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Netanyahu plans ‘broad’ raid on Lebanon: Report

Israel’s Channel 13, citing an unnamed senior official, reported that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is planning to launch a major attack on Hezbollah in Lebanon soon.

Thousands protest in Tel Aviv for ceasefire

Thousands of antigovernment Israeli protesters have gathered in central Tel Aviv, calling for more efforts to secure the release of captives held in the Gaza Strip.

Former Tehran mayor asks President Pezeshkian to reverse policies on hijab, internet

Tehran’s former mayor has advised Iran’s newly-elected President Massoud Pezeshkian to shy away from following the restrictive and controlling policies of the former administration on the cyberspace and women’s clothing.

Pentagon chief says Iran’s threat serious

United States Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin has said Washington considers Tehran's threat of retaliation against Israel over the killing of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh to be serious.

More details emerge from autopsy of dual national activist killed by Israel in West Bank

An autopsy of the body of Aysenur Ezgi Eygi, a Turkish American activist who was killed by Israeli soldiers in the occupied West Bank, has revealed a bullet entry from a firearm in the lower ear area, sources familiar with her case said on Saturday.

Senior Saudi royal calls on US to cut financial and military support to Israel

Prince Turki al-Faisal, a senior Saudi royal, has urged the US and the UK to do more to pressure Israel into ending its war on the Gaza Strip.

Ex-Iranian diplomat: No strategic alignment between Iran, Russia

A former Iranian envoy to the UN has hit out at Russia for ‘always blocking the path’ to Iran, despite the fact that the two countries are believed to be strategic allies.

Iran vows harsh punishment for perpetrators of terror attack in southeast

Iran’s Defense Minister Brigadier General Aziz Nasirzadeh has warned that the perpetrators of a recent deadly terrorist attack in the southeastern province of Sistan and Balouchestan will be dealt with "severely".

NATO risks ‘war’ over Ukraine long-range missiles: Putin

Russian President Vladimir Putin has warned that Moscow would be “at war” with the United States and its allies if they lift restrictions on Ukraine's use of long-range Western weapons.

25% of Gaza wounded have ‘life-changing injuries’: WHO

The World Health Organization has announced that one-quarter of the Palestinians wounded during the ongoing Israeli war on the Gaza Strip have suffered “life-changing injuries".

UN warns of ‘staggering’ economic devastation in West Bank, Gaza amid Israeli war

Israel’s war on the Gaza Strip has devastated the Palestinian enclave’s economy, reducing it to less than one-sixth of its 2022 size, while there has also been a “significant downturn” in the occupied West Bank, according to a United Nations report.

Iran: Gaza tents main targets of Israel’s bombardments

Iran has strongly condemned Israel’s attack on another school-turned-shelter in the Gaza Strip, which killed at least 18 people, warning that refugee tents in the besieged enclave have turned into the main targets of the regime’s daily strikes.

At least 50 people killed in Israeli military onslaught in West Bank since late August

At least 50 people have been killed in raids and strikes by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) during its large-scale military operation in the West Bank launched in late August, Al Jazeera reported.

Islamists win more than 30 seats in Jordan’s 138-seat parliament

The Islamist opposition party has topped Jordan’s parliamentary elections but fell short of securing a majority, according to official election results.

Hamas says ready for immediate Gaza ceasefire based on US proposal

The Palestinian group Hamas announced it is ready to implement an immediate ceasefire in the Gaza Strip based on a plan by US President Joe Biden presented earlier this year.

Russia says West claims on weapons deliveries to Moscow from abroad groundless

Recent deliberations about alleged deliveries of weapons to Russia from abroad are groundless, Russian Presidential Spokesman Dmitry Peskov has stressed.

No confirmation Russia used Iranian missiles against Ukraine: Zelensky

There is no evidence yet that Moscow has already used Iranian ballistic missiles against Ukraine, President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine has stated.

Israel bombs another UN-run school in Gaza, 18 killed

The Israeli army has bombed another school-turned-shelter in the Gaza Strip, killing at least 18 people, including six staff of the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA).

US hints it will lift restrictions on Ukraine using long-range arms in Russia

The US secretary of state, Antony Blinken, gave his strongest hint yet that Washington is about to lift its restrictions on Ukraine using long-range weapons supplied by the west on key military targets inside Russia, with a decision understood to have already been made in private.

Israeli raid kills 5 Palestinians in West Bank

The Israeli military on Wednesday killed five Palestinians in an airstrike in the city of Tubas in the occupied West Bank, as the army started an incursion into the city.

Top US, UK diplomats arrive in Kyiv for talks with Ukrainian leaders

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and UK Foreign Secretary David Lammy arrived in Kyiv on Wednesday for talks with top Ukrainian officials.

Israel proposes ‘safe passage’ for Hamas chief Yahya Sinwar, Gaza handover: Report

Tel Aviv has proposed giving safe passage out of the Gaza Strip to Hamas’s leader Yahya Sinwar in exchange for freeing hostages it kidnapped during the Oct. 7 attack and giving up control of the enclave, a senior Israeli official told Bloomberg News.

Russia conducts biggest strategic naval drills in decades

Russia has launched the biggest naval drills in its modern history, President Vladimir Putin has announced. The ‘Ocean-2024’ exercise is expected to be held simultaneously in the Pacific and Arctic Oceans as well as the Mediterranean, Caspian and Baltic Seas.

Ukraine says it may severe ties with Iran over missile supply to Russia

Kiev has announced it will review its options and could even cut relations with Tehran if Russia used ballistic missiles supplied by Iran to attack targets in Ukraine.

Gaza death toll surges past 41,000

At least 32 Palestinians were killed in fresh Israeli attacks in the Gaza Strip, pushing up the overall death toll since last Oct. 7, to 41,020, the Health Ministry in the battered territory announced on Tuesday.

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