New blasts reported in south Iran
The semi-official Iranian news agency Mehr is reporting new explosions in the city of Jask, in the southern province of Hormozgan.
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Lebanon says 11 killed in Israeli strikes on Tire
Israeli air strikes on the historic city of Tyre, known as Sour in Arabic, in southern Lebanon and surrounding areas killed 11 people on Tuesday amid an Israeli military warning for the entire city to evacuate.
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ASX likely to rise despite US launching 'self-defence' strikes against Iran
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· David Chau
Vance Reacts After Israel Reportedly Caught Spying On Pentagon
Vice President JD Vance has raised some eyebrows in Washington after responding to a Fox News question about pervasive Israeli spying on top Trump administration and US intelligence officials.
· Tyler Durden
Opinion: How a regional defence pact could deal the final blow to Israel's violent expansionism
The brief exchange of fire between Iran and Israel was a truer statement of the balance of power that now exists between these two countries than the many spurious claims by US President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu about having “smashed”, “destroyed” or “obliterated” the armed forces o…
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US says it is striking Iran in response to helicopter shootdown
US forces carried out "proportional" strikes against Iran on Tuesday in response to the Islamic Republic shooting down an Apache attack helicopter the day before, the US military said.
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US strikes Iran in response to attack of US helicopter
The United States began launching strikes against Iran on Tuesday evening, following the downing of a US Army Apache helicopter, US Central Command (CENTCOM) announced on Tuesday.
· DANYA SAPERSTEIN
Australia news live: Australia joins sanctions against ‘extremist settlers’ in West Bank; Barbecues Galore no more
Penny Wong issues statement overnight announcing joint action with western allies to combat ‘horrific levels of settler violence against Palestinian civilians’
· Martinfarrer, Ima Caldwell, Sarah Basford Canales
WATCH: Israel Police arrest seven individuals on suspicion of running human trafficking ring
Israel Police arrested seven individuals suspected of running a human trafficking ring, exploiting young women, and blackmail, police announced on Monday.
· GOLDIE KATZ, JERUSALEM POST STAFF
Operation Roaring Lion obscures Israel’s worsening traffic toll, road safety statistics
Israel’s road fatality figures for 2026 appear to show improvement, but National Road Safety Authority data indicate the decline was largely caused by an exceptional drop in traffic during March’s Operation Roaring Lion.
· UDI ETZION
Former soccer player Haim Sirotkin sentenced to one year in prison for running over protesters
Former soccer player Haim Sirotkin was sentenced on Tuesday to one year in prison after being convicted of reckless and negligent conduct involving a vehicle that injured five protesters during an anti-government demonstration in Tel Aviv.
· URI SELA, HODAYA RAN
Egyptian analyst slams Lebanese leaders, warns of country’s political, social destruction
Egyptian political analyst Magdi Khalil, founder of the Middle East Freedom Forum, gave a sharp critique of Lebanon’s political collapse during his current affairs program on Friday.
· MAARIV
Gulf and European states raise alarm over Iran's nuclear programme | The National
European and Gulf nations on Tuesday accused Iran of continuing to breach its nuclear obligations, as the UN atomic agency remains unable to verify that Tehran's programme is peaceful.
· Adla Massoud
Gulf and European states raise concern over Iran's nuclear programme | The National
European and Gulf nations on Tuesday accused Iran of continuing to breach its nuclear obligations, as the UN atomic agency remains unable to verify that Tehran's programme is peaceful.
· Adla Massoud
Armed conflicts worldwide hit record since WWII – report
The number of armed conflicts worldwide reached its highest level since World War II in 2025, according to a study published on Tuesday by the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO). Researchers found there were 65 state-based conflicts – involving at least one government actor – the highest number since systematic re…
· RT
Morning Mail: Trump vows to retaliate as Iran ‘downs US helicopter’, Australia joins sanctions of ‘extremist settlers’ in West Bank, apple taste test
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Quais são as condições do Irã para fechar acordo com os EUA?
