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Mohammad Karami, ground forces commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), said on Monday that fighters are standing ready in northwestern Iran to respond to any threats from “extra-regional enemies or terrorist groups”.
Trump pauses ‘massive attack’ on Iran, says new talks to begin
The first Cooking Peace summer camp program wrapped up at the Ben Shemen Youth Village in central Israel with some forty teens, split between Jews and Arabs, concluding the week-long culinary program at a graduation ceremony on Friday.
Canadian opposition leader Pierre Poilievre has called on the federal government to immediately designate Kataib Hezbollah as a terrorist entity on Sunday, urging authorities in an open letter to Minister of Public Safety Gary Anandasangaree to “immediately recommend that the government of Canada list Kataib Hezboll…
During a ceremony, Uganda's military has unveiled a statue of the Israeli Prime Minister's older brother. Yonatan Netanyahu was killed during a hostage rescue operation in the East African country in 1976.
Nechirvan Barzani, president of Iraq’s semiautonomous Kurdish region, has held talks with Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa, in the first visit by a Kurdish leader to Syria since the fall of ousted Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has reportedly held phone conversations on Monday with his counterparts in Oman and Pakistan, to discuss the latest regional developments after Trump called off US strikes against the country.
US President Donald Trump accused Iran of being “duplicitous” in their conduct with the US by agreeing to talks privately and then publicly saying they are only having discussions with Oman and not the US.
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Suhaib Zahda, a prominent Palestinian activist from Hebron, was arrested and interrogated by Palestinian Authority (PA) security forces after seeking permission to hold a protest over rising fuel prices, salary cuts, and corruption.
US President Donald Trump criticized Iran’s leadership for being “unbelievably duplicitous” and accused them of being dishonest regarding the status of US-Iran negotiations in a post on Truth Social on Monday.
The threat to ships carrying oil in the Middle East is at its worst since the Iran war started, experts have said, after a spate of attacks on another key route in the region.
Ahead of Pride Amsterdam (July 25-August 8), mysterious flyers were distributed featuring names and locations of Jewish IDF soldiers visiting the city.
The IDF has killed a Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) terrorist, Mahmoud Fatair, a Nukhba commander in the PIJ's Central Gaza Brigade who infiltrated Israel on October 7 and took part in holding Rom Braslavski hostage, the military confirmed on Monday.
California is home to the highest fuel prices in the U.S. as well as the busiest containership port complex in the nation. So as the Iran war enters its sixth month and petroleum-product prices remain elevated, consumers across the U.S. could be hit with higher prices for a host of everyday products.
Crude oil futures fell over six percent after President Donald Trump said negotiations with Iran would begin imminently to end the war, although Iran denies any such talks are taking place. The drop in oil prices boosted US stocks at the opening, with Dow Jones jumping 1.3 percent, Nasdaq up 1.2 percent, and the bro…
Three workers at a private Tel Aviv daycare were indicted on Monday over the alleged repeated assault and abuse of infants and toddlers, including an incident in which one child’s arm was fractured, the State Attorney’s Office announced.
Israel must facilitate the “voluntary emigration” of Gaza residents who wish to leave, completely demilitarize the Gaza Strip, and retain full security freedom of action before allowing an international force to enter, the Tikva Leumit movement demanded on Monday.
Samantha Dart, co-head of global commodities research at Goldman, joined Bloomberg TV on Monday morning and warned that diesel sits at the epicenter of a worsening global fuel supply squeeze, as Ukrainian drone and missile strikes disrupt Russian refining and the US-Iran war disrupts tanker flows through the Strait …
The Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) announced the release of senior Fatah official Jibril Zubeidi on Monday after his administrative detention order expired.
The High Court of Justice on Monday questioned whether a petition challenging legislation restricting UNRWA’s operations had established the factual basis needed for constitutional review, with all three judges repeatedly asking for evidence that the laws had caused concrete harm to an identifiable person.
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A reservist and a civilian were indicted on Monday over the theft and alleged trafficking of an M16 rifle taken from an IDF base in northern Israel, Israel Police and the military said in a joint statement.
Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich and National Missions Minister Orit Strock on Monday called on the government to hold a new vote on the recommendations of the government's Board of Peace (BoP), arguing that ministers approved the original decision based on incomplete and misleading information.
