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  • Members of Israel's Arab minority protest, calling on the Israeli government to tackle a wave of crime and killings from within Arab communities through effective law and order, in Sakhnin, northern Israel, January 22, 2026. REUTERS/Ammar Awad REFILE - CORRECTING YEAR FROM "2025" TO "2026".
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    A killing a day: How a crime epidemic is spotlighting inequality in Israeli society
  • President Donald Trump met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House on Wednesday.
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    Netanyahu leans on Trump ties as Israel heads toward elections
  • Narges Mohammadi in her apartment in Tehran on January 16, 2025.
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    Iranian authorities subjected Nobel laureate Narges Mohammadi to ‘life-threatening mistreatment,’ Nobel Committee says
  • US President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu leave the State Dining Room of the White House after a news conference on September 29, 2025.
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    Israel tightens grip on West Bank ahead of Netanyahu’s visit to US
  • Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during the funeral of Israeli hostage Ran Gvili, whose remains were finally brought back to Israel on January 26, in the southern town of Meitar on January 28, 2026. Hundreds of tearful mourners packed a stadium in southern Israel on January 28, 2026, for the funeral of Ran Gvili, the last Gaza hostage whose burial marks the end of a painful national saga triggered by Hamas's 2023 attack. Israeli forces on January 26 brought home the remains of Gvili, who was killed in action and whose body Palestinian militants took into Gaza during their October 7 attack, which triggered a devastating two-year war. (Photo by Chaim Goldberg / POOL / AFP via Getty Images)
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    Netanyahu to discuss potential Iran strikes with Trump as Washington and Tehran resume talks
  • Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian speaks during a visit to the shrine of the leader of Iran's 1979 Islamic Revolution, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, in southern Tehran, Iran, on January 31, 2026.
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    Iran conditionally agrees to nuclear talks with US, first since Trump’s military strikes last summer
  • Iranians visit graves in the Behesht-e Zahra cemetery in Tehran on January 29, 2026.
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    Grieving Iranians cowed into silence beside the graves of protesters
  • Ambulances wait in line at the Egyptian side of the Rafah border crossing with Gaza on Monday.
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    Gaza-Egypt border reopens nearly two years after Israel closed it, official says
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  • The blast ripped through a building in the Iranian city of Bandar Abbas.
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    Blast rips through building in Iranian port city of Bandar Abbas, state media says
  • Rescuers carry the body of a victim amid the debris of Sheikh Radwan police station in Gaza City on Saturday, following an Israeli air strike.
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    Israeli strikes kill over 30 in Gaza, health ministry says, in deadliest day in months
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    Trump warns Iran’s supreme leader should be ‘very worried’
  • Narges Mohammadi sits in her apartment in Tehran on January 16, 2025. She received the 2023 Nobel Peace Prize for advocating women's rights and freedom and is currently on leave from prison. (Photo by Nooshin Jafari / Middle East Images via AFP) (Photo by NOOSHIN JAFARI/Middle East Images/AFP via Getty Images)
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    Exclusive: Nobel laureate Narges Mohammadi on hunger strike in detention in Iran, foundation says
  • Sailors fuel an MH-60R Sea Hawk helicopter on the flight deck of the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln in the Indian Ocean on January 21, 2026, in this photo provided by the U.S. Navy.
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    US conducts military drills in Middle East as tension with Iran builds amid Trump’s demands
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  • A mourner carries the body of a child during the funeral of Palestinians who, according to the medics, were killed in overnight Israeli strikes, outside the Al-Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza City, October 29, 2025. REUTERS/Dawoud Abu Alkas TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY
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    Israeli military reportedly acknowledges 70,000 killed in Gaza after previously casting doubt on health ministry’s count
  • Trump faces a weakened Iran but that doesn’t make his choices any easier
  • Iran is open to US talks but won’t be dictated to and won’t negotiate on missiles, foreign minister says
  • Iran warns of ‘hazardous consequences’ after EU designates Revolutionary Guard as a terrorist organization
  • Iranian men speak with each other while standing under the country flags outside the Grand Bazaar in southern Tehran, Iran, on January 27, 2026.
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    Tehran wary of American bombs as memories of bloody crackdown still sting
  • After 843 days, the clock counting the painful wait for Israel’s hostages has finally stopped
  • Israel recovers body of last hostage in Gaza
  • US carrier strike group is now in the Middle East region, sources say
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