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Palestinian jailed for life for murder of Israeli

An Israeli military court Monday sentenced a Palestinian to life imprisonment for a 2015 shooting in the occupied West Bank that killed an Israeli and wounded three others, the army said. Fayiz Hamed was found guilty of voluntary homicide and attempted murders. The four Israelis were in a...

Macron to meet Trump, Rouhani to push mediation efforts

French President Emmanuel Macron said he would meet Iranian President Hassan Rouhani Monday and U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday as he seeks to defuse tensions between Washington and Tehran. An attack on Saudi oil facilities on Sept. 14, which the United States and Saudi Arabia blamed...

Iran says seized British-flagged tanker 'free' to leave

Iran said Monday that a British-flagged oil tanker is "free" to leave more than two months after it was seized in the Gulf. "The legal process has finished and based on that the conditions for letting the oil tanker go free have been fulfilled and the oil tanker can move," government...

Egyptian officials say police kill 15 militants in Sinai

Egyptian security forces say police have killed 15 suspected militants in a shootout in the restive northern part of the Sinai Peninsula. They say the shootout took place Sunday when police raided the militants' hideout west of the Mediterranean city of al-Arish. Security...