Daijiworld Media Network – Tehran Tehran, Aug 26: At least three Indian oil refiners and a major global energy company plan to stop using vessels placed on Iran’s new blacklist, including for ship-to-ship (STS) oil transfers, amid growing security and compliance concerns, according to four sources familiar with the matter. Iran on Sunday…

Tens of thousands of skilled workers who arrived in Israel during the massive immigration wave from the former Soviet Union in the 1990s are approaching retirement, threatening to deepen an already severe labor shortage across Israeli industry, according to a new report by the Manufacturers Association of Israel. The workers became an important part of…

Dutch group Christians for Israel is taking the government to court in the Netherlands over its plans to introduce a ban on importing goods from illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank and Golan Heights. The ban, which was announced in July, is due to take effect on September 22 and will run for…

(Aug. 25, 2026 / JNS) Israel is evicting the Dutch from the US-led Civil-Military Coordination Center in the southern Israeli city of Kiryat Gat, Gideon Sa’ar, the foreign minister, said on Tuesday. The Jewish state is responding to “a series of anti-Israel measures taken by the Dutch government,” specifically a Dutch law set to take effect…

For nearly half a century the Islamic Republic has reproduced the image of its leaders everywhere: on the walls of schools and government offices, in theatres, cinemas and concert halls, behind officials at podiums, on television screens. Visibility was not vanity. In a system built on the authority of one man, the leader had to…

Music crosses borders between cultures, communities, and strangers. Our rave culture was founded on the belief that everyone belonged; that all were welcome, safe, and celebrated. Until, on a Saturday morning, a specific border was crossed that would bring the pulse of music and its uniting values to a hard stop. If DEI ever mattered…