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WorldGovts scramble to evacuate citizens from Israel and Iran
Governments around the world are evacuating thousands of their nationals caught up in the rapidly spiralling Israel-Iran conflict, organising buses and planes and in some cases assisting people crossing borders on foot.They crossed the border on foot," the Czech defence ministry said in a statement.
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WorldNine EU countries call for talks on ending trade with Israeli settlements
BRUSSELS (Reuters) -Nine European Union countries have called on the European Commission to come up with proposals on how to discontinue EU trade with Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories, according to a letter seen by Reuters on Thursday. The letter, addressed to EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas, was signed by foreign ministers from Belgium, Finland, Ireland, Luxembourg, Poland, Portugal, Slovenia, Spain and Sweden. The EU is Israel's biggest trading partner, accounting about a third of its total goods trade.
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WorldIsrael minister says Khamenei 'can no longer be allowed to exist'
Israel's defence minister said Thursday that Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei "can no longer be allowed to exist", just days after reports that Washington vetoed Israeli plans to assassinate him."Such a man can no longer be allowed to exist."
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WorldUS envoy says Hezbollah involvement in Iran-Israel war would be 'very bad decision'
The US special envoy for Syria Tom Barrack warned Lebanese militant group Hezbollah on Thursday against getting involved in the war between its main backer Iran and Israel."I can say on behalf of President (Donald) Trump... that would be a very, very, very bad decision," Barrack said after his meeting with Berri, responding to a question on what the US position would be on any involvement by Hezbollah in the war.
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WorldRussia warns US against 'military intervention' in Iran-Israel war
Russia on Thursday warned the United States not to take military action against Iran, amid speculation over whether Washington will enter the war alongside Israel.Zakharova warned any US military action "would be an extremely dangerous step with truly unpredictable negative consequences".
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WorldArab town in Israel weeps for four family members killed in Iranian strike
TAMRA, Israel (Reuters) -When a phone alert sounded on Saturday night to warn of Iranian missiles flying towards his town of Tamra in northern Israel, Nidal Abu Al Heija called his sister to tell her to take shelter with her daughters, but no one answered. "Darkness, dust, smell of bomb, something I don't want to remember," said Abu Al Heija. Known to her family as Noura, Manar Abu Al Heija Katib, 45, and two of her daughters, Shada, 20, and Hala, 13, were killed, along with Manar's sister-in-law, Manar Diab Katib, 41.
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WorldIf Iran's Khamenei falls, what would replace him?
Israel increasingly appears eager to oust the clerical leadership that has ruled Iran since the 1979 Islamic revolution but is taking a gamble given the Iranian opposition is divided and there is no guarantee new rulers would be any less hardline, analysts say.Analysts say ousting Khamenei and his fellow clerical leaders risks creating a vacuum that could be filled by hardline elements in the Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) ideological force or the Iranian military.
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WorldMutilation ban and microchips: EU lawmakers approve cat and dog welfare rules
Compulsory microchips as well as bans on ear-cropping and tail-docking are among a set of new rules to protect cats and dogs that European lawmakers approved Thursday.- Hunting exception - Painful mutilations, like cutting tails or ears, will also be banned in most cases, as will electric, choke and spiked collars without safety stoppers.
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NewsIsraeli military says Iran used missile with multiple warheads, posing new challenge to its defenses
Israeli military says Iran used missile with multiple warheads, posing new challenge to its defenses.
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WorldIraq's top Shiite cleric warns against targeting Iran's leadership
Iraq's top Shiite Muslim cleric Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani warned against targeting Iran's leadership and said that the Iran-Israel war could plunge the whole region into chaos.Sistani said in a statement Thursday that any targeting of Iran's "supreme religious and political leadership" would have "dire consequences on the region".
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WorldIs Thailand on the Cusp of Another Coup?
Whether or not the military intervenes, Thailand’s government seems on the verge of collapse, again.
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NewsPhotos of the aftermath of an Israeli strike on the headquarters of Iran state television in Tehran
This is a photo gallery curated by AP photo editors.
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World'Like the sky was torn open': At Turkey border, Iranians recall terror in Tehran
"The first two days were okay, people said it would just end.If you really wanted to end the war, why say that?"
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WorldEurope and Iran will try diplomacy as US weighs joining fight with Israel
Iran's foreign minister will meet in Geneva on Friday with counterparts from Germany, France and the United Kingdom, Iranian state media and European diplomats said, as Israeli airstrikes target his country's nuclear and military sites and Iran fires back. Europe’s push for diplomacy is in sharp contrast to messages from Washington, with U.S. President Donald Trump openly weighing bombing Iran and calling for the unconditional surrender of the Iranian leadership. Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi will travel to Geneva for the meetings Friday, the state-run IRNA news agency reported.
