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Nine Days Before Israel Votes, Netanyahu's Security Doctrine Draws Scorn
JERUSALEM, Oct. 19 -- Nine days before Israel's October 27 election, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu put his security record into a three-page document and asked voters to read it as strategy. Two opposition leaders read it as slogans. The paper, titled "Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's Security Doctrine," went up Sunday on the Israeli government's website, prepared with help from the National Security Council, according to Anadolu Agency.
At Least Eight Die in Mortar Blast at Zawiya Camp, Xinhua Reports
ZAWIYA, Oct. 19 -- No official statement had explained what set off the mortar shell that killed at least eight people at a camp in this western Libyan city on Sunday evening, Xinhua reported. Eight others were injured in the Al-Harsha area, about 60 km west of Tripoli, the agency said, citing local media.
Saudi Defence Minister Meets UAE President, Cites "Joint Gulf Action"
ABU DHABI, Oct. 19 -- Saudi Defence Minister Prince Khalid bin Salman met UAE President Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed in Abu Dhabi on Sunday, and the public record of the talks is mostly declarations of unity. The setting is a Saudi capital whose airport has been targeted repeatedly. The National counts 20 Houthi strikes on Riyadh's King Khalid International Airport since October 1 and puts the toll of the Riyadh airport attack on October 10 at 13 dead and 308 wounded.
Houthis Fire Eight Missiles at Marib as Yemen Claims 1,326 Strikes
Posted On: 2026-10-19 Posted By: Jennifer Hicks Health & Lifestyle Technology The Eastern Herald Online News MARIB, Oct. 19 -- The Houthis launched eight ballistic missiles toward Marib on Sunday, a city that is home to a large population of displaced people, according to a Marib governorate statement posted on Facebook and reported by Anadolu Agency. It was not the first such attack, since Houthi missiles struck Marib in August as well.
Al-Azhar Urges Mediation Committee as Saudi-Houthi Fighting Intensifies
CAIRO, Oct. 19 -- Al-Azhar, which The National calls the world's top Sunni Islam institution, asked Arab and Muslim governments on Sunday to form an "urgent" mediation committee as hostilities between Saudi Arabia and the Houthis intensify.
Iran's Parliament Confirms New Defense Minister by 237 Votes to 15
TEHRAN, Oct. 18 -- Mehrdad Akhlaqi Ketabchi told Iran's lawmakers on Sunday that he has been on his enemies' "assassination list" for 35 years. They then made him the country's defense minister. Parliament approved him by 237 votes to 15, with no abstentions, out of 277 votes cast in a session held by video conference, Anadolu Agency reported, citing state broadcaster IRIB. Iran International gave the same figures, which as reported do not sum to 277.
Omar's Lawyers Accuse DOJ of Violating Judge's Order in Home Search
WASHINGTON, Oct. 18 -- Federal agents kept Rep. Ilhan Omar from contacting her lawyer for more than an hour after they began searching her Washington home, her attorneys allege, even though she and her counsel were supposed to be handed a copy of the warrant at the outset. The claim sits in an Oct. 16 letter to the Justice Department from Omar's attorneys, Amy Jeffress and Joshua Matz, which CBS News reviewed.
Trump Backs Netanyahu and Warns Israelis the US Would 'Do This Work'
TEL AVIV, Oct. 18 -- Nine days before Israelis vote, Donald Trump has told them that if they choose a leader other than Benjamin Netanyahu, "America will have to do this work ourselves." Trump posted the message on Truth Social on Sunday, addressed to Israelis, and called it his "complete and total endorsement" of Netanyahu's re-election bid, according to Anadolu Agency and Middle East Eye.
Deaths Confirmed at CFB Wainwright, but Canada Gives No Toll or Cause
Posted On: 2026-10-18 Posted By: Jennifer Hicks Health & Lifestyle The Eastern Herald Online News WAINWRIGHT, Oct. 18 -- Canada's defence minister said late on Saturday that people had died and others were hurt in an incident at Canadian Forces Base Wainwright, then declined to say how many, or what had happened.
Sisi Asks Egypt's Parliament to Back Saudi Defence, If Riyadh Asks
CAIRO, Oct. 17 -- Egypt's president asked parliament on Saturday for the legal authority to act in Saudi Arabia's defence, but only "if we are asked to do so," and none of the reports TEH reviewed says Riyadh has made that request. Abdel Fattah el-Sisi spoke at a graduation ceremony for military academy and college cadets, according to The National, and Egypt's House of Representatives said it would meet on Sunday.
