Israeli President Reuven Rivlin on Wednesday received the official final results of last week’s general election, which produced no decisive winner. The centrist Blue and White party led by Benny Gantz finished with a one-seat lead, taking 33 of the parliament’s 120 seats. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s right-wing Likud party gained one more seat than […]

A mother-of-three has died after being attacked by two dogs at her house in Cheshire. Police and an air ambulance were called to the residential street in Widnes shortly after 5pm yesterday afternoon after the woman’s daughter raised the alarm. The victim, named locally as 44-year-old Elayne Stanley, was found with serious injuries and died […]

South Africa saw larger Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) inflows in the second quarter than the first quarter as domestic firms received debt and equity funding from foreign parent companies, central bank data showed on Wednesday. The South African Reserve Bank (SARB) said in its quarterly bulletin that the country had FDI inflows of 26.3 billion […]

Israeli police said they have arrested Jerusalem Affairs Minister Fadi al-Hadami of the Palestinian Authority (PA) – a move Palestinians said was “routine” and part of a “harassment campaign”. The Jerusalem Affairs Ministry said in a statement on Wednesday that Israeli forces raided the minister’s home before taking al-Hadami into custody. Israeli police say he […]

Amid controversy over a summer phone call between Donald Trump and the new leader of Ukraine, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi ordered a formal impeachment inquiry of the US president on Tuesday. “No one is above the law,” she said as she announced the House was moving forward with an official impeachment probe of Trump. Pelosi, […]