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President Trump has newly estimated that Iran has 21%-22% of its missiles remaining. Trump said in an interview with NBC: "They have some missiles and drones, percentage-wise maybe 21%-22% of the missiles. That's a lot, but it's not what it was before the war."
US Ambassador to the United Nations Jeff Bartos said Washington’s efforts to reform the United Nations are partly aimed at addressing what he described as longstanding bias against the United States and Israel within the international body.
Hezbollah said its fighters carried out additional attacks on Israeli forces in southern Lebanon, including a strike on an Israeli Merkava tank on the outskirts of Hadatha and an attack on soldiers near Yohmor al-Shaqif.
Medical and scientific researchers often keep discoveries quiet until peer-reviewed publication to protect their intellectual property. When they do desire cooperation, Zoom, WhatsApp, and email can bring them together without them meeting in person.
An Israeli strike in southern Lebanon killed three soldiers, Beirut's military said Saturday, as its chief traveled to Pakistan to meet with a key mediator in efforts to end the Middle East war.
[BAKU] As Israel’s gas exports to Egypt and Jordan have stopped and restarted three times since October 2023, Azerbaijan’s state oil company, known as SOCAR, has moved into every layer of Israel’s energy business at once. SOCAR now runs the largest new exploration zone in Israeli waters, holds 10% of the Tamar gas f…
US and Iran exchange a series of strikes in latest threat to fragile ceasefire. Key US politics stories from 6 June at a glance
The United Nations food agency is sounding a catastrophic alarm on the macroeconomic fallout of the ongoing conflict in Iran and the Persian Gulf region. According to the World Food Programme (WFP), millions of people are actively being plunged into acute hunger due to the war - realizing a grim trajectory the agenc…
GAZA CITY, Palestinian Territories — Gaza's civil defence service reported that Israeli strikes killed 10 people on Saturday, with Israel's military saying one of the dead was a Hamas "terrorist cell commander".
GAZA CITY, Palestinian Territories — Gaza's civil defence service reported that Israeli strikes killed 10 people on Saturday, with Israel's military saying one of the dead was a Hamas "terrorist cell commander".
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BEIRUT, Lebanon — An Israeli strike in southern Lebanon killed three soldiers, Beirut's military said Saturday, as its chief travelled to Pakistan to meet with a key mediator in efforts to end the Middle East war.
Iran’s Tasnim News Agency reported that the United States has refused to issue entry visas to several members of Iran’s delegation connected to the national football team’s participation in the Fifa World Cup.
Qatar’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs condemned the Israeli attack on a Lebanese army patrol that killed two officers and a soldier, describing it as a “dangerous escalation and a blatant violation of the sovereignty” of Lebanon.
The Trump administration is seeking to redirect frozen Iranian assets toward rebuilding energy and other infrastructure damaged by Tehran’s retaliatory strikes in Gulf Arab states hosting US military bases, Bloomberg and CBS News have reported.
Saudi Arabia’s foreign ministry condemned what it described as the continued Israeli aggression against Lebanon, expressing its “condemnation and denunciation in the strongest terms” of Israel’s actions.
In a rare, major development related to the Israel-Hezbollah war, fresh Saturday Israeli airstrikes on Southern Lebanon on Saturday took out a group of Lebanese Army forces.
Denny Hamlin speeds around the track during a NASCAR Cup Series auto race, Sunday, May 31, 2026, in Lebanon, Tenn. (AP Photo/Camden Hall)
Hezbollah said it carried out 22 attacks against Israeli forces in southern Lebanon on Saturday, targeting soldiers, tanks and military positions with attack drones, rocket barrages and artillery fire.
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Pope Leo said the US-Israel war on Iran does not meet the standards of a “just war” under Catholic teaching, reiterating a position he has previously expressed during a visit to Madrid.
The IDF struck and successfully killed a Hamas terrorist cell commander in the southern Gaza Strip overnight on Saturday, the military announced.
