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Trump says ‘not happy’ with Iran’s new supreme leader, has replacement in mind

Trump says ‘not happy’ with Iran’s new supreme leader, has replacement in mind

US leader doesn’t elaborate on plans, as Israel says Mojtaba Khamenei is just like slain father; Iran’s proxy forces pledge loyalty to new Iranian...

yesterday 9

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Agencies

Men who threw explosives at NYC protest cited ISIS as inspiration, police tell court

Men who threw explosives at NYC protest cited ISIS as inspiration, police tell court

Emir Balat, Ibrahim Kayumi charged with attempting to provide material support to a terrorist org, using weapon of mass destruction

yesterday 10

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Jake Offenhartz

Haredi parties likely to vote for 2026 state budget despite lack of exemption law

Haredi parties likely to vote for 2026 state budget despite lack of exemption law

Shas and Degel HaTorah expected to vote in favor of budget while Agudat Yisrael will oppose it. Bill regulating Haredi conscription will not pass...

yesterday 10

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Sam Sokol

Macron says France, allies preparing ‘defensive’ mission to reopen Strait of Hormuz

Macron says France, allies preparing ‘defensive’ mission to reopen Strait of Hormuz

French, Greek, and Cypriot leaders announce mission to protect maritime traffic, reopen strait after conflict’s ‘hottest phase’ is over; Dutch...

yesterday 20

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Agencies

Iran war puts at risk key infrastructure that supplies world’s oil and gas

Iran war puts at risk key infrastructure that supplies world’s oil and gas

Critical infrastructure forced to shut down due to missile, drone strikes and threats to shipping routes, driving international benchmark Brent crude...

yesterday 20

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David Mchugh

First flights bringing Israelis back home from Dubai land at Ben Gurion Airport

First flights bringing Israelis back home from Dubai land at Ben Gurion Airport

604 Israelis stuck since start of Iran war arrive on flydubai flights in Tel Aviv; over 50% of Israelis stranded abroad on eve of war return home via...

yesterday 20

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Sharon Wrobel

Trump calls on Australia to give asylum to Iranian women’s soccer team members

Trump calls on Australia to give asylum to Iranian women’s soccer team members

US president says Washington will take in athletes if Canberra doesn’t, amid fears they could be persecuted after declining to sing national anthem...

yesterday 20

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Reuters

68% of ‘connected’ American Jews back the US-Israel war against Iran, survey finds

68% of ‘connected’ American Jews back the US-Israel war against Iran, survey finds

About half of US Jews surveyed think war will exacerbate antisemitism and anti-Israel sentiment, though only 12% assess Netanyahu was main driver in...

yesterday 20

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Philissa Cramer

Trump’s Gaza plan on hold as Iran war pauses disarmament talks, sources say

Trump’s Gaza plan on hold as Iran war pauses disarmament talks, sources say

Hamas had been due to hold talks with mediators on Feb. 28, including on the issue of disarmament, and no new date has been set

yesterday 20

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Rami ayyub

IDF names second soldier killed in Hezbollah attack in southern Lebanon on Sunday

IDF names second soldier killed in Hezbollah attack in southern Lebanon on Sunday

Sgt. First Class Maher Khatar, 38, and Staff Sgt. Or Demry, 20, were working with a bulldozer dispatched to help stuck tank when it was hit by a...

yesterday 20

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Emanuel Fabian

Stock markets worldwide quake after oil prices briefly spike to almost $120 a barrel

Stock markets worldwide quake after oil prices briefly spike to almost $120 a barrel

With traffic frozen in Strait of Hormuz amid US-Israeli war with Iran, a barrel of Brent crude hit $119.50 on Monday, its highest price since Russia...

yesterday 20

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Stan choe

NATO downs second Iranian missile over Turkey, which stresses right to self-defense

NATO downs second Iranian missile over Turkey, which stresses right to self-defense

Missile falls in empty fields in Gaziantep, between airbase used by the US and NATO radar base; no suggestion Turkey will invoke alliance’s mutual...

yesterday 20

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Tuvan Gumrukcu

Soldiers claim lack of proper shelters leaves them exposed to missile attacks

Troops describe damaged, overcrowded protected spaces, with pictures showing groups of troops taking cover in open areas; IDF says additional...

