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As tensions escalate in the Middle East following Israel’s strike on Iran and Tehran’s retaliatory attack, religious institutions across South Florida are heightening security ahead of weekend services and events.
Oil prices leaped, and stocks slumped on worries that escalating violence following Israel’s attack on Iranian nuclear and military targets could damage the flow of crude around the world, along with the global economy.
Egypt has blocked activists taking part in a planned march to Gaza, halting their attempt to reach the border and challenge Israel’s blockade on humanitarian aid to the Palestinian territory before it could begin.
President Donald Trump’s pick to lead a federal watchdog agency is a former right-wing podcast host who has praised criminally charged influencer Andrew Tate as an “extraordinary human being."
The shooting of two staff members at the Israeli Embassy in Washington, D.C. is prompting security concerns here in South Florida.
Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa says that his country is holding indirect talks with Israel to prevent recent hostilities from getting out of control.
The World Food Program says its food stocks in Gaza have run out under Israel’s nearly 8-week-old blockade, ending a main source of sustenance for hundreds of thousands of Palestinians in the territory.
Eighty years after the Holocaust, more than 200,000 Jewish survivors are still alive, but according to a study 70% of them will be gone within the next 10 years.
President Donald Trump said Wednesday that Israel would be the “leader” of a potential military strike against Iran if Tehran doesn’t give up its nuclear weapons program.
Passover celebrations this year will again occur amid anxieties and divisions among many Jews related to the unresolved Israel-Hamas conflict in Gaza and the specter of widespread antisemitism.
Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto says that his country will offer temporary shelter to Palestinian medical evacuees and children orphaned by the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza.
As Israel orders wide new evacuations across the Gaza Strip, Palestinians say they are crushed by exhaustion and hopelessness at the prospect of fleeing once again.
The U.S. government has been using its immigration enforcement powers since President Trump took office to crack down on international students and scholars who had participated in pro-Palestinian demonstrations or criticized Israel over its military action in Gaza.
Miami Beach Mayor Stephen Meiner has decided to drop his resolution to terminate O Cinema’s lease.
An Emirati diplomat earlier identified by Tehran as carrying a letter from U.S. President Donald Trump seeking to jump-start talks over Iran’s rapidly advancing nuclear program has met with Iran’s foreign minister.
A Colombian-American entrepreneur based in Miami-Dade County pleaded guilty to federal charges on Monday related to a tax-evasion conspiracy that prosecutors estimate involved $90 million in bank accounts in Andorra, Israel, Panama, and Switzerland.
President Donald Trump says he sent a letter to Iran’s Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, a development that was not immediately confirmed by the supreme leader.
Palestinian medics say at least six infants have died from hypothermia in the last two weeks in the Gaza Strip.
On the latest episode of This Week in South Florida, host Glenna Milberg was joined by Florida State Sen. Randy Fine, Rep. Marie Woodson, Emilio Gonzalez, Israel Consul General Maor Elbaz-Starinsky, Alon Nimrodi and Omri Lifshitz.
The United Nations humanitarian chief says famine has been mostly averted in Gaza as a surge of aid enters the territory during a fragile ceasefire, but he warns the threat could return quickly if the truce collapses.
Powerful Arab nations have rejected U.S. President Donald Trump’s suggestion to relocate Palestinians from Gaza to neighboring Egypt and Jordan.
A pro-Palestinian group at the University of Michigan has been suspended for two years and will lose its funding in connection with protesters’ demands for divestiture from companies doing business with Israel.
A Holocaust survivor who lived through four concentration camps as a young boy will return to Auschwitz to mark 80 years since the liberation of one of the Nazi's most notorious concentration camps.
Israel’s top general on Tuesday became the highest-ranking official to resign over Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023 attack, the worst security failure in the country’s history.
Mediators say Israel and Hamas agreed to a ceasefire deal to pause the devastating 15-month war in the Gaza Strip, raising the possibility of winding down the deadliest and most destructive fighting between the bitter enemies.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken has made a last-minute case for a plan for the post-war reconstruction and governance of Gaza as a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas appears tantalizingly close to completion.
An oil tanker that burned for weeks in the Red Sea and threatened a major oil spill has been “successfully” salvaged, according private security firm Ambrey.
National security adviser Jake Sullivan will travel to India for a visit focusing on cooperation on strategic technology, including in defense, space and artificial intelligence.