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WorldA New Middle East Is Unfolding Before Our Eyes
Iran has spent most of this century as the region’s rising power.
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WorldAir India says plane 'well-maintained' before crash
Air India's Boeing plane was "well-maintained" before it crashed a week ago, killing all but one of 242 people on board, the airline said Thursday."The plane was well-maintained, with its last major check in June 2023," Air India said in a statement.
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WorldFloods expected after Hurricane Erick makes landfall in western Mexico
Hurricane Erick made landfall in the western Mexican state of Oaxaca on Thursday, the US National Hurricane Center said, having weakened to a "major" Category 3 storm that is likely to cause massive flooding and landslides.A "life-threatening storm surge" was expected to cause coastal flooding near where the storm made landfall.
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WorldExclusive: Iranian Nobel Laureate Narges Mohammadi Calls for Ceasefire
The renowned rights advocate called on other Nobel Peace Prize winners to amplify the call for an end to the Israel-Iran war.
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USHurricane Erick makes landfall as Category 3 in southern Mexico
After undergoing rapid intensification, Hurricane Erick made landfall on Mexico's Pacific coast on Thursday as a Category 3 storm.
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Putin hosts Indonesia's Prabowo in Russia in bid to deepen ties
ST PETERSBURG, Russia (Reuters) -Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto held talks with President Vladimir Putin in the northern Russian city of St Petersburg on Thursday as they explore ways to deepen what some officials have called a burgeoning strategic partnership. The deepening of ties between Russia and Indonesia, part of Moscow's bid to forge new relations with the Global South amid Western attempts to isolate it over the Ukraine war, has perturbed some powers such as Australia. Meeting in the Constantine Palace, Putin noted Indonesia's entry into BRICS as a full member and said he was sure it would make a significant contribution to the grouping, which he said was gaining clout in the world.
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WorldDR Congo and Rwanda sign draft peace agreement
Provisional agreement aimed at ending fighting in eastern DRC expected to be formally signed on June 27.
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WorldAs death toll rises, Gazans make life-risking journeys to seek food
GAZA/CAIRO (Reuters) -Like thousands of other Palestinians in Gaza, Hind Al-Nawajha takes a dangerous, miles-long journey every day to try to get some food for her family, hoping she makes it back alive. "You either come back carrying (food) for your children and they will be happy, or you come back in a shroud, or you go back upset (without food) and your children will cry," said Nawajha, 38, a resident of Beit Lahiya, in northern Gaza. In the past two days, dozens of Palestinians have also been killed by Israeli fire as they tried to get food from aid trucks brought into the enclave by the United Nations and international relief agencies, Gaza medics said.
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WorldDenmark to push for Ukraine's EU membership during presidency
COPENHAGEN (Reuters) -Denmark will continue preparing Ukraine for EU membership in the face of Hungary blocking negotiations, when the Nordic country takes over the presidency of the European Council from July 1, its European affairs minister said on Thursday. "Unfortunately, Hungary is blocking and we are trying to put as much pressure there as we can and also do everything we can to make Ukraine continue with the necessary reform work," European affairs minister Marie Bjerre told a press conference in Copenhagen.
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WorldIran's Arak heavy water reactor, hit by an Israeli airstrike, was part of Tehran's nuclear deal
Much of the focus on Iran's nuclear program has been on Tehran's enrichment of uranium, but experts also keep a close watch on the Islamic Republic's Arak heavy water reactor. Israel pointed to just that concern when it launched airstrikes Thursday on the reactor, following its attacks on other Iranian nuclear sites, including the Nantanz enrichment facility, centrifuge workshops near Tehran, and laboratories in Isfahan.
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WorldFreed Hamas hostage Edan Alexander evacuates Israel
Edan Alexander left Israel on Wednesday with his mother on a special evacuation flight back to the U.S.
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Greenpeace warns of potential environmental disaster as oil tankers collide near Strait of Hormuz
A collision between two oil tankers just east of the world’s most critical oil choke point, the Strait of Hormuz, could bring about a potential environmental disaster, Greenpeace said on Thursday. The two giant tankers, ADALYNN and Front Eagle, crashed Tuesday in the Gulf of Oman and caught fire before the Emirati national guard intervened to evacuate crew members. Greenpeace said it had reviewed satellite imagery that showed a plume of oil stretching up to about 1,500 hectares (3,700 acres) from the crash site.
