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Ending weeks of gridlock, Republicans elect Trump ally Mike Johnson as House speaker
Vote ends Congress dysfunction; Biden urges legislature to move ahead with war aid for Israel, Ukraine; Johnson played key role in efforts to overturn 2020 election
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Netanyahu Informs Shin Bet Chief to Vote on His Dismissal Next Week
Israel’s Shin Bet chief Ronen Bar speaks at Reichman University in Herzliya on Sunday, September 11, 2022. Photo: Screenshot
i24 News – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told Ronen Bar, the head of the Shin Bet security agency, that he will bring a vote before his government to dismiss him next week.
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Houthis Claim to Attack US Aircraft Carrier, Retaliating for Strikes
Newly recruited fighters who joined a Houthi military force intended to be sent to fight in support of the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, march during a parade in Sanaa, Yemen, Dec. 2, 2023. Photo: REUTERS/Khaled Abdullah
i24 News – The Houthis claimed on Sunday that they targeted the aircraft carrier USS Harry Truman and other vessels in the northern Red Sea with 18 ballistic and cruise missiles and a drone. Military spokesperson Yahya Saree said that the US-led attacks against the Houthis on Saturday comprised of more than 47 airstrikes on seven governorates, with the death toll expected to rise.
“The Yemeni Armed Forces will not hesitate to target all American warships in the Red Sea and in the Arabian Sea in retaliation to the aggression against our country,” Saree said, vowing the Houthis “will continue to impose a naval blockade on the Israeli enemy and ban its ships in the declared zone of operations until aid and basic needs are delivered to the Gaza Strip.”
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After Postponement, 40 Syrian Druze to Start Work in Israel Next Week
People gather on the day Israeli Druze leader Sheik Mowafaq Tarif and around 100 Syrian Druze religious elders, in the first Druze delegation from Syria just after 1973 war, visit the Nabi Shuayb Shrine, a holy place for the Druze community, in northern Israel, March 14, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Ammar Awad
i24 News – The entry of 40 Druze workers from Syria into Israel will begin in seven days, i24NEWS learned on Sunday.
This comes after reports in i24NEWS revealed that Israel would allow members of the community to enter Israel for work. Initially, the workers were set to start on Sunday, but this was postponed at the last moment.
The 40 will by divided into two working groups of 20 for employment in the northern Golan Heights area, due to security directives that they should not be separated. In addition, to begin with, they will be permitted to work only in agriculture, with the hope that later they will also be able to integrate into factories.
On Sunday, security officials said that the delay of the Syrian Druze’s entry had been postponed as more preparation time was needed, although sources relayed to i24NEWS that the delay was due to a dispute among the decision-makers at the upper echlons of the defense establishment.
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