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North Korea has said the intermediate-range ballistic missile it successfully tested has met all technical requirements and could now be mass-produced. North Korea also said that launch tested the capability to carry a “large-size heavy nuclear warhead” and put the U.S. mainland within “sighting range.” Many Western experts agree that the Hwasong-12 test did appear to have advanced North Korea’s … Read More

Theresa May has announced the terror threat level in the UK is being raised to “critical” and soldiers will now be deployed on the streets to protect key sites, in a significant escalation of the policing response following the Manchester attack. It is the first time in 10 years the feared threat of a terror attack has reached its highest … Read More

An Islamic suicide bomber at an Ariana Grande concert in England has killed at least 22. The casualties included young elementary school children and young teens. It’s reported an 8-year-old girl, Saffie Rose Roussos, could have been the youngest fatality. The attacker has been identified as UK-born Salman Abedi, a 22-year-old of Libyan descent whose parents were immigrants. A father … Read More

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said Israel is welcoming US President Donald Trump “with open arms,” adding that he will “discuss ways to advance peace” with the US leader during his Israel visit. Netanyahu also noted the significance of Trump’s first presidential overseas trip including a visit to “Jerusalem, the capital of Israel.” Also, Riyadh’s Foreign Minister has said the … Read More

President Trump has said in Israel he has found new reasons for hope that peace and stability could be achieved in the Middle East. After visiting Saudi Arabia and now in Israel on the second leg of his first overseas trip since entering office, Trump is to hold talks separately with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. … Read More

At least 20 people were killed and possibly “hundreds” of others were injured after one or more loud explosions were heard at an Ariana Grande concert at Manchester Arena in England. Greater Manchester Police said that there were “a number of confirmed fatalities and injuries” as hundreds of fans fled the arena with emergency crews rushing to the scene after … Read More

President Trump on a trip to Israel has become the first sitting U.S. president to visit the Western Wall in Jerusalem. Trump was accompanied on a tour of the Wall by his family and was seen placing his hand on the Wall and pausing in reflection. The President then placed a note in the Western Wall as he visited one … Read More

With US President Donald Trump coming in to visit Saudi Arabia, Israel and the West Bank, Arab officials are prepared to reward Israel for at least taking steps toward the goal of an Israeli-Palestinian peace deal. According to the report, the idea is outlined in an unreleased discussion paper shared among several Gulf countries where if the Jewish state were … Read More

Palestinian Authority (PA) chairman Mahmoud Abbas has said in a speech at the Center for Islamic Culture in India that they want a Palestinian state alongside Israel. Abbas said, “We are striving to implement the two-state solution within the 1967 borders, that is, an independent sovereign Palestinian state with East Jerusalem as its capital living in peace alongside the State of … Read More

The United States added Hamza bin Laden, son and would-be heir of the late global jihadist leader Osama bin Laden, to its terrorist blacklist. Hamza, who is in his mid-twenties, has become active as an al-Qaida propagandist since his father’s death at the hands of US special forces on May 2, 2011. Last year, the fifth anniversary of the death … Read More