O presidente dos Estados Unidos, Donald Trump, voltou a afirmar na madrugada desta terça-feira (09/06) que a diplomacia americana está a um passo de fechar um acordo com o Irã, um dia após a cessação dos ataques mútuos entre a República Islâmica e Israel.
· Deutsche Welle
Albanese 'very worried' after renewed US strikes on Iran, as Iran hits US bases
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França proíbe entrada de mais um ministro de Israel
Em retaliação à política de assentamentos de Israel na Cisjordânia, a França proibiu o ministro das Finanças de Israel, o ultradireitista Bezalel Smotrich, de viajar ao país europeu.
· Deutsche Welle
Meet the Mamdani-endorsed candidate that could become the first Palestinian in New York Senate
There are fewer than 10 Palestinian Americans who have ever been elected to statewide offices in the US, and Aber Kawas is looking to add to that number.
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Child killed in Israeli attack on Gaza City
A child has died after sustaining injuries in an Israeli air attack on Gaza City earlier, a source at al-Shifa Hospital told Al Jazeera.
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Bowen: Trump and Netanyahu wanted to reshape the Middle East - now they risk a permacrisis
Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu believed that victory over Iran would reshape the Middle East.
· Jeremy Bowen
France bans Israeli minister Smotrich in coordinated sanctions push
France Tuesday banned Israel's far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich from entering the country, as part of coordinated sanctions with other countries over settler violence against Palestinians.
· AfricaNews
Iran foreign minister says foreign forces face 'constant risk' of being caught in crossfire
Strait of Hormuz and surrounding areas, warning they faced a persistent risk of being caught in the crossfire if they remained.
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Macron invites Saudi Crown Prince and Qatari Emir to discuss Middle East crisis at G7
PARIS — French President Emmanuel Macron has invited Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and Qatari Emir Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani to next week’s G7 leaders’ summit, according to two government officials and two individuals from the private sector who have been briefed on the plans.
· Clea Caulcutt, Esther Webber, Felicia Schwartz, Giorgio Leali
The repricing of Iran: Why the Persian Gulf’s economic future runs through Tehran - opinion
For over a decade, the Arab states of the Persian Gulf made a compelling argument to the world – and the world listened.
· SAEED GHASSEMINEJAD, AMIR REZA OVEISSI
Ministerial committee approves Torah Study bill amid coalition tensions
The Ministerial Committee for Legislation approved on Tuesday the legislation advanced by the haredi parties seeking to enshrine Torah Study into basic law ahead of its expected upcoming preliminary reading in the Knesset plenum.
· KESHET NEEV
Trump canceled last attack on Iran, now Israeli sources fear that green light might never come
There is growing concern in Jerusalem that US President Donald Trump might not give Israel the green light to respond to Iranian attacks, even with a limited or symbolic strike.
· AMICHAI STEIN
Iran shot down 'highly sophisticated' attack helicopter, Trump says
Iran shot down a “highly sophisticated” Apache attack helicopter in the Strait of Hormuz, US President Donald Trump said on Tuesday, underscoring how, contrary to the US leader’s previous claims, Iran retains air defence capabilities.
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Police admit ‘harm and damage’ to Hannah Thomas after protest arrest
Police have admitted to battery, false imprisonment and causing “harm and damage” to former Greens candidate Hannah Thomas, who suffered permanent eyesight damage during an unlawful arrest at an anti-Israel protest in Sydney last year.
· Michael McGowan
Iran may drag out the crisis to humiliate the US as it did in ’79
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· Amin Saikal
The battle over deterrence may shape Israel’s future security - opinion
Since its founding in 1948, Israel has survived not merely through military hardware or geographic fortune, but through the strategic logic of deterrence.
· YONI MICHANIE
Tally Gotliv jeopardized Shin Bet agent’s safety, AG tells Knesset panel
Likud MK Tally Gotliv created a severe security risk by exposing the personal details of a Shin Bet agent (Israel Security Agency) during wartime, Attorney-General Gali Baharav-Miara told the Knesset House Committee on Tuesday during a heated debate over whether to grant Gotliv immunity for the charges.