Prosecutors Want Life for the Alexander Brothers; Defense Asks 15 Years
NEW YORK, Oct. 15 -- A woman who testified against Alon Alexander told jurors she "tried to get out of the bed a few times, but Alon kept pushing me back down." A jury later convicted him and his two brothers, and on Wednesday the government asked a judge to make sure none of them goes free. Prosecutors in the Southern District of New York want life sentences for Alon, his twin Oren and their brother Tal, the former luxury real estate brokers convicted of sexually abusing women.
Omar's Relatives Were Subpoenaed Days Before Agents Searched Her Home
WASHINGTON, Oct. 15 -- The search of Rep. Ilhan Omar's home on Monday was not where the investigation began. Several of her relatives had already received grand jury subpoenas days earlier, CBS News reported, which turns a single raid into a family-wide inquiry. The subpoenas were issued on a Friday, a few days before agents from Homeland Security Investigations searched Omar's Washington house.
Russia Abstains as UN Renews Haiti Sanctions That Have Frozen Two Accounts
UNITED NATIONS, Oct. 15 -- None of the guns in the hands of Haiti's gangs are made in Haiti, and on Wednesday the Security Council renewed the sanctions meant to cut off their supply, over the abstention of Russia. Resolution 2831 (2026) passed by 14 votes to none at the Council's 10241st meeting.
DOJ Gives California a Thumb Drive of 'Noncitizens' and Until Noon Thursday
New Delhi, Oct. 15 -- A thumb drive that the Justice Department says holds the names of noncitizens who were mailed California ballots is sitting unopened in Los Angeles County, and the department wants those ballots set aside by noon Thursday. not cancel" their vote-by-mail ballots. Where no ballot has yet gone out, McCotter wrote, officials should "take all immediate and reasonable steps" not to send one. The ballots are already out.
WHO: 632 Attacks on Health Care Killed 1,530 in the Eastern Mediterranean
CAIRO, Oct. 15 -- More than 1,530 people died in the 632 attacks on health care that the World Health Organization verified across the Eastern Mediterranean between July 2025 and June 2026, which is 86 percent of all deaths from such attacks anywhere in the world. The figures come from the annual report the WHO presented to health ministers from the region's 22 countries and territories this week in Cairo, at the 73rd session of its Eastern Mediterranean Regional Committee.
Russia Warns Houthis Over Saudi Strikes, Says No One Asked It to Mediate
Posted On: 2026-10-15 Posted By: Jennifer Hicks Real Estate & Construction The Eastern Herald Online News MOSCOW, Oct. 15 -- Russia says it has told the Houthi movement that strikes on civilian infrastructure are "unacceptable," and that nobody has asked it to mediate in a war that has now reached Saudi airports.
Colombia Opens Jerusalem Embassy, 46 Years After UN Said Withdraw Them
JERUSALEM, Oct. 15 -- Forty-six years after the UN Security Council told governments to take their embassies out of Jerusalem, Colombia opened one there on Wednesday, the tenth country to do so. Foreign Minister Omar Bula Escobar travelled to attend, alongside Israel's Gideon Saar. Bula called the opening "a concrete step toward restoring diplomatic relations" that "should never have been broken," and described Israel as a strategic partner.
Ossoff Rules Out a 2028 Run, Then Turns the Debate on Collins
ATLANTA, Oct. 14 -- Sen. Jon Ossoff ruled out a 2028 presidential run on Tuesday night, then spent much of his last debate with Rep. Mike Collins pressing him on President Donald Trump's tariffs and on what Ossoff called Collins's ties to white nationalism, on the day early voting began in Georgia. "I have zero interest in running for president," Ossoff said when a moderator asked him directly, adding that he is "running for re-election to the Senate" and would serve a full six-year term.
Federal Agents Search Ilhan Omar's Home 22 Days Before the Midterms
WASHINGTON, Oct. 14 -- Federal agents searched Rep. Ilhan Omar's home on Monday, 22 days before the midterm elections, and the Justice Department's only statement did not say the warrant was about her. A department spokesperson said Homeland Security Investigations "executed a judicially authorized search warrant" as "part of an ongoing federal criminal investigation," according to NBC News. Fox News reported the search first, citing a source familiar with the matter, and NBC cited two.
