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Pro-Palestinian activists involved in targeting Pablo Picasso’s masterpiece Motherhood at the National Gallery have been found guilty of criminal damage. The verdict follows a protest stunt where activists covered the famous artwork with an image related to the conflict in Gaza.
Palestinians in Gaza are deeply divided over plans for the Board of Peace to enter the territory, with some seeing the initiative as their first chance to escape dire living conditions while others fear it will entrench Israel's control and permanently fragment the Strip.
Influential Iraqi cleric Muqtada al-Sadr has urged Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and allied armed groups to stop launching attacks from Iraq.
The Abu Dhabi Grand Prix is under threat as a result of war in the Middle East
The top US commander for the Middle East has warned troops that cellphone videos shared online can help Iran target American bases, and sources told Reuters some deployed personnel could soon be ordered to surrender their phones.
The IDF Northern Command confirmed on Wednesday that overnight, a bulldozer belonging to the military was struck as a result of a Hezbollah drone explosion, according to military sources.
A US-Saudi consortium is advancing plans for a $5 billion oil refinery and export base in the Gulf, narrowing its search to three sites just outside the Strait of Hormuz as the Iran war disrupts energy flows.
J Street’s liberal Zionist politics are landing with the Democratic establishment but the electorate may have moved on
Veteran medical adviser likely to face questions over disputed ‘lab leak’ theory in investigation seen by scientists as ‘vilification and harassment’ of 85-year-old
Influential Iraqi cleric Muqtada al-Sadr has urged Iran’s Revolutionary Guard and allied armed groups to stop launching attacks from Iraq.
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Lebanase businessman and banker Antoun Sehnaoui hosted Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at a memorial dinner for Senator Lindsey Graham in Washington.
Footage shows the moment an Israeli airstrike hit a mosque in Gaza City on July 28, 2026 causing an explosion and sending smoke and flames into the sky. In an October ceasefire, U.S. President Donald Trump set out a peace plan for Gaza that largely halted major fighting, after two years of devastating Israeli war i…
Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, is joined by from left: Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., Sen. Katie Boyd Britt, R-Ala., Sen. Roger Wicker, R-Miss., and Sen. James Risch, R-Idaho, as he arrives at the U.S. Capitol for a meeting of bipartisan leaders of the Lindsey O. Graham Sanctioning Russia and Iran Act of …
The UAE's floating hospital in Egypt has fitted prosthetic limbs for 51 Palestinian amputees since the launch of a humanitarian campaign delivering a lifeline to those caught up in conflict.
Israel will allow a far-right Kahanist party to contest October’s election after Shin Bet chief David Zini reversed the security agency’s earlier position that it should be barred.
The story of AI is usually a story about processors. Zack Fagan, partner at Earth & Beyond Ventures, thinks that misses the point.
US Air Force fighter jets and bombers flew from Israeli bases to attack Iran in recent weeks, Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz has said, highlighting Washington’s use of Israel as a launchpad for its widening regional war.
Deir el-Balah, Gaza Strip – Every day at around 9am, after providing for her five children’s needs, Ola Saleh steps out of the tent sheltering her family in al-Amal camp.
The meeting between Lebanese President Joseph Aoun and US President Donald Trump in Washington last week carried substantial symbolism, but the more difficult test is unfolding far from the White House: across southern Lebanon and along the regional corridors that have historically supplied Hezbollah with weapons.
Iraqi Prime Minister Ali al-Zaydi has called for an urgent security meeting on Wednesday after a joint US-Saudi attack on pro-Iranian forces in the country.
A Hamas terrorist from east Jerusalem recently threatened to kill MK Zvi Sukkot (Religious Zionist Party) in a private Facebook message after the lawmaker toured Arab schools in the area.
Israeli security officials arrested an Israeli resident of the West Bank on Wednesday morning who is suspected of having violently attacked Palestinians while in uniform as an IDF soldier, using IDF equipment.
Defense Minister Israel Katz boasted about signing administrative detention orders against Arabs in the West Bank, while refusing to sign orders against Jewish citizens.
