Bloomberg Palestinians rejected Israel’s plan to defuse deadly tensions over a Jerusalem shrine revered by both Jews and Muslims, and threatened to escalate their protests with a “day of rage” on Friday. Israel took down metal detectors from the Old City holy site on Tuesday but said it would replace them with other, unspecified technologies. Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas …

Bloomberg Iran promised to respond if the “blatantly hostile” vote in the House of Representatives to impose new sanctions becomes law, saying they would go against US commitments under the 2015 nuclear agreement with world powers. Sanctions pursued in the US Congress “can impact the successful implementation” of the deal, the state-run Iranian Students’ News Agency cited Deputy Foreign Minister …

Bloomberg Venezuelans are stockpiling scarce food and water as tensions mount ahead of a widely criticized Sunday vote that President Nicolas Maduro has called to elect an assembly of supporters to rewrite the constitution and strengthen his grip on power. Maduro—who’s presided over an increasingly autocratic regime that has imperiled the country’s six-decade democracy and left the economy and society …