A German court has acquitted a woman convicted of comparing Israel’s actions in Gaza with those of Nazi Germany, ruling that her posts constituted protected political expression.
TOKYO — Nissan Motor Corp. reported Monday that it returned to profit in the first quarter of the fiscal year, helped by cost cutting measures and improved sales in some markets.
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As first light reaches the scattered tents and animal pens of Ras al-Ahmar in the northern Jordan Valley, the silence is broken only by the cries of thirsty livestock waiting for water that no longer comes.
An Israeli court has blocked a plan by far right minister Itamar Ben Gvir to place crocodiles in moats encircling prisons where Palestinian prisoners are being held, Israeli media is reporting.
British trip-hop band Massive Attack has said its members were detained by police in Singapore after a concert last week, during which a Palestinian flag was unfurled on stage.
Israel’s military was thrown into chaos after the country’s Defence Minister announced live on a right-wing talk show that he was replacing a senior general in charge of the occupied West Bank, prompting a massive backlash and accusations that the government is sacrificing legality for political gain.
Board of Peace (BoP) Director-General and High Representative for Gaza, Nickolay Mladenov, met with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and requested that all IDF strikes against Hamas in Gaza stop so a “14-day ceasefire” aimed at kickstarting the demilitarization of Hamas can begin, sources familiar with the matter t…
Six supertankers sailing under the Saudi flag have changed course in the Gulf of Aden in the past few days, amid threats by Houthis to target Saudi shipping. The tankers, currently empty of cargo after returning from ports in Asia, are now heading in formation towards southern Africa, rather than using the shorter r…
Turkey on Sunday accused Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government of having no intention of achieving peace with the Palestinians, following Israel's latest military strikes in the Gaza Strip.
Israel is facing a “tsunami” of emigration from the country, warned Immigration, Absorption and Diaspora Affairs Committee Chair MK Gilad Kariv (Democrats) on Monday, following the publication of a new study from Tel Aviv University showing that over 90,000 Israelis left the country in 2025 for three or more consecu…
Mao Zhenhua says impact on China has been “small”, but it could focus policymakers’ minds on domestic economic woes
Mao Zhenhua says impact on China has been “small”, but it could focus policymakers’ minds on domestic economic woes
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — Singapore has banned the two core members of British band Massive Attack from reentering the country after they displayed a Palestinian flag and expressed support for the Palestinian cause during their concert in the city-state last week.
Syrian President Ahmad Al Shara on Monday rolled out the red carpet for the President of the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, Nechirvan Barzani, for the first high-level visit by a Kurdish official since the fall of the Assad regime in late 2024.
An Israeli court has blocked a plan by far right minister Itamar Ben Gvir to place crocodiles in moats encircling prisons where Palestinian prisoners are being held, Israeli media is reporting.
US airstrikes on residential areas and other non-military targets in Iran constitute “war crimes” for which Washington must be held accountable, Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei told RT at a press briefing on Monday.
The Palestinian health ministry said 19 people were killed and 35 were wounded by Israeli forces in Gaza over the past 24 hours.
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President Trump now says new talks with Iran will begin Monday afternoon after he called off a planned "massive attack" - following high level Saudi intervention, and also likely White House advisors and Pentagon leadership failing to agree on a strategic vision.
Iran has denied any talks are ongoing with the US despite a claim from Donald Trump, who called off strikes on the country on Saturday.
An anonymous Belgian collector has lent a rare work by René Magritte to the Israel Museum while the artist’s iconic painting The Castle of the Pyrenees undergoes restoration following accidental damage.
President Isaac Herzog received the credentials of six newly appointed ambassadors during a series of official ceremonies at the President's Residence on Monday, marking the return of the ambassadors of Chile and Honduras to Israel for the first time since the October 7, 2023, Hamas attack.
Late Saturday, Mohammad Dahlan, the former Fatah security chief who now heads the Democratic Reform Current from exile in the United Arab Emirates, said in a post on his official Facebook page that US special envoy Jared Kushner had told him he had reached an agreement with Israel to halt its attacks on Gaza the fol…
In the second half of 2027, regulations will come into effect in Israel to allow driving in vehicles with advanced autonomous assistance systems, sources in the Ministry of Transport believe. Local regulations on the subject have been in the process of being formulated in government ministries for over five years, b…