May 3 (UPI) -- An Israeli man kidnapped by Hamas during its bloody surprise attack on the Middle Eastern country in October has died, the Israeli government said, stating the man's body was being held by the Iran-backed militia in the

May 3 (UPI) -- Turkey has announced that it is suspending all trade with Israel over its treatment of Palestinians amid its war against Iran-backed Hamas in Gaza.

May 3 (UPI) -- The United States has blacklisted five people and two companies accused of aiding a U.S.-designated financier of Hezbollah with sanctions evasion.

May 3 (UPI) -- One person was killed and another was seriously injured in a house explosion in New Jersey on Thursday night, authorities said, making it the second fatal explosion in Middlesex County in more than 24 hours.

May 2 (UPI) -- Police have forcibly dismantled an encampment erected by pro-Palestinian demonstrators on the campus of the University of California, Los Angeles, arresting more than 200 people in the process.

May 3 (UPI) -- U.S. military forces destroyed three uncrewed aerial systems in an Iran-backed Houthi controlled area of Yemen, the U.S. Central Command said in a statement Thursday.

May 3 (UPI) -- SpaceX launched another group of 23 satellites from Kennedy Space Center on Thursday night via a Falcon 9 rocket, adding to the Starlink megacluster of Internet satellites now in low Earth orbit.

May 2 (UPI) -- Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs signed legislation Thursday that repeals an abortion ban in the state that dates to 1864, perhaps the most restrictive and oldest in the country, but the measure still could take effect briefly.

May 2 (UPI) -- A key participant in the January 6, 2021 riots on the U.S. capitol, who assaulted police with pepper spray and attempted to incite more violence, has been sentenced to as many as five years in prison and fined $200,000.

May 2 (UPI) -- The Israeli Security Cabinet is set to vote Thursday to close Al Jazeera's office in the country.