein Khorgooi/ISNA via AP,File)
Emirates Global Aluminium, the UAE’s largest industrial company outside the oil and gas sector, reported a 34 per cent annual increase in its first-half adjusted net profit despite regional fallout from the Iran war.
Iran-backed Houthi rebels killed six people aboard a cargo ship in the Bab el-Mandeb Strait on Tuesday, the first reported fatalities from attacks targeting Red Sea shipping in more than a year.
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NEW YORK — US stocks slipped a bit further from their records Tuesday, while oil prices kept swinging on uncertainty about when the war with Iran will allow crude to flow freely again.
First responders, residents and environmental groups say military dropping flares to destroy forests and crops
Lebanese President Joseph Aoun was recently welcomed by US President Donald Trump in Washington, in what was interpreted as an effort by Mr Aoun to seek US backing in Lebanon’s negotiations with Israel. Upon his return to Beirut, the President travelled to Turkey, amid reports he would soon visit Saudi Arabia.
As the US-Iran war progressed Iran adapted how it attacked US military bases in the Middle East, which forced the US to use its already scarce supply of Patriot interceptors, according to a report from the New York Times on Tuesday.
El presidente Donald Trump habla con reporteros después de llegar a bordo del Air Force One, el 11 de agosto de 2026, en la Base Conjunta Andrews, en Maryland. (AP Foto/Mark Schiefelbein)
The 2026/27 Saudi Pro League season kicks off on Thursday with a much-changed Al Ahli Saudi among the first clubs in action.
The 2026/27 Saudi Pro League season kicks off on Thursday with a much-changed Al Ahli Saudi among the first clubs in action.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s first handpicked addition to Likud’s Knesset slate is Oren Dobronsky, an Israeli-born technology entrepreneur who has spent much of the past two decades in the United States. Dobronsky co-founded Hotbar, became a Silicon Valley investor, and built the California restaurant chain O…
Sailors on a US aircraft carrier operating near Iran attempted to jump overboard amid exhaustion and low morale caused by extended operations, several news outlets have reported, citing crew members’ families.
Sailors on a US aircraft carrier operating near Iran attempted to jump overboard amid exhaustion and low morale caused by extended operations, several news outlets have reported, citing crew members’ families.
It is perhaps a sign of the times that one of the UAE’s many small businesses is a company that produces an emergency response kit. Dr Daamini Shrivastav, a Dubai physician, co-founded the business with a friend to produce the Trooper Box – a package to help a family weather a storm with first-aid supplies, food bar…
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Damage on the cargo vessel Tihamah near Murad, Yemen, August 11, 2026. Yemen's transport ministry said four crew members were killed after the vessel was attacked in the Bab el-Mandeb Strait.
Trump should ‘take the less bad deal’ and accept Iranian sovereignty over Hormuz: Analysis
DAMASCUS, Syria (AFP) -- A Syrian court on Tuesday sentenced former ruler Bashar Assad to death after a trial in absentia, convicting him of atrocities committed during the country's nearly 14-year civil war.
US President Donald Trump told reporters that he does not "trust Iran", and further claimed that the US has full control over the vital Strait of Hormuz.
Any notion that players lured away by the Saudi Arabia riches of LIV Golf would never return to the PGA Tour doesn't hold much water these days. Five months from now, there could be as many as five ex-LIV players teeing it up at the season opener in California.
Lebanese President Joseph Aoun said negotiations with Israel were progressing while reaffirming that Lebanon would not accept a continued Israeli presence on any part of its territory, according to a statement posted to X on Tuesday.
US President Donald Trump praised Sen. Darline Graham Nordone on Tuesday night after she secured a place in the runoff for the Republican nomination for her late brother Lindsey Graham’s Senate seat, while also addressing the Iranian threat against him and the extraordinary security measures taken during his recent …
Some 20 months after Syria's Bashar al-Assad fled Damascus and went to Moscow, amid jihadist groups taking over the capital city in December of 2024, Russia has finally reached a negotiated settlement over the fate of its Syrian bases with the new Sharaa government.
South Korean shares opened higher Wednesday, led by gains in major technology stocks, despite overnight losses on Wall Street as optimism over a potential US-Iran peace deal faded.
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Watch: President Trump secretly switches planes to avoid Iran threat
Authored by Jill McLaughlin via The Epoch Times,