August 25th, 2025

• ​Gideon Sa'ar: Europe must choose - Israel or Hamas - Foreign Minister Gideon Sa'ar sends message to Europe, warning, 'Every action against Israel directly serves the jihadist axis in the Middle East.'
• Commentary: Does the E1 settlement approval doom a Palestinian state? Understanding some of the facts behind Israel's move and the international uproar
• 'A terrible mistake': Israeli envoy warns France over Palestinian state recognition - Ambassador Joshua Zarka says Macron's 'very dangerous' decision is influenced by concerns over domestic Arab population, hurts peace process and risks sidelining Paris in Middle East
• France clarifies recognition of Palestinian state at UNGA not tied to Gaza ceasefire - Several Western nations set to join France in recognition announcement at September UN sessions
• France summons US ambassador for criticizing Macron's response to rising antisemitism
• Ireland's anti-Israel President Higgins seeks UN military intervention in Gaza
• IDF pushes into Gaza City outskirts ahead of offensive, bolsters troops in Jabalia
• 'We are in a marathon, not a sprint' - IDF prepares for long-term Gaza City operation; eases burden on reservists to prevent attrition - IDF strategy aims to stay clear of Israeli hostage locations
• Israel is planning to conquer Gaza City - what legal obligations will that incur? Displacing the estimated one million residents of Gaza City will heighten Israel's responsibility to ensure a humanitarian catastrophe is avoided, say legal experts
• IDF chief reportedly says there is a hostage deal 'on the table, we need to take it'
• Hamas: We received unwritten assurances from mediators
• UN Watch urges World Bank to fire economist over genocide claims against Israel
• Protesters rally across Australian cities to demand end to Gaza genocide - Australians join nationwide rallies for Palestine after statehood recognition strains ties with Israel
• Second man charged for Melbourne Adass Israel synagogue arson attack - The 20-year-old is alleged to be one of three men who deliberately set fire to the Ripponlea synagogue in December, wounding two people
• Anti-Israel, pro-Palestinian protest draws thousands in Copenhagen
• 'From the River to the Sea' eatery heads to NYC, provoking outcry from Jewish community
• Irish rap group Kneecap defies objectors with 'Free Palestine' chants at Paris gig
• Israel files complaint after UK wheelchair basketball players turn backs during 'Hativkah'
• Tel Aviv tells synagogues to operate 'without distinction of gender,' sparking storm
• At least two Palestinian illegal residents arrested in Tel Aviv in suspected terror attack plot
• IDF uproots thousands of West Bank olive trees after Palestinian shooting attack - Military denies move is collective punishment, after commander vowed al-Mughayyir will 'pay heavy price' for resident shooting at Israelis last week
• Five settlers arrested, accused of 'acts of terror' toward security forces
• Houthis fired ballistic missile with cluster bomb warhead at Israel for 1st time on Friday, air force probe finds
• Israel strikes Yemen after Houthis fire cluster munition for first time - The IDF attacked power stations, fuel sites and missile bases
• IAF strikes Yemen's capital after Houthis fired cluster bomb missile over weekend - 4 said killed as air force hits presidential palace, fuel depot, power plants; probe into Friday attack finds Iran-backed group launched missile with cluster warhead for first time
• Iran's Khamenei calls relations with US 'unsolvable' amid nuclear standoff
• 'Time for both to move forward': Netanyahu says Israel could withdraw from Lebanon; hails decision to disarm Hezbollah
• Israel says its forces will withdraw from all five positions in southern Lebanon in stages if Lebanon disarms Hezbollah
• Syria's president said to confirm 'advanced' talks with Israel on security agreement
• Sharaa claims 'chances are high' Syria will reach security agreement with Israel
• US forces begin withdrawal from Ain al Asad airbase as US presence in Iraq transitions
• Sharia law made LEGALLY BINDING in Austria despite warning over 'incompatible' values
• How Online Chats Are Leading to Imprisonment for Blasphemy: In Pakistan, hundreds are in jail on charges of blaspheming Islam. Rights groups say some of these cases are due to bad actors' entrapping victims online.
