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Lod Mayor Yair Revivo launched a scathing accusation against the State of Israel on Sunday morning, claiming it is "encouraging the elimination of Arab Israelis." Speaking to Kan Reshet Bet, Revivo addressed the spiraling violence within the Arab sector following the murder of Nadia Khinawi, who was shot dead in her home on Saturday night. "Someone entered the house at 9 p.m., walked into the living room, and shot two women in the head," he recounted. "They had no connection to any conflict, other than a shared family name." Revivo described what he sees as a “collapse of every moral...

Iran has discovered a new oil field in the country’s south with over 50 billion barrels of crude, its president said Sunday, a find that could boost the country’s proven reserves by a third as it struggles to sell energy abroad over U.S. sanctions. The announcement by Hassan Rouhani comes as Iran faces crushing American sanctions after the U.S. pulled out of its nuclear deal with world powers last year. Rouhani made the announcement in a speech in the desert city of Yazd. He said the field was located in Iran’s southern Khuzestan province, home to its crucial oil industry....