One of the wealthy Alexander brothers, with ties to Miami Beach and New York’s real estate and social scenes, will remain behind bars as he faces a federal sex crimes case, a judge ruled.
Humanitarian aid to northern Gaza, where Israel launched a ground offensive on Oct. 6, has largely been blocked for the past 66 days.
Syria’s long civil war has reclaimed global attention after insurgents seized most of its largest city and dozens of nearby towns and villages.
Ruby Chen, the father of 19-year-old Israeli-American hostage Itay Chen, is tirelessly advocating for the release of his son and over 100 others being held by Hamas in Gaza.
The summit of the Group of 20 leading economies in Rio de Janeiro has produced a joint declaration that, while not totally endorsed by one of the group’s members, succeeded in addressing most topics host Brazil had prioritized addressing: both ongoing major wars, a global pact to fight hunger, taxation of the world’s wealthiest people and changes to global governance.
A man who worked for the U.S. government has been charged with leaking classified information assessing Israel’s earlier plans to attack Iran.
The U.S. Defense Department says Yemen’s Houthi rebels targeted two U.S. Navy warships with multiple drones and missiles as they were traveling through the Bab el-Mandeb Strait on Tuesday.
A Lebanese government minister says his country is filing a complaint against Israel at the U.N.’s labor organization over the string of deadly attacks involving exploding pagers, saying workers were among those killed and injured.
U.N. experts say Yemen’s Houthi rebels have been transformed from a local armed group with limited capabilities to a powerful military organization with support from Iran, Iraqi armed groups, Lebanon’s Hezbollah militants and others.
Arab Americans in Michigan are making their final decisions in the presidential election after a year of political turmoil in the nation's largest Arab American community.
Democrats are spending about $500,000 for a last-minute push to persuade voters in battleground states to reject third-party candidates Jill Stein and Cornel West.
In a rare move, the Pentagon is strongly pushing back against misinformation spread on social media that falsely suggests U.S. troops have been authorized to use force against American citizens during the election.
Yehuda Bauer, one of Israel’s foremost Holocaust scholars who shaped the way people around the world study and learn about the Holocaust, has died in Jerusalem.
The U.S. on Friday announced new sanctions on Iran’s energy sector in response to its October 1 attack on Israel, firing roughly 180 missiles into the country.
After 1,080 days as president, Joe Biden on Friday decided to pop in and take questions in the White House briefing room for the first time.
U.S. officials say the U.S. and British militaries struck more than a dozen Houthi targets in Yemen, going after weapons systems, bases and other equipment belonging to the Iranian-backed rebels.
Iran’s supreme leader has praised the country’s recent missile strike on Israel and said it is ready to do it again if necessary.
Wars, a refugee crisis, famine, and artificial intelligence could all be recognized with Nobel Prizes.
Since Israel intensified its campaign against Hezbollah in Lebanon, Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi rebels have been quick to show they're an important player in the complex conflicts convulsing the Middle East.
The Pentagon says is sending a “few thousand” additional troops to the Middle East to bolster security and to be prepared to defend Israel if necessary.
An expert witness testifying for Google says an antitrust case brought against the tech giant drastically underestimates the company's competition.
The United Nations human rights chief says weaponizing ordinary communication devices represents a new development in warfare.
Yemen’s Houthi rebels have shot down two American MQ-9 Reaper drones in under a week, further highlighting the regional spread of the Israel-Hamas war.
A 49-year-old freight forwarder is awaiting sentencing in Miami federal court after recently admitting to violating U.S. laws — while doing business in Miami-Dade County.
The Biden administration is sending Egypt its full $1.3 billion allocation of military aid.
An Israeli museum has put back on display a rare Bronze-Era jar that a 4-year-old accidentally smashed.
House Republicans have issued a subpoena for testimony from Secretary of State Antony Blinken as they finish their investigation into the chaotic U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan.
An attack by Yemen’s Houthi rebels has targeted a Panama-flagged oil tanker in the Red Sea, and a nearby Saudi-flagged tanker also came under fire, allegedly by the group.
The Army commander in charge of the U.S. military's Gaza pier project says the mission was the biggest “organizational leadership challenge” he has ever experienced.
Iran’s supreme leader has opened the door to renewed negotiations with the United States over his country’s rapidly advancing nuclear program.
