
Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid said the occupation authorities “don’t need permission from the United States” to build in West Bank settlements. “Israel is a sovereign state and does not ask for permission to operate in its territory,” Lapid said. He spoke amid the latest diplomatic row between the Zionist ...

The British government approved payments of up to £60m to a future king of Saudi Arabia, his son and other high-ranking officials as part of a huge arms deal and then sought to conceal them in what it described as a “deniable fiddle”, a trial has heard. Opening the defense ...