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World news is all reports on stories involving politicians, conflict and revolutions outside of the United States and Israel that affect the world and the Jewish state. 'World news' helps the global environment set the political agenda through journalists situated in conflict regions reporting on the important facts.

 THE KREMLIN, Moscow.

Neo-Nazi terror group believes its leader is a Kremlin spy, the Guardian reports

 Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson presides over a city council meeting as the Council discusses a symbolic resolution calling for a ceasefire in the war between Israel and Hamas, January 31, 2024 in Chicago, Illinois.

Chicago mayor donned keffiyeh for Arab Heritage Month event, sparking outcry from Jewish groups

By Grace Gilson/JTA
 Former Taliban commander Haji Najibullah, previously accused of kidnapping an American journalist, appears on charges related to murdering three U.S. troops in Afghanistan in 2008 during a court hearing in New York, U.S., October 15, 2021 in this courtroom sketch.

Ex-Taliban commander pleads guilty to taking US journalist hostage

By REUTERS
 Cargo space craft and Earth.

Cosmic malfunction? Russian satellite linked to nuclear space weapons out of control

By REUTERS
 A torn UNRWA logo is seen among destruction in Rafah, in southern Gaza, January 22, 2025

DOJ strips UNRWA of immunity, clears way for lawsuit over Oct. 7 attack

 US Representative George Santos (R-NY) walks to a vote on Capitol Hill in Washington, US, January 12, 2023.

George Santos sentenced to more than 7 years in prison

By REUTERS
 US PRESIDENT Donald Trump in the Oval Office last Friday: Since Trump’s election as president last November for a second term, the US has no longer been committed to the previous world order in which it had played such a major role in creating and running, the writer maintains.

Trump: I pushed Netanyahu on Gaza aid, we're working on it

By REUTERS
Demonstrators attend a protest in support of Mahmoud Khalil outside the court in Newark, New Jersey on March 28, 2025

Trump administration to restore foreign students' legal status, for now

By REUTERS
Hannah Dugan speaks as she was seeking election to Milwaukee County Circuit Court during a forum at the Milwaukee Bar Association in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, U.S., March 15, 2016.

US officials arrest Milwaukee judge for obstructing immigration operation

By REUTERS
A man stands near debris following an earthquake in Guayaquil, Ecuador March 18, 2023.

Magnitude 6.3 earthquake strikes Ecuador, buildings damaged

By REUTERS
 Service members of pro-Russian troops walk across a road before the expected departure of Ukrainian soldiers, who surrendered at the besieged Azovstal steel mill, in the course of Ukraine-Russia conflict in Mariupol, Ukraine May 19, 2022.

Senior Russian military officer killed in car explosion in Moscow region, Russian media report

By REUTERS
 Dust rises from the site of strikes in Sanaa, Yemen March 15, 2025

US says blast near Yemen UNESCO world heritage site caused by Houthi missile

By REUTERS
 Supporters of the Pakistan Markazi Muslim League (PMML), carry flags and banners, during a protest against the suspension of the Indus Waters Treaty by India, in Karachi, Pakistan April 24, 2025.

Pakistan warns of war as India suspends water treaty, closes border

By ARSHAD MEHMOOD/THE MEDIA LINE
 A koala climbing a tree in Ouwehands Zoo, Rhenen, Netherlands, illustrative; April 25, 2024.

Victoria, Australia culls hundreds of koalas after wildfire, activists denounce policy

 US PRESIDENT Donald Trump speaks with Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman at a G20 summit in Osaka, Japan, in 2019. Trump has made the expansion of the Abraham Accords to include Saudi Arabia as a significant priority in his vision for the Middle East, the writer notes.

Trump poised to offer Saudi Arabia over $100b. arms package - sources

By REUTERS
 US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin hold a bilateral meeting at the G20 leaders summit in Osaka, Japan June 28, 2019.

Trump tells Putin to stop Russian strikes on Kyiv: 'I'm not happy'

By REUTERS
 Columbia University against backdrop of map of Middle East (illustration).

Trump order targets Chinese, Qatari influence in US schools

 Interim president Alan Garber waits for the the honorary degree recipients to assemble for a group photograph before the 373rd Commencement Exercises at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S., May 23, 2024.

Harvard 'will not compromise' in lawsuit against Trump administration, president says

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio sits next to U.S. National Security Advisor Mike Waltz during a meeting with Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud,  at Diriyah Palace, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, February 18, 2025.

Tehran has a 'pathway to a peaceful nuclear program', Rubio says

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at the state's Holocaust Remembrance Day ceremony in Yad Vashem, Jerusalem, April 23, 2025

Main lesson of Holocaust is to fight fanatical regimes that threaten whole world, Netanyahu says

 Students leave the Averroes high school in Lille, northern France on September 28, 2023.

Court overturns French decision to cut funding to biggest Muslim school

By REUTERS
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