Strikes by Yemen‘s Houthis on Sunday killed at least 11 people, a medical source in the Yemeni port city of Mokha has told AFP, after an earlier drone salvo targeted a Saudi oil refinery on the Red Sea coast.
A years-long truce in Yemen‘s civil war between the Houthis and the Saudi-backed internationally recognised government appeared to collapse last month.
Houthisâ expansion of cross-border attacks on government forces means the threat of all-out war between the two sides is no longer far-fetched.
The sources added that the casualty numbers were expected to rise.
Fighting in Yemen between the pro-Iranian Houthis and Saudi-backed government forces has intensified in recent weeks, after four years of relative calm.
Military spokesperson says maritime blockade has forced Saudi tankers to avoid Red Sea route
„I am considering a massive attack. Bigger than ever before. I am close to making a decision. We are all set for it,“ Mr. Trump told Axios, adding that he believed Iran‘s leaders „want to negotiate,“ but aren‘t yet ready to make a deal.
„They haven‘t received enough pain yet,“ he told the outlet.
U.S. forces carried out a 12th consecutive night of strikes across Iran on Wednesday, and Mr. Trump warned in a social media post Thursday that the Islamic Republic and its Houthi allies would both face „major military punishment“ if the Yemeni rebels repeat their attacks from earlier this week on Saudi oil tankers in the Red Sea.
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Houthi military spokesman Yahya Saree said its armed forces targeted two Saudi oil tankers in the Red Sea, claiming the vessels had violated a ban imposed by the group.
Saudi Arabia‘s state media later confirmed that one of its vessels was struck and the bow of the ship caught fire, with a source adding that all crew members onboard Encelia were safe.
Yemenâs Iran-backed Houthi rebels announced a maritime embargo of their foe Saudi Arabia after the two sides traded fire last week for the first time in years.
The rebels âdeclare a maritime embargo against the criminal Saudi enemy, based on the equation of âan eye for an eye,â effective immediately upon the issuance of this statementâ, military spokesman Yahya Saree said
Danielle Pletka, a distinguished senior fellow in foreign and defense policy at the American Enterprise Institute, said Trump has a military plan on his desk that U.S. commanders believe could force Iran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz without making any major concessions to its theocratic regime.
âThe president has had on his desk for months now a 10- to 14-day plan that would do what was necessary to finish out the mission of the war on Iran. It would take out the remaining missile sites we saw them work on, the remaining parts of their defense-industrial complex, the remaining nuclear [program] and some of the critical [Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps] emplacements, and do that in a way that Centcom feels would mean we could walk away, not have a deal, and stop worrying about Iran for a little while,â she said.
âWill it take 10 to 14 days? Who knows? Is the president going to follow that plan? Who knows?â she said.
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While other Democrats are distancing themselves from Bidenâs failed reelection bid and the political wreckage that followed, Californiaâs governor is leaning in. Newsom has praised Bidenâs presidency, defended his record, and positioned himself as one of the partyâs most visible Biden loyalists.
He has called the Biden presidency a âmasterclass of policymaking.â He has said he will never turn his back on Biden. And last week, he went further.
He hosted Hunter Biden on his podcast.
That matters.
Speaking on Thursday at a conference organised by the Israeli daily Makor Rishon, Smotrich, who heads the far-right Religious Zionism party, said: „Sovereignty [over the occupied West Bank] is the real test. If Saudi Arabia tells us normalisation in exchange for a Palestinian state, then the answer, my friends, is no thank you – keep riding camels on the desert sands, and we will continue to develop economically and socially, and with all the great things we know how to do.“
The contrast between this and the âFighting Oligarchyâ message could hardly be starker. Where Sanders and AOC have been crisscrossing the country promoting the message that Trump should be rejected because heâs a servant of wealthy and powerful âtitans of industry,â Harris wants to appeal to the oligarchs themselves to save us from the âcommunistâ Trump.
California governor Gavin Newsom recently took a similar line. In his appearance on the Pivot podcast, Newsom responded to host Kara Swisherâs question about Mamdani by bringing up Trumpâs deal with Intel, whereby the government agreed to buy almost 10 percent of the companyâs stock.
Mamdani and Trump, the governor suggested, werenât so different. Newsom said it âsounds like Trumpâs been paying a lot of attention toâ Mamdani, given Trumpâs âdesire to socialize great American companies.â Just like Mamdani wants to start a few municipally owned grocery stores in New York, Trump wants to do something similar, Newsom contended, through public ownership of a slice of Intel. According to Newsom, itâs âjust perverseâ that someone like Mamdani could be âshaping the Democratic Party in the context of the socialist brandâ when Democrats should be pointing out every day that Trump âis the leading nationalist and socialist of our time.â
The poll, released on May 30 by Atlas Intel, found Pete Buttigieg, the former mayor of South Bend, Indiana, and former transportation secretary in the Biden administration, to be the top pick among Democrats who responded to the survey.
In an interview with the CBS television network aired on Monday night, the Democratic presidential candidate said Iran is the âobviousâ answer when asked about the country she considers to be the USâs âgreatest adversaryâ.
âIran has American blood on their hands â this attack on Israel, 200 ballistic missiles,â she said. âWhat we need to do [is] to ensure that Iran never achieves the ability to be a nuclear power. That is one of my highest priorities.â
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President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris have claimed for months to be working „around the clock“ on a Gaza ceasefire deal that is „close“ to happening. Spoiler alert: It‘s not going to happen because Hamas, the terrorist organization that massacred Israeli civilians on Oct. 7, doesn‘t want to release their hostages.
