Trump taps Yehuda Kaploun as US antisemitism envoy
President Donald Trump has nominated Yehuda Kaploun to be U.S. Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Antisemitism, a position that holds ambassador-at-large rank.
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Rubio confirms direct US-Iran nuclear talks set for Oman
The United States will engage in direct negotiations with Iran on the nuclear file in Muscat, Oman, on Saturday, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said.
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Trump: ‘Getting close’ to Gaza hostage deal
Negotiations aimed at securing the release of hostages held by Hamas in Gaza are advancing, U.S. President Donald Trump said on Thursday.
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Argentina seeks arrest of Iranian supreme leader for 1994 bombing
The Argentine prosecution has requested a national and international arrest warrant for Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei over his involvement in the 1994 bombing of the AMIA Jewish community center in Buenos Aries.
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IDF to evacuate Rafah, create buffer zone along Gaza-Egypt border
The Israel Defense Forces is finalizing plans to evacuate Rafah city and establish a strategic buffer zone along Gaza’s southern border, in what Israeli officials describe as a critical step in the dismantling of Hamas’s military presence in the area.
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Rubio urges Hamas disarmament in talks with Saudi foreign minister
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio met with Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud in Washington on Wednesday.
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Trump: Israel would ‘be the leader’ of strike on Iran if nuclear talks fall apart
US President Donald Trump said Wednesday that Israel would take a leading role in a potential military strike on Iran along with the US if upcoming nuclear talks don’t succeed.
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Significant gaps ahead of US-Iran talks: Tehran demands sanctions freeze during negotiations
Three days before the scheduled start of talks between the Iranian regime and representatives of US President Donald Trump in Oman, the gaps between the two sides regarding both the format of the talks and the subjects to be discussed appear especially wide.
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Senate confirms Huckabee as Israel envoy, Fetterman lone Dem backer
The U.S. Senate voted 53-46 on Wednesday to confirm Mike Huckabee, the former governor of Arkansas, to be U.S. ambassador to Israel.
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US halts funds for Cornell, Northwestern universities in latest crackdown
More than $1 billion in federal funding for Cornell University and some $790 million for Northwestern University have been frozen while the government investigates both schools for alleged civil rights violations, the White House said Tuesday, after warning the schools that they must protect Jewish students.
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‘Our nuclear program can’t be dismantled’: Iran defiant ahead of talks with US
Iran is approaching weekend talks with the United States over its nuclear program warily with little confidence in progress and deep suspicions of US intentions, Iranian officials said on Tuesday, with one official saying Washington’s demands are “unacceptable” to Tehran.
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Netanyahu: Iran deal must entail blowing up, dismantling nuclear sites
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned on Tuesday about the potential perils of a nuclear deal with Iran, ahead of taking off for Israel following his meeting the previous day with U.S. President Donald Trump at the White House.
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Hezbollah using maritime smuggling route for weapons, funds from Iran
Hezbollah has reportedly shifted to using a sea-based route for smuggling weapons into Lebanon, after its overland and air conduits were largely shut down due to Israeli attacks, the fall of Bashar al-Assad in Syria and crackdowns on smuggling by the Lebanese government.
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Iran sends new missiles to Iraqi proxies that were said to be disarming
Iran has transferred new long-range missiles to proxy groups in Iraq over the past week, defying hopes that the anti-American militias would disarm amid concern of an escalation with US President Donald Trump, according to a Tuesday report, amid preparations for high-level US-Iran nuclear talks in Oman Saturday.
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Russian lower house of parliament ratifies 20-year pact between Russia and Iran
Russia's lower house of parliament, the State Duma, on Tuesday ratified a 20-year strategic partnership between Russia and Iran.
The strategic partnership document was signed by Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Iranian counterpart Masoud Pezeshkian on January 17 and represented a deepening of military ties between the countries.
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Netanyahu said lobbying US against selling F-35 to Turkey
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been lobbying US Secretary of State Marco Rubio against selling F-35 multirole fighter jets to Turkey, the UK-based Middle East Eye reports, citing two senior Western officials and a third official.
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Sudanese leader’s envoy visits Israel in secret normalization talks – report
Lt.-Gen. Al-Sadiq Ismail, the personal envoy to Sudan's military ruler Gen. Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, made a secret visit to Tel Aviv last week to discuss normalization efforts with Israel, Sudanese news outlet Al-Rakoba reported on Tuesday morning.
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Gaza official admits natural deaths listed as war fatalities
Many of those listed as war fatalities in Gaza actually died of natural causes or did not die at all, a Palestinian health official working for Hamas admitted on Saturday, following an analysis that showed massive discrepancies in casualty tallies.
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Hosting PM, Trump announces direct nuke talks with Iran; Tehran: Indirect dialogue only
With Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at his side, US President Donald Trump declared on Monday that his administration was holding direct talks with Iran on its nuclear program. The assertion was quickly denied by Tehran, which did, however, acknowledge indirect talks.
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Israel, Turkey ponder how to split Syria into spheres of influence until stable governance takes hold
The tensions in Israel-Turkey relations, which reached a peak last week, slightly eased on Friday when Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan stated at a NATO conference in Brussels: "We do not want to see any confrontation with Israel in Syria. The Syrians alone should decide on the security matters of their country."
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