yesterday 20

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Stav Levaton

Kurdish rebels say they’re prepared to ‘resist’ Iran, while awaiting uprising

Kurdish rebels say they’re prepared to ‘resist’ Iran, while awaiting uprising

Holed up in Iraqi mountains, militants voice ambivalence about US intervention but say they’re in contact with Americans; no current plans for...

yesterday 20

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Afp

Backing strikes on Iran, Ukraine’s ex-defense chief says Kyiv can help defeat common foe

Backing strikes on Iran, Ukraine’s ex-defense chief says Kyiv can help defeat common foe

Oleksii Reznikov, who guided country during 2022 invasion, tells TOI that Israel and Ukraine can boost cooperation against Russia-Iran axis, and...

yesterday 20

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Lazar Berman

New clip further implicates US in deadly strike on Iran girls’ school

New clip further implicates US in deadly strike on Iran girls’ school

Footage aired by Iranian media, confirmed by multiple third-party investigators, shows building hit by Tomahawk cruise missile, which only the US is...

yesterday 20

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Julia Frankel

SPNI calls to freeze ‘land grab’ retroactively legalizing Galilee farm buildings

SPNI calls to freeze ‘land grab’ retroactively legalizing Galilee farm buildings

Nature society says Agriculture Ministry plan to legitimize illegal structures on lands equivalent in size to Tel Aviv-Jaffa includes areas in nature...

yesterday 20

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Sue Surkes

Mojtaba Khamenei reportedly owns two London properties overlooking the Israeli Embassy

Mojtaba Khamenei reportedly owns two London properties overlooking the Israeli Embassy

UK newspapers say new Iranian leader’s vast global property holdings include two apartments on same street as embassy, 50 yards away, enabling...

yesterday 20

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Toi Staff

Daily Briefing Mar. 9 – Did Israeli strikes on Iranian oil sites ignite schism with US?

Daily Briefing Mar. 9 – Did Israeli strikes on Iranian oil sites ignite schism with US?

Diplomatic correspondent Lazar Berman on what is happening on the ground in southern Lebanon, Iran’s new supreme leader and what US President Donald...

yesterday 20

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Amanda Borschel-Dan

Ben Gvir significantly widens gun license eligibility for Jewish Jerusalemites

Ben Gvir significantly widens gun license eligibility for Jewish Jerusalemites

Over 300,000 residents now able to obtain gun permit based solely on home address as far-right minister touts expanded eligibility during Iran war,...

yesterday 20

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Charlie Summers

Lawyers for accused Bondi Beach shooter seek to suppress his family’s names in court

Lawyers for accused Bondi Beach shooter seek to suppress his family’s names in court

Australian magistrate extends an interim order barring publication of relatives’ identities, citing global media interest after terror attack that...

yesterday 20

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Reuters

Despite missile fire, Israel preparing to reopen schools in some areas this week

Despite missile fire, Israel preparing to reopen schools in some areas this week

The education system could start operating in areas considered at a lower risk by the Home Front Command, if schools have access to adequate shelters

yesterday 20

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Rossella Tercatin

IDF pushes deeper into south Lebanon amid incessant Hezbollah rocket fire on Israeli towns

IDF pushes deeper into south Lebanon amid incessant Hezbollah rocket fire on Israeli towns

No reports of Israeli injuries; military strikes Beirut and Sidon after warning it would target US-sanctioned financial firm Al-Qard al-Hassan, linked...

yesterday 20

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Emanuel Fabian

1 dead, 2 seriously wounded as Iranian cluster bomb warhead hits central Israel

1 dead, 2 seriously wounded as Iranian cluster bomb warhead hits central Israel

Iran fires 7 missile salvos at Israel since midnight, woman moderately injured by flying debris in Rishon Letzion; Bahrain’s only oil refinery burns...

yesterday 20

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Emanuel Fabian

Synagogue in Belgium damaged in blast, no injuries; mayor: ‘Violent act of antisemitism’

Synagogue in Belgium damaged in blast, no injuries; mayor: ‘Violent act of antisemitism’

Counter-terror police investigating Liege explosion; mayor says ‘there can be no question of importing external conflicts’; house of worship also...

