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Billboards feature Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of the Likud Party (left) and former Israeli military chief Gadi Eisenkot, leader of the Yashar Party (right), in the city of Kiryat Malachi, Israel, on Oct. 20.
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 25, 2026
Is Israel strong enough to go it alone?
Opinion polls suggested this would be a tight race. And that was before the U.S. president put his hand on the scales by endorsing the incumbent.
Israeli bulldozers demolish a Palestinian building in the Israeli-occupied West Bank city of Hebron on Friday.
WORLD
Oct 24, 2026
Israel launches major West Bank operation after soldiers killed
The operation comes after gunmen killed two soldiers days ahead of Israeli elections in which security has been a key focus.
Palestinian children inspect one of several destroyed vehicles following an attack by Israeli settlers, in the Palestinian village of al-Mughayyir, near Ramallah in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, on Tuesday.
WORLD
Sep 30, 2026
Settler attack on West Bank village injures Israeli forces, drawing rare U.S. rebuke
The raid came amid mounting international criticism of settler violence, which Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu downplayed last week.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel speaks during the 81st session of the United Nations General Assembly at the U.N. headquarters on Thursday.
WORLD / Politics
Sep 25, 2026
Israel prevented genocide, Netanyahu says in defense of country’s actions
In his U.N. speech, the leader sought to counter growing international isolation ahead of elections he could lose, as dozens of delegates walked out.
A Palestinian woman and a child sit amid rubble after Israeli heavy machinery demolished homes in Jinba village in Masafer Yatta, near Hebron, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank on Wednesday.
WORLD / Politics
Sep 24, 2026
U.S. drafted unreleased memo condemning U.K. over West Bank sanctions
The document dated Sept. 8 proposed that Rubio describe the countries’ actions as a series of hostile measures that contribute to antisemitism.
Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar in September 2025. Israel warned Britain on Sept. 1 that it would retaliate to any sanctions after London vowed a policy reset on Israel in response to settler violence in the occupied West Bank.
WORLD / Politics
Sep 9, 2026
Israel to close British consulate in East Jerusalem following import ban from settlements
Israel’s government is financing some of the West Bank’s most radical settlers, who use illegal outpost farms to displace Palestinians.
Israeli soldiers patrol a newly established village during the inauguration ceremony of the new settlement of Maale Arugot in Gush Etzion, West Bank, on Sept. 2.
WORLD / Politics
Sep 8, 2026
U.K.’s Burnham risks Trump anger with new sanctions on Israel
British diplomats have privately told the U.S. that the sanctions are largely symbolic and will not impact the U.K.’s wider relationship with Israel.
Palestinian students cross one of the gates erected at the entrance of the village of Qusra, south of the city of Nablus in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, on Sunday.
WORLD
Sep 7, 2026
Netanyahu orders evacuation of some West Bank settler outposts, minister says
While all Israeli settlements in the West Bank are considered illegal under international law, Israel considers some established without government approval to be illegal.
An Israeli settler attacks an activist at an Israeli outpost in the Israeli-occupied Palestinian village of Jannatah, West Bank, just south of the city of Bethlehem, on Aug. 25.
WORLD / Society
Sep 2, 2026
Driven by faith, activists stand up to fellow Jews to protect Palestinians
A small movement of Israelis, many of them religious Jews, periodically go to the occupied West Bank to protect Palestinians under growing assault by violent settlers.
Palestinian Alia al-Hallaq, mother of 9-year-old Mohammed, who was killed by an Israeli army bullet, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank on July 16. The killing of Palestinian children and teenagers by Israel has become increasingly common since the start of the war in Gaza.
WORLD
Aug 30, 2026
Killing of Palestinian children and teens by Israel surges in West Bank
B’Tselem, an Israeli rights group, reported 235 children and teenagers killed by Israeli forces in the West Bank since Oct. 7, 2023, through June 2026.
Palestinian American Loui Ridi (right), whose house was encircled by militant settlers for over a week, films an Israeli settler (left) who entered his property in Qusra, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, on Tuesday.
WORLD / Society
Aug 19, 2026
Israeli settler confronts Palestinian American at his besieged West Bank home
Settlers began besieging the homes in Qusra more than a week ago, part of what rights groups say is a wider effort by settlers to seize more land from Palestinians.
Palestinian American Loui Ridi, whose home has been encircled by militant settlers for more than a week, hangs a U.S. flag after gaining access to the besieged property in Qusra, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, on Monday.
WORLD
Aug 18, 2026
A Palestinian American’s journey to his West Bank home under settler siege
Reporters documented Loui Ridi’s journey from the U.S. to his home in Qusra, a tiny village in an area of the West Bank that has seen frequent settler attacks and land seizures.
Catholic nuns and Christian worshippers attend mass at the Latin Monastery in the Palestinian Christian town of Taybeh, northeast of the city of Ramallah in the Israeli-occupied West Bank in June.
WORLD
Aug 8, 2026
Exodus: West Bank hardships drive out Palestinian Christians
Since the Gaza war began, attacks by Israeli settlers on Palestinians in the West Bank have become an almost daily occurrence.
