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Global stocks have come under pressure and Brent crude oil surpassed $100 a barrel as escalating fighting across the Middle East stokes fears of energy-driven inflation.
Lebanon’s civil defence agency says an Israeli drone struck a motorcycle near Harouf, killing one person.
Israel has announced four retaliatory measures against the UK in response to its decision to ban the import of all goods produced in illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank, calling the move a “series of anti-Israel decisions by the Labour Government”.
Syrian security forces and others gather as smoke rises after an explosion at what state media said was a weapons depot in the Burj al-Nimra area near Sarmada, in Idlib province, Syria, Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2026.(AP Photo/Omar Albam)
Palestinian singer Elyanna has drawn criticism over her latest music video, with viewers questioning the decision to set the lively and playful clip in a jail while Palestinian women face widespread abuse in Israeli prisons.
El secretario británico de Exteriores, Ed Miliband, habla durante una conferencia de prensa en Madrid, España, el 29 de julio de 2026. (Leon Neal/Pool Foto via AP, Archivo)
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Israel's population stands at an estimated 10.305 million ahead of Rosh Hashanah, after growing by approximately 124,000 people over the past year, the Central Bureau of Statistics said on Wednesday.
British Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband said the U.K. will ban imports of all goods from the settlements and bar companies from providing services for the settlements, including financing, construction, infrastructure, real estate and advertising. Israel responded angrily and said it would close the British consulate …
The High Court of Justice on Wednesday scrutinized whether political parties may receive identified, real-time reports of who has voted, repeatedly returning to a central question: What legal authority permits information recorded inside a polling station to be transferred to a campaign?
An Israeli legal advocacy group accused the United Nations commission investigating Israel and the Palestinian territories of applying different standards to Israel and Hamas, arguing in a report circulated Tuesday that alleged Israeli wrongdoing is traced to state policy and senior officials - while Palestinian res…
Iran targeted Jordan on Tuesday night, with Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) claiming it had “targeted facilities used for the maintenance, preparation and deployment of US F-35, F-16 and F-15 fighter jets at the al-Azraq airbase in Jordan.”
A Kurdish militia killed a Sunni “traitor” working with Iran’s IRGC in the Chianeh village in the West Azerbaijan province, a source within the Kurdish movement told The Jerusalem Post on Tuesday night.
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps says it will shortly publish the coordinates and boundaries of a restricted maritime zone stretching from Chabahar into parts of the Gulf of Oman and the Arabian Sea.
Josh Baker is the journalist behind the BBC’s smash hit I’m Not a Monster. He’s back with his most extraordinary investigation yet – to solve the mystery of Austin Tice, who disappeared in Syria 14 years ago
Brent crude futures topped $100 a barrel for the first time since July as US strikes on Iranian oil tankers and renewed attacks on Saudi energy infrastructure and a US base in Jordan suggested to UBS energy specialist Dominic Ellis that a "US-Iran off-ramp remains elusive."
Israeli opposition politicians have accused Benjamin Netanyahu's government of driving the country into unprecedented global isolation after the United Kingdom announced sanctions on illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank.
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said its naval forces have captured an unmanned United States submarine near the Strait of Hormuz, as Tehran and Washington continue to exchange tit-for-tat attacks on ships to exert control over the crucial waterway that connects the Gulf and the Arabian Sea.
EL CAIRO, Egipto (AP) — Los rescatistas excavaban entre los escombros de un penal administrado por los hutíes que fue alcanzado esta semana por un ataque aéreo en el norte de Yemen, incluso mientras la coalición encabezada por Arabia Saudí renovaba sus ataques contra las zonas rebeldes el miércoles. Recuperaron cuat…
Covenant, a defense tech company with operations in the United States, Germany, and Israel, emerged from stealth on Monday with the public debut of Anthem, a long‑range, heavy‑payload weapon system designed for mass production.
Otzma Yehudit requested that the Central Elections Committee ban the Arab Ra'am party and its chairman, MK Mansour Abbas, from running in the 2026 Israeli elections, the party said in a statement on Wednesday.
Police tape hangs outside the Temple Israel synagogue on March 13, 2026, in West Bloomfield Township, Mich. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya, File)
The average price of unleaded petrol has risen by 5p a litre in the space of a week, according to the RAC, which warned there was "no sign of any relief" for drivers.
Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) navy announced Tuesday it had captured an unmanned US submersible at the entrance of the Strait of Hormuz, a claim which corresponding photographs appear to back.
The United Kingdom has announced it will ban imports originating from illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank, marking one of London’s strongest policy moves on Israel-Palestine since it formally recognised a Palestinian state last year.
