Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and challenger Benny Gantz both claimed victory in Israel’s general election Tuesday, after exit polls showed the Likud and Blue and White parties neck and neck. Gantz claimed election victory after two out of three TV exit polls gave his centrist party...

United Nations refugee chief Filippo Grandi warned on Tuesday that a deadly attack on two New Zealand mosques was the result of the worst toxicity in politics and media toward refugees, migrants and foreigners that he had witnessed in more than 30 years. In an attack broadcast live on...

Iraqi Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi said on Tuesday that Washington’s decision to designate Iran’s Revolutionary Guards a terrorist group “could have negative repercussions on Iraq and the region”. “Iraq tried to stop the decision,” Abdul Mahdi told reporters during his weekly...

The number of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails on hunger strike reached 400 Tuesday, the Palestinian Prisoners' Club NGO said, but an Israeli official disputed the figure. In a statement the NGO said the hunger strike, which began Monday, had grown rapidly, with 250 prisoners joining...