Germany’s leader has criticized Israel’s conduct in Gaza. Here’s why that’s a big deal
May 27, 2025
Ireland's cabinet gave its formal backing on Tuesday to drafting legislation on restricting trade with Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories, but the bill is
May 27, 2025
Germany's foreign minister threatened unspecified measures against Israel on Tuesday and said Berlin would not export
May 27, 2025
What matters in U.S. and global markets today By Mike Dolan, Editor-At-Large, Financial Industry and Financial Markets Markets were left nonplussed by increasingly erratic U.S.
May 27, 2025
North Korea's minister of state security, Ri Chang Dae, left Pyongyang on Monday to attend a meeting of senior security officials in Russia, the North's KCNA state news agency
May 27, 2025
A new aid system in Gaza has opened its first distribution hubs in the territory
May 26, 2025
A large rally in Jerusalem marking Israel's capture of the city's east in the 1967 war descended into chaos on Monday as far-right Israeli Jews confronted
May 26, 2025
Minneapolis has changed, slowly, since a city police officer murdered George Floyd on Memorial Day in 2020
May 26, 2025
Russia's latest wave of attacks on Ukraine should be answered with additional Western sanctions, Germany's Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul told public broadcaster ARD on Sunday.
May 25, 2025
Israeli hostage families blast security chief nominee over reported opposition to hostage deal
May 24, 2025
Jeanine Pirro steps into spotlight with response to murders of Israeli Embassy staffers
May 24, 2025
A Swiss-based NGO has asked authorities to investigate the activities of the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), a U.S.-backed organisation that plans to
May 23, 2025
United Nations chief Antonio Guterres on Friday said Israel has only authorized for Gaza what "amounts to a teaspoon of aid when a flood of assistance is
May 23, 2025
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Friday the newly named head of the domestic intelligence service would take office without delay next month,
May 23, 2025
Tom Barrack, the U.S. ambassador to Turkey, said on Friday he has assumed the role of special envoy to Syria, as the Trump administration moves to lift sanctions on the country.
May 23, 2025
Israeli settlers torched Palestinian vehicles and houses in the occupied West Bank, Israel's army and villagers said, the latest in a series of attacks on
May 23, 2025
For Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the shooting of two young embassy staffers at a Jewish event in Washington was a horrific example
May 22, 2025
The head of the Palestinian Red Crescent said on Thursday that a paramedic who survived an attack that killed 15 aid workers was spared because he asked Israeli
May 22, 2025
CNN goes inside a bakery as humanitarian aid finally reaches Gaza for the first time in weeks. This week, Israel lifted an 11-week blockade on Gaza, which it says was imposed to force Hamas to release all remaining hostages and to bring about a ceasefire. The UN warns that Gaza’s population of over 2.1 million people is at risk of famine.
May 22, 2025
The aid trucks that Israel has allowed into the Gaza Strip this week are "too little, too late," a spokesperson for the German government said on Friday.
May 23, 2025
Man accused of killing Israeli Embassy staffers in DC charged with murder
May 23, 2025
When Jerusalem resident Ziv Halsband woke up to news that two staff members of the Israeli embassy in Washington had been shot dead
May 22, 2025
A Chicago-born man arrested as the lone suspect in the fatal shooting of two Israeli embassy employees in Washington was charged on Thursday in
May 22, 2025
Paige Siegel was attending an event held at the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, DC when the shooting occurred. She described the moments after the attack when a man believed to be the attacker entered the building and admitted to fatally shooting two Israeli embassy staff members.
May 22, 2025
The Israeli military fired warning shots at a large delegation of European and Arab diplomats on an official visit near the Jenin refugee camp in the occupied West Bank Wednesday. The incident has drawn international condemnation.
