TIME

The audacious assassination of Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh risks a wider regional conflagration.

Netanyahu Wants to Drag America Into War

The Israeli military says it has recovered the bodies of five Israelis taken back to Gaza as hostages during Hamas’s attack on southern Israel on 7 October. The bodies of kindergarten teacher Maya Goren as well as the soldiers Sergeant Major Ravid Aryeh Katz, Master Sergeant Oren Goldin, Staff Sergeant Tomer Ahimas and Sergeant Kiril Brodski were found in a Hamas tunnel in the southern city of Khan Younis on Wednesday.

Israeli military recovers five hostages' bodies in Gaza

The U.S. is deploying additional military might in the Middle East as a defensive measure with a goal of de-escalating tensions in the region, a White House official said on Sunday. More information with FRANCE 24 international affairs commentator, Douglas Herbert.

US deploys troops and says ready to defend Israel if Iran launches an attack against the Jewish state

The Hill

President Biden and Vice President Harris will meet with national security officials in the White House Situation Room on Monday, as Iran reiterates its intention to punish Israel for the apparent assassination of top Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran. The meeting will focus on developments in the Middle...

Biden, Harris head to Situation Room as Iran threatens attack on Israel

The Independent

The leaders of France, Germany and Britain have endorsed calls for a cease-fire in Gaza, the return of scores of hostages held by Hamas and the “unfettered” delivery of humanitarian aid.In a joint statement released Monday, they endorsed the latest push by the United States, Qatar and Egypt to broker an agreement to end the 10-month-old Israel-Hamas war.The mediators have spent months trying to get the sides to agree to a three-phase plan in which Hamas would release the remaining hostages captured in its Oct. 7 attack in exchange for Palestinians imprisoned by Israel and Israel would withdraw from Gaza.“The...

Israel-Hamas war latest: Leaders of France, Germany and Britain endorse calls for cease-fire in Gaza

The family of the late soul singer Isaac Hayes has ordered Donald Trump to stop playing the star's song Hold On, I'm Coming at his campaign rallies. A letter sent to Trump and his team, and shared by Hayes' son on social media, threatens to sue the former US President if he does not comply by 16 August.

Isaac Hayes' family threaten to sue Trump for $3m

For 149 years, a Lake District town has played host to a Christian convention that has grown from a small affair in a vicar's garden to a big annual gathering, drawing crowds from all over the world. Keswick Convention now takes place over three weeks in the summer and this...

'Wrong time' for Christian convention as trade hit

It is part of a fleet of 28 buses for a route in Kent which will be fully electric.

First electric bus arrives ahead of switch

The Opt-Out scheme in Nottingham has already found a number of previously undiagnosed cases.

Hundreds tested for HIV and hepatitis in new scheme

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The Biden administration has decided to lift a ban on U.S. sales of offensive weapons to Saudi Arabia, the State Department said on Friday, reversing a three-year-old policy to pressure the kingdom to wind down the Yemen war. The State Department was lifting its suspension on certain transfers...

US to Lift Ban on Offensive Weapons Sales to Saudi Arabia

Fox News

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan threatened military intervention in Israel in a move to stop its war in Gaza as Palestinian casualties mount and Israel faces mounting aggression by Islamic extremists.

Turkey's Erdogan threatens to invade Israel over war in Gaza as regional tensions grow

Hassan Nasrallah said his group will avenge the assassination of the group’s top commander, but keeping Israelis waiting is “part of the punishment.”

Hezbollah leader says group will respond but keeping Israelis waiting is part of ‘punishment’

Scripps News

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says Israel is already in a “multi-front war” with Iran and its proxies, while the U.S. and allies prepare to defend Israel from an expected counterstrike.

US and allies prepare to defend Israel as Netanyahu says it's already in 'multi-front war' with Iran

Sir Keir Starmer has joined Joe Biden and allied world leaders in a call for “Iran to stand down” amid ongoing tension in the Middle East.The prime minister also spoke to Iranian president Masoud Pezeshkian on Monday night, warning him of a “serious risk of miscalculation”, Downing Street said.It comes as Israel braces itself for a major attack with Iran vowing retaliation against Israel after the death of the leader of Hamas in Tehran last month.The US has also sent a nuclear-powered guided-missile submarine to the Middle East while Israel’s air force has suspended travel abroad for its service personnel.The...

Keir Starmer speaks to Iranian president to warn against attack on Israel

As they were driving along the A358, Mr Bennett said his wife's contractions became "worse and worse". "I thought I would have one [contraction] per junction," said Mrs Bennett, jokingly. "I thought four or five minutes per junction, I can do that," she added. As her contractions grew closer, Mr...

Mr Bennett said: "She pulled out a baby, just right there and then as I was driving along."

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The White House will offer deportation relief and work permits to an estimated 11,500 Lebanese nationals already in the U.S., due to conflict between Israel and Hezbollah in southern Lebanon, U.S. President Joe Biden said in a memo on Friday. The measure, under an authority known as Deferred...

White House grants deportation reprieve to Lebanese, citing Israel-Hezbollah tensions

Axios

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu protested to White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan Thursday about sanctions the Biden administration recently imposed on Israeli settlers who are involved in violence against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, two Israeli and U.S. officials said. Why it matters: The settlers and Netanyahu's...

Netanyahu protested to White House about U.S. sanctions on Israeli settlers

Reuters

(Reuters) - Jordan's King Abdullah, in a phone call on Monday with U.S. President Joe Biden, warned of what he called "hostile acts" by Israeli settlers against Palestinians and "unilateral measures" that threaten the status quo of Jerusalem's holy sites.

Jordan's king warns in call with Biden of Israeli 'hostile acts' in Jerusalem

The Week

A conflict that neither side wants could cause devastation and spark direct US-Iran confrontation

What would war between Israel and Hezbollah look like?

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - An Israeli military unit accused of mistreating Palestinians in the occupied West Bank has addressed rights violations within its ranks and is cleared to continue receiving U.S. military aid, the State Department said on Friday following a probe.

US clears aid to Israeli unit accused of mistreating Palestinians in West Bank

NewsBreak

Harris rejects claims she would support Israel arms embargo

The news comes after Ms Harris was heckled at a rally in Michigan by pro-Palestinian...

Harris rejects claims she would support Israel arms embargo

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