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Amir visits Saudi Arabia...

Prof. Efraim Inbar, president of the Jerusalem Institute for Strategy and Security, speaks with i24NEWS about wave of violence in Jerusalem....

Prof. Efraim Inbar, president of the Jerusalem Institute for Strategy and Security, speaks with i24NEWS about wave of violence in Jerusalem....

KUWAIT, May 10 (KUNA) -- An Amiri decree issued on Monday has offered amnesty and commuted the prison terms of some convicts, the Kuwaiti government said on Monday. The public prosecution and interior ministry will collectively implement this measure shor...

State Department spokesman Ned Price "in the strongest" terms the barrage of rocket attacks against Israel....

BRUSSELS, May 10 (KUNA) -- European Union High Representative Josep Borrell Monday warned that the situation in Lebanon is deteriorating and the country is collapsing. "In Lebanon the situation continues deteriorating, the country is collapsing, its p...

Red Color siren sounded in Sderot...

State Department spokesman Ned Price "in the strongest" terms the barrage of rocket attacks against Israel....

KUWAIT, May 10 (KUNA) -- The foreign ministers of Kuwait and Spain held talks on Monday over bilateral relations, marking the 60th anniversary of diplomatic ties with a common push to bolster cooperation. Sheikh Dr. Ahmad Nasser Al-Sabah's talks with ...

Siren sounded in Kibbutz Mefalsim in southern Israe...

Reeling under a staggering number of deaths, many communities create support groups, hold online memorial services and hire social workers to help congregants cope with lossesReeling under a staggering number of deaths, many communities create support gro...

Ministry of Public Health (MoPH) today reported 397 new cases of coronavirus (Covid-19) and 1,022 people recovered from the virus in the last 24 hours, bringing the total number of people recovered in Qatar to 202,552....

In accordance with the extended guidelines of the Home Front Command, classes in schools in the Shephelah and Gush Dan areas will only take place in places where there is a standard protected area that can be reached in accordance with the warning tim...

Residents in the area think bodies were dumped because crematoriums were overwhelmed or funeral pyres too expensive....

i24NEWS takes a close look at King Solomon's fortress town of Tamar at Ir Ovot in southern Israel....

i24NEWS takes a close look at King Solomon's fortress town of Tamar at Ir Ovot in southern Israel....

KUWAIT, May 10 (KUNA) -- His Highness the Amir Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah on Monday congratulated, via phone, Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al-Saud on the advent of Eid Al-Fitr. His Highness the Amir prayed to Allah Almighty to bestow his b...

Dozens of Arab residents of Lod shot fireworks at police officers, set a synagogue on fire, and tried to set fire to a police station....

Siren sounded in Nirim...

Dozens of Arab residents of Lod shot fireworks at police officers, set a synagogue on fire, and tried to set fire to a police station....

Saudi Arabia's civil defense said on Twitter early on Tuesday that a Houthi projectile had fallen in a border village in Jazan in the south of the kingdom,...

After incessant rocket barrages, leaders of Gaza's ruling terror group say they're not interested in further escalation, but conflict could still get out of handAfter incessant rocket barrages, leaders of Gaza's ruling terror group say they...

On Sunday night, armed civilians attacked protesters who have blockaded main roads around the Colombian city....

TEHRAN (FNA)- The first Drive-Through COVID-19 Vaccination Center was launched in Tehran, capital of Iran, for vaccinating the people in the targeted age group scheduled by the Mi ....

TEHRAN, May 11 (MNA) The police forces of Kerman province in central Iran seized 1,900 kilograms of illicit drugs in a single operation....

Sirens sounded in Gevim and Sapir College in southern Israel...

Thousands of people gathered outside the Israeli embassy in Ankara and its consulate in Istanbul to protest at Israeli actions against Palestinians on...

KUWAIT, May 10 (KUNA) -- Kuwait's Ministry of Health has announced recording 978 new coronavirus infections and seven related deaths in the past 24 hours. The new figures take the total cases in the country up to 286,064 and deaths to 1,652 respective...

The Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine is being used in multiple countries for teenagers as young as 16....

The US State Department said on Monday it has eased travel advisory ratings for the United Kingdom and Israel after raising both countries to its highest...

The City of Givatayim has announced that updates on the opening of the kindergartens will be provided to parents by 7:00 a.m. Classes will be held only in kindergartens where there is a protected space. Elementary and high schools will also update...

Some ethnic organisations are carrying out testing and vaccinations in the mainly border areas under their control....

The UN Security Council held an urgent meeting Monday on the unrest in Jerusalem but issued no immediate statement, with diplomats saying the United States...

KUWAIT, May 10 (KUNA) -- His Highness the Amir Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah received a phone call on Monday from Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who wished him well ahead of the Muslim Eid Al-Fitr holiday. The Turkish leader expressed h...

US regulators on Monday authorized Pfizer and BioNTech's COVID-19 vaccine for use in children as young as 12, widening the country's inoculation program as...

Sirens sounded in Gaza envelope communities...

The IMF executive board on Monday approved a financing plan "to cover its share of debt relief to Sudan," Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva...

KUWAIT, May 10 (KUNA) - His Highness the Amir Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah conveyed his warmest greetings to Bahrain's King Hamad bin Issa Al-Khalifa via telephone on Monday, ahead of the Muslim Eid Al-Fitr holiday that marks the end of Ram...

Foreign citizens arriving in Saudi Arabia must quarantine for a week in government-approved accommodation starting May 20 to combat the spread of COVID-19, the Saudi civil aviation authority (GACA) said on Monday....

The Qatari Hotels Association (QHA), established under the umbrella of the Qatari Businessmen Association (QBA), has held its second meeting this year in the presence of the founding members....

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Monday authorized the use of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine on children aged 12 to 15 years old....

Gaza Health Ministry says nine Palestinians killed in Israeli air strikes...