· KESHET NEEV
WATCH: Footage shows IDF appearing to shoot seven-month-old Palestinian baby in Hebron
Footage released by leftist organization B'Tselem shows an incident in which IDF soldiers seem to shoot at a Palestinian family's car in Hebron, killing seven-month-old Sam Abu-Haikal.
· CORINNE BAUM
Países imponen más sanciones a asentamientos israelíes en Cisjordania
El ministro de Finanzas israelí Bezalel Smotrich cerca del asentamiento de Maale Adumim en Cisjordania, el 14 de agosto del 2025. (AP foto/Ohad Zwigenberg)
· Sam Mcneil
US conducts 'proportional' strikes against Iran after shoot-down of US military helicopter | The National
The US military launched new strikes against Iran on Tuesday, hours after President Donald Trump said he would respond to the shoot-down of an American attack helicopter.
· Jihan Abdalla
Iran shot down 'highly sophisticated' attack helicopter, Trump says
Iran shot down a “highly sophisticated” Apache attack helicopter in the Strait of Hormuz, US President Donald Trump said on Tuesday, underscoring how, contrary to the US leader’s previous claims, Iran retains air defence capabilities.
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Israel preventing more than 16,500 Palestinians from accessing medical treatment
Gaza’s Health Ministry has accused Israel of preventing more than 16,500 Palestinians in need of medical treatment abroad from leaving the besieged, wartorn enclave despite a nominal “ceasefire” being in place since October last year.
· Al Jazeera Staff
Free Palestine party seeks to finalize registry for New Zealand elections
The Palestine Free from the River to the Sea Party is seeking to finalize its registration for the 2026 New Zealand Elections, running on a platform dedicated to dismantling Israel.
· MICHAEL STARR
Shas pushes tone-deaf Torah study law while soldiers die in Lebanon, Gaza - comment
Shas chairman Arye Deri’s decision to push forward legislation known as Basic Law: Torah Study is the quintessential example of being tone-deaf.
· HERB KEINON
Stripping Jordan of Al-Aqsa custodianship would trigger 'outbreak of violence', expert says
A US-Israeli plan to strip the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan of its historic custodianship of Jerusalem's Al-Aqsa Mosque complex would lead to an “outbreak of violence” in the Middle East, Israeli-American attorney Daniel Seidemann told Middle East Eye.
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Milicianos de Hamás y policías ejecutaron y mutilaron a decenas de palestinos en Gaza, dice la ONU
Varios palestinos caminan por una calle rodeada de edificios destruidos por ataques del ejército israelí durante la guerra entre Israel y Hamás en Jan Yunis, en el sur de la Franja de Gaza, el viernes 29 de mayo de 2026. (AP Foto/Abdel Kareem Hana)
· Sam Metz
Syria's Alawites should embrace 'Zionism,' Israel amid Bundism's failure - opinion
The Alawites are a secretive religion that lives on the eastern Mediterranean coast, from Turkey to Israel, with the main population centered around the Syrian coast.
· MOSHE SHELEST
U.S. Fertilizer Prices Erase War Spike, But El Nino Keeps Food Inflation Risk Elevated
The good news for US farmers is that urea fertilizer prices have returned to pre-US-Iran conflict levels after spiking from late February through mid-April. This is great news for farmers, though they are not out of the woods, as drought continues to plague some of the nation’s top agricultural belts.
· Tyler Durden
‘Anything but normal’: Uncertainty as Iranians try to get by amid US war
Tehran, Iran – Months into a war with the United States and after another flareup of fighting with Israel, daily conversations in Iran have been dominated by conflict and economic survival.
· Maziar Motamedi
Trump says Iran shot down a US Apache helicopter, vows to retaliate
President Donald Trump said Iran had shot down a US Apache helicopter that was patrolling the Strait of Hormuz overnight and vowed to respond, but gave no other details.
· Phil Stewart, Maya Gebeily, Tala Ramadan
How a regional defence pact could deal the final blow to Israel's violent expansionism
The brief exchange of fire between Iran and Israel was a truer statement of the balance of power that now exists between these two countries than the many spurious claims by US President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu about having “smashed”, “destroyed” or “obliterated” the armed forces o…
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