Despite their reportedly tireless efforts to negotiate with the terrorists, the Biden-Harris administration has privately conceded that a ceasefire deal won‘t happen before the end of Biden‘s term in January 2025. „No deal is imminent,“ a Biden-Harris official told the Wall Street Journal. „I‘m not sure it ever gets done.“
„Biden‘s claim that ‚dissent must never lead to disorder‘ defies American history, from the Boston Tea Party to the tactics that civil rights activists, Vietnam War protesters, and anti-apartheid activists used to confront injustice.“
President Joe Biden on Thursday defended the right to protest but insisted that „order must prevail“ as college campuses across the country face unrest over the war in Gaza.
„Dissent is essential for democracy,“ he said at the White House. „But dissent must never lead to disorder.“
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Griechenland: Die ehemalige âKoalition der Radikalen Linkenâ Syriza beschlieĂt die unbedingte Beibehaltung des Euro-Finanzsystems und Transformation zur Einheitspartei. Syriza begeht damit Selbstmord. Sie tut dies in einem kollektiven Wahn zur Selbstzerstörung, der groĂe Teile des Kontinents Europa bereits erfasst hat.
Es war die fĂŒnfte Wahl in Folge, die Tsipras verlor.
Tsipras kĂŒndigte an, dass er als Politiker dabei bleibe. âSo paradox es scheint: Das schlechte Wahlergebnis kann fĂŒr SYRIZA auch ein Neuanfang seinâ, sagte er. Die Partei war seit 2012 stark auf ihn zugeschnitten, ein ernsthafter Nachfolger wurde nie aufgebaut.
The deal also comes as Saudi Arabia is demanding certain security guarantees, a steady flow of arms shipments and assistance with its civilian nuclear program in order to normalize relations with Israel, a major U.S. ally, the White House confirmed on Friday.
Speaking to reporters, National Security Council spokesperson John Kirby said the U.S. was âinformedâ about the Saudi Arabia-Iran talks but played no role in them.
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They also plan to reimplement a security pact signed 22 years ago under which both parties agreed to cooperate on terrorism, drug-smuggling and money-laundering, as well as reviving a trade and technology deal from 1998.
Fridayâs announcement is also a diplomatic victory for China in a Gulf region that has long been considered part of the USâ domain of influence. It comes as the Biden administration tries to notch its own win in the Middle East by trying to broker a normalization pact between Israel and Saudi Arabia.
Nach jahrelanger Eiszeit, die im Nahen Osten die Spannungen gefĂ€hrlich erhöht hat, wollen der Iran und Saudi-Arabien die diplomatischen Beziehungen wieder aufnehmen. Der Deal kam offenbar unter Vermittlung Chinas zustande. Gelingt die AnnĂ€herung, wĂ€re das fĂŒr Peking ein wichtiger Erfolg als geopolitischer Player vis-a-vis den USA.
Thune, who was just reelected to a fourth Senate term, noted that federal officeholders take an oath to uphold the Constitution and added that he takes his seriously.
âOf course I disagree with that. I swear an oath to uphold the Constitution, and it is a bedrock principle â it is the principle, the bedrock of our country. So I couldnât disagree more,â Thune said.
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Hand it to ex-President Donald Trump to present exactly the wrong takeaway to The Twitter Files: âA Massive Fraud of this type and magnitude allows for the termination of all rules, regulations, and articles, even those found in the Constitution,â he posted Friday night.
No, it doesnât. In fact, the Constitution was written with full awareness of humanityâs imperfections, including election cheating (which is as old as democracy itself). The Electoral College count is the final word, no matter how messy the process that leads to it.
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Former President Donald Trump reacted to the release of âThe Twitter Filesâ on Saturday by saying, âA Massive Fraud of this type and magnitude allows for the termination of all rules, regulations, and articles, even those found in the Constitution.â
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The minister added that Tehranâs ties with Putin are based on neighborliness and common interests, the official Iranian news agency IRNA reported.
The Iranian diplomat maintained that during a conversation with his Ukrainian counterpart, Dmytro Kuleba, they agreed that Kyiv would hand over evidence of the use of those Iranian drones in the conflict. âIf it is confirmed that Russia used Iranian drones in the war against Ukraine, we will not be indifferent to this issue,â Abdollahian stressed.
However, with four days left, no clear coalition can be created following Tuesdayâs election, according to a final poll carried out by Panels Politics on behalf of Maariv. As in a similar poll last Friday, the Netanyahu bloc received 60 seats, the Lapid bloc received 56 seats and Hadash-Taâal received the remaining four, the survey found. The poll showed Hadash-Taâal. Meretz, Labor, and Islamist Raâam passing the electoral threshold of 3.25% of the general vote.
Iran has promised to provide Russia with surface to surface missiles, in addition to more drones, two senior Iranian officials and two Iranian diplomats told Reuters, a move that is likely to infuriate the United States and other Western powers.
A deal was agreed on Oct. 6 when Iran‘s First Vice President Mohammad Mokhber, two senior officials from Iran‘s powerful Revolutionary Guards and an official from the Supreme National Security Council visited Moscow for talks with Russia about the delivery of the weapons.
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Representatives from the three component parties of the Joint List â Hadash, Balad and Taâal â were supposed to meet in Nazareth on Wednesday, but Baladâs representatives did not turn up, and the meeting was held without them.
Balad officials told Haaretz on Thursday that the party will run independently if it manages to put together a slate that includes mayors of Arab communities, prominent Arab civil-society activists, a candidate from the Negev and a Jewish candidate.
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WP has not been categorised as an incendiary or chemical weapon by international agencies. The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, which is an intergovernmental organisation and the implementing body for the Chemical Weapons Convention, has not listed WP in any of the three Schedules of Chemical Weapons. However, United Nations considers it as an incendiary chemical.
Reuters was not immediately able to verify her statement.
The ombudswoman, Liudmila Denisova, shared a photograph purporting to show the alleged attack, but did not say if Ukraine had concrete evidence.