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Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has summoned Israel’s ambassador in Rome after condemning the treatment of pro-Palestinian activists detained during Israel’s interception of a Gaza-bound aid flotilla.
The judicial ombudsman on Wednesday upheld complaints against Supreme Court President Isaac Amit and Justices Khaled Kabub and Yechiel Kasher over their handling of a wartime protest petition on Shabbat, finding that the panel wrongly issued substantive decisions during the Jewish day of rest.
Iranians limited to the Islamic regime’s domestic websites are struggling with feelings of isolation and depression, particularly as the applications made available to them do not allow them to connect with relatives outside Iran, engage with entertainment, or properly carry out the research needed for their educati…
Former prime minister Naftali Bennett sharply criticized Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday during his first public visit to the Knesset in years since leaving politics, saying that Netanyahu’s coalition was harming the IDF by encouraging draft evasion and not providing the military with more soldiers am…
Quatro meses depois da primeira vaga de cheias que atingiu Moçambique este ano, Julieta Costa continua a viver as consequências das inundações. Moradora de Xai-Xai, na província de Gaza, ainda não conseguiu regressar à sua casa.
The United Arab Emirates has built nearly 50% of a second pipeline that will bypass the Strait of Hormuz, said the CEO of Abu Dhabi National Oil Co., or ADNOC, on Wednesday.
Cargo ships are seen at sea in the Gulf of Oman near the Strait of Hormuz, as viewed from a rocky shoreline near Khor Fakkan, United Arab Emirates, Friday, May 1, 2026.(AP Photo/Fatima Shbair)
A video released on Wednesday shows Israel’s far-right national security minister taunting detained pro-Palestinian activists while they are handcuffed and bent over on the deck of a ship. The images drew outrage both at home and abroad.
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Irish author Sally Rooney, whose stance in support of Palestine has earned international attention, has confirmed that her latest book Intermezzo will be published in Hebrew, causing mixed reactions on social media. A supporter of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement for several years, Rooney first g…
PARIS — France’s interior minister vowed the country will take “legal action” after a government agency said it had uncovered evidence that an Israeli firm ran a disinformation campaign aimed at pro-Palestinian candidates during municipal elections in March.
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A tanker carrying crude oil from the United Arab Emirates is believed to have transited the Strait of Hormuz with its Automatic Identification System transponder turned off. © Reuters
The Supreme Court on Wednesday accepted journalist Omri Assenheim’s appeal against lower court decisions requiring him to hand over all raw materials from his interview with Eli Feldstein, ruling that the police request was too sweeping and that journalistic privilege may extend beyond the identity of a source.
President Donald Trump arrives for the commencement address at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy, in New London, Conn., Wednesday, May 20, 2026. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
Grateful university students have told of their joy after returning to the UAE to take part in an emotional graduation ceremony more than two months after their campus closed due to the Iran war.
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has said it coordinated the transit of 26 vessels through the Strait of Hormuz in the past 24 hours, as talks between Washington and Tehran over the resumption of traffic through the narrow waterway remain stalled.
Lebanon’s health ministry said Israeli attacks have killed at least 3,073 people and wounded 9,362 others since fighting resumed on 2 March.
TEHRAN — Iran warned on Wednesday that the war in the Middle East would spread far beyond the region if the United States and Israel resumed their attacks, after US President Donald Trump threatened to strike again unless a deal is reached.
TEHRAN — Iran warned on Wednesday that the war in the Middle East would spread far beyond the region if the United States and Israel resumed their attacks, after US President Donald Trump threatened to strike again unless a deal is reached.
U.S. crude oil prices fell more than 4% on Wednesday after President Donald Trump said talks with Iran are in the final stages.
Oil prices fell about 5 per cent on Wednesday as US President Donald Trump's claimed that the Iran war would end “very quickly”.
Before Israel launched its war on Gaza in 2023, which has been recognised as a genocide by the United Nations, genocide scholars and human rights groups, at least 3,000 Palestinians from Gaza travelled annually to perform the Hajj pilgrimage in Mecca, Saudi Arabia.
