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SEOUL, May 31 (Yonhap) -- With President Lee Jae Myung set to mark one year in office this week, his government has put top priority on efforts to revive economic growth and reinvigorate the capital market, which has received a boost with the local bourse pulling off a world-leading rally.
A cafe owner in northern England has said British police offered him financial incentives and promised to turn a blind eye to some low-level offences if he informed on the proscribed group Palestine Action.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is due to convene a high-level security meeting at 10:30pm local time (19:30 GMT) as Israeli forces continue their military offensive in Lebanon and push deeper into areas where Hezbollah operates.
An Israeli air strike on southern Lebanon killed nine Syrian members of the same family, including six children, according to Lebanon's Health Ministry.
Former prime minister Naftali Bennett sharply criticized the government's handling of security in northern Israel on Saturday, accusing it of reverting to a policy of "containment" amid a sharp escalation in Hezbollah rocket fire that included a direct missile hit in central Kiryat Shmona.
Israel has tightened civil defence restrictions in communities near the Lebanese border, ordering schools to close and limiting public gatherings amid growing security concerns.
Iran has reasserted its control over the Strait of Hormuz, warning that foreign commercial and military vessels will be targeted, if they do not comply with regulations governing passage through the strategic waterway.
Northern Israel has come under heavy attack from Hezbollah on Saturday, after this past week a full-scale war has resumed in southern Lebanon, which even saw the resumption of Israeli airstrikes on Beirut's southern suburbs, much further to the north.
More than 2,400 families in eastern Syria's Deir Ezzor province have been affected by severe flooding after water levels in the Euphrates River rose sharply, inundating villages, damaging farmland and disrupting access to essential services across the region.
Israeli attacks across southern Lebanon killed at least two people, including a paramedic, and wounded four others as bombardment intensified across the region.
Amid shifting American views on Israel, the liberal Zionist position represents not only the middle ground held by most Americans and US Jews, but is also the best approach to sustain the bilateral relationship against erosion, J Street senior vice president and chief policy officer Ilan Goldenberg said in an interv…
Israel has lashed out against United Nations secretary general Antonio Guterres for its inclusion as a perpetrator in this year's Conflict-Related Sexual Violence report, which was released to the public on Friday.
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Pressure is growing on the Iranian-backed militias in Iraq to hand over weapons to state authorities, or at least pretend to put their guns under state “control.
A prominent Muslim interfaith activist plans to lead what organizers say will be the first Muslim delegation to participate in New York City's annual Israel Day on Fifth Parade on Sunday, despite receiving threats and criticism for publicly supporting Israel and the Jewish community, according to the New York Post.
Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salam has accused Israel of pursuing a “scorched-earth policy” in southern Lebanon as Israeli strikes intensified and fresh evacuation orders forced more civilians from their homes.
A Palestinian doctor has been killed and three people injured in an Israeli attack in central Gaza, as Israeli settlers attacked Palestinian homes and property in northern and southern parts of the occupied West Bank.
‘I try to walk as if caressing the land by every step. I heard this suggestion attributed to the Vietnamese Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh, advice I carry with me always, especially as I walk through the streets of Jerusalem with my camera,” says Dr. Katya Mandoki.
Growing frustration is emerging in northern Israel as Hezbollah's attacks continue despite months of military operations and repeated promises that security would be restored.
A video shared by Army radio on Saturday from a Nahariya beach showed how rockets fired during a Hezbollah barrage hit the water, with beachgoers running to take shelter amid the explosions.
Lebanon's Health Ministry says Israeli attacks killed 16 people and wounded 34 others over the past 24 hours, adding to the mounting toll from the conflict.
The United Arab Emirates carried out dozens of air strikes against Iran during the Israeli-US war on the Islamic Republic, according to a report on Friday by The Wall Street Journal, revealing a far deeper and earlier role in the conflict than previously acknowledged.
SINGAPORE — Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth appeared to contradict a senior Navy official on Saturday, saying there had been “no change” in Washington’s position on Taiwan despite the Middle East war straining US weapons stockpiles.
Iran's Khatam al-Anbiya Headquarters has issued a fresh warning to commercial and military vessels operating in the Strait of Hormuz, saying all ships must comply with regulations set by Tehran.
Manifestantes pro-gobierno con banderas iraníes y retratos del líder supremo ayatolá Mojtaba Jamenei (d) y su fallecido padre ayatolá Ali Jamenei, en Teherán, el 29 de mayo del 2026. (AP foto/Vahid Salemi)
A cafe owner in northern England has said British police offered him financial incentives and promised to turn a blind eye to some low-level offences if he informed on the proscribed group Palestine Action.
