Mon 18 May 2026: Hebrew media reported that Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz has instructed the implementation of the death penalty against Palestinians accused of carrying out attacks in the occupied West Bank, a move previously pushed by far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir. Israel’s Channel 14 said that, under Katz’s instructions, the death penalty “will be […]
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Mon 18 May 2026: Israelis in settlements near the Gaza Strip are increasingly angry, accusing the army of seizing private surveillance footage related to the October 7, 2023 events and returning it “incomplete and deliberately altered,” Israeli media reports revealed. Israeli officials regard the events as the country’s biggest intelligence and military failure, one that […]
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Sun 17 May 2026: Britain has deployed a new low-cost anti-drone missile system to RAF operations in the Middle East as the UK steps up its efforts to protect Gulf states. The Advanced Precision Kill Weapon System (APKWS) has been rushed into service, moving from trials to active deployment in less than two months, to […]
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Sun 17 May 2026: Microsoft has dismissed the head of its Israeli subsidiary and several senior managers following an internal investigation into allegations that its cloud infrastructure was used to surveil Palestinians in Gaza and the occupied West Bank, marking one of the most serious accountability crises to hit Big Tech in years. Alon Haimovich, […]
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Sat 16 May 2026: Conflict monitor ACLED notes the increase in Israeli attacks on Gaza in April in its latest report. Israel has drastically escalated its attacks on the besieged Gaza Strip in the five weeks since halting its joint bombing with the United States of Iran, redirecting its firepower to the devastated Palestinian enclave. […]
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Sat 16 May 2026: The US-Israeli conflict with Iran has driven energy costs up by more than $37.3 billion for American consumers, a study released Monday found. The Iran War Energy Cost Tracker from Brown University’s Watson School of International and Public Affairs estimates that Americans have paid some $37,346,893,483 in additional energy prices since […]
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Fri 15 May 2026: The UN’s agency for children, UNICEF, has warned that hundreds of thousands of Lebanese children are at risk of developing chronic mental health issues due to persistent conflict in the country and mass displacement. In a statement, UNICEF estimates that more than 770,000 children are enduring “heightened distress from repeated exposure […]
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Fri 15 May 2026: PIF deal covers the 2026 World Cup being cohosted by US, Canada and Mexico, while Saudi Arabia is hosting 2034 edition. Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (PIF) has been named an official tournament supporter in North America and Asia for this year’s World Cup, as the country deepens its ties with […]
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Fri 15 May 2026: US President Donald Trump claimed Thursday that Chinese President Xi Jinping told him that Beijing would not provide military equipment to Iran and expressed support for keeping the Strait of Hormuz open. “When you say ‘support,’ they’re not fighting a war with us or anything,” Trump said when asked if he discussed China’s support for Iran when he met Xi earlier […]
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Thu 14 May 2026: The Gulf country says its ties with Israel ‘are not based on secrecy or clandestine arrangements’. The United Arab Emirates has denied that Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made what his office described as a “secret visit” to the Gulf country during the US-Israel war on Iran. In a statement carried […]
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