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President Trump Bans CNN

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The US president announced the decision on Friday in a post on Truth Social, saying it would take effect immediately. He did not cite specific reports by the three outlets to support his claim but said other media organisations could also be barred from the White House. “I am banning Fake News CNN, MSNOW… and Politico… from the White House as a result of their constant ‘reporting’ FAKE NEWS!” the post reads. “Media outlets shouldn’t be able to constantly write or report FICTION and LIES when they’re covering the President of the United States, the Trump administration, or the United States of America.” The announcement is the latest development in Trump’s long-running clashes with sections of the US media since he returned to office in January 2025. In February 2025, the White House restricted access for Associated Press journalists after the news agency declined to adopt Trump’s preferred name, “Gulf of America”, for the body of water commonly known as the Gulf of Mexico. The AP chall...

Israel will seek to purchase new weapons systems from US as compensation for Saudi F-35 sale

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  Newly acquired Polish F-35 Lightning II stealth strike fighters, named 'Husarz' in reference to the Polish "winged hussar" cavalry units, fly in formation accompanied by F-16 jets during a flypast over Westerplatte, as part of the celebratory event dubbed "Welcome to Poland", in Gdansk, Poland, June (photo credit: Bartosz Fatek/REUTERS) The United States informed the Prime Minister's Office that it intends to sell F-35 fighter jets to Saudi Arabia in a $25 billion deal, an Israeli official confirmed to Walla on Friday. Israel is expected to seek "compensation" from Washington in the form of weapons systems that the US has so far declined to sell to Israel. A source familiar with the details told Walla that the IDF would prefer that no other country in the Middle East receive the stealth fighter, in order to preserve Israel's qualitative operational advantage . However, the source stressed that even if the deal is signed soon, Saudi Ara...

Saudi Arabia reaches out to Houthis through Oman for ceasefire, direct negotiations

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  Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman looks on during his meeting with the US Secretary of State in Riyadh on October 23, 2024. (photo credit: NATHAN HOWARD/POOL/AFP via Getty Images) Saudi Arabia has conveyed through the Sultanate of Oman a new proposal to the Houthis in Yemen, including a two-week ceasefire and the opening of direct talks between Riyadh and the Houthi leadership. According to the Lebanese newspaper Al Akhbar , which is affiliated with Hezbollah, the aim is first to discuss the Houthis' humanitarian demands and then attempt to reach a comprehensive agreement by the end of the ceasefire period. According to sources who spoke with the Lebanese newspaper, the proposal was formulated after a series of contacts Saudi Arabia held in recent days with the United States, Egypt, Pakistan, and the Sultanate of Oman.

Coal Eyes' revealed: Ex-Fatah official says he passed on Sinwar's pre-Oct. 7 warning to Israel

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  Yahya Sinwar (photo credit: REUTERS) Sofian Abu Zaida, a former senior Fatah official, revealed in a video posted to his Facebook account that he is the figure known as "Coal Eyes," the channel through which Hamas leader in the Gaza Strip Yahya Sinwar conveyed direct warnings shortly before the October 7 massacre. As previously reported in an article by Shlomi Eldar in Haaretz , Sinwar held a one-on-one meeting with Abu Zaida ("Coal Eyes") in September 2023, several weeks before the attack. During the conversation, Sinwar demanded that a firm message be conveyed to Israel: "Tell the Israelis that if they do not move forward, I am preparing a huge surprise for them." At the time, Sinwar used the keyword "zilzal" ("earthquake"), an unusual reference that was meant to raise red flags among the intelligence community.

Yemen conflict displaces 112,000 people inside country, thousands flee to Djibouti, UN agency says

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  Women use donkeys to transport water jerrycans to the al-Bireen camp for displaced people who fled fighting between the Houthis and forces of Yemen's internationally recognized government in Taiz province, Yemen, September 17, 2026. (photo credit: REUTERS/STRINGER) At least 112,000 people have been displaced inside Yemen within the last two weeks as fighting continues along the country's west coast amid a renewed ​conflict, while nearly 3,000 have fled by sea to Djibouti, the United Nations migration agency said on Friday. Yemen's Iran-aligned Houthi terrorists have stepped up attacks on Saudi cities and energy infrastructure while advancing along Yemen's Red Sea coast towards the Bab al-Mandab Strait , a key shipping route. Responding to the Houthi offensive, the Saudi and Yemeni air forces have bombarded Houthi targets. Nearly 3,000 people have crossed the Gulf of Aden to Djibouti in the Horn of Africa in less than a week as escalating violence has forced more fam...

