Following a Hezbollah attack on northern Israel on Sunday, Blue and White leader Benny Gantz announced that he ordered a suspension of Blue and White’s election campaign. “There is no opposition or coalition regarding action against anyone who tries to harm Israeli citizens or Israeli sovereignty,” Gantz said on Sunday.

Hurricane Dorian unleashed massive flooding across the Bahamas on Monday, pummeling the islands with so much wind and water that authorities urged people to find floatation devices and grab hammers to break out of their attics if necessary.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson shot down the notion that he wanted an early election to secure Brexit, insisting Monday that it wasn’t the way to get a deal done.
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Yemeni medics said on Monday they pulled dozens of bodies from the rubble of a Houthi rebel-run detention center that was hit a day earlier by Saudi-led coalition airstrikes, killing over 100 people and wounding dozens.
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YWN regrets to inform you of the Pertira of Hagaon HaRav Naftali Shmerler ZATZAL after an illness. He was 64.
Rav Shmerler was the Av Beis Din of Machzikei Hadas in Zurich Switzerland, and one of the Rabbonim of Biyan.

The gunman in a spate of violence after a routine traffic stop in West Texas had just been fired from his job and called both police and the FBI before the shooting began, authorities said Monday.
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A U.S. envoy said Monday the first 5,000 U.S. troops would leave Afghanistan within five months’ time under a deal with the Taliban that has been reached “in principle” but still needs President Donald Trump’s approval.
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At least 34 people have been killed after a boat caught fire off Santa Cruz Island, California, early Monday morning, fire officials have confirmed.
Fox affiliate KTTV confirmed the fatalities.
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New York City police say a man was killed in a shootout with officers in Brooklyn.
NYPD Chief of Department Terence Monahan said at a news conference that three officers in a patrol car early Monday saw a masked man, who fled when they tried to speak to him.
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Minister of Jerusalem Affairs (Likud) Ze’ev Elkin accompanied Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on his recent state visit to Ukraine.
Following his return, he revealed to the media that some understandings were reached regarding the tziyun of Rav Nachman of Breslov.
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