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Lebanon’s President Joseph Aoun is expected to meet US President Donald Trump this week. It is the first visit by a Lebanese leader to the US in 17 years.
The High Court of Justice on Sunday temporarily froze the provisions of Communications Minister Shlomo Karhi’s broadcasting reform that were set to take effect upon the law’s publication, while declining for now to suspend the overhaul in its entirety.
Iran’s foreign minister, Abbas Araghchi, told his Iraqi counterpart that the "valuable" relationship between Tehran and Baghdad should not be affected by "certain personal and unofficial remarks", according to Iran's state news agency IRNA.
Renewed fighting between the US and Iran is disrupting air travel in the Gulf, with airlines cancelling flights to Kuwait and Saudi Arabia.
Renewed fighting between the US and Iran is disrupting travel in the Gulf, with airlines cancelling flights to Kuwait and Saudi Arabia.
Lebanese President Joseph Aoun will make his first trip to the White House this week to present a plan to US president Donald Trump on how to disarm Hezbollah and secure Israel's withdrawal from Lebanon.
Firefighters are working to put out a brush fire burning near train tracks in the area of Ness Ziona, the Israel Fire and Rescue Authority announced on Sunday morning.
The IDF closed the area surrounding the Gaza Strip to all non-residents on Sunday morning, ahead of a planned march into Gaza by the Nahala movement at 5:00 p.m.
Solomon’s Pools date back to the second century BCE, and have become a source of recreation for nearby Bethlehem
Israeli military has declared the entire Gaza periphery region a closed military zone, ahead of a march planned by a right-wing group that seeks to reestablish Israeli settlements inside the territory, Israeli media reported.
Washington has targeted bridges, electrical facilities and others in Iran, and Tehran has retaliated by hitting various plants in Kuwait
Washington has targeted bridges, electrical facilities and others in Iran, and Tehran has retaliated by hitting various plants in Kuwait
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Iranian authorities have put emergency services on alert in Khuzestan province, which was hit by a magnitude 5 earthquake this morning.
Health workers in northern Nigeria say more children are relapsing into malnutrition and cite knock-on effects from the war in the Middle East. The region is already under pressure from an insurgency crisis. The conflict in the Middle East has worsened food security for millions, especially children. UNICEF warns th…
Officials inspect a bridge damaged by a US strike in southern Iran
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Early hominins living in the ancient Galilee were able to navigate their landscape with remarkable precision to locate specific rock sources for their tools, according to a new study.
The United States military said Sunday that it launched new strikes on Iran to “swiftly punish” the country’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) for an attack that killed two American service members and left one missing and four requiring hospitalisation.
Una mujer al lado de un mural con el retrato del fallecido líder supremo iraní ayatolá Alí Jamenei, en Teherán, el 18 de julio del 2026. (AP foto/Vahid Salemi)
The United States and Iran exchanged strikes aimed at infrastructure and military targets on Saturday as their battle over the Strait of Hormuz intensified. The U.S. Central Command said early Saturday that its seventh straight night of strikes had hit “surveillance sites, military logistics infrastructure, undergro…
New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani is in talks over whether to try to arrest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during an upcoming UN summit, he said in an interview published Saturday -- prompting a sharp rebuke from Netanyahu's camp.
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Iran’s attacks on Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar and other Gulf states have erased any remaining distinction between Israel’s confrontation with Tehran and the security threats facing the wider region.
US President Donald Trump is set to host Lebanese President Joseph Aoun at the White House on Tuesday, as Beirut seeks to persuade Washington to do more to secure the implementation of a fragile framework agreement with Israel.
The American Israel Public Affairs Committee (Aipac), a leading pro-Israel lobbying group in the United States, has stopped accepting campaign contributions for 15 House Democrats it had previously endorsed, after they voted this week for an amendment to cut off all US military aid to Israel, media reports said.
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The investigation into organized crime groups suspected of carrying out grenade attacks against Japanika sushi chain locations in the greater Tel Aviv area has expanded internationally, with the FBI and Romanian police now involved, N12 reported on Friday.
Former Likud minister Yuli Edelstein issued his criticism of Israel’s ruling party over legislation that would exempt many ultra-Orthodox men from military service in an interview with 103FM on Wednesday.
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A family of five -- three children and their parents -- was among the 11 Palestinians killed in Israeli strikes in Gaza on Saturday, according to the territory’s civil defence and hospitals.
Samsung Electronics said Sunday it is supplying more than 1,000 ceiling-mounted air conditioners to about 100 mosques across eight Saudi cities, including Riyadh, as part of the company's push into commercial HVAC projects in the Middle East.
Israeli settlers attacked the Palestinian village of Tuwani in the West Bank, setting a mosque and a vehicle on fire and spray-painting a Star of David on the mosque's wall, according to Palestinian Christian human rights advocate Ihab Hassan.
The office of the governor of Iran's Hormozgan province said that an American strike hit a location in Qeshm at around 3.40 am local time on Sunday, according to the state news agency IRNA.
New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani has said he is exploring the legal possibility of arresting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu when he travels to the city for the UN General Assembly in September.
New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani has said he is exploring the legal possibility of arresting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu when he travels to the city for the UN General Assembly in September.
The US State Department has warned Americans worldwide to exercise increased caution, saying that due to “heightened tensions in the Middle East, the security environment remains complex with the potential for unforeseen escalation”.
WASHINGTON, United States — The United States launched new airstrikes Saturday to "punish" Iran after reporting the first US military deaths since renewing its hostilities with the Islamic republic.
The United States launched new strikes against Iran, Central Command said, after it earlier announced that two US military personnel were killed in Jordan and another was missing following an Iranian attack.
Iran has launched heavy attacks on bases belonging to the Kurdistan Freedom Party in Erbil and Sulaymaniyah, according to Iranian state broadcaster IRIB.
Israeli settlers attacked Palestinian homes in the Wadi al-Rakhim area south of Yatta, near Hebron, on Saturday evening, stealing three sheep, according to the Palestinian news agency Wafa.
Iran has closed the Marivan and Hawraman border crossings with Iraq and urged residents to stay away from the surrounding frontier areas in Kurdistan province, Kurdish-language broadcaster Aryen TV reported.
The United States launched a new wave of strikes against Iran on Saturday night, Central Command (CENTCOM) announced on X/Twitter, making the eighth consecutive night of attacks.
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US forces have begun launching new air strikes against Iran at President Donald Trump’s direction, according to US Central Command.
A fragment of an ancient stele dating to the reign of the Assyrian King Ashurbanipal 2,600 years ago was discovered at the Bab Shamash archaeological site in Iraq’s Nineveh province.