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Less than a month after hailing a ceasefire, Trump resumed strikes on Iran, a move experts warn could prolong the war and hurt Republicans ahead of midterms
Local Iranian media have reported that US attacks on Iran’s southern Hormozgan province over the past two nights killed “about seven to eight people”, all of them civilians, according to Ahmad Moradi, a representative for the province who spoke to Iran’s Tasnim news agency.
Seven people were killed and 51 others were wounded in Russia overnight by Ukrainian drone attacks, Russian officials said Saturday.
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said it launched a “devastating and simultaneous missile and drone attack” targeting fighter jet shelters and a large aircraft parking area at the US base in al-Azraq, Jordan.
The EU is set to use a multibillion-euro antitrust fine imposed on Google to help ease pressure on the bloc’s budget after years of increased military spending and aid for Ukraine.
The EU is set to use a multibillion-euro antitrust fine imposed on Google to help ease pressure on the bloc’s budget after years of increased military spending and aid for Ukraine.
Kuwait on Saturday said Iran struck another of its power and water plants, leading to the deactivation of several power generation units, a day after a similar attack.
The firm uses near-packaged optics to bypass traditional architecture limits and scale more than 1,000 processor cards across a cluster
The firm uses near-packaged optics to bypass traditional architecture limits and scale more than 1,000 processor cards across a cluster
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Bahrain activated its air sirens for a second time on Saturday, warning residents to shelter after it detected possible incoming drones or missiles.
A prominent Indian activist who has been on a hunger strike for more than 20 days in New Delhi, demanding education reforms and justice for millions of students, was removed by the police on Saturday and taken to a hospital, the authorities said.
Abu Dhabi's total real estate transactions surged 112 per cent year-on-year to hit Dh117 billion ($31.9 billion) in the first half of this year, underpinned by strong foreign direct investment despite the fallout from the US-Iran war.
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MANILA, Philippines — Defense Secretary Gilberto Teodoro Jr. on Saturday dismissed Beijing’s assertion that an AI-generated China Daily video portraying Filipinos as monkeys was not a government act.
Israeli authorities have ordered the confiscation of 16.577 dunums (4.09 acres) of land in the village of Dura al-Qar', northeast of Ramallah and al-Bireh, for what they described as military purposes, Wafa reported.
Defence minister seeks three ‘Naha’ outposts in Gaza as top commander says Israel now controls 65% of the strip, violating Trump ceasefire deal
Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has warned countries hosting US military forces to prepare for a "corresponding response", Iranian media reported.
MANILA, Philippines — Two soldiers and three civilians were injured after two motorcycle-riding suspects hurled a grenade at a military convoy in Shariff Aguak, Maguindanao del Sur on Saturday morning, police said.
Iranian media have reported that US missile strikes launched from Kuwait caused explosions in the city of Khorramabad in Lorestan province. Here are some other developments on Saturday:
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The Hind Rajab Foundation (HRF) said it has filed a criminal complaint in Portugal against an Israeli soldier, Etamar Ivry, alleging war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide.
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Major General Mohsen Rezaee, a senior Iranian military adviser, has warned that if the US continues bombing Iran over the coming days, Tehran will launch “full-scale offensive operations”, according to state-controlled news agency IRIB.
AFTERMATH. A resident removes debris inside his barbershop, which was damaged during Russian missile strikes, in Kyiv, Ukraine, on July 11, 2026.
The Israeli military has looted and destroyed three schools in southern Lebanon, Rima Karami, the country’s education and higher education minister, said in a statement carried by Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency (NNA) on Friday.
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The 43rd Jerusalem Film Festival, which began on July 9 and runs through July 19, had a far more festive atmosphere than the previous two editions, which took place while the war with Hamas continued and Israeli hostages were still held.
The Jordanian military has said its air defences downed 10 Iranian missiles that breached the country’s airspace early on Saturday morning.
Police Scene of the Crime Operatives and bomb disposal experts inspect the blast site in front of a mosque in Shariff Aguak, Maguindanao del Sur, after a grenade attack wounded five people on Saturday, July 18, 2026. — Photo courtesy of Shariff Aguak Vice Mayor Oping Ampatuan
Several US service members were injured when Iranian attacks struck military facilities in Jordan earlier this week, CBS News reported on Friday, just as Tehran launched another wave of retaliatory strikes.
Several US service members were injured when Iranian attacks struck military facilities in Jordan earlier this week, CBS News reported on Friday, just as Iran launched another wave of retaliatory strikes.
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North Korean leader Kim Jong-un had photo sessions with participants in a women's association meeting and members of a construction and engineering military unit, the Korean Central News Agency reported Saturday.
Moscow and Pyongyang have quite obviously deepened their relations in unprecedented ways over the past years since the Ukraine war began, and this has been most on display with the transfer of thousands of North Korean troops in support of Russian forces, and DPRK soldiers even losing their lives while fighting Ukra…
Images shared on Friday showed a damaged bridge in Iran's southern Hormozgan province
TEHRAN — Iran's Revolutionary Guards said Saturday that two oil tankers exploded after hitting mines in the Strait of Hormuz, as the United States and Tehran continued to trade drone and missile strikes.
Iranian foreign ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baqaei has termed the US strike on Hormuzgan province, in which eight civilians were killed, as a “blatant war crime”.
Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Navy "unequivocally announces" that the Strait of Hormuz has become "highly perilous" and is now fully sealed off due to the "crimes of the US military", state broadcaster IRIB reported.
SEOUL, July 18 (Yonhap) -- North Korean leader Kim Jong-un had photo sessions with participants in a women's association meeting and members of a construction and engineering military unit, the Korean Central News Agency reported Saturday.
Dubai/Cairo: The US struck bridges in Iran, and Tehran responded by hitting a power and desalination plant in Kuwait, as the two sides risked further escalation by expanding their targets to include infrastructure.
While the Pentagon publicly clings to a $30 billion price tag for its war against Iran, internal Defense Department assessments (unsurprisingly) paint a far more staggering picture: the true cost is rapidly closing in on the $80 billion to $100 billion range, according to NBC News.
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The IDF detained several Israeli civilians on Friday for illegally crossing into Syrian territory, the military said, following a search operation.
Three people were killed in US strikes on some parts of Iran’s Hormozgan province, IRNA reported, citing the region's deputy governor.
The Saudi civil defence issued two early warnings for Al-Kharj city and Yanbu early Saturday to be alert to "potential danger," but it later said the danger had passed in both areas, without providing details on the danger that triggered the warnings, according to Reuters.
Gaza's civil defence agency and a hospital said eight people were killed in an Israeli airstrike on a gathering of civilians in the Al-Balata market area of Nuseirat refugee camp.
Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Navy said it intercepted and shot down a US MQ-9 drone over the southern port city of Bushehr using a newly developed air defence system.
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has claimed that it destroyed a depot housing American unmanned surface vessels and the “main artificial intelligence center” in Bahrain in retaliation for US strikes on Iranian bridges and other civilian infrastructure.