A Palestinian boy sits near a damaged mosque, which Palestinians say was damaged by Israeli settlers, in Qusra near Nablus, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank on Sunday.
WORLD
Jul 26, 2026
Israeli settlers set fire to West Bank mosques after deadly clash
The Israeli military said troops sent to Qusra, which sits near several large Israeli settlements, had found graffiti and signs of arson and ?were searching for suspects.
Palestinians gather to celebrate the Islamic Hijri New Year at the Ibrahimi Mosque, known to Jews as the Cave of the Patriarchs, located inside the Israeli-controlled H2 sector of the occupied West Bank city of Hebron, on June 16.
WORLD
Jun 29, 2026
Israelis and Palestinians deeply divided over sacred shrine in Hebron
The Cave of the Patriarchs is split into an area for Jews and one for Muslims, each with a separate entrance.
Children stand near a damaged car, which Palestinians say was burned by Israeli settlers, in Halhul near Hebron in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, on May 20.
WORLD
Jun 18, 2026
U.N. warns Israeli settlers could join blacklist for violations against children
A United Nations report says it has verified the killing of 2,668 Palestinian children in Gaza and 57 in the West Bank in 2025.
A Palestinian man casts his ballot at a polling station during municipal elections in the Palestinian town of Birzeit, north of Ramallah in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, on Saturday.
WORLD / Politics
Apr 27, 2026
Abbas loyalists win Palestinian municipal elections, including some seats in Gaza
Saturday’s ballot marked the first elections of any ?kind in the Gaza ?Strip since 2006 and the first Palestinian polls since the Gaza war began more than ?two years.
Mahmoud Ghanem, 89, stands with his daughter Areej, 50, at the entrance to a shack near Tulkarm in the Israeli?occupied West Bank, on Feb. 16, 2026. Members of the Ghanem family were displaced last year from the Tulkarm refugee camp.
WORLD
Apr 2, 2026
Expelled from camp, Palestinian refugees now face Iranian rockets
Driven from their refugee camp home in the West Bank, Palestinian families now face a new threat: Iranian missiles intercepted overhead.
Mourners carry the bodies of three Palestinians killed in a reported attack by Israeli settlers in the town of Abu Falah, northeast of Ramallah in the occupied West Bank, during the funeral on Sunday.
WORLD
Mar 9, 2026
West Bank villages hit by deadly?settler raids as regional tensions grow
Residents in the West Bank say they feel trapped between regional conflict in the skies and armed settler groups on the ground —?and sometimes both in quick succession.
A Palestinian man stands next to an Israeli military armored vehicle during a raid in al-Yamun town west of Jenin in the occupied West Bank on Tuesday.
WORLD / Politics
Feb 18, 2026
Israel accused of move expanding Jerusalem borders for first time since 1967
The move comes days after Israel’s government approved a process to register land in the West Bank as “state property,“?drawing widespread international condemnation.
Man arrested over operation of rogue cellular base station in Tokyo
The Metropolitan Police Department has arrested Yu Hai, a 31-year-old Chinese national living in Tokyo's Kita Ward, on suspicion of operating an unlicensed base station from a vehicle in Tokyo's Ginza district on Saturday.
Government betting on language app powered by anime and AI
Japan plans to develop an AI-powered language-learning app that lets overseas anime and manga fans practice Japanese through conversations with popular characters.
Man arrested over theft of watch that was returned days later to Tokyo mall
A 30-year-old man who is believed to have stolen a luxury wristwatch in Tokyo last month reportedly told police he was the one who had sent it back with a handwritten apology.
Japan not immune to public backlash against data centers, experts say
An apartment resident displays a model of a data center currently in development next door in Inzai, Chiba Prefecture, in May.
Jensen Huang’s woes evoke sympathy and disbelief in his birthplace Taiwan
Hsiao Kui-yu, 68, owner of Yuchan Candied Fruit, stands in front of photographs of Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang displayed at the shop, which Huang frequently visits during trips to Taiwan, in Taipei on Tuesday.
‘Godzilla Minus Zero’ makes monster debut at the box office
Takashi Yamazaki’s “Godzilla Minus Zero” marked the highest single-day box-office gross for a live-action film in Japan with ?910 million on its opening day.
A toast to Naohiko Noguchi, sake’s first living national treasure
As a teenager, Naohiko Noguchi did not intend to spend his life as a sake brewer, but he has since become a paragon of the industry.
Few signs of thaw in Japan-China relations one year after Takaichi’s Taiwan remarks
Tensions between Japan and China flared after Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi said on Nov. 7, 2025, that a Chinese blockade of Taiwan could threaten 今日吃瓜 survival and warrant the use of collective self-defense.
Mariko Mori predicted the future. She’ll do it again.
Artist Mariko Mori is currently working to bring the translucent human-sized “Peace Crystal” sculpture to a cave in Ethiopia. It is part of her foundation’s goal to place a permanent sculpture on each of the planet’s six habitable continents.

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