JERUSALEM -- Parties opposed to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu secured 67 seats in the 120-member parliament after 85.6 percent of votes were counted in Tuesday's election, according to updated official results.
According to the recent count, Netanyahu's right-wing bloc won 53 seats, while the opposition secured 67, including 48 for former military chief Gadi Eisenkot's bloc and 19 for Arab parties. (Israel-Election-Votes)
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MADRID -- Spanish Transport Minister Oscar Puente on Wednesday pointed to an "inexplicable" decision by a railway control center to authorize a train to resume its journey despite a red signal as a possible cause of a deadly high-speed train collision in the province of Toledo, central Spain.
Speaking at a press conference in Madrid, Puente said that a computer communication failure had disabled the LZB railway safety control system, automatically bringing trains along a 63-km section of the line to a halt. (Spain-Train Collision)
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SANAA -- At least 14 people were killed and 10 others wounded in Saudi airstrikes that hit a market and a fuel station in Yemen's northern province of Al-Jawf on Wednesday, Houthi-run al-Masirah TV reported.
The channel said several airstrikes struck a public market in Al-Hazm, the provincial capital, while a separate strike hit the nearby Al-Tayseer fuel station, causing casualties at both sites. (Yemen-Houthis-Saudi Arabia-Airstrikes)
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TEHRAN -- U.S. President Donald Trump's remarks describing a peace memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Iran as "a waste of time" have once again exposed Washington's "contempt for diplomacy," Iran's Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei said on Wednesday.
Baghaei made the remarks in a post on social media platform X after Trump said during a rally in Mississippi on Monday, "We did a little ceasefire (with Iran), which I never liked very much. I considered it sort of a waste of time. But you know, you like to listen to professionals." (Iran-Trump-MoU) ■