May 21, 2025
Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar accused unnamed European officials on Thursday of "toxic antisemitic incitement" he blamed for a hostile climate in which
May 22, 2025
Following are reactions from Israel, the United States and other parts of the world to the killing of two Israeli embassy staffers by a lone gunman in Washington, D.C., on
May 22, 2025
The number of white nationalist, hate and anti-government groups around the U.S. dropped slightly in 2024, not because of any shrinking influence but rather the opposite
May 22, 2025
An Israeli center-left opposition party leader and former general sparked an outcry this week when he made rare criticism of the toll of the war on Palestinian civilians in Gaza
May 22, 2025
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May 21, 2025
Israel allowed 100 aid trucks carrying flour, baby food and medical equipment into the Gaza Strip on Wednesday, the Israeli military said,
May 21, 2025
Foreign diplomats come under Israeli fire on official West Bank visit, drawing swift international condemnation
May 21, 2025
The top U.N. official for Syria is warning of the “real dangers of renewed conflict and deeper confrontation” in the war-battered country
May 21, 2025
The British minister for the Middle East and North Africa, Hamish Falconer, said on Wednesday that he had spoken to diplomats who were affected by Israeli soldiers' fire near a
May 21, 2025
Russia has announced that its troops have fully reclaimed the Kursk region, nearly nine months after losing chunks of the border territory to a surprise Ukrainian incursion
April 26, 2025
While rising U.S.-Iran tensions over Tehran's uranium enrichment jeopardize nuclear talks, three Iranian sources said on Tuesday that the
May 20, 2025
Three allies of Israel used words like “abhorrent” and “monstrous” this week to describe the country’s actions in Gaza
May 21, 2025
Federal judge says Trump administration must ‘maintain custody’ of migrants allegedly sent to South Sudan
May 20, 2025
Britain pledged 4 million pounds ($5.4 million) in humanitarian aid to Gaza, the government said on Wednesday, as its Minister for Development Jenny Chapman visited Israel and the
May 21, 2025
Iran's parliament approved a 20-year strategic partnership on Wednesday between Moscow and Tehran, state media reported.
May 21, 2025
Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Democratic senators have sparred over a wide range of the Trump administration’s foreign policies: Ukraine and Russia, the Middle East, Latin America, the slashing of the U.S. foreign assistance budget, refugee admissions and more
May 20, 2025
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May 20, 2025
The European Union will review a pact governing its political and economic ties with Israel due to the "catastrophic" situation in Gaza, EU top diplomat Kaja Kallas said on Tuesday
May 20, 2025
The United Arab Emirates said on Tuesday it agreed with Israel to allow delivery of urgent humanitarian aid from the Gulf country to Gaza, the state news agency WAM reported.
May 20, 2025
The British government says it is suspending free trade negotiations with Israel and leveling new sanctions targeting West Bank settlers as it criticizes Israel’s military actions in Gaza
May 20, 2025
Israeli forces killed at least 55 Palestinians in airstrikes in Gaza on Tuesday, local medics said, continuing to bombard the enclave
May 20, 2025
EU foreign ministers on Tuesday agreed to lift economic sanctions on Syria, the bloc's foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said.
May 20, 2025
Britain on Tuesday paused free trade talks with Israel, summoned its ambassador, and announced further sanctions against West Bank settlers as its
May 20, 2025
The United States has sent 68 immigrants from Honduras and Colombia back to their countries in the first government-funded flight of what the Trump administration is calling voluntary deportations
May 19, 2025
Moscow is ready to work toward ending the fighting in Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin said Monday following a two-hour phone call with U.S. President Donald Trump
May 19, 2025
The sheriff who oversees the New Orleans jail where 10 men escaped last week says defective locks were a key factor in the jailbreak
May 19, 2025
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez called on Monday for Israel's exclusion from international cultural events such as the Eurovision song contest over its military campaign in Gaza
May 19, 2025
The holding company that owns Qatar Airways has reported it earned a $2.15 billion profit in its last fiscal year, its highest-ever profit off the back of record passenger numbers as global aviation bounces back after the coronavirus pandemic
May 19, 2025
Israel says it will allow a limited amount of humanitarian aid into Gaza after a nearly three-month blockade
May 18, 2025
Any deal between the United States and Iran must include an agreement not to enrich uranium, U.S. special envoy Steve Witkoff said on Sunday, a comment that drew criticism from
May 18, 2025
The war in Gaza has reached one of its darkest periods
May 16, 2025
Severe storms across parts of the U.S. Midwest and South have left at least 27 people dead
May 18, 2025
Israel says it has launched a major military operation in Gaza to pressure Hamas to release remaining hostages
May 17, 2025
Arab leaders at a summit in Baghdad called on Saturday for an immediate end to the war in Gaza, accusing Israel in starker language of trying to
May 17, 2025
House Republicans are in the final rounds of negotiations over a sweeping budget plan that has been significantly influenced by President Donald Trump's priorities
May 17, 2025
A federal judge in Texas struck down guidance from a government agency specifying protections against workplace harassment based on gender identity and sexual orientation
May 16, 2025
French President Emmanuel Macron reaffirmed on Friday that the humanitarian crisis in Gaza was unacceptable, and said he hoped to discuss the matter soon with Israeli Prime Minister
May 16, 2025
For decades, Israel has leveraged its special relationship with the United States to serve as a gatekeeper to Washington
May 16, 2025
Israel has targeted Hamas leader Mohammed Sinwar in a strike on a hospital in southern Gaza on Tuesday evening, sources say. Sinwar is believed to be one of the main planners of the October 7 terror attack on Israel.
