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Even before the pumpkins are carved and the turkey is served, Best Buy is giving shoppers a first look at what’s ahead this holiday season — from the latest technology and top gifts to new ways to find inspiration, save big and get help from the experts. With more to discover in stores and online, Best Buy is bringing customers more opportunities to explore the season's hottest tech and find gifts for everyone.
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"Technology is always at the top of holiday gift lists, and helping customers discover and experience it is what we do best," said Patrick McGinnis, chief revenue officer at Best Buy. "No matter how our customers prefer to shop, in stores or online, we're making it easier to find the right tech with the expertise and support that make all the difference, especially during the holidays."
Experience the latest in stores
Just in time for the holidays, Best Buy is updating stores with more ways for shoppers to discover new technology, try it firsthand and get help finding the right fit — from immersive experiences with leading tech brands to new products and categories they may not expect to find at Best Buy. Here are a few experiences customers can find this season:
Save all season long
As always, Best Buy is bringing can’t-miss savings events all season long with top deals across gaming, computing, home theater and more.
New this year, My Best Buy Plus and My Best Buy Total ™ members can earn 1% back 1 in rewards on every eligible purchase — or 6% back 1 when they use their My Best Buy ® Credit Card. Plus and Total members also get access to exclusive offers and deals throughout the holiday season.
With a broad lineup of technology at every price point, and options such as trade-in and open-box products, Best Buy has shoppers covered no matter their budget.
Explore this season’s top gifts
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Yemen’s Houthi rebels have seized the strategic islands of Greater and Lesser Hanish in the southern Red Sea, bolstering the Iranian-backed rebels' ability to control a key maritime shipping route.
Meanwhile, Iran says Saudi Arabia was behind Oman’s decision to postpone a meeting bringing together Iran with other regional countries to discuss the Strait of Hormuz.
In Iraq, two people died and more than 100 others were injured after an ammonia gas leak at a fertilizer plant in the country’s south.
Here’s a look at the latest news in the Middle East. Full coverage can be found here.
Houthi officials said Monday they had taken over the two islands just as Saudi-backed government forces tried to claw back territory from the rebels' swift advances around the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, a crucial shipping alternative to the Strait of Hormuz.
Iran effectively closed the Strait of Hormuz — through which a fifth of the world’s traded oil and gas transits in peacetime — in the opening days of the war. The Saudis have since used Bab el-Mandeb Strait that leads out of the Red Sea for crude oil exports.
The Houthis’ newest takeover, following the seizure of the Red Sea port of Mokha and a strategic island last week, puts more pressure on Saudi shipments and, in turn, global oil supplies and prices.
This could give Iran additional leverage in its war with the United States.
China, a major Middle East oil importer, on Monday called Houthi attacks on Saudi energy infrastructure “unacceptable” and said it was “deeply concerned” about further escalations by the rebels against Saudi Arabia.
Foreign Ministry spokesperson Guo Jiakun said “attacks on civilian infrastructure that is important to people’s livelihoods are unacceptable.”
He called on all sides to exercise restraint and resolve disputes through dialogue.
Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmail Baghaei said Monday Saudi Arabia had “demanded" that a meeting bringing together Iran with other regional countries to discuss the Strait of Hormuz be scrapped “for the time being.”
Baghaei called the meeting, which was to be hosted by Oman, a “proper opportunity” to restore security in the region.
The spokesman said an agreement between Iran and Oman on the Strait of Hormuz has been finalized and it will be announced later.
Saudi Arabia had submitted amendments to the agreement, citing concerns it could have lasting implications for the Strait of Hormuz, negatively impacting other Gulf Cooperation Council countries, according to a Gulf official familiar with the matter who was not authorized to comment publicly and spoke on condition of anonymity.
Iran denounced on Monday Austria’s refusal to issue visas to the Iranian nuclear chief and other delegation members for the International Atomic Energy Agency’s General Conference in Vienna, calling the decision “completely unjustified.”
Esmail Baghaei, Iran's Foreign ministry spokesman, said Tehran summoned the Austrian chargé d’affaires, saying Austria was obligated as the host country to issue the visas.
Baghaei accused Western countries of denying Iran an opportunity to defend itself and blamed the U.S. for pressuring Austria to deny the visas.
The refusal is part of U.N. sanctions on Iran, reinstated last year, that include a travel ban on Iranian officials.
Last week, the U.N. atomic watchdog’s board reported Iran to the U.N. Security Council for the first time in 20 years, citing failure to cooperate in a long-running investigation into uranium traces detected by inspectors at undeclared sites.
The B’Tselem human rights group said Monday Israel is carrying out a systematic and accelerated project aimed at “dismantling the foundations of Palestinian existence” in the occupied West Bank.
The group made the accusation in a new report that claims Israeli actions against Palestinians in the West Bank by settlers and the military are designed to undermine Palestinian collective life “while entrenching a permanent system of Jewish supremacy” across the territory.
Settler violence in the West Bank has surged under the ultranationalist government of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Rights groups say the military frequently turns a blind eye to the violence, and that when it intervenes it often focuses on protecting the settlers.
The B’Tselem report also claims that Israeli actions rely heavily on open cooperation between state authorities and armed settlers who attack Palestinian communities using weapons and vehicles supplied by the state while the military either fails to prevent the violence or, in some cases, participates in it.
The report adds that as of July, Israel had taken control of more than 264,402 acres – nearly a fifth of the West Bank — through “armed settler militias.”
Most of the international community views settlements as illegal.
Iraq’s health ministry said Monday an ammonia gas leak at a fertilizer plant in the southern province of Basra killed two people and injured 114 others.
Health Ministry spokesman Saif al-Badr said most of the injuries were minor, but 21 people remain hospitalized.
This report will be updated throughout the day as new developments emerge.
A man walks in front of a mural symbolising restrictions on shipping through the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, one of the world's key shipping lanes, in Sanaa, Yemen, Monday, Sept. 14, 2026. (AP Photo/Osamah Abdulrahman)
People chat at a coffee shop in Sanaa, Yemen, Monday, Sept. 14, 2026. (AP Photo/Osamah Abdulrahman)
Displaced Yemenis, from Al Khawkhah city, 400 kilometers (249 miles) south west of Sanaa, wait to enter a temporary shelter in Aden, Yemen, Sunday, Sept. 13, 2026. (AP Photo/Abdulnasser Alseddik)
Yemeni civilians celebrate while riding in the back of a pickup truck in the Bani Matar district, Yemen, Saturday, Sept. 12, 2026, as they follow a convoy carrying Houthi prisoners freed in Mokha on its way to Sanaa following the Houthi takeover of the southern Red Sea port city. (AP Photo/STR)