CAIRO (AP) — Rescuers dug through the rubble of a Houthi-run prison that was hit in an airstrike in northern Yemen earlier this week, even as the Saudi-led coalition renewed its attacks on the rebel areas Wednesday. Rescuers recovered four bodies, raising the death toll at the prison to 23 people, the Houthis said.
Yemen’s more than a decade-long civil war has flared up once again after the Houthi rebel group launched an offensive in several locations against Saudi Arabian-backed government forces. The conflict has already spilled over beyond the country’s borders with the Houthis launching an attack on southern Saudi Arabia, …
The US and Iran are opening a new front in their six-month-old war: a battle at sea that is increasingly turning commercial shipping into a target and risks repeating the “Tanker War” of the 1980s.
As President Donald Trump's wartime directives in Iran repeatedly jolted global markets, his personal energy portfolio surged.
Several people were killed and others injured after an explosion at a temporary ammunition storage facility near Sarmada in the Idlib countryside in north-west Syria, according to local health officials.
Israel kept being the world's top target for hacktivist attacks in the first half of 2026, with one in six attacks targeting the country, the Radware H1 2026 Global Threat Report revealed Wednesday.
Miembros de los hutíes, un grupo chií de Yemen, queman una figura de una aeronave estadounidense y una bandera saudí durante una protesta contra las interferencias de Estados Unidos y Arabia Saudí en Uemen, tras las oraciones del viernes en Saná, Yemen, el 12 de abril de 2013. (AP Foto/Hani Mohammed, Archivo)
Israel has told the United Kingdom to close its consulate in occupied East Jerusalem within 30 days, according to reports, after the British government announced sanctions on illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says he has ordered his lawyers to take legal action against Haaretz, journalist Shlomi Eldar and “other individuals”.
Rebel strikes in Saudi Arabia and fierce fighting in Taiz risk choking global maritime traffic and undoing 4 years of peace
Rebel strikes in Saudi Arabia and fierce fighting in Taiz risk choking global maritime traffic and undoing 4 years of peace
Israeli opposition politicians have accused Benjamin Netanyahu's government of driving the country into unprecedented global isolation after the United Kingdom announced sanctions on illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank.
The United Kingdom has announced a ban on the import of all goods produced in illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank, Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband said in Parliament on Tuesday.
Israeli political parties have submitted their slates for the Knesset elections on October 27.
[DAMASCUS] Users in Syria have begun regaining access to the Microsoft Store in recent days without the need for virtual private networks (VPNs), marking a new development after years of restrictions that limited Syrians’ access to a range of digital services provided by US technology companies.
Israel will open its first embassy in Slovenia on Wednesday as a sign of warming relations after populist Janez Janša formed a center-right government following elections in March.
Israeli students have seen a major drop in grades and performance, according to an initial, not yet formally verified, report by the National Authority for Measurement and Evaluation in Education (known by its Hebrew acronym, RAMA), confirmed on Tuesday.
A new pre-military preparatory program established in memory of four IDF reservists killed together in Gaza in November 2023 is set to open in northern Israel, the Ma’ase Center and Welfare and Social Affairs Ministry announced.
More than 20,000 new immigrants (olim) arrived in Israel during the Jewish year 5786 (September 23, 2025 to September 3, 2026), coming from over 100 different countries worldwide, according to a new data report released on Tuesday by the Aliyah and Integration Ministry and the Jewish Agency.
Iran’s military released video early Wednesday showing what is said to be missiles and drones being launched toward U.S. vessels and oil tankers, in response to the latest U.S. attack on five Iranian oil tankers.
O primeiro-ministro de Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, foi alertado pelo presidente dos Emirados Árabes Unidos (EAU) de que o Hamas estava planejando uma grande ofensiva apenas alguns dias antes de o grupo palestino realizar o ataque de 7 de outubro de 2023, segundo uma reportagem publicada nesta terça-feira (08/09) pel…
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Esta imagen de satélite proporcionada por Planet Labs PBC muestra una refinería de petróleo de Saudi Aramco al norte de Abha, Arabia saudí, poco antes de que una columna de humo comenzara a salir del recinto el martes 8 de septiembre de 2026. (Planet Labs PBC via AP)
This satellite image provided by Planet Labs PBC shows a Saudi Aramco oil refinery north of Abha, Saudi Arabia, shortly before a plume of smoke began rising from the facility Tuesday, Sept. 8, 2026. (Planet Labs PBC via AP)
Seoul is sending a fact-finding mission to the UAE as it balances Washington’s security requests with warnings of Iranian retaliation