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  • Is Musk’s million-dollar US voter lottery legal?

    Donald Trump surrogate Elon Musk's offer of a million dollars to one registered voter in a swing state every day...

    "I think it's something that law enforcement should look at."- Democratic Governor of Pennsylvania

    Musk defends his move by saying it is a simple get-out-and-vote effort

  • Wealthy Israelis offer rewards for release of Gaza hostages

    Jerusalem, Undefined - Frustrated with the dwindling prospect of reaching a ceasefire deal in the year-long Gaza war, some Israeli entrepreneurs...

    Former SodaStream CEO Daniel Birnbaum said he received about 100 calls after offering $100,000 in cash or bitcoin for the safe delivery of a living Israeli prisoner from Gaza

    Birnbaum said most of the calls are pranks, threats or curses, but "10 to 20 could be legitimate" and were transferred to Israeli authorities for further verification

  • Smoke rises from areas targeted by an Israeli airstrike in Beirut’s southern suburbs late on October 21, 2024. (AFP)

    Updates: Israel hits more targets in Lebanon as Blinken travels to Middle East to push for truce

    Lebanon says four people were killed including a child in the latest Israeli strikes as Tehran says the United States...

    Four people including a child had been killed on Monday evening in Israeli strikes near the Lebanon's biggest public hospital

    Bahrain's King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa discuss bilateral cooperation with Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi in Manama

  • In escalation, Israel bombs Hezbollah-linked finance group

    -Israel began bombing Lebanese branches of an association accused of financing the Iran-backed Hezbollah movement, Lebanese state media reported late...

    11 Israeli strikes on Beirut's southern suburbs targeted Al-Qard Al-Hassan.centers

    UNIFIL, said an Israeli "army bulldozer deliberately demolished an observation tower and perimeter fence of a UN position

  • UAE President Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed meets Russian President Vladimir Putin at the latter's residence. (WAM)

    Putin thanks UAE president for positive role in prisoner exchange with Ukraine

    UAE President Sheikh Mohamed meets his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin to discuss bilateral ties and Middle East. Sheikh Mohamed will...

    Moscow and Kiev announced that they had swapped 95 prisoners each following negotiations led directly by the UAE

    The UAE and Russia ties have grown closer recently with Putin saying that their bilateral trade had tripled in the past three years to $11.1 billion

  • Israelis attend an anti-government demonstration in the Israeli coastal city of Tel Aviv, on October 19, 2024, amid the ongoing conflict in the Gaza Strip between Israel and the Palestinian militant Hamas movement. (AFP)

    Israeli attack kills 73 in north Gaza as Netanyahu says Hezbollah tried to kill him

    War in the Middle East continues as Israeli attack kills 73 in northern Gaza while Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu says...

    "Our civil defense crews recovered 73 martyrs and a large number of wounded as a result of the Israeli air force targeting a residential area."

    "The attempt by Iran's proxy Hezbollah to assassinate me and my wife today was a grave mistake," Netanyahu said in a statement.

  • Dogs run in front of a destroyed building a day after Israeli airstrikes that targeted the southern Lebanese city of Nabatieh. (AFP)

    Updates: Israeli attack kills 33 people in Gaza refugee camp as Hamas mourns Sinwar

    As Israel continues to pound Gaza, Lebanon, and West Bank, Turkey's Erdogan conveys his condolences to Hamas officials over Sinwar's...

    Families in northern Gaza are trying to survive in atrocious conditions, and under heavy bombardment, says United Nations

    We (are) afraid that Netanyahu does not intend on stopping the war, nor does he intend to bring the hostages back: relative of Israeli hostage

  • Yahya Al Sinwar, the Gaza Strip chief of the Palestinian Hamas movement, addresses supporters during a rally marking Al-Quds (Jerusalem) Day, a commemoration in support of the Palestinian people celebrated annually on the last Friday of the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan, in Gaza City, on April 14, 2023. (AFP)

    Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar killed in Gaza as Iran issues fresh warning over Israeli retaliation

    Israel and the US government officials express "relief" at the death of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar. He became the militant...

    Israel and the United States government officials express "relief" at the death of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar

    Iran's Revolutionary Guards chief Hossein Salami warned that Tehran would hit Israel "painfully" if it attacks Iranian targets

  • Escalating Conflict: Israel strikes Hezbollah in Lebanon killing mayor war

    Hezbollah claimed it destroyed an Israeli tank using a guided missile, while Israel reported killing Hezbollah leader Jalal Mustafa Hariri...

    The latest exchanges came as Israel faced increasing international pressure after UN peacekeepers in Lebanon were wounded

    The region is braced for Israel's promised retaliation against its arch-foe Iran for launching around 200 missiles at Israel on October 1

  • Netanyahu rejects ceasefire’ in Lebanon, Hezbollah threatens to expand the scope of its missile strikes across Israel

    In a call with French President Emmanuel Macron, Netanyahu said he was "opposed to a unilateral ceasefire, which does not...

    Netanyahu's comments came as the United States ramped up pressure over Israel's conduct of the wars in Lebanon and Gaza

    Netanyahu has insisted there must be a buffer zone along Israel's border with Lebanon where there is no presence of Hezbollah fighters