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Israeli football in 2026 – growth, trends and more

Israeli football continues to go from strength to strength.
Two Taiwan made Kuang Hua VI class missile boats attend the Ministry National of Defense exercise outside the Zuoying navy harbor on January 31, 2024.

RISK Initiative: Taiwan's bold step to safeguard undersea cables - opinion

US President Donald Trump speaks in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, January 14, 2026.

NATO is finished if US moves on Greenland - opinion

 UNITED NATIONS headquarters in New York City.

Israel to 'immediately sever ties' with three UN agencies, international organizations, Sa'ar says


Ukraine says Russia plans to simulate accident at nuclear power plant

The defense ministry's intelligence directorate said Russian forces would soon shell the plant and then announce a radiation leak.

A serviceman with a Russian flag on his uniform stands guard near the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant in the course of Ukraine-Russia conflict outside the Russian-controlled city of Enerhodar in the Zaporizhzhia region, Ukraine August 4, 2022.

Russia seeks to extend US reporter's detention by three months, US demands release

Gershkovich is the first US journalist detained in Russia on espionage charges since the end of the Cold War.

 Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich, who was detained in March while on a reporting trip and charged with espionage, stands behind a glass wall of an enclosure for defendants before a court hearing to consider an appeal against his detention, in Moscow, Russia April 18, 2023

Germany's search for new spies curbed by applicants' work-from-home needs

Want to work from home? Being a spy might not be for you, in that case.

 What does it take to be a great spy? (Illustrative)

African leaders seek to persuade Russia, Ukraine to cease hostilities

"First is the cessation of hostilities. Second is a framework for lasting peace," South African Presidency Spokesman Vincent Magwenya said.

 South African President Cyril Ramaphosa and Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong (not pictured) attend a media briefing and signing ceremony at Tuynhuys to strengthen the bilateral relationship between the two countries in Cape Town, South Africa, May 16, 2023

Police to search Portuguese dam 16 years after Maddie McCann vanished

A separate source familiar with the investigation was not optimistic about the chances of a breakthrough in the long-running case, adding: "It will come to nothing."

 Officers of Portugal's investigative Judicial Police are seen at the site of a remote reservoir where a new search for the body of Madeleine McCann is set to take place, in Silves, Portugal, in this screen grab from a video, May 22, 2023

WhatsApp allows users to edit messages

The modified message will carry the label "edited," without showing edit history.

Whatsapp logo is seen in this illustration taken August 22, 2022.

Ukrainian military intelligence: Russian groups behind Belgorod incursion

Yusov said the Belgorod operation would create a "security zone" to protect Ukrainians from cross-border attacks by Russia.

 UKRAINE’S PRESIDENT Volodymyr Zelensky walks with soldiers in the town of Izium after it was liberated by Ukraine’s armed forces.

Ofer Ramat Aviv Mall finishes first stage of major renovation

"Our goal is to continue to differentiate Ramat Aviv Mall as the leading mall in Israel that offers quality and luxury brands."

 THE OFER Ramat Aviv Mall.

The flag serves different causes for different groups - opinion

While the procession usually goes by relatively peacefully, it takes thousands of policemen to keep peace and order.

 PROTESTERS AGAINST funding for ultra-Orthodox political parties argue with haredi counter-demonstrators in Bnei Brak, last Wednesday.

Maccabi World Union elects Michael Siegal as next president

Siegal has served as the chairman of the Jewish Agency for Israel as well as the Jewish Federations of North America.

 Michael D. Siegal receives the Israeli Presidential Medal of Honor and citation from President Isaac Herzog at the President’s Residence on December 11.