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Ipswich Town & Coventry City in transfer battle for Maccabi Tel Aviv's Tyrese Asante
Football League World
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August 18, 2025
Ipswich Town and Coventry City are both in the running to sign Maccabi Tel Aviv's Tyrese Asante, who has been linked to a host of Championship clubs in recent months. As reported by TEAMtalk on Monday evening, the highly-rated central defender has...
Israel Retaliates With Visa Ban on Australian Officials After MP Blocked
The Epoch Times
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August 18, 2025
People with Israeli flags watch the Opera House while it is illuminated in blue to show solidarity with Israel in Sydney, Australia on Oct. 9, 2023. David Gray/AFP via Getty Images The Israeli government has announced its own visa restrictions on...
Israeli officer, soldier injured in gaza battles: Israeli media
Al Mayadeen
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August 18, 2025
Israeli media reports an officer and a soldier wounded by sniper fire in northern Gaza as Palestinian resistance escalates operations against occupation forces. Israeli media reported on Monday that an officer was moderately wounded and another...
Houthi hypersonic missile targets Tel Aviv airport in escalation over Gaza conflict
Daijiworld News
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August 18, 2025
Daijiworld Media Network - Sanaa Sanaa, Aug 18: Yemen’s Houthi rebels claimed they launched a hypersonic ballistic missile at Israel’s Ben Gurion Airport near Tel Aviv on Sunday, marking a dramatic escalation in the regional fallout from the...
Golf cuts deal for Sabon stores amid plans to close soapmaker’s Israel operations
The Times of Israel
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The Golf Group announced on Monday that it has reached a franchise acquisition deal to operate the local Sabon store chain, as the Israeli-founded maker of natural bath and body products, owned by French cosmetics giant Yves Rocher, plans to...
Newsmax Goes to Israel
The American Spectator - Virginia
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August 19, 2025
It is no secret that Newsmax is on the rise as America’s favorite television network. The ratings have poured in, along with its climb in the financial markets. But as was made clear when Newsmax CEO Chris Ruddy led a group of Newsmax personnel on...
‘She’s sorely misguided’: Gal Gadot blames ‘anti-Israel sentiment’ for Snow White flop
Sky News Australia
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August 19, 2025
Sky News host Freya Leach has commented on Israeli actress Gal Gadot blaming “anti-Israel sentiment” for Disney’s live-action remake of Snow White flopping at the box office. “Something that was so woke and went so, so broke was Disney’s remake of...
From Israeli Soil, Filipino Interns Plant Seeds of Hope
Politiko
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August 19, 2025
By ROY C. MABASA EMEK HEFER, Israel — On a warm morning in Israel’s agricultural heartland, 49 young Filipino interns sat quietly in a modest training hall, listening attentively to their mentor. Mishelle Malihin, a coordinator with the...
Palestinian Resistance targets Israeli forces, seizes drone in Gaza
Al Mayadeen
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August 18, 2025
Palestinian Resistance factions ambush Israeli occupation forces and seize a drone in Gaza's al-Zaytoun and al-Shujaiyya, respectively. The al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas, announced that its fighters successfully ambushed an...
Nigerians denounce Israel for killing journalists in Gaza
Press TV
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Danjuma Abdullahi Press TV, Abuja The Nigerian Union of Journalists has condemned the killing of several journalists in Gaza in an Israeli strike on the 10th of August. The condemnation comes as many in the African country believe Israel wants to...
Sally Rooney’s luxury loathing for Israel
Spiked
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August 18, 2025
Reading that soppy Sally Rooney op-ed in Saturday’s Irish Times, it suddenly struck me: the UK government’s proscription of Palestine Action is one of the best things that’s happened to her. And to all the other keffiyeh-adorned poseurs in the...
Australia’s foreign minister Penny Wong slams Israel’s retaliatory visa decision as ‘unjustified reaction’
The West Australian
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August 18, 2025
Penny Wong has criticised Israel’s retaliatory decision to revoke visas of Australia’s representatives to the Palestinian Authority as “an unjustified reaction”. Israel’s foreign minister Gideon Sa’ar said the decision was made after the Albanese...
Israel needs ‘a Nakba every now and then’ and prefers Hamas rule, says ex-intelligence chief
Middle East Monitor
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August 18, 2025
Palestinians need to face a Nakba “every now and then” and the spiralling death toll in Gaza is “necessary”, said former Israeli intelligence chief Maj Gen Aharon Haliva, in audio recordings broadcast on Ulpan Shishi, a TV programme which aired on...
Israeli Cyber Official Arrested During Undercover Internet Crimes Against Children Sting
Gizmodo
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August 18, 2025
A high-ranking member of Israel’s cybersecurity directorate was recently arrested in Las Vegas as part of an undercover sting operation involving internet crimes against children, according to the State Department. A joint operation between city...
Israel receives Hamas' response on Gaza ceasefire proposal
Daily Finland
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An anonymous Israeli official told Xinhua on Monday that Israel has received Hamas' response to a Gaza ceasefire proposal, which includes provisions on the release of hostages, but a formal reply to the response has not yet been issued, reported...
Israel took to the streets. Here is why.
Religion News Service
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August 18, 2025
Israel took to the streets. Here is why. (RNS) — It was an amazing day in the life of a democratic country. Demonstrators gather during a protest demanding the immediate release of hostages held by Hamas and calling for the Israeli government to...
Gal Gadot backs away from claim Snow White flopped over Israel
The Times
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The actress Gal Gadot has issued a clarification after she appeared to blame the box office failure of Snow White on a pressure to speak out against Israel. Gadot, who is Israeli, starred as the Evil Queen in the Disney live action film alongside...
Godspeed You! Black Emperor Becomes Latest Indie Group to Pull Music from Spotify
Digital Music News
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August 18, 2025
Photo Credit: Spotify Godspeed You! Black Emperor has become the latest indie band to pull their music from Spotify. But the Canadian rockers are taking it one step further: they’re removing nearly all their music from all major streaming...
Israel Pulls Australian Officials’ Visas Amid Diplomatic Rift
Jewish Post and News
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August 18, 2025
Kanye West walking on the red carpet during the 67th Grammy Awards held at Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles, CA on Feb. 2, 2025. Photo: Elyse Jankowski/Sipa USA via Reuters Connect In the Czech Republic, local officials have pushed back against a...
Israel receives Hamas' response on Gaza ceasefire proposal, no formal reply made
Xinhua News Agency
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GAZA/CAIRO/JERUSALEM, Aug. 18 (Xinhua) -- An anonymous Israeli official told Xinhua on Monday that Israel has received Hamas' response to a Gaza ceasefire proposal, which includes provisions on the release of hostages, but a formal reply to the...