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U.S. Treasury yields fell on Monday as the announcement of a preliminary peace agreement between Washington and Tehran shifted investor expectations for inflation and the outlook for interest rates.
Amid a series of fresh Israeli attacks across southern Lebanon, senior Israeli officials slammed the newly announced US-Iran agreement, signalling that Israel may reject the terms of the deal.
A French-Israeli businessperson has bought eight apartments in the RAYK Borochov project in Kiryat Yovel in Jerusalem for NIS 24 million. The average price per apartment was NIS 3 million and the average price per square meter was NIS 34,000. All the apartments were purchased for investment.
As Google CEO Sundar Pichai took the stage Sunday at Stanford’s commencement, scores of graduates stood, booed and walked out, turning a celebration for nearly 6,000 degree recipients into a protest over the tech giant’s work with Israel.
The Australian Federal Police have launched an investigation into distressing allegations by pro-Palestine activists that they were sexually abused and brutalised by Israeli forces after trying to deliver aid to Gaza.
Saudi Arabia coach Georgios Donis says there is zero chance of his players being overawed when they take on Uruguay in their World Cup Group H opener on Monday (Tuesday, 2am UAE).
US President Donald Trump marked his 80th birthday by hailing an initial agreement to end the war in Iran and playing host to a UFC fight night on the White House’s storied South lawn.
Rising fuel prices linked to tensions in the Middle East are forcing many fishermen in Mozambique's capital to keep their boats anchored, threatening livelihoods and driving up the cost of living in one of the world's poorest countries.
The Ukraine war, trade tensions and the Iran-US conflict will be on the agenda as leaders of the Group of Seven (G7) countries are set to meet on Monday in the French town of Evian-les-Bains.
Asian stock markets soared on the back of the U.S. and Iran reaching a deal on Sunday to permanently end military operations in the Iran war. (Photo by Shintaro Ino)
US President Donald Trump has praised Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese leader Xi Jinping for their roles in bringing about a peace settlement with Iran. Moscow has repeatedly offered its mediation services and urged all sides to de-escalate.
US President Donald Trump has praised Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese leader Xi Jinping for their roles in bringing about a peace settlement with Iran. Moscow has repeatedly offered its mediation services and urged all sides to de-escalate.
Tunisia suffered one of the heaviest defeats of the opening round, losing 5-1 to Sweden in Monterrey, in a damaging start to their World Cup campaign.
After weeks of on-again, off-again negotiations, US President Donald Trump finally seems to have secured an agreement from the Iranian regime to end the
Iran's soccer team arrived in the United States for the first time at this World Cup on Sunday, landing at Los Angeles International Airport and holding a press conference on the same day that a peace deal between the two nations was announced.
The US and Iran appear poised to agree on a path forward toward some kind of deal. It is not entirely clear what is being agreed upon or what may emerge in the coming days.
Iranians who oppose the regime are “shocked” by the emerging details of an agreement between the US and Iran, an Iranian source told The Jerusalem Post on Monday.
European leaders on Monday guardedly celebrated U.S. President Donald Trump’s announcement of a ceasefire agreement between Tehran and Washington.
Groups of masked protesters confronted police during the afternoon, throwing bottles, stones, fireworks and other projectiles. Officers responded with tear gas and water cannon as tensions escalated. A vehicle caught fire close to the protest route, several buildings were reportedly damaged and authorities ordered d…
Prime minister flags an announcement after deliberations of cabinet’s expenditure review committee
The United States and Iran have reached an initial agreement to end their war and open the Strait of Hormuz, offering relief to the Gulf region and global economy more than three months since fighting began. Iran’s deputy foreign minister, Kazem Gharibabadi, confirmed the agreement on state television but said Iran …
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⚽️ Iran’s Taremi says tension ‘undermines joy’
Israeli forces carried out a series of attacks across southern Lebanon on Monday, according to Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency (NNA), despite Iranian statements that the agreement between Washington and Tehran would include an immediate halt to military operations in Lebanon.
Un trabajador de rescate comprueba el estado de un apartamento afectado por un ataque aéreo israelí en Dahiyeh, en suburbios al sur de Beirut, Líbano, el domingo 14 de junio de 2026. (AP Foto/Bilal Hussein)
The war that began on February 28 with Israeli and US strikes on Iran has been under a fragile ceasefire since April 8, and a memorandum of understanding towards settling the conflict is set to be signed in Switzerland on Friday.
Israeli President Isaac Herzog welcomed his counterpart from Somalia's breakaway region of Somaliland Abdirahman Mohamed Abdillahi in Jerusalem on Sunday.
A rescue worker checks an apartment that was hit in an Israeli airstrike in Dahiyeh, Beirut’s southern suburbs, Lebanon, Sunday, June 14, 2026. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)
Seoul stocks closed sharply higher Monday to extend their winning streak to a third day, landing above the 8,500-point mark on the back of an agreement between the United States and Iran to end their monthslong war. The Korean won rose sharply.
RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — The economy in the West Bank is teetering toward collapse as Israel maintains a web of restrictions that limit opportunities for Palestinians living under long-term military occupation, according to a new report from a leading conflict tracker.
The United States and Iran have announced they have agreed on a deal to end the US-Israel war on Iran, including Israeli attacks on Lebanon, and to reopen the strategically crucial Strait of Hormuz – a development welcomed worldwide as a potential path to a lasting end to the conflict.
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Leaders of the Group of Seven (G7) wealthy nations meet at a French lakeside resort on Monday shortly after the US and Iran said they had reached a preliminary deal to end their war.
Israel is not bound to US President Donald Trump's US-Iran ceasefire agreement, Minister of National Security Itamar Ben-Gvir said in an X/Twitter post on Monday morning.
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Iran's World Cup history has long mirrored the country's upheavals, but the 2026 tournament is on a different level.
In today’s episode of Trending Middle East, attention turns to implementation after the US and Iran announced a peace agreement and the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz.
Israel’s position in American politics has shifted, dramatically and permanently. This is clear not only in opinion polls of US voters, but in the rhetoric of political campaigns, which are more focused than ever on foreign policy - yet go out of their way to avoid any mention of Israel.
Mehdi Taremi has been capped 105 times and was part of the Iran squad at the 2018 and 2022 World Cups
Los Angeles – From saffron-flavoured ice cream parlours to kabob shops and Farsi-language bookstores, it does not take long to see signs of the Iranian community in Los Angeles’s Westwood neighbourhood.
Investors cheered the prospect of a U.S.-Iran peace deal on Monday, but oil price volatility is likely to continue in the near term, as analysts warned that energy markets now face a "geopolitical risk premium" after the war.
SEOUL, June 15 (Yonhap) -- Seoul stocks closed sharply higher Monday to extend their winning streak to a third day, landing above the 8,500-point mark on the back of an agreement between the United States and Iran to end their monthslong war. The Korean won rose sharply.
(2nd LD) (News Focus) Summit shows China more focused on countering U.S. influence than curbing N.K. nukes: experts
The daughter of so-called ISIS bride Zeinab Ahmad is attending a public school in Victoria after arriving back in Australia from the Middle East with her mother earlier this year.
Report: Israel not bound by Lebanon clause to withdraw, Netanyahu tells Trump
Memorandum of understanding expected to open pathway for talks on most contentious issues, including nuclear programme and sanctions
Memorandum of understanding expected to open pathway for talks on most contentious issues, including nuclear programme and sanctions
Hormuz reopening raises hope for stranded vessels, energy supply chains, though industry warns recovery could take months
US President Donald Trump announced that as US-Iran peace deal has been confirmed in a post on Truth Social on Sunday.