yesterday 20

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Agencies

Crude oil prices spike above $115 a barrel as Iran conflict disrupts production, shipping

Crude oil prices spike above $115 a barrel as Iran conflict disrupts production, shipping

Asian stock markets plunge as several nations cut oil production amid attacks by Iran and threat to export routes, including key Strait of Hormuz

yesterday 30

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Ap

Calls grow for Australia to give Iran’s women’s soccer team asylum after anthem protest

Calls grow for Australia to give Iran’s women’s soccer team asylum after anthem protest

Reza Pahlavi and J.K. Rowling join growing chorus urging Canberra to protect the players after Iranian state TV brands them ‘wartime traitors’

yesterday 30

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Afp

Macron heads to Cyprus as Europe rallies around island after drone attack

Macron heads to Cyprus as Europe rallies around island after drone attack

Macron bolstering French military presence, drone and missile defenses around Cyprus ahead of talks with Cypriot and Greek leaders

yesterday 20

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Sylvie Corbet

‘Country’ Joe McDonald, ’60s US rock star, proud protest counterculture icon, dies at 84

‘Country’ Joe McDonald, ’60s US rock star, proud protest counterculture icon, dies at 84

Named after Stalin by his once-Communist Jewish mother and Presbytarian father, anti-war activist starred at Woodstock after rising to fame with...

yesterday 30

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Hillel Italie

More hardline than his father, Mojtaba Khamenei’s appointment signals defiance and revenge

More hardline than his father, Mojtaba Khamenei’s appointment signals defiance and revenge

Successor and son of Iran’s slain supreme leader will ‘have no choice’ but to expand repression, even if war ends, official says, warning world...

yesterday 30

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Samia Nakhoul

Woman injured from flying debris in central Israel as Iran keeps up missile fire

Woman injured from flying debris in central Israel as Iran keeps up missile fire

US State Department orders non-essential diplomats out of Saudi Arabia * Clashes reported in east Lebanon as Israeli forces land in area of recent...

yesterday 30

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Toi Staff

Iran names Khamenei’s shadowy, hardline son Mojtaba as new supreme leader

Iran names Khamenei’s shadowy, hardline son Mojtaba as new supreme leader

IRGC ally’s appointment comes after Trump dismissed him as an unacceptable ‘lightweight,’ and Israel threatened to kill anyone picked by regime...

yesterday 30

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Agencies

Trump to Times of Israel: It’ll be a ‘mutual’ decision with Netanyahu regarding when Iran war ends

Trump to Times of Israel: It’ll be a ‘mutual’ decision with Netanyahu regarding when Iran war ends

US president clarifies he’ll make final call to end operation ‘at right time’; says in phone interview that he and PM ‘worked together’...

yesterday 30

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Jacob Magid

Citing conflict of interest concerns, Justice Ministry won’t hand Sde Teiman leak probe to AG

Citing conflict of interest concerns, Justice Ministry won’t hand Sde Teiman leak probe to AG

Ministry’s legal aide tells court that Gali Baharav-Miara’s subordinate, State Attorney Amit Aisman, is the ‘most senior official’ who can...

yesterday 30

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Charlie Summers

NYPD confirms explosive thrown against anti-Muslim protest near Mamdani residence

NYPD confirms explosive thrown against anti-Muslim protest near Mamdani residence

Police commissioner says homemade bomb could have caused ‘serious injury or death’; officers evacuate buildings in area due to another suspicious...

previous day 20

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Luke Tress

IDF chief warns ‘no safe place’ for Iranian regime as fighting enters second week

IDF chief warns ‘no safe place’ for Iranian regime as fighting enters second week

Israel targets IRGC air force HQ, space center, after oil strikes said to frustrate Washington; US accuses Tehran of attacking from civilian areas as...

previous day 20

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Emanuel Fabian

Arraba mayor and his deputy shot amid unrelenting crime wave

Arraba mayor and his deputy shot amid unrelenting crime wave

Unknown assailants ambush Ahmad Nasser and Anwar Yassin near bakery; separately, man succumbs to wounds from shooting last week in Jaffa

previous day 30

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Charlie Summers

Trump: Next Iranian supreme leader ‘not going to last long’ without US approval

Trump: Next Iranian supreme leader ‘not going to last long’ without US approval

US president says he’s open to new leadership from within current regime; Iranian FM says Tehran won’t surrender or negotiate a truce, will...