Qatar signs agreement with UN to bring 1.3 million liters of fuel to Gaza

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  Second World Summit for Social Development, in Doha Tuesday, 4th November 2025 (photo credit: REUTERS/IBRAHEEM ABU MUSTAFA) In the latest expansion of Qatar's aid program for Gaza, Doha announced it would work with the UN to deliver 1.3 million liters of fuel to the Strip to support humanitarian efforts. Qatar signed an agreement with the United Nations to deliver about 1.3 million liters of fuel to the Gaza Strip, the Qatari Foreign Ministry announced Thursday. According to the announcement, the fuel will be transferred as a grant on behalf of Doha to support humanitarian needs and the health system in Gaza . The Foreign Ministry of Qatar said the grant is intended to enable the continuation of essential services and humanitarian operations. Qatar also aims to help entities operating on the ground provide services to Gazans.

Iran-linked drone attacks target Kurdish opposition groups in northern Iraq

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  Iranian Kurdish fighters from the Kurdistan Freedom Party, known as PAK take part in a training session at a base on the outskirts of Erbil, Iraq February 12, 2026. (photo credit: REUTERS/Stringer TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY) A Kurdish Iranian opposition group said Iran targeted its headquarters in northern Iraq, the latest in a series of attacks on anti-Tehran factions. The Kurdistan Freedom Party said that one of its headquarters was targeted in the Kurdistan Region of northern Iraq overnight. The attack took place at 11:45 p.m., the group said. Known as PAK, the Kurdistan Freedom Party is one of several Kurdish opposition groups in Iran. The report by PAK said that “at 23:45 tonight, a drone attack targeting the bases of the Kurdistan National Army by the Iranian regime was intercepted.” This is the latest attack in recent days on Kurdish Iranian opposition groups. The Komala group has also been targeted at least twice in the last week. The attacks come as the US is withdrawing fr...

Houthis downed Saudi F-15 fighter jet over Marib, Yemen, terror group spox. claims

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  A model of a Saudi Royal Air Force F-15 fighter jet is seen during the Dubai Airshow on November 12, 2017, in the United Arab Emirates; illustrative. (photo credit: KARIM SAHIB/AFP via Getty Images) Yemen's Houthis claimed to have downed an F-15 fighter jet belonging to the Royal Saudi Air Force over Yemen's Marib Governorate, the terror group's military spokesperson Yahya Saree claimed on Wednesday. "The fighter jet was downed using a locally manufactured surface-to-air missile (SAM)," Saree claimed. Saree did not specify when the alleged incident occured, but opened his statement claiming that RSAF jets had conducted "over 450 airstrikes" so far this week.

IDF locates Hezbollah rockets, launcher in Mount Dov area of southern Lebanon

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  Hezbollah rockets found by the IDF during operations in the Mount Dov area in southern Lebanon, September 15, 2026. (photo credit: IDF SPOKESPERSON'S UNIT) Separately on Tuesday, Border Police announced that it had arrested three people suspected of being involved in terrorism during overnight operations in the West Bank village of Bir Neballa. The IDF located missiles and a rocket launcher belonging to Hezbollah terrorists in southern Lebanon on Monday, the military announced on Tuesday afternoon. Soldiers from the IDF's 810th Mountain Brigade, under the command of the 210th Division, discovered the weapons during operations in the area of Mount Dov, within Israel’s security line. Earlier in the day, the military said that troops from the 55th Brigade, operating under the command of the 91st Division, located ready-to-use rocket launchers in southern Lebanon.

IDF targeting decision made by highly trained human operatives, not AI

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  US Army personnel, IDF personnel, and other international officials monitor screens displaying maps and imagery of the Gaza Strip inside the Civil-Military Coordination Center (CMCC) in November in Kiryat Gat. (photo credit: Amir Levy/Getty Images) Highly trained air force, operations, and legal military officials are involved in IDF targeting decisions, despite claims by the NAZA film that the military has given over its discretion to artificial intelligence (AI), The Jerusalem Post has learned. There is significant frustration from the high levels of the IDF, some of which was made public in a speech by IDF Chief Spokesman Brig.-Gen. Efi Deffrin, that the NAZA movie was not shared with the military in parallel to its being shown and reported on to the world in order to give the military a fair chance to respond to specific allegations. It is not that top IDF officials do not know about collateral harm to Gazan civilians. They do, and they view it as a tragic aspect of war, wo...

