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A bitter night in Israel for all who craved a fresh start. Netanyahu survives for now – and we are more divided than ever | Dahlia Scheindlin
After an exit poll that gave the opposition hope, reality dawned. With all the votes on the right, the prospects for the left and centre now look bleakFollowing Israel’s nail-biti…
Gulf states working on multipart peace deal to avert renewal of US-Iran war
Talks are aimed at reopening strait of Hormuz and lifting sanctions on Iran, and for Houthis to withdraw in YemenA multipronged peace deal to reopen the strait of Hormuz within fo…
Israel election results live: exit polls point to tie between Netanyahu and Eisenkot blocs
Both blocs would fall short of the 61 seats needed to form a government as support for Palestinian parties surgesFull report: Israel election too close to call as exit polls give …
Israel election: what we know so far
Revised exit polls suggest a tie between Benjamin Netanyahu’s ruling coalition and Gadi Eisenkot’s opposition bloc, plus marked gains by Palestinian partiesIsrael election – live …
Rise of Palestinian parties in Knesset will redraw Israel’s political landscape
Exit polls indicate opposition leader Gadi Eisenkot will have to work with Arab-Israeli leaders to have a hope of governingIsraeli elections: live updatesThe big gains made by Pal…
Israel election too close to call as exit polls give Netanyahu bloc slightly fewer seats
Early indications suggest it will be some time before the shape of new government and who will lead it is clearIsrael election – live updates Israel’s election was too close to ca…
Legacy of 7 October looms large as a divided Israel goes to the polls in record numbers
Bereaved families tell voters to remember the victims while others have flown thousands of miles to cast their ballotsElection day in Israel began with a protest by some of the vo…
In Gaza, no privacy, no peace: this is what our lives look like a year after the ‘ceasefire’ | Akram al-Sourani
I look at myself and my neighbours queueing for water, and dream of a lost normality. We are now strangers even to ourselves Every morning, I look at myself and my neighbours stan…
Israel goes to the polls – in pictures
Voters head to the polls to elect 120 members of the Knesset in an election that will determine whether Benjamin Netanyahu’s rightwing coalition can remain in power. The election …
Fears grow for Iranian athletes on death row as mountaineer latest to be hanged
Two sportspeople have been executed in the past month and at least six more face the same fate, says activist groupFears are growing for more Iranian athletes facing execution aft…
Israel election live: polls open in most consequential vote in country’s history
Most polling shows prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s coalition will lose its majority, with Gadi Eisenkot the leading opposition contender What you need to know about Israel’s e…
Is this the end for Benjamin Netanyahu? – podcast
It’s being called the most consequential election in Israel’s history. Emma Graham-Harrison explains what’s at stakeIt’s been described as an existential moment; a battle for the …
Jordan attacks militants in Syria in retaliation for last week’s church attack
Jordanian air force says it carried out strikes against ‘terrorist groups’ tied to killing of nine in KarakJordan has carried out airstrikes against armed groups in Syria in retal…
British politicians among international delegates barred from entering West Bank
Group was on visit to meet Palestinian children, farmers and civil leaders facing escalating violence from Israeli forcesAn international delegation including British politicians …
Netanyahu reportedly pressured military to attack Iran in runup to election
Israeli prime minister increases alarmist rhetoric as his far-right coalition narrowly trails in pollsBenjamin Netanyahu has resorted to increasingly alarmist rhetoric and reporte…
UK sanctions Sudanese military leaders implicated in El Fasher ‘campaign of rape’
Commanders suspected of sexual violence during the largest and fastest slaughter of civilians in more than 30 years have been subjected to travel ban and asset freezeSenior Sudane…
High-level delegation in Iran in push to avert flare-up of conflict with US
Senior officials from Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Turkey travel to Tehran as bellicose rhetoric heightensHigh-level diplomatic delegations from Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Pakistan ha…
What you need to know about the most consequential election in Israel’s history
Benjamin Netanyahu is seeking a new mandate in Israel’s first election since the 7 October 2023 Hamas attacksOn Tuesday Israel holds its first election since the 7 October 2023 Ha…
US forces accused of ‘weaponising’ Somalia’s floods by trapping women and children in the path of El Niño
Exclusive: Coordinated airstrikes on territory held by al-Shabaab are driving the civilian population to find refuge alongside a river where rising water levels are a threat to sa…
Sudan paramilitary drone strikes cause mass power cuts in eastern states
Rapid Support Forces strike five power stations in three states controlled by Sudanese armySudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces have launched a coordinated drone attack again…
All About the Money review – confusion and compelling weirdness of wealthy leftwing heir
This profile of James ‘Fergie’ Chambers, who set up a commune in rural Massachusetts and is fighting extradition from Spain, is a brave attempt to package a complex character and …
‘It’s collective punishment’: nearly 2,000 Palestinians in Hebron displaced as Israeli forces take over homes
Families forced to flee as Netanyahu tries to prove security credentials after two Israeli soldiers killed days before electionHebron, the biggest city in the West Bank, had paid …
The UAE has so much blood on its hands in Sudan. For its nominee to lead the UN would be an outrage | Nesrine Malik
Lana Nusseibeh has been the face of a disastrous Emirates policy that has prolonged war and death. It is a scandal that she is even being consideredOver the past few years, you ca…
Fixer, financier, spymaster: how the UAE’s Sheikh Tahnoon is setting his sights on AI dominance – podcast
The Emirati royal is increasingly influential on the world stage. Some see him as a visionary. Others compare him to a Bond villain. Who is he?By Jack Shenker. Read by Selva Rasal…
I saw a drone suddenly descend towards me. My heart started pounding and I thought, ‘Is this the end of my life?’
Photographer Zeinab Faraj, 21, found herself buried under rubble beside a dying colleague while reporting in Lebanon. She had never expected to the target of an Israeli missile at…
Emirati diplomat who helped deliver aid to Gaza enters UN secretary general race
Lana Nusseibeh has Palestine’s endorsement but faces criticism over the UAE’s human rights record and alleged funding of the RSF in SudanAn Emirati diplomat who as UAE ambassador …
Thousands rally against Netanyahu in Tel Aviv ahead of Israeli elections – video
Thousands of people gathered in Tel Aviv on Saturday in a final protest against the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, and his government ahead of what has been described…
‘A hidden tradition’: Benjamin Moser wants you to know Jewish anti-Zionism is not new
The writer rarely questioned the tenets of liberal Zionism growing up. Now he embraces anti-Zionism with the fervor of a new convertIn 1987, the Israeli human rights attorney Feli…
Ten days that could shake the world: democratic norms at stake in four pivotal elections
Brazil, Israel, Serbia and the US are holding elections within the space of 10 days. Will the authoritarian right cement its global gains, or can pro-democracy forces make a comeb…
‘That’s the way the city works’: how the UAE changed the face of Andy Burnham’s Manchester
The story of the emirates’ presence in Manchester winds from the Arab Spring to some of the most deprived places in England – with complicated results Emirati-linked firms’ owners…