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At least three people have been killed in Israeli air attacks on vehicles in southern Lebanon, the country’s National News Agency (NNA) reported, as the Israeli military issued new forced displacement orders for residents in the south.
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Mike Huckabee, the US ambassador to Israel and a passionate advocate of its wars in the region, has told the people of Lebanon to be grateful for Israeli contributions to its society.
Iran is demanding the immediate release of $12 billion in frozen assets held in Qatar as a precondition for continuing the talks with the United States, Iran International reported on Sunday night, citing an informed source with direct knowledge of the negotiations.
Washington: The temporary agreement that the Trump administration announced with Iran this weekend isn’t a peace deal. It isn’t a nuclear deal. It isn’t a missile deal.
The effects that AI will have on the world economy, says Dr. Michael Gofman, senior lecturer in finance and head of the PhD Program at the Hebrew University Business School, cannot be overstated. “The entire economy is going to undergo an enormous transformation,” he says. “It can be relatively smooth and controlled…
Activists detained by Israel after attempting to deliver aid to Gaza as part of Global Sumud Flotilla arrive in Australia
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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s testimony in his criminal trial resumed Monday morning at the Tel Aviv District Court building, with his cross-examination continuing in Case 2000, the media-bribery case involving Yediot Aharonot publisher Arnon “Noni” Mozes.
Over one hundred deported Pakistanis said they were unable to retrieve their luggage or savings before being placed on deportation flights
Over one hundred deported Pakistanis said they were unable to retrieve their luggage or savings before being placed on deportation flights
Iran’s foreign ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baghaei said on Monday that Tehran and Washington have reached conclusions on several issues discussed as part of a potential memorandum of understanding. However, he stressed that this should not be interpreted as meaning that Iran is close to signing any agreement with …
Israel Police arrested a Kiryat Ono resident on Sunday, a senior and well-known floor gymnastics trainer, on suspicion of serious sexual offenses committed against a 22-year-old woman over several years, beginning when she was only 12 years old.
Mujeres sostienen retratos del líder supremo de Irán, Moytaba Jamenei, durante una ceremonia en homenaje a fuerzas armadas y los caídos en la guerra con Israel y Estados Unidos, en la Gran Mezquita Imán Jomeini en Teherán, Irán, el domingo 24 de mayo de 2026. (AP Foto/Vahid Salemi)
Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf was re-elected as Speaker of Iran’s Parliament on Monday, extending his tenure in one of the country’s most influential political posts for another year.
As negotiations between Washington and Tehran remain deadlocked, US President Donald Trump convened a high-level meeting Friday with senior US national security officials, including the CIA director, secretary of defense, and vice president, to discuss scenarios for a possible return to military confrontation with t…
Antisemitism in Australia was left unchecked after the October 2023 outbreak of the Israel-Hamas war, fueling violence against Jewish people, the country's spy chief told an inquiry into the Bondi Beach mass shooting on Monday.
The High Court of Justice was set to hear on Monday morning a petition challenging the state’s handling of discharged soldiers and reservists who died by suicide after their military service, in cases where their deaths may have been connected to their service in the Gaza war.
Japanese stocks climbed across the board in Tokyo, helping lift the Tokyo Stock Price Index (Topix) to an all-time high on May 25. (Photo by Nanami Sato)
As with previous rounds of negotiations, the latest US-brokered talks between Lebanon and Israel, held in Washington earlier this month, signalled the laundering of war through diplomacy.
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Oil prices slipped below $100 a barrel on Monday on hopes of a deal between the US and Iran, after President Donald Trump said the Strait of Hormuz blockade would stay in place until an agreement is sealed.
The United States will either secure a strong agreement with Iran or confront the country “another way”, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio says after President Donald Trump moved to temper expectations that an agreement to end the war is close.
Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei is hidden in a secret location with little access to the outside world, US officials disclosed to CBS on Sunday.
NEW DELHI/ISLAMABAD – Iran and the United States played down hopes for an imminent breakthrough in the three-month-old war on Monday, with U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio saying there will either be a good agreement or Washington would deal with the country in “another way.”
Women hold portraits of Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei, during a ceremony honoring the armed forces and those killed in the war with Israel and the U.S. at the Imam Khomeini Grand Mosque in Tehran, Iran, Sunday, May 24, 2026. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
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Iran appears to be in the process of "blinking" over the Strait of Hormuz, according to ex-CIA director David Petraeus.
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In hindsight, from the moment that Israel partially lost the US's backing for the war over the invasion of Rafah in May 2024, it became inevitable that the International Criminal Court would go after some Israeli officials regarding the conduct of the war with Hamas.
Dozens of haredi (ultra-Orthodox) protesters attempted to storm the Oz military police station in Jerusalem after a suspected IDF deserter was arrested overnight between Sunday and Monday, Israel Police said.
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio says US and Iranian negotiators have "a pretty solid thing on the table" and a deal to end the war between the two countries may be reached on Monday.
The Israeli military has warned residents of 10 villages in southern Lebanon’s Nabatieh and Jezzine districts to evacuate ahead of what it described as imminent strikes.
Secretary of state says a deal could materialise ‘today’, while Trump says talks with Iran proceeding constructively as he faces criticism from within his own party
A proposed agreement between Tehran and Washington would extend the current ceasefire by 60 days, creating time for negotiations on Iran’s nuclear programme and the gradual reopening of the Strait of Hormuz, Financial Times reported, quoting a diplomat.
A foreign state actor has hacked a parliamentarian and three staff members' WhatsApp accounts, leading to the platform being temporarily blocked.A Department of Parliamentary Services official told a Senate hearing today there was a "targeted phishing activity" on March 6.They received reports from a parliamentarian…
Australia faces a race against time to avoid another fuel price shock, as analysts watch to see if the latest breakthrough to end the Iran war can deliver cuts to the cost of oil before the Albanese government’s 26¢ excise relief expires at the end of June.
The Home Front Command has developed the capability to issue advanced warning for attacks launched from Lebanese territory, N12 News reported on Sunday.
Oil prices have fallen sharply and Asian stock markets have risen on hopes of a deal that could bring an end to the US-Israel war with Iran.
European stocks are set to open higher on Monday as hopes for a deal between the U.S. and Iran rose over the weekend.
Lebanese President Joseph Aoun said securing a complete Israeli withdrawal from southern Lebanon remains a central national objective, as the country marked Resistance and Liberation Day, which commemorates Israel’s withdrawal from southern Lebanon in 2000 after 22 years of occupation.
Over 1.5 million faithful gather as annual sacred rites in Mecca officially get under way