Dozens of ultra-Orthodox protesters blocked roads in Jerusalem on Sunday as Israel’s Supreme Court heard arguments in a landmark case challenging a controversial system of exemptions from military service for the religious community. The court is investigating the legality of the exemptions, which have divided the country and threatened the prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu‘s governing […]

President Cyril Ramaphosa has described South Africa’s election results as a victory for democracy, despite his African National Congress (ANC) party losing its majority for the first time. The party, once led by Nelson Mandela, won 159 seats in the 400-seat parliament, up from 230 in the previous meeting. It is the ANC’s worst election

TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Qatar and Saudi Arabia on Sunday condemned an Israeli parliamentary bill that aims UNRWAthe main provider of aid to the Palestinians in Gaza, a terrorist group, joining a growing number of countries opposing the proposal. The bill, which passed a preliminary vote in parliament last week, is the result of

Japan’s space agency said it has lost contact with its intrepid Venus spacecraft Akatsuki. Akatsuki is the Japanese mission dedicated to studying the climate of Venus and currently the only active spacecraft orbiting the second planet from the Sun. The $300 million spacecraft launched in 2010 and had a less-than-stellar start to its mission. It

DUBAI (Reuters) – Iran’s former President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has registered to run in the June 28 presidential election, called after the death of Ebrahim Raisi in a helicopter crash last month, Iranian state television reported on Sunday. However, he could be excluded from the race: the country’s cleric-led Guardian Council will vet candidates and publish

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — The government of the Maldives will ban Israelis from the Indian Ocean archipelago known for its luxury resorts, as public anger grows in the predominantly Muslim country over the war in Gaza. The president’s office said Sunday that the Cabinet has decided to change laws to prevent Israeli passport holders

In total, around 133,000 cases of Russian war crimes are currently being investigated in Ukraine, Klaus Hoffmann, the German adviser to the Ukrainian attorney general, said in comments published on Sunday. The figure was “a huge increase,” Hoffmann told the Neue Osnabrücke Zeitung. “Many of them are extremely extensively documented,” he added. The figure is

Read the full story on Modern Car Collector Lotus wants to make self-driving sports cars There is little doubt about Lotus’ legacy of lightweight, simple, enthusiast-oriented sports cars is sunset. With the new owner via the Chinese Geely, major changes have come, including electrification and more complexity in the design. Now Lotus says it may

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Nearly 1,000 people attended a ceremony Sunday honoring the memory of Ukrainian journalist Iryna Tsybukh, who was killed while serving as a volunteer combat medic a few days before her 26th birthday. Tsybukh was killed during a rotation in the Kharkov area, where Russia began its mission offensive almost a month

Political violence will not be tolerated in Germany, Chancellor Olaf Scholz said on Sunday, as police responded to demonstrations in the western city of Mannheim after seven people were injured in knife attacks. “Whether it is violence directed against left-wing, centrist or right-wing democratic politicians, it is always unacceptable and will not be tolerated by