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Yemen's Houthis say they hit Saudi target at Najran airport

On Monday, threats from the terror group to target Saudi shipping caused six Saudi tankers to change course and head toward southern Africa, tracking data showed.

Houthi activists stand on a platform against a banner depicting Houthi missiles, at an anti-Saudi rally amid an escalation with the kingdom, in Sanaa, Yemen, July 31, 2026.
A Yemeni protester carries a mock missile during a protest staged against the continued Saudi-led blockade on Yemen on July 31, 2026 in Sana'a, Yemen.

Saudi Arabia prepares military operations as Houthis resume strikes on territory, shipping

People walk down a street as Cuba's national power grid collapsed, marking the third major outage in nine days, in Havana, Cuba, July 14, 2026.

Cuba suffers islandwide power grid collapse as US oil blockade deepens energy crisis

An Iranian flag flies at half-mast at the Pakistan-Iran border crossing at Taftan, Balochistan province on March 1, 2026 after the death of Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei amid US-Israel strikes; Illustrative.

Israel, US consider land blockade against Iran to increase economic isolation - report


Unemployment is pushing Gazan youths to move abroad

Tens of thousands of Israel-issued work permits do nothing to put a dent in an unemployment rate of 70% among Gazan youths.

 Moamen Toman, a Palestinian man, reads a book in his coffee shop in Gaza Strip January 23, 2023

Armenia says concerned by Russian peacekeepers' role in blockade row

Armenia fears that Russian interests in Azerbaijan may pose problems with current blockade.

 A view shows divided Taghavard village in Nagorno-Karabakh region

Armenia warns of humanitarian crisis as central road in Nagorno-Karabakh blocked for 24 days

Azerbaijan clams environmental activists have blocked the roads, while Armenia claims Azerbaijani security forces are behind the blockade.

 Azeri service members guard the area, which came under the control of Azerbaijan's troops following a military conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh against ethnic Armenian forces and a further signing of a ceasefire deal, on the border with Iran in Jabrayil District, December 7, 2020

Israel's blockade on Gaza is keeping its doctors from improving - opinion

We cannot accept that two million people are trapped in overcrowded and nearly unlivable conditions, indefinitely, without access to the most basic services we, in Israel, take for granted.

 DR. OSAMA TANOUS of Physicians for Human Rights Israel examines patients in Gaza.

US Presbyterian Church: Israel is apartheid state, creates Nakba Remembrance Day

The resolutions called Christian Zionist doctrine heretical and idolatrous and compared Israel's treatment of the Palestinians to the Holocaust.

The Presbyterian Church (USA) has made itself a stalking horse for the BDS campaign

Palestinian factions preparing 'battle' to break Gaza naval blockade

The maritime actions being planned by the Palestinian factions would reportedly be similar to the "March of Return."

 Palestinians sail with boats towards the maritime border with Israel as smoke rises from a burning tire during a protest calling for lifting the Israeli blockade on Gaza, in the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of the northern Gaza Strip September 10, 2018

Sinwar claims Hamas working on way to break Gaza maritime blockade

Sinwar stated talks are in "full swing" on establishing a maritime line to "break the siege completely."

YAHYA SINWAR, leader of Hamas in Gaza, gestures on stage during a rally in Gaza City on May 24

Anti-Israel protesters block Zim cargo ship in Oakland

“Block the Boat” organizers online also indicated similar actions would take place this week in Detroit, Vancouver, Philadelphia and London.

Zim cargo ship

Driver crashes into police blockade during car chase, 4 lightly injured

The man was able to evade police initially, taking police on a chase through route 31 before ramming into a police blockade near the Bedouin village of Mulada, also known as Sa'wa

Attempted ramming attack at the Kiosk Checkpoint near Ma'aleh Adumim, June 23, 2020

Israel has no obligation to give the Palestinians vaccines

Israel is under no obligation to provide vaccinations to the population of the territories.

Abdelnaser Soboh, Emergency Health Lead in the World Health Organization's Gaza sub-office, stands next to boxes containing ventilators delivered by the World Health Organization (WHO) and donated by Kuwait, in Gaza City November 29, 2020.