4+ day, 13+ hour ago   (471+ words) Iran says that it’s not pursuing nuclear weapons, and its program is entirely peaceful.Elisabeth Mandl/Reuters The UN atomic watchdog’s board on Wednesday reported Iran to the UN Security Council for the first time in 20 years for failure to…...

4+ day, 19+ hour ago   (275+ words) The Globe and Mail Benchmark Brent crude oil futures rose past US$100 a barrel on Wednesday, breaching the symbolic barrier for the first time since July 24 as intensifying conflict in the Middle East fueled growing concern about oil flows from…...

6+ day, 16+ hour ago   (624+ words) Israel’s air force carried out two air strikes early Monday on a southern Lebanese village, killing at least 12 people and wounding others, including children, Lebanon’s Health Ministry said. Monday’s strikes came amid a new round of escalation between Israel and…...

1+ week, 18+ hour ago   (397+ words) Israeli strikes killed four people, including two women, in southern Lebanon on Sunday, the Lebanese health ministry said, as Israel retaliated for what it said were Hezbollah drone attacks within areas occupied by its troops. Despite a U.S.-brokered ceasefire with…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (919+ words) Iran fired on U.S. allies in the Gulf early Wednesday following a night of American bombardment that Iranian officials say included a deadly strike on a wedding party. The latest violence has ended a month-long lull in fighting between the U.S. and…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (188+ words) Palestinian men watch as an Israeli army excavator demolishes a Palestinian building on the outskirts of Nablus in the Israeli-occupied West Bank on August 31, 2026, built without permit in the so-called Area C designated by the 1995 Oslo Accords: occupied Palestinian territory…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (568+ words) Palestinians look at the houses that came under settler attack, and the Israeli military came there, in the Palestinian village of Qusra in the West Bank on Saturday.Ammar Awad/Reuters Dozens of masked Israeli settler militants attacked homes surrounding…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (823+ words) Iranian leaders are acknowledging the economic toll of war with the U.S., with the supreme leader urging the government to address the hardship and the president saying foreign trade has shrunk by a third due to the American sanctions and blockade....

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (493+ words) U.S. Senate Democrats on Wednesday urged Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to rein in a “surge” of violence by West Bank settlers and mass arrests of Palestinians by Israeli security forces in the occupied territory. In the letter to Netanyahu, seen…...