JERUSALEM -- Israel's Central Elections Committee officially announced the results of last week's parliamentary election on Wednesday, confirming that opposition parties won 67 seats in the 120-member parliament, against 53 for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's ruling bloc.
The opposition's 67 seats include 48 won by parties aligned with former military chief Gadi Eisenkot's Yashar party and 19 by the Arab-led parties, namely the Joint List, a coalition of three parties, and the Muslim Ra'am party. (Israel-Election Results-Parliament)
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TEHRAN -- Iran's Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei on Wednesday warned that neither partisan changes in the United States nor concessions to Washington would end U.S. hostility toward the Iranian nation.
"If there are still individuals who pin even the slightest hope on a shift in the U.S. behavior, or partisan changes within the hegemonic system, or imagine that by granting concessions to the United States, they can dissuade it from its hostility toward the Iranian nation, they are gravely mistaken," Khamenei said in a message to mark the anniversary of the 1979 takeover of the U.S. embassy in Tehran. (Iran-U.S.-Conflict)
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SANAA -- The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) announced Wednesday that it had delivered a shipment of essential medical supplies to health facilities in Yemen's southwestern city of Taiz.
In a statement received by Xinhua, the ICRC said it had delivered four trucks carrying essential medical supplies to Taiz city, including surgical kits to help hospitals treat people wounded by weapons. (Yemen-Saudi Arabia-Fighting)
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BEIRUT/JERUSALEM -- One person was killed and another wounded on Wednesday in an Israeli drone strike targeting a motorcycle in southern Lebanon, as Israeli military activities continued across several areas of the country, according to Lebanese sources.
The drone strike targeted a motorcycle in Qabrikha in the Marjayoun district of southeastern Lebanon, according to Lebanon's National News Agency (NNA). (Lebanon-Israel-Casualties) ■