A Greek-flagged tanker repeatedly attacked by Yemen’s Houthi rebels in the Red Sea remains ablaze but hasn’t sprung a major oil leak in the waterway.
Israel-Hamas war ceasefire, hostage talks will continue after weekend meetings didn't resolve all gaps, US official says.
A British safety adviser working with a team of Reuters journalists was killed when a Russian missile struck a hotel in the Ukrainian city of Kramatorsk.
Fires have broken on a Greek-flagged oil tanker previously attacked by Yemen’s Houthi rebels this week.
A Greek-flagged oil tanker traveling through the Red Sea has come under repeated attack, leaving the vessel “not under command” and drifting ablaze in an assault suspected to have been carried out by Yemen’s Houthi rebels.
The United Nations says that a record number of aid workers were killed in conflicts around the world last year, and this year may be on course to be even deadlier.
The U.S. has approved $20 billion in arms sales to Israel, including scores of fighter jets and advanced air-to-air missiles.
A Liberian-flagged oil tanker in the Red Sea has been targeted in a third attack by suspected Yemeni rebels in their campaign of assaults over the Israel-Hamas war.
Turkey has filed a formal request with the International Court of Justice to join South Africa’s genocide lawsuit against Israel.
The chief foreign correspondent for Fox News, Trey Yingst, will have a book out this fall timed to the first anniversary of the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks in Israel.
Palm Beach County Sheriff’s deputies and Secret Service agents are already inspecting vehicles entering Mar-a-Lago in preparation for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s visit on Friday.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed Congress in Washington as he sought to bolster U.S. support for his country's war in Gaza.
In the months since Hamas’ surprise attack sent them scattering across fields or hiding in desert brush, survivors of a massacre at a trance festival in Israel have come together as a community to heal.
Hundreds of ultra-Orthodox Jewish men have blocked a major highway in central Israel for two hours.
A ship traveling through the Red Sea has reported being hit in an attack carried out by Yemen’s Houthi rebels, the latest in the campaign targeting shipping over the Israel-Hamas war.
The University of Michigan and the City University of New York didn't adequately investigate complaints about antisemitic or anti-Palestinian harassment linked to campus protests over the Israel-Hamas war and other incidents.
Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni has dismissed a cease-fire offer for Ukraine by Russian President Vladimir Putin as “propaganda” as she wraps up a Group of Seven summit that saw a deal reached for a $50 billion loan to Ukraine.
The president of California State University, Los Angeles, says demonstrators protesting Israel’s war against Hamas in Gaza are no longer welcome on campus after some of them occupied and trashed a building while she was inside.
The Israel-Hamas war is roiling a primary election between two Democrats in New York, testing the party’s position on the conflict and the larger split between its progressive and centrist wings.
U.S. President Joe Biden is in France for the 80th anniversary of D-Day and will join other world leaders to commemorate the invasion that helped bring an end to World War II.
Columbia University has agreed to take additional steps to make its students feel secure on campus.
A student-run legal journal has been taken offline by its board of directors after it objected to the publication of an article that accused Israel of genocide.
U.S. officials say the U.S. Navy aircraft carrier strike group that for months has launched crucial strikes against Houthi rebels in Yemen to protect military and commercial ships in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden will remain in the region for at least another month.
Joint British-U.S. airstrikes targeting Yemen’s Houthi rebels killed at least 16 people and wounded 42 others.
American officials say the U.S. and Britain have struck 13 Houthi targets in several locations in Yemen in response to a recent surge in attacks by the Iran-backed militia group on ships in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden.
Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has withdrawn his ambassador to Israel after months of tensions between the two countries over the war in Gaza.
Another U.S. MQ-9 Reaper drone has gone down in Yemen as the country's Houthi rebels continued attacks on shipping around the Red Sea over the Israel-Hamas war.
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has met with Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad Mustafa and leading officials from several Middle Eastern countries in Madrid a day after Spain, Ireland and Norway recognized a Palestinian state.
A missile has splashed down in the waters of the Red Sea, but caused no damage to a passing commercial vessel in an attack likely carried out by Yemen’s Houthi rebels.
The presidents of Northwestern and Rutgers universities have come to Capitol Hill to defend their decisions to end pro-Palestinian encampments through negotiations rather than police force.