Iran used Chinese-sourced satellite images to target US bases, intelligence reveals

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  Images of Iran's late Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and new Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei with replicas of missiles seen during a gathering in Tehran, Iran, August 12, 2026 (photo credit: Contributor/Getty Images) Iran obtained high-resolution satellite imagery of a US base in Jordan from Chinese sources before launching the missile attack that killed three American soldiers in July, according to a Friday report by The Wall Street Journal , which cited US officials familiar with the matter. The WSJ reported that Washington has drawn a direct line between the Chinese-sourced imagery and the July 17 strike on Muwaffaq Salti Air Base, but did not confirm direct involvement from the Chinese government.  The officials told the WSJ that Iran acquired the images both ahead of and following the assault, though they would not name the Chinese firms involved and stopped short of accusing Beijing's government of direct involvement.

Iranian Rial hits record low as economic fallout from war takes hold

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  A vendor pumps petrol from Iranian fuel oil tankers for resale near the Bashmagh border crossing on March 11, 2026. (photo credit: Ozan KOSE / AFP via Getty Images) Iranian workers are going on strike as inflation rises to 128% and the fuel crisis worsens living conditions across the country. Iranian civilians are struggling to pay for fuel and other essentials as the Rial plunged to 2.3 million per one US dollar and the economic impact of war takes hold, according to a Thursday Wall Street Journal report. The economic fallout from the war and the US's naval blockade on Iranian ports along the Strait of Hormuz is driving up the price of goods for Iranians, many of whom earn roughly $250 a month, according to a study by Euronews . On Monday, the Iranian regime doubled the price of gasoline for users surpassing 110 liters per month. The increases targeted passenger vehicles exceeding their allocated quotas following Tehran’s slashing of monthly subsidies. The shrinking gas sup...

Trump may be BRICS’s best recruitment agent

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  United States President Donald Trump has made no secret of his hostility towards BRICS. Last year, he threatened an additional 10 percent tariff on any country aligning itself with what he called the bloc’s “anti-American policies”. Since then, his administration has continued to wield tariffs aggressively against trading partners, including BRICS members such as Brazil, India and China. The message appears straightforward: Countries that challenge US economic power should expect to pay a price. But coercion has consequences. And as BRICS leaders meet in New Delhi today, Trump may be strengthening the very incentives that made the bloc attractive in the first place. The more Washington demonstrates its willingness to use access to its markets, its financial system and the dollar as instruments of political leverage, the more reason other countries have to reduce their exposure to them. This does not mean BRICS is becoming an anti-US alliance. Far from it. The bloc’s 11 members –...

Israel says it has destroyed major underground Hezbollah base

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Israel Defense Forces The Israeli military said it blew up more than a mile of tunnels Israel's military says it has destroyed a large underground complex operated by Hezbollah in southern Lebanon. It said it used more than 1,000 tonnes of explosives to destroy two tunnels spanning more than 2km (1.2 miles) beneath the Ali Taher Ridge. The blast triggered seismic activity equivalent to a magnitude 4.1 earthquake, according to the US Geological Survey. There was no immediate public response from Hezbollah or the Lebanese government. Israeli forces took control of the ridge last week after months of fighting with the Iran-backed group there. The Israeli military occupies a large swathe of southern Lebanon captured after the conflict with Hezbollah resumed in March. Images released by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) showed a fireball lighting up the sky. "The sky lit up and about 15 seconds later we heard the terrifying sound," Ahamed, a resident in Nabatieh, about 6km west ...

VIDEO: The Sea Shifted Position in Agentina

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  On the 20th day of August, 2026, Agentina witness the biggest shock other lives as their sea suddenly disappeared in less than 24 hours. Click the video below to see how it all happened. The sea in Argentina did not permanently disappear or dry up; rather, viral videos captured a rare and extreme low-tide event combined with strong offshore winds that temporarily pulled water away from the coast . Three factors have been blamed for the sudden disappearance of the sea. Captured in the discussion are the factors shown below. Extreme Low Tide: The event occurred along the coast of Mar del Plata and parts of the Buenos Aires Province, where normal tidal cycles combined with shallow coastal shelves to dramatically lower water levels. Offshore Winds: Strong winds blowing from the land toward the Atlantic Ocean pushed surface water further away from the shoreline. Exposed Seabed: The temporary drop revealed normally submerged features, such as the permanent rocky formation known as ...