• Sudan's paramilitary forces kill 13 people in Darfur, mostly women and children, group says
• Russian war hero 'the Executioner' allegedly ordered troops to shoot him in massive payout scheme: report
• Zelensky vows to continue fighting as Ukraine marks independence day
• Russia says Ukrainian drones hit nuclear power plant during Independence Day strikes - Fire quickly extinguished at Kursk facility as Russia intercepts 95 drones across territory
• Fire at Russia's Novoshakhtinsk refinery burns for a fourth day after drone attack
• Pentagon Has Quietly Blocked Ukraine's Long-Range Missile Strikes on Russia - The Defense Department has withheld approval for attacks as the White House has sought to entice Moscow to open peace talks
• Russian foreign minister says 'Ukraine has the right to exist' with territory-related caveat
• Vance says Russian sanctions 'aren't off the table'
• Trump's hand makeup has returned after questions about president's health over swollen ankle sightings
• Duke of York faces fresh Epstein revelations in book by accuser - Virginia Giuffre, who took her own life in April, had completed her autobiography more than a year ago
• Former DHS official signals he could be next after Bolton FBI raid: 'We expect it'
• Trump Says His Constitutional Right to Appoint Judges Being Denied
• Trump seeks to ramp up pressure on Grassley over 'blue slip' controversy
• Vance rebuts NBC's Welker, says GOP map changes push back on decades of Democrat power grabs
• Jeffries gets in heated clash with CNN host on 'hypocritical' redistricting position and if Dems have a plan
• 'Terrible Idea': Conservatives Rage Over Trump's 'Socialist' Intel Purchase
• YouTube secretly used AI to edit people's videos. The results could bend reality
• FBI warns seniors about billion-dollar scam draining retirement funds, expert says AI driving it
• Musk's SpaceX Starship critical test launch scrapped over ground systems issue - Elon Musk's 403-foot rocket suffered three disastrous explosions this year
• Shallow M6.1 earthquake hits east of the Kuril Islands
• Popocateptl volcano in Mexico erupts to 21,000ft
• Sangay volcano in Ecuador erupts to 20,000ft
• Ruiz volcano in Colombia erupts to 20,000ft
• Fuego volcano in Guatemala erupts to 15,000ft
• Semeru volcano in Indonesia erupts to 15,000ft
• Reventador volcano in Ecuador erupts to 14,000ft
• Santa Maria volcano in Guatemala erupts to 14,000ft
• Lewotobi volcano in Indonesia erupts to 12,000ft
• Sakurajima volcano on Japan erupts to 10,000ft
• More than 500,000 ordered to evacuate as typhoon heads for Vietnam
• Sweltering heat wave brings record-high temperatures, wildfire risks to states across the West
• Unusual warning: "We are on the way to becoming Iran" - Ramat Negev Agricultural Committee chairman Yaakov (Yankele) Moskowitz warns of growing drought trend in Israel
• California wine country wildfire nears 7,000 acres, mandatory evacuations ordered
• Zohran Mamdani backs plan to end enforcement of misdemeanor crimes in NYC - "For all of the working class to achieve collective liberation we must constrain, diminish, and abolish the carceral forces of the state..."
• Some National Guard units in Washington now carrying firearms in escalation of Trump deployment - The president has mentioned Chicago and New York as his next targets
• 'Stay out of our city': Chicago officials slam Trump's threat to target city in next crime crackdown
• JB Pritzker accuses Trump of trying to 'manufacture a crisis' over plans to deploy National Guard in Chicago
• Army base used for WWII Japanese internment will be nation's largest ICE detention center
• California Dem state senator claims there will be 'no democracy left' if illegal immigrants aren't counted in Census
• Nearly 2.5M people sign petition supporting illegal immigrant truck driver charged in fatal crash
• Staggering number of Americans applying for refugee status in Canada since Trump took office - To be granted asylum in Canada, refugees must convince Canada's Immigration and Refugee Board that nowhere in the U.S. is safe for them
• Protests as newborn removed from Greenlandic mother after 'parenting competence' tests - Danish authorities take one-hour-old infant despite law banning the tests on people with Greenlandic backgrounds
• 'Pedophile Hellscape': North Carolina mother sues Roblox after predator groomed her 10-year-old daughter into sending explicit photos
• 2.8 million Americans identify as transgender - 25% under 17
• Deadly flesh-eating screwworm found infecting person in US for first time in years
• Chikungunya Virus - World Health Organization warns of epidemic threat as dangerous virus spreads: 'We are seeing history repeating itself'