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TOKYO, Japan — Oil prices tumbled on Monday in early Asia trade after US President Donald Trump announced fresh talks with Iran to end the Middle East war and reopen the Strait of Hormuz.
US President Donald Trump has teased new negotiations with Iran after abruptly calling off a major attack in a Truth Social post published on the same day that his media company began selling Wall Street firms millisecond-fast access to the platform’s market-moving content.
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TRUMP BILLBOARD. A woman walks near a billboard depicting US President Donald Trump on a building in Tehran, Iran, July 27, 2026.
United States President Donald Trump has said that negotiations with Tehran are set to begin on Monday after he decided to hold off on new strikes on Iran in pursuit of a deal.
Oil prices fell Monday in Asia trading as investors pared geopolitical risk premiums after U.S. President Donald Trump said he had called off a planned strike on Iran.
NOTA DEL EDITOR: CONTENIDO GRÁFICO - Palestinos intentan apagar un coche en llamas tras un ataque militar israelí, el domingo 2 de agosto de 2026, en la ciudad de Gaza. (AP Foto/Jehad Alshrafi)
The US president said he had been asked by Iran as well as US partners Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Qatar to hold off on the new strikes
The US president said he had been asked by Iran as well as US partners Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Qatar to hold off on the new strikes
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Cargo ships are seen at sea near the Strait of Hormuz, as viewed from a rocky shoreline near Khor Fakkan, United Arab Emirates, Friday, May 1, 2026. (AP Photo/Fatima Shbair, File)
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US President Donald Trump said that negotiations with Iran will begin Monday after he decided to hold off on new strikes against the Islamic Republic to pursue a deal.
U.S. President Donald Trump said he’s holding off delivering new strikes on Iran, after Tehran and other Middle Eastern powers told him they’re working on an agreement that might quickly reopen the Strait of Hormuz.
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Defense Minister Israel Katz stated his intention to appoint current IDF Manpower Directorate Chief Maj.-Gen. Dado Bar Kalifa as the new head of the IDF’s Central Command during a live interview with Channel 14’s “The Patriots” on Sunday night.
Saudi Foreign Minister Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud discussed efforts to de-escalate regional tensions in a telephone call with his Iranian counterpart, the Saudi foreign ministry said on X.
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CAIRO — US President Donald Trump said in a Saturday evening social media post he will order American forces to hold off on new strikes against Iran, claiming Mideast allies had reached the parameters of a deal to end the five-month old war.
Dr Mazen Rantisi, a 71-year-old Palestinian physician popularly described as the “doctor of the poor”, says he has suffered physical abuse and medical neglect since Israeli authorities detained him more than a month ago, Haaretz reported on Sunday.
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Israeli settlers attacked the Armenian Church in occupied East Jerusalem’s Old City on Sunday evening, Wafa news agency reported.
The crew of an Iranian commercial ship that was hit in a Ukrainian attack and the body of a sailor killed in the incident have returned to Iran, according to Iran's semi-official ISNA news agency in a report on Sunday.
As the IDF continue carrying out targeted strikes against terrorist operatives in Gaza, officials at the White House and the Board of Peace are trying to preserve what they see as the Trump administration’s most ambitious diplomatic initiative: Hamas’s complete disarmament, the transfer of civilian governance to a t…
President Donald Trump holds up an image taken from his Truth Social account at an event about coal, Thursday, June 4, 2026, in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson,File)
Dr Mazen Rantisi, a 71-year-old Palestinian physician popularly described as the “doctor of the poor”, says he has suffered physical abuse and medical neglect since Israeli authorities detained him more than a month ago, Haaretz reported on Sunday.
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Beersheba has joined a growing list of Israeli cities and communities whose residents are eligible to apply for personal firearm licenses, the National Security Ministry confirmed on Sunday.
The IDF confirmed on Sunday that Hezbollah terrorists were the ones who deployed an explosive device, which ended up wounding five Lebanese soldiers in southern Lebanon.
Israel was meant to be involved in a major attack on Iran, United States officials told N12 News on Sunday, before US President Donald Trump decided to call it off after persuasion by Qatar and Saudi Arabia.
Board of Peace (BoP) Director-General and High Representative for Gaza Nickolay Mladenov implied on Sunday that IDF strikes in the Gaza Strip are interfering with peace efforts.
The nominations for the Ophir Awards, presented by the Israeli Academy of Film and Television, were announced Sunday morning, prompting the perennial question: Has the academy finally chosen a movie that will earn an Oscar nomination for Best International Feature?
Despite an overall decline in public opinion on immigration, the issue remains stronger for US President Donald Trump than the economy or Iran, according to a new Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research poll.
Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian said the memorandum of understanding signed in June with the US “will be the centre of gravity” of Iran’s “foreign relations in the future”.
At least one Iranian soldier has been killed and another injured in clashes with armed men in the western border city of Marivan in Iran, Mehr News Agency reported.
Iran’s foreign minister says negotiations with Oman on the Strait of Hormuz are entering their “final stages”, as Tehran insists the vital waterway will never return to its pre-war status.
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All high school students in Israel will begin learning English using personalized artificial intelligence (AI) lessons beginning in the next school year, the Education Ministry confirmed.
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A haredi (ultra-Orthodox) protest denouncing the IDF draft in northern Jerusalem blocked roads, including Shivtei Israel Street, and was considered disruptive, Israel Police announced on Sunday night.
The recent crisis in Ceuta cannot be understood merely as a migration episode. It is the visible expression of a much deeper transformation: the shifting strategic balance in the Western Mediterranean, where Spain, Morocco, Algeria, Israel, and the United States have become key players on the same geopolitical chess…
National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir was prohibited from using crocodiles to secure terrorists in prisons by the Jerusalem District Court on Sunday.
Central Elections Committee Chairman Justice Noam Sohlberg met with Attorney-General Gali Baharav-Miara on Sunday, ahead of the elections set for October 27. They stressed the importance of safeguarding the integrity of the electoral process.
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New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani is an antisemite hiding behind a fake smile, Israel's Consul-General in New York City, Ofir Akunis, accused in an interview with CBS News on Sunday.
Iran's negotiations with Oman over the Strait of Hormuz are in their final stages, Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi said, according to the IRNA news agency.
Uganda has unveiled a statue of Yonatan Netanyahu, the older brother of Israel's prime minister, who was killed during the Entebbe hostage rescue mission 50 years ago.