May 13, 2025
Diplomats from Iran and the three European parties remaining in a moribund 2015 nuclear deal met in Istanbul on Friday, Iranian and British officials said, their first round of talks since
May 16, 2025
U.S. President Donald Trump said on Friday that American journalist Austin Tice, captured in Syria more than 12 years ago, has not been seen in years.
May 16, 2025
President Donald Trump says he may call Russian President Vladimir Putin soon, after Putin skipped peace talks between Russia and Ukraine in Turkey
May 16, 2025
U.S. oil producer Chevron Corp and several European companies are in talks with the Trump administration to obtain authorizations to keep their stakes in joint ventures with Venezuela's
May 15, 2025
As Romania heads into a critical presidential runoff on Sunday between two starkly different candidates, many view the final vote as a geopolitical choice between East or West
May 16, 2025
Gloved and armed with shears, women weave through thorny brambles, clipping and tossing their harvest into wheelbarrows
May 16, 2025
Vladimir Medinsky, the head of Russia's delegation at peace talks on Ukraine in Turkey, said on Thursday that Moscow's aim was to secure a long-lasting peace
May 15, 2025
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio met with Syria's Foreign Minister Asaad Hassan al-Shaibani in Turkey on Thursday, the State Department said in a statement.
May 15, 2025
President Donald Trump arrived in the United Arab Emirates Thursday for the last leg of his first major foreign trip
May 15, 2025
President Donald Trump says the United States and Iran have “sort of” agreed to terms on a nuclear deal
May 15, 2025
A woman who was nine months pregnant and on her way to the delivery room is dead after a Palestinian gunman opened fire on her car
May 15, 2025
Israel ramps up strikes in Gaza, killing dozens, as Trump floats ‘freedom zone’
May 15, 2025
NATO foreign ministers are debating a U.S. demand for a big increase in defense spending, President Donald Trump's administration wants to focus on security challenges outside of Europe
May 15, 2025
A group of international lawyers has filed a formal complaint to FIFA claiming the soccer body is failing to uphold its human rights policy with 2034 World Cup host Saudi Arabia
May 15, 2025
Israel's annual inflation rate rose unexpectedly in April to 3.6%, according to data on Thursday from the Central Bureau of Statistics that will likely keep
May 15, 2025
The Russian-led Eurasian Economic Union (EEU) free trade deal with Iran went into effect on Thursday, paving the way for increased trade across sectors ranging from agriculture to
May 15, 2025
President Tayyip Erdogan told Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelenskiy in Ankara on Thursday that Turkey was ready to host him and Russia's Vladimir Putin for peace talks "when they are ready"
May 15, 2025
On Cristian Giacobone's farm in the heart of Argentina's Pampas plains, workers in the soy fields have been up since dawn, racing to
May 15, 2025
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy arrived in the Turkish capital Ankara on Thursday for a meeting with President Tayyip Erdogan, while in Istanbul Russian and Ukranian
May 15, 2025
Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said on Thursday that Turkey expects the Syrian Kurdish YPG militia to fulfil a deal the group agreed with the Syrian government, under which
May 15, 2025
Although he fought hard to survive more than 500 days of captivity in Gaza, Israeli Omer Wenkert says he is not free.
May 15, 2025
Trump says US is ‘very close’ to a nuclear deal after Iran ‘agreed’ to its terms
May 15, 2025
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May 12, 2025
Israeli military strikes killed at least 80 Palestinians across the Gaza Strip on Wednesday, local health authorities said, in an intensification of the
May 14, 2025
Iran's top arbitration body has approved a bill that could help remove Tehran from the blacklist of a global financial crime watchdog, state media reported on Wednesday, potentially
May 14, 2025
Israel's right-wing government has maintained a diplomatic silence this week as U.S.
May 14, 2025
Donald Trump is the most powerful and famous person on the planet, and the American president is at the helm of the biggest economy and the strongest military
May 14, 2025
Syrian Finance Minister Yisr Barnieh made a call to global investors on Wednesday to come do business with Syria after U.S.