previous day 20

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Lazar Berman

Wave of settler attacks against Palestinian herders reported in central West Bank

Wave of settler attacks against Palestinian herders reported in central West Bank

Bedouin residents and human rights accuse extremists of arson and pepper spray attacks in Mukhmas area, goat killings in Jabba and harassment in...

previous day 30

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Jeremy Sharon

4 killed in Saudi Arabia, Kuwait as Iran keeps up relentless attacks on Gulf states

4 killed in Saudi Arabia, Kuwait as Iran keeps up relentless attacks on Gulf states

Riyadh says projectiles hit residential area, killing an Indian and a Bangladeshi; 2 Kuwaiti border guards killed; Iran says it’s attacking Gulf...

previous day 20

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Afp

Iranian soccer team exits Women’s Asian Cup and faces the prospect of a return home

Iranian soccer team exits Women’s Asian Cup and faces the prospect of a return home

Petition urging Australia to protect women athletes from persecution by Islamic Republic gets over 50,000 signatures; team arrived for the games...

previous day 30

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Ap

Israeli airlines launch first outbound flights from Ben Gurion during Iran war

Israeli airlines launch first outbound flights from Ben Gurion during Iran war

Efforts to repatriate thousands of Israelis stranded in the UAE to resume as more than 15,000 return to country on 90 flights since the partial...

previous day 30

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Sharon Wrobel

Universities say they may start upcoming semester with online classes

Universities say they may start upcoming semester with online classes

Tel Aviv University delays opening until after Passover on April 12, to help reservists unable to get back to school, but others say they will begin...

previous day 30

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Rossella Tercatin

Oil built the Persian Gulf. Desalinated water keeps it alive. War threatens both

Oil built the Persian Gulf. Desalinated water keeps it alive. War threatens both

90 percent of drinking water in Kuwait comes from desalination, 86% in Oman and about 70% in Saudi Arabia; the infrastructure is endangered by missile...

previous day 30

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Annika hammerschlag

Two IDF soldiers killed in Hezbollah attack in southern Lebanon

Two IDF soldiers killed in Hezbollah attack in southern Lebanon

Bulldozer dispatched to help stuck armored personnel carrier is hit by a projectile, causing deadly blaze; at least 3 drones from Lebanon downed by...

previous day 20

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Emanuel Fabian

‘Fake news’: Emirati official rejects Israeli reports UAE struck Iran

‘Fake news’: Emirati official rejects Israeli reports UAE struck Iran

Source denounces ‘inappropriate’ claims his country carried out a ‘limited’ attack, says it would not fear admitting if it were true

previous day 40

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Lazar Berman

Pope prays that ‘roar of bombs may cease’ across Middle East

Pope prays that ‘roar of bombs may cease’ across Middle East

Leo says news from region ‘continues to arouse deep dismay,’ expresses concern at ‘violence and devastation and the widespread climate of hatred...

previous day 30

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Agencies

6 wounded by shrapnel, 1 seriously, as Iran fires suspected cluster warhead missile at Israel

6 wounded by shrapnel, 1 seriously, as Iran fires suspected cluster warhead missile at Israel

7 volleys send millions of Israelis to shelters; Iranian president vows ‘stronger response’ to US-Israeli strikes as fresh attacks reported in...

previous day 20

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Emanuel Fabian

Luton Airport apologizes, promises enhanced staff training after alleged antisemitism

Luton Airport apologizes, promises enhanced staff training after alleged antisemitism

Author Alon Penzel hears from airport over a year after he says he was harassed by security officers while carrying a placard promoting his book about...

previous day 30

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Zev Stub

Daily Briefing Mar. 8 — Despite fewer missiles per attack, Iran strikes still a lethal threat

Daily Briefing Mar. 8 — Despite fewer missiles per attack, Iran strikes still a lethal threat

Military correspondent Emanuel Fabian discusses latest strikes, IAF bombing Iranian infrastructure, and a rare operation attempting to retrieve Ron...

previous day 30

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Jessica Steinberg