Former Israeli educator and Jewish intellectual Meron Mendel has raised concerns over Yad Vashem's planned expansion into Germany, warning in comments to German media that the Holocaust memorial institution's educational work could be "influenced by Israel's far-right government."
Since the events of October 7, it has become undeniably clear that Israel is fighting not only on the battlefield, but also in the arena of international public opinion.
U.S. continues to pursue a ‘great deal’ which would make sure Iran does not have nuclear weapons, U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth told the press in Singapore during his trip for the 23rd Shangri-La Dialogue security summit. Hegseth also hailed a “new chapter” in relations with China, saying a “more collaborative…
The influential Iraqi armed group Kataeb Hezbollah has pledged to keep up its armed activities, as Baghdad faces mounting US pressure to disarm factions supported by Iran.
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Iran's state Tasnim is saying the US naval blockade remains in effect, despite days of headlines of a 'finalized' US-Iran deal, which were clearly premature - though both sides still signal they are close to agreeing on a Memorandum of Understanding. But this is toward simply extending the ceasefire by 60-days in or…
ADLOUN, Líbano (AP) — La fuerza aérea y la artillería de Israel atacaron zonas cercanas a una montaña estratégica que alberga un castillo construido por los cruzados en el sur del Líbano el sábado, mientras los combates se intensificaban en aldeas próximas a la ciudad sureña de Nabatiye.
About 100 IDF veterans who were seriously injured in the Swords of Iron war are in the process of being admitted to Tel Aviv University without taking the psychometric exam, Walla reported on Wednesday.
The paths here are lined with flowers and small bushes and even trees that provide a bit of shade. It’s quiet. There is a small butterfly. A green lamp-post. Small houses line the path on one side. Here and there are other paths, where one can choose to go right or left.
A shopper peruses cheese offerings at a Target store Wednesday, Oct. 4, 2023, in Sheridan, Colo. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski, File)
ADLOUN, Lebanon (AP) — Israel’s air force and artillery struck areas close to a strategic mountain housing a Crusader-built castle in southern Lebanon Saturday as fighting raged in villages close to the southern city of Nabatieh.
The number of Palestinians killed in Israeli attacks in the Gaza Strip has risen to 72,938, with 172,919 people wounded since 7 October 2023, according to the Palestinian health ministry.
Muslims concluded the annual Hajj pilgrimage in Mecca in Saudi Arabia on Saturday by circling around the holy site of the black cube-shaped Kaaba.
Israeli soldiers and Hezbollah fighters are exchanging fire near Beaufort Castle in south Lebanon, as Israel attempts to advance on strategic locations north of the Litani River.
Israel’s military has advanced beyond the Litani River in southern Lebanon for the first time since 2006 and appear poised to encircle the major city of Nabatieh.
The Israeli army warned that it expects an escalation in fire from Lebanon towards northern Israel, amid its expansion of military operations in southern Lebanon, Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported.
The city center of Kiryat Shmona took a direct hit from a Hezbollah missile overnight, following a series of missile launches from Lebanon targeting Israel's northern communities, the IDF announced early Saturday morning.
The recent discovery of Assad-era chemical weapons munitions and materials in Syria has implications beyond the identification and destruction of hazardous stockpiles. The evidence could help investigators trace the military and security command structures that oversaw the chemical weapons program under Assad and su…
[CAPE TOWN] South Africa needs billions of dollars from the Gulf's oil monarchies to rescue a stalling economy. This year, its ministers toured the region asking for it. They also sent the navy to drill alongside Iran.
When Israel made the historic decision late last year to recognize Somaliland, it did something few nations are willing to do: it acted on principle and strategic interest rather than diplomatic convention.
The relationship between Ethiopia and Israel stretches back thousands of years – to the days of King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba – rooted in biblical tradition and strengthened over decades through diplomacy, migration, trade, and cultural exchange.
Lebanon's military has said that a "targeted" Israeli strike wounded two soldiers in southern Lebanon, a day after military delegations from the two countries met in Washington.
The oil market might face a new reality after the Iran war in which exports through the Strait of Hormuz do not return to the levels once considered normal, as shipowners now have to weigh the risk that fighting could abruptly break out in the volatile Persian Gulf.
The US and Iran are signalling cautious progress towards a possible agreement, although tensions remain high and military threats continue to accompany diplomacy, according to US Secretary of Defence Pete Hegseth, who warned that Washington would strike Tehran if talks fail.