55+ min ago   (520+ words) A three-week military offensive in the Gaza Strip in 2009, which killed more than 1,400 people, including an estimated 1,100 civilians, spurred Venezuela’s Socialist president at the time, Hugo Chavez, to expel the Israeli ambassador in protest and end diplomatic relations. Seventeen years…...

5+ day, 7+ hour ago   (323+ words) BOGOTA — Colombia’s newly appointed hard-right government on Monday recognized Israel’s claim over the Golan Heights, which it captured from Syria in 1967. The United States was until now the only country to recognize Israel’s annexation of the territory in 1981. Colombian President…...

6+ day, 8+ hour ago   (724+ words) JERUSALEM — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday rejected a US-led Gaza plan endorsed by Hamas, putting distance between himself and President Donald Trump as he tries to shore up his base ahead of close elections. After more than a…...

1+ week, 47+ min ago   (922+ words) The statement issued after this week’s meeting in Jordan was blunt about what might happen next. Jordan’s foreign minister called the meeting because of mounting evidence that the Israeli government is surreptitiously changing a decades-old agreement meant to ensure intercommunal…...

1+ week, 3+ hour ago   (693+ words) DUBAI — Iran set preconditions on Saturday for a reopening of the Strait of Hormuz, including compensation for war damages, complicating a potential deal to open the waterway essential to the world economy. Tehran has imposed an effective blockade of the…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (344+ words) BEIRUT — More than 800,000 people displaced by war in Lebanon have begun returning to their hometowns following a lull in violence amid the Israel-Hezbollah war, the United Nations said. The announcement late on Tuesday came as Lebanon and Israel began a…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (1183+ words) US President Donald Trump touted it as a “historic breakthrough.” But so far the new Gaza peace deal, announced last week and meant to help end the fighting and ease the ongoing humanitarian crisis in the coastal enclave, only seems…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (74+ words) Inquirer.net Trump says Iran talks happening ‘right now’ WASHINGTON – US President Donald Trump said Monday that negotiations with Iran were happening “right now,” describing it as a final opportunity for Tehran to make a deal. Talks are “going on…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (537+ words) WASHINGTON — Donald Trump has made some of the most aggressive public threats about military action of any modern US president. He has walked back many of them too. The 80-year-old Republican’s comments about the US war against Iran have shifted,…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (286+ words) ROME, Italy — Italian Prime Minister Georgia Meloni called on Thursday for Spain’s suspension from the EU’s visa-free Schengen travel zone after thousands of migrants entered the Spanish exclave of Ceuta adjoining Morocco. Her comments echo similar remarks made earlier in…...