The High Court of Justice on Wednesday appeared deeply skeptical of Justice Minister Yariv Levin’s refusal to cooperate with Supreme Court President Isaac Amit, pressing Levin’s attorney over whether the minister was effectively attempting to decide who heads the judiciary.
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At least eight people have been killed in Israeli attacks on southern Lebanon, in the latest violation of an ongoing “ceasefire” agreement, according to Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency (NNA).
Saudi Foreign Minister Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud said Riyadh welcomed US President Donald Trump’s decision to allow more time for negotiations with Iran.
Three commercial supertankers carrying a combined 6 million barrels of Middle East crude oil have successfully exited the Strait of Hormuz, according to Reuters.
By Murad Sadygzade, President of the Middle East Studies Center, Visiting Lecturer, HSE University (Moscow).
El ministro israelí de Seguridad Nacional Itamar Ben-Gvir en el parlamento en Jerusalén, el 20 de mayo del 2026. (AP foto/Ohad Zwigenberg)
In a world searching for stability, it is dangerous to leave one of the world’s most critical trade routes in the hands of Egypt. The geopolitical reality of the Middle East is unstable, and Egypt is part of the problem.
The tanker crew gathered their courage and carefully navigated along a route designated by Iran, hugging the coastline and maneuvering their hulking vessel between island checkpoints through the Strait of Hormuz.
Two months after being stabbed on his way from a shelter to his home in Ramat Gan, Rabbi Gedaliahu Ben-Shimon met for the first time with the Hatzalah volunteers who saved his life.
Bereaved families from Kibbutz Kfar Aza petitioned the High Court of Justice on Tuesday, asking it to stop the evacuation, demolition, or relocation of the kibbutz’s “Young Generation” neighborhood, one of the most recognizable and devastated sites of the October 7 massacre.
Uma proposta para dissolver o parlamento de Israel foi aprovada numa votação preliminar nesta quarta-feira (20/05).
Trump-endorsed Republican candidate Ed Gallrein has defeated Representative Thomas Massie in a primary election in Kentucky, in a result that the Israel lobby spent tens of millions of dollars to secure.
The Israeli military said two officers and one soldier were wounded in a drone strike in southern Lebanon that it blamed on Hezbollah.
Judíos ultraortodoxos bloquean una carretera durante una protesta contra el reclutamiento militar en Jerusalén, el 29 de abril de 2026. (Foto AP/Leo Correa)
Italy and France have denounced as "unacceptable" the treatment of pro-Palestinian activists who were on board a Gaza-bound aid flotilla intercepted by Israeli naval forces near Cyprus.
Israel’s ultra-nationalist government approved a plan on Wednesday to “develop and preserve heritage sites” in the occupied West Bank, a move campaigners say will be used as pretext to annex more Palestinian land.
Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has demanded an apology from Israel over its treatment of Italian activists arrested on a Gaza aid flotilla.
Muslims pointed to a rise in overt hatred online, political attacks and harassment in the months before the killing of three people outside an Islamic center.
SEOUL — A South Korean oil tanker safely transited the Strait of Hormuz, the country's foreign ministry said Wednesday, marking the first passage by a South Korean vessel through the waterway since the Iran war began.
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said that far-right National Security minister Itamar Ben Gvir's treatment of detained flotilla activists is "not in line with Israel's values and norms", but claimed that Israel has "every right" to intercept Gaza-bound flotillas.
LONDON, United Kingdom — Oil prices slid and stock markets advanced Wednesday as Iran said it had allowed around two dozen ships to transit the Strait of Hormuz, easing concerns about the apparent impasse on ending the war in the Middle East.
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Airstrike at the start of the war was aimed at freeing populist ex-president from house arrest, US newspaper claims
Oil futures are down bigly this morning following comments from President Trump that the war in Iran would be ended "very quickly," but investors remained uncertain about the potential for de-escalation.
Israel has killed at least 3,073 people and wounded another 9,362 in Lebanon since 2 March, the country's health ministry has reported.
