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Israeli officials sought to make amends after Catholic Church leaders in Jerusalem were denied entrance on Palm Sunday to the Church of the Holy Sepulcher amid security concerns.

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Egypt is imposing early closing times for shops, cafes and restaurants to cut oil use as energy prices surge during the war

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A young man who moved from Connecticut to Israel last year to join the military was killed Saturday during a combat operation in southern Lebanon

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Fresh attacks on Red Sea shipping would be devastating – but the Iranian proxy has reasons to be cautiousMiddle East crisis – live updatesThe true significance of the long-awaited entry of Yemen’s Houthis into the Iran war depends on whether the Tehran-backed proxy group is intending to send a few missiles and drones from a distance towards Israel or will instead capitalise on its proximity to the narrow Bab al-Mandab strait to effectively close off the Red Sea to shipping, just as Iran has in effect shut the strait of Hormuz.The combined effect of both waterways being shut to commercial traffic from countries that neither the Iranians nor Houthis favour would be devastating. Napoleon Bonaparte’s remark that “the policy of a state lies in its geography” has never seemed more apt. Continue reading...