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US President Donald Trump heads to Ankara, Turkey, on Monday evening for the annual NATO summit. Last year, he pushed alliance allies to spend more on defense. This year, his mission is to try to enforce those pledges. (AP Video: Nathan Ellgren)
TEHRAN, Iran — Iran began a procession Monday through its capital, Tehran, for the funeral of the late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
Un grupo de personas lanza consignas al congregarse en la plaza de la Revolución Islámica para la procesión fúnebre del fallecido líder supremo de Irán, el ayatolá Alí Jamenei, bajo una valla publicitaria que muestra la imagen de Jamenei, en Teherán, Irán, el lunes 6 de julio de 2026. (Foto AP/Altaf Qadri)
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In an unprecedented move, the government on Sunday approved a unanimous decision declaring it would disobey a High Court ruling.
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Khamenei’s sons Masoud, Meysam and Mostafa, as well as Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian, Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf and Revolutionary Guard head Gen. Ahmad Vahidi all attended the prayers. But not attending was Iran’s new supreme leader, Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei, another of Khamenei’s sons.
Prosecutors said Monday they have indicted four major domestic refiners in a 26 trillion-won ($17 billion) price-fixing case following the outbreak of the US-Iran war earlier this year.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu used Sunday’s cabinet meeting to launch a sharp political attack on Blue and White chief Benny Gantz and Yashar! leader Gadi Eisenkot.
The government approved a plan on Sunday allocating NIS 60 million to the rehabilitation of Nova Music Festival massacre survivors, which is meant to ensure support for those affected until 2028.
JERUSALEM (AFP) -- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday that some Christian villages in southern Lebanon had asked to be annexed by Israel, in order to be protected from Hezbollah militants.
SEOUL, July 6 (Yonhap) -- Prosecutors said Monday they have indicted four major domestic refiners in a 26 trillion-won (US$17 billion) price-fixing case following the outbreak of the U.S.-Iran war earlier this year.
Saudi Arabia's foreign minister Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud met his Bahraini counterpart Abdullatif bin Rashid Al-Zayani in Riyadh to discuss various "regional developments", including ongoing US-Iranian negotiations.
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Just a few weeks into the war, one of the Persian Gulf’s top oil producers quietly began sneaking its crude out of the Strait of Hormuz. Before long, the covert project became so successful that the United Arab Emirates was already approaching its pre-war rate of flows through the waterway by the time the US and Ira…
The Israeli army is preparing to withdraw from two areas as part of a pilot project where the Lebanese army is set to take exclusive control and gradually disarm Hezbollah.
On Sunday, German Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul condemned recent remarks by Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan against Israel, following a call by Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar.
In a statement on Saturday, Yemen's internationally recognized government condemned Iran for operating a direct flight from Sanaa International Airport to transport Houthi terrorists to former supreme leader Ali Khamenei's funeral.
Amid the IDF’s ongoing strain in Gaza and Lebanon, senior General Staff officials say that the most immediate threat may be in the heart of the country, where a breached seam zone and hundreds of drones could turn the area into the next October 7.
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A Palestinian teenager on Sunday was killed by Israeli forces after he was gunned down during a raid on the Qalandiya refugee camp.
Iran's ambassador to China stated on Saturday that the Islamic Republic would impose service fees on vessels transiting the Strait of Hormuz, but that China and other "friendly" countries would be granted "special considerations."
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu claimed that some Christian villages in southern Lebanon "asked to be annexed to Israel" for protection from Hezbollah.
Iran will fully close Tehran’s airspace on Monday as part of funeral arrangements, the Iranian Students’ News Agency (ISNA) has reported.
The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) has failed to implement hate speech and antisemitism-related reforms recommended by an UNRWA-established Independent Review Group, according to an IMPACT-se analysis published on Thursday.
A four-month-old Palestinian boy has died after an Israeli military checkpoint west of Ramallah blocked access to urgent medical care, while elsewhere in the occupied West Bank, a 16-year-old boy was shot dead by Israeli forces.
The mayor of Rmeish, a majority Christian town in Lebanon’s Bint Jbeil district, has rejected Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s claim that some Christian villages had asked Israel to annex them for protection from Hezbollah.
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SILVERSTONE, United Kingdom — Formula 1 president Stefano Domenicali says he wants to restore to this season's calendar at least one of the two races in the Middle East which were cancelled because of the war in the region.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu claimed in an interview with Fox News on Sunday that Christians in Lebanon had asked Israel to “annex” their villages, many of which Israeli forces have damaged or destroyed.
Israel must not miss the chance to form part of the India-Middle East-Europe Economic Corridor (IMEC), a former Biden administration official told The Jerusalem Post on Thursday.
Wednesday’s talks come as Kyiv tries to refocus Trump’s attention on the war in Ukraine and as Trump muses about Syria’s Middle East role
Wednesday’s talks come as Kyiv tries to refocus Trump’s attention on the war in Ukraine and as Trump muses about Syria’s Middle East role
Hamas officials have been taking bribes to put healthy people on emergency medical evacuation lists, The Telegraph reported on Thursday.
Three sons of the former Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei have made a rare public appearance on the second day of his funeral, but there has still been no sign of his successor and other son, Mojtaba Khamenei.
US President Donald Trump will meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky while in Turkey this week for the NATO summit to make a renewed push to end the war in Ukraine, a senior US official said on Sunday.
The government approved on Sunday the allocation of approximately NIS 27 million to develop and construct hotels in the West Bank to promote tourism in the area.
A Kuwaiti oil worker talks on his radio at Mina Abdulah Oil Refinery, 50 Km South of Kuwait City in this file photo taken April 2005. (AP Photo/Gustavo Ferrari, File)
A man walks past a banner ahead of the NATO Summit in Ankara, Turkey, Sunday, July 5, 2026. (AP Photo/Riza Ozel)
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When MK’s Yuli Edelstein and Yair Lapid sat down separately for interviews on Channel 12’s Meet the Press Saturday night, the expectation was that viewers would hear two sharply different diagnoses of Israeli politics.
Lebanon’s Health Ministry says Israeli attacks have killed at least 4,304 people and wounded 12,203 others since 2 March.
Vast crowds loyal to the Islamic Republic have gathered in Tehran at a funeral ceremony for Iran's former supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who was killed in joint US-Israeli strikes at the start of the war.
Are certain officials exaggerating the rising threat that Hamas poses to Israel in order to influence the upcoming October elections and possibly also to push for a new invasion?
President Isaac Herzog denounced the government's decision not to comply with a Supreme Court injunction barring newly appointed Second Authority Council members from convening, following petitions arguing the new appointments were political, in a post on X/Twitter on Sunday, bringing about a constitutional crisis.
President Isaac Herzog hit out on Sunday at Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan's Friday comments that "Israelis are a burden on the world."
About 100 activists of the HaBashan Pioneers settler movement were detained by the IDF after crossing from the Israel-Syria buffer zone into the Syrian side of Mount Hermon, the group announced on Sunday.