An altercation broke out between two couples spending time at the Kfar Maccabiah pool in Ramat Gan on Saturday afternoon, leading to one woman being stabbed, according to police.
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Graham Arnold’s team have overcome adversity on and off the pitch, but may benefit from the pressure being off them in a tough group
Israeli soldiers killed a seven-month-old Palestinian baby in the occupied West Bank after opening fire on his family’s car, despite the vehicle stopping when ordered.
“I think a medal of some sort will come. I pray and hope that it is the gold one.” Ally MacLeod was never to live down his hubris of 1978. A Scotland loss to Peru and draw with Iran saw to that. Unlike MacLeod, Steve Clarke has never been prone to bold or rash predictions. Excitement will be left to everyone else. W…
That’s the reason that I gotta get out of here; I’m so alone. Don’t you know that I gotta get out of here, ’Cause New York’s not my home. – Jim Croce, ‘New York’s Not My Home’
As I wrote before, when I first arrived in New York from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, democracy smelled like roasted nuts and subway dust. It was loud, imperfect, argumentative, and gloriously alive. For a young Ethiopian Jew who had grown up under dictatorship, New York represented something sacred: the belief that peopl…
Israeli forces detained a Palestinian driver after he defended himself during an attack by Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank on Saturday.
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The Pentagon’s Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) has elevated the threat posed by Israeli espionage to the highest level as tensions over Iran and Lebanon grow, NBC News and the New York Times reported on Saturday.
The United States will make Iranian assets available to Gulf allies to support rebuilding and repairs for future damage caused by Iran, a source familiar said on Saturday.
Iraq's World Cup striker, Aymen Hussein, was held and questioned for nearly seven hours at Chicago's O'Hare airport after arriving with the squad early on Saturday, an Iraqi sporting official said.
The death toll from Israel’s attack on a tent camp in Gaza City has risen to eight, a source at al-Shifa Hospital told Al Jazeera English.
A suspected car ramming terror attack occurred at the Efrat Junction in the West Bank on Saturday night, the IDF announced.
The Israeli army says two of its soldiers have been killed in southern Lebanon, where its forces continue operations despite the heavy toll Israel’s attacks have inflicted on Lebanese towns and villages.
The Pentagon’s intelligence arm has raised the assessed threat level on Israeli spying from “high” to “critical” in recent weeks, according to US media.
Lebanon is at a crossroads. This could seem like a cliché, because it has been at the same crossroads for decades. However, the country is moving to increase its diplomatic outreach so that it might be in a position to confront Hezbollah.
Israeli soldiers killed a seven-month-old Palestinian baby in the occupied West Bank after opening fire on his family’s car, despite the vehicle stopping when ordered.
Members of Iran's World Cup 2026 administrative staff have not been given visas to enter the United States, Iranian media reported on Saturday.
In the charged classrooms where young Zionists form their understanding of Israel, one question now demands courage: Should we teach the Nakba?
ANTALYA, Turkey — Iran’s World Cup soccer team set off from Turkey for their training base in Mexico on Saturday, with some members of their entourage reportedly still without US visas, before three group matches in the United States later this month.
It’s the latest diplomatic standoff between Washington and Tehran, just days before the World Cup kicks off in North America.
Two weeks before Christian leaders and foreign politicians filled a Knesset auditorium for the Jerusalem Prayer Breakfast, Israeli lawmaker Ohad Tal thought the event might have to wait.
Capt. Shahar Gamla, 23, from Natur, and Sgt. Ohad Yaari, 21, from Rehovot, fell after two separate incidents in southern Lebanon, the IDF announced on Saturday.
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The Pentagon has raised Israel’s counterintelligence threat level to its highest category, amid growing alarm that Washington’s supposed closest Middle East ally is intensifying efforts to spy on senior US officials.
A worker in the Philippines prepares to fill an underground tank at a gas station. Manila declared an energy emergency after the start of the Iran conflict. © Reuters
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