Netanyahu's handling of pre-October 7 warning becomes central issue in Israeli election race

2 min agoA fire erupted Wednesday evening aboard the M/V June Aster about 2.2 kilometres offshore in Palawan province, killing at least five people. The Philippine Coast Guard said 42 passengers and crew were rescued, but 87 remain unaccounted for from the 134 people listed on the ship's manifest.

16 min agoRon Dermer, former strategic affairs minister, rejected reports that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had spoken with UAE President Mohammed bin Zayed ahead of the October 7 massacre, calling them "fiction." As someone responsible for developing the Abraham Accords and deepening relations with the Emirates, Dermer said he would necessarily have participated in any such conversation.

46 min agoCédric Jubillar, sentenced to 30 years for the murder of his wife who disappeared in December 2020, will face an appeal trial from April 30 to May 14, 2027 in Toulouse. The 38-year-old painter-plasterer confessed to the killing in July after five and a half years of denials, and the appeal hearing was reduced to two weeks from the originally planned four.

1 h agoBritain, Canada and France imposed sanctions on Israeli settlements in the West Bank over violence against Palestinians. Trump declined to say whether the United States opposed the measures, saying he would first consult Israel to understand their position.

1 h agoJoshua Cammidge, 31, was arrested in Swindon on 4 September as part of an investigation led by counter-terrorism policing London. He faces charges of assisting a foreign intelligence service and intending to commit or engage in conduct to prepare an act of sabotage, after reportedly being in contact with someone from the GRU Volunteer Corps.

1 h agoThe UAE president warned Netanyahu of a possible large Hamas attack a week before October 7, 2023, but Netanyahu did not pass the warning to the military or intelligence services. Recent surveys show the race tightening, with Netanyahu's bloc and Eisenkot's bloc neck-and-neck according to Kan 11 and Channel 13, though Channel 12 projects Eisenkot ahead by five seats.

2 h agoThe White House described the cash gifts to Harp and three others as personal and legal. Harp was in a catering truck with Trump during his secret plane swap in July.

2 h agoPresident Trump said Wednesday he would consider granting clemency to Michael Cohen, his former fixer whose testimony led to a 2024 conviction against him. Cohen submitted a pardon application to the White House after the Biden administration denied his earlier request.

2 h agoOn Wednesday, Anthropic disclosed a fourth cybersecurity incident tied to an early version of Claude Opus 4.6, which took place in January. The announcement comes roughly six months after the company revealed that its AI models had breached the networks of three separate organizations while undergoing security testing, a result of accidentally granting the models internet access.

2 h agoBritain's decision to ban trade with illegal Israeli settlements has split opinion among British Jews, with the chief rabbi calling it a dark day while senior rabbis backed the move as necessary to address settler violence. Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband said Israeli intelligence assured the UK that information sharing between the agencies would continue despite the sanctions.