Iran executed a man convicted of spying for Israel’s intelligence agency, the judiciary said yesterday, the latest in a series of executions following a 12-day war in June between the two countries.

Appearing on a programme on the right-wing Channel 14, Netanyahu was asked whether he intended to seek another term

Iran yesterday said that it was no longer bound by restrictions on its nuclear programme as a landmark 10-year deal between it and world powers expired, though Tehran reiterated its “commitment to diplomacy”.

The United Nations’ aid chief took stock of the monumental task of restoring basic necessities in the devastated Gaza Strip yesterday, as Israel and Hamas exchanged more human remains.

Israeli forces shot dead an 11-year-old boy in the occupied West Bank, his family and health officials said yesterday, while the army said its troops opened fire at rock throwers.

Palestinian Authority representatives are touring Europe to try to convince countries that have not yet recognised a Palestinian state to get onboard, a presidential envoy said during a visit to Switzerland Wednesday.

Aid trucks rolled into Gaza yesterday and Israel resumed preparations to open the main Rafah crossing after a dispute over the return of the bodies of dead hostages that had threatened to derail the fragile ceasefire deal with Hamas.

In mid-June, Israel launched an unprecedented bombing campaign on Iran, striking nuclear and military facilities

As Donald Trump savoured the cheers of Israeli lawmakers, it was a moment of triumph for the US president -- and as usual he made the most of it.

The survival of Europe’s wild pollinators is increasingly at risk, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) said Saturday as it declared dozens of bee and butterfly species as threatened.

The tomb of Pharoah Amenhotep III, one of the largest in southern Egypt’s Valley of the Kings and Queens, was officially opened to the public yesterday, after years of restoration.

Exhausted Palestinians in Gaza clung to hopes yesterday that US President Donald Trump would keep up pressure on Israel to end a two-year-old war that has killed tens of thousands and displaced the entire population of more than two million.

The Ministry of Hajj and Umrah of Saudi Arabia has announced a new licensing system for pilgrim accommodations in Makkah and Madinah for the 2026 hajj season.

Activists aboard a Gaza-bound aid flotilla yesterday said Israeli warships surrounded several of its boats and that the interception of the main vessels was underway.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov yesterday accused Israel of seeking to “blow up” the whole Middle East as he criticised Israel’s attacks in Iran and Qatar and opposed calls to annex the West Bank.

Iran has recalled its envoys to the United Kingdom, France and Germany for consultations, according to state media, after the three European countries triggered a mechanism reinstating the United Nations’ sanctions on the Islamic Republic for the first time in a decade.

Sweeping UN sanctions look likely to return on Iran despite a last-ditch effort yesterday by China and Russia for a delay to allow further talks, diplomats say.

Israeli forces shot dead two Palestinians in the occupied West Bank village of Tammun on Thursday, the military said, accusing the men of preparing an attack.

Sheikh Abdulaziz bin Abdullah al-Sheikh, Saudi Arabia‘s grand mufti who served the kingdom’s top religious figure over a quarter century that saw the ultraconservative Muslim nation socially liberalise, died Tuesday. He was in his 80s.

Iran’s uranium-enrichment programme must be “completely dismantled”, US Energy Secretary Chris Wright told the UN nuclear watchdog’s annual General Conference yesterday.