All Nippon Airways has been raising fuel surcharges on international flights because of high jet fuel prices caused by conflict in the Middle East. (Photo by Yuki Kohara)
At least 135 medics in Lebanon have been killed by Israel’s bombardment since March
Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) Secretary-General Jasem Mohamed AlBudaiwi has condemned the “continued terrorist attacks” against Saudi Arabia by Iran-aligned armed groups in Iraq.
WASHINGTON, United States — US and Saudi Arabian forces said they struck Iran-backed militants in Iraq on Wednesday in retaliation for recent attacks, following a short pause in Iran war hostilities.
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At least 20 Popular Mobilisation Forces (PMF) fighters have been killed and 32 wounded in US-Saudi attacks across Iraq, the group said.
The US military said Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps launched ballistic missiles in an “attempted surprise attack” on American forces in the Middle East, but the assault was thwarted.
Israeli forces have launched heavy artillery attacks on Nabatieh al-Fawqa in southern Lebanon, the country’s state-run National News Agency (NNA) reported.
Mahasen Faqih y su esposo, Mohammed Sobeih, sonríen mientras se sientan entre los escombros de su casa, a su regreso tras una operación militar israelí en Zawtar al-Gharbieh, Líbano, el martes 28 de julio de 2026. (AP Foto/Hassan Ammar)
Iran reportedly considered attacking a Ukrainian seaport in the Black Sea in response to a Ukrainian strike on an Iranian ship, but in a "flurry of diplomacy," opted not to, Iranian and Western officials told The New York Times on Tuesday.
Iran has rejected a proposal from Oman for the countries’ joint oversight of the critical Strait of Hormuz and has, instead, made a proposal of its own as both sides continue to pore over the terms of what a final agreement could look like.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visited the White House Tuesday for his first in-person talks with President Donald Trump since the Iran war began, as the US military reported it had intercepted multiple missiles launched by Tehran.
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The Technion-Israel Institute of Technology was ranked 25th worldwide in a new index measuring universities’ ability to advance AI research, talent, and entrepreneurship.
The next great technological revolution may emerge from a web of processors, algorithms and controllers, each built by different companies and tested together for the first time. For Israel, that is the premise behind a proposed national quantum-computing research and development center - and the reason Israel Innov…
A 79-year-old veteran of war with America sees the carrier’s visit as proof of how far relations have come
A 79-year-old veteran of war with America sees the carrier’s visit as proof of how far relations have come
For generations, support for Israel united Washington. Now Israel's attacks on Gaza, the Iran war and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's close ties to US Republicans are eroding Democratic backing, threatening to turn one of America's closest alliances into a partisan divide.
Israel's security establishment is warning that the planned deployment of an international stabilization force in the Gaza Strip could restrict the IDF's operational freedom and enable Hamas to recover, after the security cabinet approved granting legal immunity to the force ahead of its entry into designated areas …
News of a US-Saudi civilian nuclear deal caused anger in Israel on Wednesday, with Israeli political leaders flocking to social media to say they feared the deal could put Saudi Arabia on the fast track to a nuclear weapon.
Spain's PM reacts to a mural dedicated to him by Gaza girl, Valencia creates committee to help tourists in emergencies, Cucurella keeps De la Fuente tattoo pledge after Spain World Cup win, and more news from Spain this Wednesday July 29th.
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that he plans to head to New York for the UN General Assembly this September, despite the city's mayor Zohran Mamdani's calls to enforce an International Criminal Court (ICC) arrest warrant against him.
There is a temptation to read a deepening Turkey-South Africa relationship as a story about trade diversification and multipolar hedging – two “middle powers” finding common cause in a post-Western world.
Iran is expected to receive within weeks a first shipment out of up to 400 Chinese-made shoulder-fired air-defense missile launchers, three sources familiar with the deal told Reuters, as it rebuilds its defenses amid war with the United States.
Oman wants an open Strait of Hormuz. Iran wants to keep control.