May 14, 2025
Israel targets Hamas leader Mohammed Sinwar in hospital strike in Gaza, sources say
May 13, 2025
Turkey's President Tayyip Erdogan has probably never held more global sway: he will host the first direct Russia-Ukraine peace talks in three years on Thursday,
May 14, 2025
Zelensky insists he will only join Ukraine-Russia talks in Turkey this week if Putin is present
May 13, 2025
At 2.09 a.m. on Saturday, Ahmad Subhan, who lives near an air base in the Pakistan military garrison
May 13, 2025
Pope Leo XIV, the first American to head the global Catholic Church, pledged on Wednesday to make "every effort" for peace and offered the Vatican as a
May 14, 2025
Fortress Investment Group has opened an office in Abu Dhabi and appointed a senior executive to build its business in the Gulf region, the U.S
May 14, 2025
Pope Leo XIV is vowing to actively promote and protect the spirituality and traditions of the eastern rite churches, those Catholic communities with origins in the Middle East and North Africa that have been decimated by conflict and persecution
May 14, 2025
France's foreign ministry summoned a senior Algerian diplomat on Wednesday to inform him that Paris was expelling Algerians holding diplomatic passports without visas in a response
May 14, 2025
Four years ago, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman struggled to get an audience with then-President Joe Biden, who said he wanted to
May 13, 2025
A federal judge says President Donald Trump can use the Alien Enemies Act to deport Venezuelan citizens who are shown to be members of the Tren de Aragua gang
May 13, 2025
Lawyers for the 2-year-old U.S. citizen who was deported with her mother to Honduras confirmed that the family is lifting its lawsuit against the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump
May 13, 2025
Iran will hold talks in Istanbul on Friday with European parties to their now-moribund 2015 nuclear deal, two European and an Iranian diplomatic
May 13, 2025
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says there is “no way” Israel will halt its war in Gaza, even if a deal is reached to release more hostages
May 13, 2025
An Israeli airstrike on the Gaza Strip on Tuesday killed a well-known Palestinian journalist whom it accused of working with Hamas and was
May 13, 2025
President Donald Trump says he will ease sanctions on Syria and move to normalize relations with its new government to give the country “a chance at peace.”
May 13, 2025
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May 13, 2025
For President Donald Trump, accepting a free Air Force One replacement from Qatar is a no-brainer
May 12, 2025
One in five people in Gaza face starvation, report warns, as Israel’s months-long blockade continues
May 13, 2025
A top official says Turkey is closely monitoring any attempts to undermine its peace initiative with the PKK following the militant Kurdish group’s announcement that it is ending its decades-long armed conflict with the Turkish state
May 13, 2025
President Donald Trump is on his way to the Middle East, where he had intended to focus on pressing wealthy Gulf nations to pour billions in new investment into the United States
May 12, 2025
France will respond to Algeria's "unjustified" decision to expel 15 French officials, Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot said on Monday, as relations between the countries worsened
May 12, 2025
Iran is preparing for a visit by Russian President Vladimir Putin, Iran's government spokesperson Fatemeh Mohajerani was quoted by Russia's state RIA news agency as saying on Monday
May 12, 2025
Kurdish PKK militants announce decision to dissolve after decades of conflict with Turkey
May 12, 2025
U.S.
May 11, 2025
Turkey is ready to host peace talks between Russia and Ukraine in Istanbul again, President Tayyip Erdogan told his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin in a phone call on Sunday,
May 11, 2025
A Tufts University student from Turkey who was swept up in the campaign by President Donald Trump's administration to deport pro-Palestinian campus activists
May 11, 2025
The new German foreign minister, Johann Wadephul, departed for Israel on Saturday for a Middle East trip in which "critical discussions" are expected, he said when leaving Berlin.
May 10, 2025
Columbia University has suspended dozens of students and barred alums and others who participated in a pro-Palestinian demonstration inside the school’s main library earlier this week
May 10, 2025
The Pentagon ordered military educational institutions to pull and review any books that promote what it called "divisive concepts and gender
May 09, 2025
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May 07, 2025
The militant Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) made "historic decisions" at a congress this week after a call from its jailed leader to dissolve, a linked news agency said on Friday - a
May 09, 2025
President Donald Trump says he is naming Fox News host Jeanine Pirro, a former county prosecutor and elected judge, to be the top federal prosecutor for the nation’s capital after abandoning his first pick for the job
May 08, 2025
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