Trump Rules Out Iran Strikes Until November as Hormuz Tankers Burn
New Delhi, Oct. 13 -- A tanker captain approaching the Strait of Hormuz this week is being told three different things by three different authorities. The Revolutionary Guards say the strait is closed. US Central Command says roughly 20 million barrels are still moving through it. And the maritime incident logs, which do not take sides, record tankers being hit. a bargain that neither Tehran nor Washington can afford to close, and neither can afford to walk away from.
Trump Rules Out Iran Strikes Until November as Hormuz Tankers Burn
WASHINGTON — A tanker captain approaching the Strait of Hormuz this week is being told three different things by three different authorities. The Revolutionary Guards say the strait is closed. US Central Command says roughly 20 million barrels are still moving through it. And the maritime incident logs, which do not take sides, record tankers being hit. That contradiction is the story of the past fifteen days.
Senators Say Trump's Russian Diesel Deal May Break the Law
WASHINGTON, Oct. 12 -- The Senate voted 100 to 0 in 2022 to keep Russian oil out of the United States. On Sunday, a Republican who was in the chamber for that vote went on national television and asked whether the president had just ignored it. Sen. Thom Tillis of North Carolina told NBC's Meet the Press that he sees a serious argument that Donald Trump is not following the law.
Trump Tells Zelenskyy to Stop Hitting Refineries, Urges New Leader
WASHINGTON, Oct. 11 -- President Donald Trump said on Saturday that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy "better damn well stop" striking Russian oil refineries, then added: "I think it's time for Ukraine to get a new president." The remarks came a day after Washington eased sanctions on Russian diesel, and Politico described them as a sharp escalation in Trump's criticism of Zelenskyy.
Minnesota Teen Charged in Alleged ISIS-Inspired Mall of America Shooting Plot
MINNEAPOLIS, Oct. 9 -- The rifle that Sheikhdoon Abdullahi Mohamud carried out of a car in a Richfield parking lot on Tuesday could not fire. The FBI had made sure of that before an undercover employee sold it to him. Minutes later, agents arrested the 18-year-old, who prosecutors say planned a mass shooting at the Mall of America later this month.
Washington Leaves Yemen's Government Pleading for Help It Won't Give
New Delhi, Sept. 26 -- American strikes on the Houthi positions that are now rolling up its army. The requests, according to The Washington Post, have gone unanswered. Sources inside Yemen's internationally recognized government told the paper that the United States has confined its involvement to sharing targeting intelligence and logistics with Saudi forces through Marines stationed in the kingdom, stopping well short of direct military support.
Iran Handed Washington a Written Ceasefire Plan. The Clock Starts Now.
NEW YORK — Three hours into a meeting mediated by Qatar, Pakistan, and Egypt in a secured room at the United Nations, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi slid a folder across the table to Steve Witkoff. Inside was what Tehran had never formally produced before in 207 days of conflict: a written roadmap.
The EU Dropped Two Russian Oligarchs. One Diplomat Called It 'Blackmail'.
BRUSSELS, Sept. 25 -- Late on a Tuesday evening, as the world's attention was fixed on the United Nations General Assembly in New York, the European Union quietly deleted two names from its Russia sanctions list. One unnamed European diplomat described what had made it possible.
Iran Handed Washington a Written Ceasefire Plan. The Clock Starts Now.
Posted On: 2026-09-25 Posted By: Jennifer Hicks Technology The Eastern Herald Online News NEW YORK, Sept. 25 -- Three hours into a meeting mediated by Qatar, Pakistan, and Egypt in a secured room at the United Nations, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi slid a folder across the table to Steve Witkoff. Inside was what Tehran had never formally produced before in 207 days of conflict: a written roadmap.
Trump and Xi Extended the Trade Truce. The Hard Questions Remain.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 25 -- Donald Trump walked out to meet Xi Jinping on the tarmac at Joint Base Andrews on Wednesday morning, the first American president in six decades to receive a foreign leader at that airfield, a distinction both delegations had rehearsed before anyone landed. The welcome was calculated for a particular kind of image: two powers that have spent eighteen months managing a relationship built on mutual suspicion, staging a ceremony that suggested otherwise.
Netanyahu Calls Mamdani an Antisemite in UN Speech Aimed at New York's Mayor
New Delhi, Sept. 25 -- NEW YORK - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel used a portion of his address to the United Nations General Assembly on Thursday not to talk about the United Nations, or even primarily about Gaza, but to attack the mayor of the city he was standing in. "Since you were elected mayor of this city, many Jews no longer feel safe in New York," Netanyahu said, addressing Mayor Zohran Mamdani directly from the podium.
