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Gente pasa tiempo en la playa mientras se ven mercantes fondeados detrás en el estrecho de Ormuz, cerca de Bandar Abbas, Irán, el miércoles 5 de agosto de 2026. (Amirhosein Khorgooi/ISNA via AP)
A 20-year-old resident of Muqeible in the Gilboa region, Ayman Jaramna, was seriously injured and subsequently killed by gunfire early Thursday morning, according to Hebrew media reports.
Eight people have been wounded in an Israeli strike on the southern Lebanese town of Burj Shemali, the country's health ministry is reporting.
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Shorter-dated Treasury yields edged higher Thursday, with traders weighing prospects for interest rate hikes. Yields held steady across the rest of the curve, with oil prices choppy as Iran-Oman talks over the Strait of Hormuz came into focus.
Iraq’s top political leadership has issued its strongest warning yet to Iran-backed armed groups, stating that failure to comply with the September 30 deadline for disarmament will result in terrorism charges.
People spend time at a beach as commercial vessels are anchored in the Strait of Hormuz off Bandar Abbas, Iran, Wednesday, Aug. 5, 2026. (Amirhosein Khorgooi/ISNA via AP)
Under the proposed agreement Tehran would control inbound traffic according to reports
For decades, the Strait of Hormuz has been Asia's energy lifeline. In February, almost 85% of Asia's oil imports transited the narrow waterway, while for LNG it was about 28%. © Reuters
Decades before the Zionist movement’s inception in the late 19th century, the German Jewish thinker Moses Hess proposed in his contentious manuscript Rome and Jerusalem: The Last National Question (1862) that a Jewish state be established through settlements in Palestine as “socialist agricultural communities”.
Trapped on a commercial ship anchored six kilometres off Iran’s coast, about two dozen merchant seamen are entering their fourth month of living under the watch of Iranian guards.
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Shipping traffic through the Strait of Hormuz and the Bab-el-Mandeb Strait, the key maritime chokepoints in the Gulf, reduced significantly on Wednesday from the previous day, shipping data showed.
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Hackers have targeted water and wastewater utilities in at least a dozen US states, ABC News has reported, citing multiple sources.
Israel Police identified human remains near the Yarkon Interchange in Petah Tikva early Thursday morning during the ongoing search for missing person Eldar Dayan, according to a police statement.
When Spencer Lucker saw the notification that Michigan’s Democratic Senate primary had been called for Abdul El-Sayed, a progressive who spent much of his campaign attacking AIPAC and Israel, it felt like a gut punch.
US President Donald Trump accused Michigan Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed of hating Israel and Jewish people during a speech in Las Vegas on Wednesday.
Ariel Bibas, who was abducted by Hamas at age 4 and murdered in captivity along with his mother and younger brother, would have celebrated his seventh birthday on Wednesday, as his father marked the occasion with an emotional public message remembering the son he lost.
Israeli reports are suggesting that there are considerations for additional military attacks in Lebanon, as the army prepares for further escalation in the country despite ongoing peace talks.
With Iran holding firm to its grip on the Strait of Hormuz, Trump faces one of two choices: capitulate or risk a ‘forever war’, experts say
With Iran holding firm to its grip on the Strait of Hormuz, Trump faces one of two choices: capitulate or risk a ‘forever war’, experts say
Two Israeli reserve soldiers have killed in southern Lebanon and four others severely wounded, the Israeli military said, while Israeli strikes killed at least one person and wounded 12 others, according to Lebanon’s Health Ministry.
The Israeli army escalated its attacks on southern Lebanon, with state-media noting a "wide-scale aggression" in Tyre.
Investigation by Human Rights Watch, Amnesty and Legal Agenda shows Israel deliberately attacked Amal Khalil and colleague Zeinab Faraj knowing they were civilians
Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar began a diplomatic visit to South America on Wednesday, with stops in Ecuador and Colombia aimed at strengthening Israel's diplomatic engagement across Latin America.
An explosion was heard across northern Tel Aviv in the early hours on Thursday, after a suspected fragmentation grenade was thrown at a residential tower in the upscale Park Tzameret neighborhood, according to Hebrew media reports.
Deir Ezzor International Airport reopened on Wednesday, after being closed to civilian traffic since 2012, shortly after civil war broke out in Syria.
Washington: US President Donald Trump’s frustration over the Iran war boiled over last week, when he demanded answers from Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth on why he had apparently been misled on extreme munitions shortages that now threaten to limit military options with Iran, two people familiar with the exchange to…
NEW YORK — Stocks meandered to a mixed finish on Wall Street Wednesday and remained close to their records, while oil prices held steady.
TEHRAN, Iran (AFP) -- Iran and Oman have agreed a route for ships transiting the Strait of Hormuz and were finalizing arrangements for jointly managing the strategic waterway, Tehran said Wednesday, even as fresh security incidents highlighted continued risks for regional shipping.
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Vehículos militares israelíes (a la izquierda) yacen apostados entre viviendas en la localidad de Zawtar al-Sharqiyah —ocupada por fuerzas israelíes—, en esta fotografía captada desde el pueblo de Zawtar al-Gharbieh, el miércoles 5 de agosto de 2026, en el sur del Líbano. (AP Foto/Mohammed Zaatari)
Israeli military vehicles, left, are seen stationed among homes in the village of Zawtar al-Sharqiyah, occupied by Israeli forces, is seen from the southern village of Zawtar al-Gharbieh, Lebanon, Wednesday, Aug. 5, 2026. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari)
Two IDF soldiers were killed and four were severely injured in an incident in southern Lebanon on Wednesday, the army announced in a statement on Thursday morning.
Abdul El-Sayed, a progressive and staunch critic of Israel’s wars in the Middle East, has narrowly won Michigan’s Democratic US Senate primary despite record spending by the pro-Israel lobbying group AIPAC in support of his rival.
Abdul El-Sayed, a progressive and staunch critic of Israel’s wars in the Middle East, has narrowly won Michigan’s Democratic US Senate primary despite record spending by the pro-Israel lobbying group AIPAC in support of his rival.
US President Donald Trump didn't know about the extreme munitions shortage that is threatening to limit US military options in Iran, the Washington Post reported on Wednesday, citing a source.
As one walks among the burial plots of Zionist leaders on Jerusalem’s Mount Herzl, one finds remarkably few rabbis. The mountain is populated instead by presidents, prime ministers, military commanders and political leaders whose decisions transformed the Zionist movement from aspiration into reality.
US President Donald Trump confronted Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth over Washington's critical shortage during the war on Iran, The Washington Post reported.
During the past five months, the UAE and its economy have experienced events that would leave most other countries quite damaged. The Iran war – arguably the Gulf's biggest challenge since Covid-19 – has disrupted energy, shipping and investment as well as shaking confidence across the region. That the UAE’s success…
The US Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) lifted sanctions on Iraq's Fly Baghdad Airlines and two of its aircraft on Wednesday, clearing a carrier Washington had blacklisted in January 2024 over alleged support for Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Quds Force.
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LIV Golf CEO Scott O'Neil announced an agreement Wednesday with a lead investor that would allow the rival league to forge ahead without the backing of Saudi funding while making players major equity holders.
Iran said the U.S. was ready to "return to commitments," while denying that negotiations were ongoing with Washington, after President Donald Trump signaled a deal was in the making.
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Israel struck multiple targets in southern Lebanon on Wednesday in what was described as the heaviest bombardment since the ceasefire took effect in early June. The attacks occurred as Israeli and Lebanese negotiators held US-brokered talks in Rome.