1+ hour, 51+ min ago  (331+ words) Shipping companies are increasingly steering vessels around the Cape of Good Hope, with traffic hitting record levels in mid-April amid the effective closure of the Strait of Hormuz and heightened risks in the Red Sea, as Yemen's Iran-backed Houthis maintain…...

2+ hour, 37+ min ago  (1195+ words) As elections approach in Israel, T'rkiye Today spoke with Yaacov Falkov, a lecturer at Tel Aviv University and former senior strategic analyst in the Israeli Prime Minister's Office. The discussion explored the current government's prospects for staying in power and…...

18+ hour, 13+ min ago  (479+ words) Ukraine said Thursday that a vessel it accuses of illegally transporting grain from Ukrainian territories under Russian control will not unload in Israel, after the issue triggered a diplomatic dispute between Kyiv and Tel Aviv. Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha…...

12+ hour, 13+ min ago  (336+ words) U. S. President Donald Trump said Thursday he is considering pulling American troops from Italy and Spain, citing both countries' opposition to US-led military operations against Iran, extending a pressure campaign that began a day earlier with similar threats directed at Germany....

19+ hour, 17+ min ago  (454+ words) An adviser to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu failed to advance plans to relocate Palestinians from the Gaza Strip after Israel's two-year war on the enclave, Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported Thursday. The Israeli newspaper said Netanyahu had tasked Caroline Glick,…...

1+ day, 3+ min ago  (264+ words) Nobel Prize-winning author J. M. Coetzee has declined an invitation to attend a literary festival in Israel, citing the "disproportionate genocide" carried out by Israel in Gaza, according to reports. The decision concerns the 14th International Writers" Festival, scheduled to take place between…...

2+ day, 25+ min ago  (303+ words) An Israeli court on Wednesday rejected Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's request to shorten his appearance in his ongoing corruption trial, after he cited a "security-related schedule," local media reported. Israel's Channel 12 reported that Netanyahu asked the Jerusalem District Court overnight…...

2+ day, 2+ hour ago  (793+ words) Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth is set to testify before Congress on Wednesday for the first time on the Mideast war, as diplomatic efforts to end the conflict have stalled and the U. S. remains skeptical of Tehran's latest proposal to ease tensions…...

2+ day, 49+ min ago  (1045+ words) Heraclitus once said, "Opposition brings concord. Out of discord comes the fairest harmony." Five years ago, the idea that T'rkiye, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, and Egypt would hold a joint summit, let alone prompt serious discussions about a defensive alliance, would…...

2+ day, 17+ hour ago  (293+ words) Ukraine and Israel were locked in a diplomatic row Tuesday after Kyiv accused Israel of accepting shipments of grain that it says Russia stole from occupied Ukrainian territories. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said another vessel carrying such grain had arrived…...