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Having initially been tipped for the role of chancellor, former Labour leader Ed Miliband has been appointed foreign secretary by Andy Burnham, the UK's new prime minister.
Brent crude futures are trading in the low $90s as the Gulf area escalation enters a tenth consecutive day. Iran attacked a tanker in the Strait of Hormuz, while two tankers carrying Saudi crude reversed course in the southern Red Sea after warnings from Iran-backed Houthi forces placed another critical maritime cho…
Lebanese President Joseph Aoun is in Washington for a high-stakes meeting with US President Donald Trump, as the first “pilot zone” operations under a US-brokered framework agreement with Israel began in southern Lebanon.
Little will change in Hamas now that Khalil al-Hayya has been named head of its political bureau, though the terror group will now enjoy not having the financial burden of administering the Gaza Strip, Dr. Michael Milshtein, the head of the Palestinian Studies Forum at the Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and A…
In a July 13 interview on the Hugh Hewitt Show, US President Donald Trump said, "We're going to take out Pickaxe Mountain. Tell the Iranians to be ready," while in another breath said, "We see no activity there."
US President Donald Trump and Lebanon's President Joseph Aoun met at the White House on Tuesday. This is the first visit by a Lebanese president to the White House in over 17 years.
US President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that the US would respond if Yemen’s Houthis follow through on their threats to impose a blockade on commercial shipping in the Red Sea, saying that the US “will just have to take care of business”.
Lebanese President Joseph Aoun is in Washington for a high-stakes meeting with US President Donald Trump, as the first “pilot zone” operations under a US-brokered framework agreement with Israel began in southern Lebanon.
Lebanese President Joseph Aoun met Donald Trump at the White House on Tuesday as he sought to persuade the US leader to push for Israel to withdraw from southern Lebanon.
President Donald Trump on Tuesday said US airlines would be allowed to resume direct flights to Lebanon, reversing a four-decade ban.
Since the October ceasefire, the Gaza Strip has effectively been divided into areas with vastly different levels of access and control.
Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif held a meeting on Tuesday with Iranian Interior Minister Eskandar Momeni in which he called for restraint from all warring sides amid escalating regional tensions in the US war on Iran.
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The Kuwaiti deputy foreign minister Hamad al-Mashan summoned the Iranian ambassador Mohammad Totonji and presented him with a protest note due to Iran's targeting of a Kuwaiti tanker while transiting the Strait of Hormuz, the ministry announced in an official statement.
Experts warn global energy market at a ‘critical juncture’ with escalating Middle East crisis expected to further drag on a slowing Australian economy
Israeli forces wounded two people when they fired at a crowd in southern Syria, official media said on Tuesday, amid a new wave of civil resistance in the area.
Doctors in Gaza have seen nearly 10,000 cases of chickenpox in the space of a few weeks, with overcrowding in displacement camps and a lack of water for basic hygiene blamed for the rapid spread of the blister-causing viral infection.
The late-night host discussed the president getting booed at the final, his grudge against Spain and the enduring Iran war
A relative buries Amira al-Masri, who was killed along with her three siblings and parents
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Houthi maritime blockade threatens Saudi oil exports, analyst warns
A mural of late Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who has been succeeded by his son Mojtaba, in Tehran
The French foreign ministry summoned the Iranian charge d'affaires on Tuesday, two days after it said French embassy staff were detained and physically intimidated by Iranian security services in Tehran.
The Netherlands will begin its ban on the import, purchase and sale of goods from Israeli settlements in the Palestinian Territories on September 22, 2026, the Dutch government announced Tuesday.
Without any public announcement, the IDF has been building a large sand-wall barrier separating the 50-70% of the Gaza Strip it controls from the areas controlled by Hamas, the military confirmed on Tuesday.
Israeli air strike on a civilian vehicle has killed at least two people and wounded several others in al-Zahra in central Gaza, al-Jazeera reported.
