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The German Foreign Office has summoned Iran’s ambassador following Tehran’s attack on Israel, a spokesman said on Monday afternoon. The conversation is currently taking place at the ministry, he said. Iran had summoned the German ambassador to Tehran on Sunday, the spokesman in Berlin noted. Iran had justified its summons with the “irresponsible positions” of […]

Alon Cassuto stepped into his role as chief executive of the Zionist Federation of Australia during one of the most tumultuous periods in the roughly 200-year history of the country’s formal Jewish community, just a few weeks after the Oct. 7 terror attacks as anti-Israel and antisemitic acts, speech and demonstrations were raging across the […]

Iran’s aerial attack on Israel mirrored Russian tactics in Ukraine, according to analysts. But Iran underestimated Israel’s ability to defend itself from such attacks, they said. Another analyst disagreed, saying Iran used similar tactics long before Russia’s full-scale invasion. Some military analysts are comparing Iran’s attempt to bombard Israel over the weekend with Russian tactics […]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The FBI has opened a federal criminal probe into the March 26 bridge collapse in Maryland, the Washington Post reported on Monday, citing two U.S. officials familiar with the matter. The investigation will at least partly focus on the Dali cargo ship and whether its crew left the port in Baltimore knowing […]

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz says he will warn Chinese President Xi Jinping against providing military support for Russia. He will point out that Russia is waging a war of conquest against Ukraine, “and insist that no one must help this to succeed,” Scholz said in Shanghai on Monday. “That is why we are also calling […]

France and Germany have urged their citizens to leave Iran amid an increased risk of military escalation in the Middle East. “Due to the new level reached overnight by Iran and the risk of military escalation, the French embassy recommends to French residents in Iran who have the possibility, depending on the resumption of international […]

SYDNEY (AP) — Police in Australia say a man has been arrested after a bishop and three churchgoers were stabbed in Sydney. There are no life-threatening injuries. It occurred during a televised service at the church on Monday evening, police said. The Orthodox Assyrian church streams services online. A video on social media shows a […]

By Dan Williams JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israel’s repelling of a massive Iranian drone and missile salvo was fully coordinated with the Pentagon, which had a U.S. operational liaison officer in the control room of the Arrow ballistic air defence system, a senior Israeli official said. The United States, along with Britain, France and Jordan, helped […]

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — The European Union disbursed 6.3 billion euros (about $6.7 billion) to Poland as a part of the 27-nation bloc’s post-pandemic recovery fund, the biggest single transfer ever to the country, a government minister said Monday. Poland’s former national conservative governmen t, voted out of power in October, made changes to the […]