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Attacks have increased the cost of shipping to Israel as transportation companies pull out of the Bab el-Mandeb route. Israel’s economy relies on seaborne trade.

“I don’t think they’re ready to negotiate,” President Trump said Thursday after the ship’s seizure was announced. “No one is happy about this.”

It was an outright miracle: a tiny teahouse in the pass, and the equivalent of a Sherpa Pony Express to deliver a call for help.

An intelligence source revealed Pyongyang is conducting “heat and pressure resistance tests to see whether anthrax germs can survive at temperatures of 7,000 degrees or higher.”

The two are scheduled to have dinner on Wednesday and then to continue their talks on Thursday.

Despite several scares, Israel itself has yet to contend with a patient suffering from COVID-19, as coronavirus is officially named.

Mayor of Jerusalem Moshe Leon said, “The Righteous Among the Nations Chiyona Sugihara did everything in his power and worked tirelessly to save Jews from the clutches of the Nazis, at no small a personal price.”

It will be the first time the system has been used to intercept an ICBM.

The test occurred just days after the North Korean regime launched its ninth missile this year.

Also: Japanese officials on Saturday admitted that 23 of the Diamond Princess passengers had been cleared to leave by mistake.

An Israeli hiker was killed while he and his family were trekking along the Ganges River in India.

ISIS strikes again, killing more than 100 people and wounding nearly 200 more in Baghdad, the third attack in a week.

Hundreds attended this year's Chabad of Nepal seder in the Himalayas, the highest place on earth, despite no public notice of its whereabouts.

Mossad is on a mission to thwart a Hamas project that sends scientists and engineers abroad to purchase intelligence and weapons.

Hamas is trying to cement ties with its Shi'ite brother, Hezbollah, in Lebanon, while opening a new base in Algeria.

"The SPYDER weapons are also incompatible with the earlier supplied Russian surface-to-air missile systems, which lowers the efficiency of Vietnam’s united air defense.”

"Tajikistan is a Muslim state that has close economic, social and cultural ties with Iran."

"We are no one's 'backyard’"

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe expressed his rage and demanded the release of the hostages.

The explosion occurred "in the immediate vicinity of the entrance to the consular section of the Russian Embassy."

The American-made Switchblade and Israeli-made Harop attack UAVs are expected to be deployed.

The Koreans conditioned the entire deal on the settlements exclusion.

The Pakistani Taliban has declared allegiance to ISIS, ordering members to help the group build a worldwide caliphate.

"It is not the denuclearization of N. Korea, but the security of U.S. mainland which should be the top priority of Trump administration."

According to heir's lawsuit, Sompo’s predecessor purchased the picture “in reckless disregard of its provenance, including Mendelssohn-Bartholdy’s forced sale of the painting in Nazi Germany in 1934.”

This order is a followup to a previous similar contract by the same customer, IAI said.

Kabul airport remained the only way out of Afghanistan still under government control.

In November 2006, Christie's auction house sold "Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer Yisrael Beiteinu" for almost $88 million to Oprah Winfrey.

Nishimura brought a trade delegation of 80 Japanese company representatives as Tokyo and Jerusalem explore a possible free trade agreement that would expand their $3.3 billion commercial relationship.

"North Korea launched yet another intermediate range ballistic missile. The United States has spoken enough about North Korea."