El Monumento a Lincoln en Washington, el 9 de julio del 2026. (AP foto/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)
Last week, Lebanese and Israeli representatives met in Rome to discuss implementation of an important dimension of their recent agreement signed in Washington. The sides examined so-called pilot zones – areas in which the Lebanese army would be posted after an Israeli withdrawal. For now, they remain apart, but Leba…
American flags fly above the Lincoln Memorial, Thursday, July 9, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)
There appears to be a disconnect between what Beirut, Washington, and Jerusalem expect from the deployment of the Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF) in proposed pilot zones in southern Lebanon. On paper, all three sides appear to support an increased role for the Lebanese army. However, they seem to have very different ide…
The Pentagon on Tuesday released the name of a U.S. soldier killed during the disposal of an Iranian drone in northern Iraq.
The IDF reportedly opened fire in the vicinity of Lebanese Army troops in Zawtar al-Gharbiya, an area in the city of Nabatiya, during the implementation of the "Safe Zone" pilot program on Tuesday, according to a statement from the Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF).
An Israeli air strike has killed a man, his wife and their four children in Gaza City in the latest of Israel’s frequent deadly attacks on Palestinians in the devastated enclave, which have continued despite a US-backed “ceasefire” signed more than nine months ago.
A Houthi blockade could disrupt Saudi oil flows through the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, leaving Asian buyers with fewer options
A Houthi blockade could disrupt Saudi oil flows through the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, leaving Asian buyers with fewer options
When Muhammed Abu Khammash disappeared, his family feared the worst.
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View image in fullscreenBologna, ItalyThousands of people marched through central Bologna to protest over the death of Abderrahim Fakir, a 42-year-old Italian-Moroccan man who died under police restraint. Clashes broke out between demonstrators and riot police, who used teargas and water cannonPhotograph: Thomas Cav…
The High Court of Justice on Monday urged several international aid organizations to withdraw petitions challenging Israel’s refusal to register them, signaling that it saw no grounds to intervene in a policy allowing the state to consider security, boycott, and “delegitimization” concerns.
The Palestinian Authority’s buildup of a military force, in violation of the Oslo Accords, presents an unprecedented threat to millions of people living in central Israel, a newly published report penned by Lt.-Col. (res.) Maurice Hirsch, published in the Jerusalem Center for Security and Foreign Affairs, warned.
This undated image provided by the U.S. Army shows Pvt. Isabella Gonzales, 19, of Carrollton, Texas. (U.S. Army via AP)
Iran said Monday it has received proposals from mediators as back-and-forth attacks with the United States continue. "Proposals have been put forward and conveyed to us by the mediators. We have received them, but please excuse me from going into their details," Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmail Baghaei said at a…
Born into poverty and with little opportunity at home, Hiwot Mehari took the dangerous smuggling route out of Ethiopia and across the Red Sea to Yemen, from where he hoped to reach Saudi Arabia.
Air raid sirens ring out across Kuwait City as Iran launches missile and drone attacks, triggering the activation of the country's air defenses.
Foreign ministers from the 11-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations and major partners gathered in Manila on Tuesday against a backdrop of instability beyond the region since the US and Iran resumed open conflict, raising concerns about energy supplies through the Strait of Hormuz, as well as inflation and g…
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The Israeli soldier stood on the balcony of a distant Lebanese house overlooking a yellow gate that marks the boundary between Lebanese-controlled land and the Israeli-occupied south.
Projects in Morocco, Ecuador and Iraq have taken the three first prizes in an international award recognising the use of earthen materials in landscape architecture.
A ramp-up in fighting between the U.S. and Iran over the weekend has left Wall Street reconsidering its expectations for the war's economic impact.
Shipping companies should not load or discharge cargo at Saudi Arabian ports, and such activity may result in being targeted "in any location" by Yemen's Iran-aligned Houthi terrorists, according to an email sent to companies by the Houthis.