Two Russian Billionaires Walk Free as EU Sanctions Front Cracks
BRUSSELS, Sept. 25 -- The vote was not close, and the reasoning behind it was not hidden for long. On September 22, foreign ministers of European Union member states gathered in Brussels and removed two of Moscow's most prominent financial figures from Europe's Russia sanctions list.
Eight Sailors Tried to Kill Themselves. Trump Called It Fake News.
WASHINGTON, Sept.
An Indian Sailor Is Dead in the Hormuz. Iran Was at the UN Negotiating Peace That Day.
Posted On: 2026-09-25 Posted By: Jennifer Hicks International The Eastern Herald Online News New Delhi, Sept. 25 -- Suraj Yadav had been at sea for months. He was a wiper aboard the MV Cape Dao, an Antigua and Barbuda-flagged bulk carrier transiting the Strait of Hormuz on the evening of September 23, carrying cargo toward South Asia. He was one of twenty Indian nationals on a crew of twenty-eight. He did not make it to port.
Germany Broke With France and the UK at the UN. It Is Not a Small Thing.
New Delhi, Sept. 25 -- Germany's representative at the United Nations Security Council on Wednesday did not co-sponsor, and did not vote for, the Western counter-resolution that France and the United Kingdom pushed to a floor vote on Iran's nuclear obligations. Germany abstained. France and Britain voted yes. The resolution was vetoed. But the abstention is the part that matters. the three Europeans on the Council - began coordinating as a bloc on Iran policy in 2015. The vote did not pass.
Qatar Holds the Hamas Card and the US Base Card. At UNGA, It Played Neither.
Posted On: 2026-09-25 Posted By: Jennifer Hicks Health & Lifestyle Real Estate & Construction Sports The Eastern Herald Online News New Delhi, Sept. 25 -- There is a building in the Qatari capital that houses the political leadership of Hamas. There is an air base on the same patch of desert that hosts roughly ten thousand American troops.
Baghdad Set June 2027 to Disarm Iran's Militias. They Refused.
Posted On: 2026-09-25 Posted By: Jennifer Hicks National Politics International The Eastern Herald Online News BAGHDAD, Sept. 25 -- When the last American soldiers board their transports out of Iraq on September 30, the country's most heavily armed non-state factions will still be holding their weapons. Under Baghdad's latest plan, they will be allowed to keep them for another nine months.
Israel Called Iran's Ceasefire Roadmap a Trap. Every Regional Partner Disagrees.
Posted On: 2026-09-25 Posted By: Jennifer Hicks Health & Lifestyle International The Eastern Herald Online News TEL AVIV, Sept. 25 -- Benjamin Netanyahu came to New York with one word prepared. On Wednesday, after watching Iran hand its written ceasefire roadmap to American envoys, watching Russia and China endorse it at the Security Council, watching Germany split from France and Britain, and watching Saudi Arabia conditionally accept the framework, Israel's prime minister called it a trap.
Israel Barred Its Arab Parties From Running. The Election Is Five Weeks Away.
Posted On: 2026-09-25 Posted By: Jennifer Hicks National Education Politics The Eastern Herald Online News The committee, Sept. 25 -- Israel's Central Elections Committee voted 18 to 5, with one abstention, on Wednesday to bar both of the country's main Arab-led political parties from standing in the October 27 Knesset election - a ruling the nation's own attorney general said had no legal foundation and that the Supreme Court is widely expected to overturn.
Nations Gather to Decide Who Gets the Next Pandemic Vaccine
New Delhi, Sept. 25 -- When the first SARS-CoV-2 sequences were uploaded to a public database in January 2020, they came from scientists in Wuhan, China. Eighteen months later, when the world had produced three billion vaccine doses, more than 80 percent had gone to wealthy nations. The countries that detected the threat earliest were among the last to receive protection against it. and whether the outcome reverses it will depend on negotiations over one unfinished technical annex.
Delegates Fled the Hall for Netanyahu. They Cheered the Man Barred From It.
Posted On: 2026-09-25 Posted By: Jennifer Hicks Health & Lifestyle Cities Real Estate & Construction International The Eastern Herald Online News UNITED NATIONS, Sept. 25 -- Mahmoud Abbas has not set foot inside this building in two years. On Wednesday, the screen carrying his recorded voice drew applause from a chamber that had gathered to hear him. A day later, when Benjamin Netanyahu walked to that same podium in person, most of that chamber was already gone.
