Tel Aviv (International Desk) — Israeli opposition parties have reacted with fury and demanded Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s resignation following revelations that he was warned in advance of the Hamas attack.Israeli newspaper Haaretz published a report based on an excerpt from a forthcoming book by its journalists, revealing that the United Arab Emirates had warned…
Tehran/Amman/Riyadh (International Desk) — Tensions across the Middle East have exploded once again after all efforts to restore a US-Iran ceasefire and resume negotiations collapsed. On Wednesday, the United States and Iran exchanged missile strikes on each other’s vessels and military installations, while Jordan and the Saudi capital Riyadh also came under attack.Iran’s Revolutionary Guard…
Berlin (International Desk) — A new report by Germany’s Defense Ministry has revealed nearly 2,000 suspected cases of sexual misconduct within the armed forces over the past five years, plunging the German military into a major internal crisis.According to Der Spiegel, complaints filed through the ministry’s internal reporting system rose from 312 in 2021 to…
Sanaa (International Desk) — More than 1,400 families were displaced in a single day in Yemen as fighting intensified between government forces and Houthi rebels. According to the state news agency Saba, the total number of families displaced in Taiz, Al-Hodeidah and Lahj since the start of September has reached 6,145.The government-run Executive Unit for…
The UK Maritime Trade Operations agency said it had received reports of several merchant vessels in the northern Gulf and the Gulf of Oman being “subject to disabling fire as part of ongoing military activity in the region”. It also reported that one vessel 24 nautical miles (45km) north-west of Port Rashid, in the United…
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani released more than 170,000 pages of internal records on Tuesday revealing that officials misled the public about air quality and safety around Ground Zero after the September 11, 2001 attacks. The release comes just days before the 25th anniversary of the attacks. Speaking at a City Hall press conference,…
A new Haaretz investigation claims UAE President Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed personally warned Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu about 10 days before the October 7, 2023 Hamas attack, during a 45-minute phone call, that Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar was preparing a major operation. According to journalists Shlomo Eldar and Ruth Yuval’s new book, “Kidnapped: 843 Days…
Iran-backed Houthi fighters struck civilian and economic infrastructure in multiple Saudi cities — Abha, Khamis Mushait, Jizan and Najran — wounding at least 73 people, including women and children. The Financial Times reported that Saudi oil giant Aramco’s facilities in Jizan were also targeted, though Aramco declined to comment. In retaliation, the Saudi-led coalition carried…
Following the UK’s ban on imports from Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank, Israeli opposition figures have sharply criticized Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government. Opposition leader Yair Lapid called the British decision “wrong and dangerous” but placed the blame on the Netanyahu government, saying it’s the government’s job to prevent such decisions, not threaten…
The UK, France and Canada have announced bans on imports from Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank, with Denmark, Finland, Ireland, Norway, Spain and Sweden among others backing similar measures. Twelve countries said in a joint statement that settlement expansion and settler violence are severely undermining prospects for a two-state solution. UK Foreign Secretary…
