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Bank Hapoalim, one of Israel’s two largest financial institutions, reported a robust first-quarter net profit of 2.42 billion shekels ($680.6 million), a significant rise from 1.94 billion shekels a year earlier. 

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Monday Israel would control the whole of Gaza despite mounting international pressure that pushed it to lift a blockade on aid supplies that has left the enclave on the brink of famine.

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has reignited controversy by calling for Israel’s exclusion from international cultural events, such as the Eurovision Song Contest, citing the country's ongoing military operations in Gaza. 

Israel's spy agency Mossad has recovered a trove of documents and photographs belonging to its late agent Eli Cohen, who was hanged in a downtown Damascus square six decades ago after collecting intelligence on Syrian military plans.

Nuclear talks between Iran and the United States "will lead nowhere" if Washington insists that Tehran drop its uranium enrichment activity to zero, Deputy Foreign Minister Majid Takhtravanchi was quoted by state media on Monday as saying.

Argentine President Javier Milei's government received a show of support on Sunday as candidates he has endorsed took the lead in a legislative election in the city of Buenos Aires.

Nothing captured Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's isolation more starkly this week than the image of U.S. President Donald Trump shaking hands with Syria's Islamist leader Ahmed al‑Sharaa - a man Israel has branded "an al‑Qaeda terrorist in a suit."

Israel will ease its blockade and let limited amounts of food into Gaza, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office said on Sunday, after the military announced it had begun "extensive ground operations" in the northern and southern parts of the enclave.

Romania's centrist Bucharest mayor, Nicusor Dan, appeared on course to win the Romanian presidency on Sunday in an election closely watched across Europe amid a rise of support for U.S. President Donald Trump's far-right politics.

Any deal between the United States and Iran must include an agreement not to enrich uranium, U.S. special envoy Steve Witkoff said on Sunday, a comment that drew criticism from Tehran.

In a dramatic shift that would have been unthinkable just a year ago, Syria’s new president, Ahmed Al-Sharaa, is quietly laying the groundwork for a potential diplomatic thaw with Israel, a historic adversary.

U.S. Vice President JD Vance met European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni on Sunday, and said he hoped their encounter would help move forward trade talks between the EU and the United States.