Abbas Barred for a Second Year as Netanyahu Takes the UN Stage
NEW YORK, Sept. 25 -- Mahmoud Abbas was not there. The Palestinian president spent Wednesday in Ramallah, watching a pre-recorded video of his own speech play to a chamber he has not entered in two years, while the man directing the Gaza genocide drew walkouts forty blocks away. The United States denied Abbas a visa for the second consecutive year. When the General Assembly voted 152 to 3 to allow him at least a video address, the three votes against were Washington, Paraguay, and Israel.
Abbas Calls Gaza Killings Genocide From Afar as Trump Blocks His UN Entry
New Delhi, Sept. 25 -- NEW YORK - For the second consecutive year, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas addressed the United Nations General Assembly not from the floor of its hall in Manhattan but from a video link, denied entry to the United States by a Trump administration that said granting him a visa would only "internationalise the conflict." He used the time to call what is happening to his people a genocide.
Brent Falls Despite Asia Crude Imports at a War-Era High
NEW YORK, Sept. 24 -- Asia's refiners have solved more of the Iran war's oil supply problem than any diplomat has. That is the market's judgment on Wednesday, as Brent crude fell to $96.84, down $4.77 from Tuesday's close, even after cargo-tracking firm Kpler reported that Asian crude imports climbed to 23.96 million barrels per day in September, the highest monthly average since the conflict began in February. The number tells the story of seven months of improvisation under pressure.
Iran Refuses to Bow. Pezeshkian Takes On Trump at the UN.
NEW YORK, Sept. 24 -- When Masoud Pezeshkian walked to the podium of the United Nations General Assembly on Wednesday, he carried something unusual: photographs. One showed Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran's supreme leader, killed in a joint US-Israeli strike last February. Others showed more than 150 Iranian schoolchildren who died in the opening days of the war, alongside photographs of their graves. He held them up before the assembled delegates and said nothing for a moment.
GOP Senator Demands Trump Jr. Subpoena Over Russian Oligarch's Bahamas Wedding
New Delhi, Sept. 23 -- WASHINGTON - A Republican senator formally demanded on Tuesday that the Senate Judiciary Committee subpoena Donald Trump Jr., citing a ProPublica investigation that revealed a Russian oligarch with close ties to the Kremlin had secretly paid hundreds of thousands of dollars for the president's son's three-day wedding celebration in the Bahamas.
Britain's union is under strain: Why the Cardiff Pact matters
Bangladesh, Sept. 21 -- For decades, the United Kingdom has been held together not only by law and institutions, but by an assumption: that despite political disagreements between its constituent nations, the union itself remained the stable framework within which those disagreements would be resolved. That assumption is now being tested.
Epstein Files: DOJ Risks Contempt as Todd Blanche Cites Wrong Law in Federal Register Filing
WASHINGTON, Aug. 29 -- Judge Emmet Sullivan said it plainly at the last hearing: he did not want to hold the Justice Department's lawyers in contempt. Then Todd Blanche handed him a reason to reconsider. In a filing submitted to the Federal Register on Wednesday, the DOJ entered a letter Blanche had written six months earlier, on February 14, as evidence it had complied with Sullivan's court order in the Epstein files case. The letter cited Section 3 of the Epstein Files Transparency Act.
Epstein Files: DOJ Risks Contempt as Todd Blanche Cites Wrong Law in Federal Register Filing
WASHINGTON — Judge Emmet Sullivan said it plainly at the last hearing: he did not want to hold the Justice Department’s lawyers in contempt. Then Todd Blanche handed him a reason to reconsider. In a filing submitted to the Federal Register on Wednesday, the DOJ entered a letter Blanche had written six months earlier, on February 14, as evidence it had complied with Sullivan’s court order in the Epstein files case. The letter cited Section 3 of the Epstein Files Transparency Act.
Trump Signs Executive Order Renaming Lake Ontario 'Lake America' as Canada Trade War Deepens
WASHINGTON, Aug. 28 -- Along the New York shoreline of one of the world's largest freshwater bodies, the fishing boats and ferry terminals now exist, on paper at least, beside a lake with a different name. On Wednesday, the Trump administration signed an executive order renaming the United States' portion of Lake Ontario - which has borne that name in every international treaty, navigation chart, and school atlas for more than two centuries - to Lake America.
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