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WorldPutin and Xi discussed 'rough edges' between G7 leaders at summit, Kremlin says
ST PETERSBURG (Reuters) -Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping discussed in a telephone call on Thursday what they saw as frictions between G7 leaders at this week's Group of Seven summit, the Kremlin said. At the meeting in Canada, the bloc of wealthy nations struggled to find unity over the war in Ukraine after U.S. President Donald Trump expressed support for Putin and left a day early to tackle the Israel-Iran conflict from Washington. His departure deprived Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy of a chance to meet him and press for more U.S. weapons.
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WorldGaza rescuers say 25 killed by Israeli fire
Gaza's civil defence agency said Israeli fire killed at least 25 people on Thursday, including 15 who had gathered near an aid distribution site.Elsewhere in Gaza, another 10 people were killed by Israeli fire on Thursday, the civil defence agency said.
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WorldMyanmar's Aung San Suu Kyi marks 80th birthday in junta jail
Myanmar's deposed democratic leader Aung San Suu Kyi marked her 80th birthday in junta detention on Thursday, serving a raft of sentences set to last the rest of her life.- Locked away birthday - Suu Kyi, the daughter of Myanmar independence hero Aung San, became a champion of democracy almost by accident.
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WorldFrance preparing to help its citizens in Israel, Iran leave, Barrot says
PARIS (Reuters) -France is preparing to help its citizens in Israel and Iran to leave those countries amid a week of strikes exchanged between the two rivals, French foreign minister Jean-Noel Barrot said on Thursday. Barrot told reporters that a convoy will be arranged by the end of the week to get French nationals without their own means of doing so to the Turkish or Armenian borders from Iran to access airports in those countries. French citizens in Israel will be able to board buses starting Friday morning from the Jordanian border for airports in Jordan, with a flight chartered from Amman by the end of the week to aid the passage of French citizens who are vulnerable or in emergency situations, Barrot said.
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WorldIsraeli travelers stranded in Cyprus by fighting begin return trip by boat
David Agami has been eager to leave Cyprus and get back to his wife and six children since his flight from the U.S. was diverted when Israel and Iran began trading air attacks last week. On Thursday, he was among hundreds of other Israelis who found spots aboard the Israeli cruise ship Crown Iris, which embarked on the trip of about 270 kilometers (167 miles) to Israel. The ship docked in the port city of Limassol Wednesday morning after dropping off hundreds of Jewish emigrees from the U.S. who were evacuated from Israel.
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WorldKenyan LGBTQ community vogues despite threat of repressive law
Before a cheering audience in Nairobi, the performer gets the ball going with a string of acrobatic moves -- a celebration of queer resistance from a Kenyan LGBT community feeling threatened by new legislation.Omolo insists that in the future the world will recognise and celebrate their community.
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World'Very bad decision' if Hezbollah joins Iran-Israel war, says US official
BEIRUT (Reuters) -A top U.S. official visiting the Lebanese capital on Thursday discouraged Tehran-backed armed group Hezbollah from intervening in the war between Iran and Israel, saying it would be a "very bad decision". U.S. special envoy for Syria Thomas Barrack, who also serves as ambassador to Turkey, met Lebanese officials in Beirut as Iran and Israel traded more strikes in their days-long war and as the U.S. continues to press Lebanon to disarm Hezbollah.
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WorldRelieved Pakistanis recall 'horrifying nights' as Israel, Iran trade strikes
Mohammad Hassan anxiously returned to Pakistan from neighbouring Iran this week after witnessing drones, missiles, and explosions tear through Tehran's sky during what he called long, "horrifying nights". As one peeped out the window in the night, you could see drones, missiles with fire tails," he told AFP. - Ghost town - Pakistan and Iran have a shaky diplomatic relationship.
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WorldU.S. "planning for contingencies" to help Americans leave Israel
After some confusion, the U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem says the State Department is "planning for contingencies" to help Americans leave Israel, but some aren't waiting around.
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WorldAmerican students, tour groups waiting to evacuate Israel amid missile strikes
Some students have already fled through Jordan and nearby Cyprus, a parent who has a daughter studying in Israel said.
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Russian court sentences actor to 17 years in prison for railway sabotage
The defendant, Viktor Mosienko, who is a film and theatre actor, admitted guilt and repented in court, according to TASS. Russian officials have linked pro-Ukraine sabotage groups with numerous attacks on aircraft and railways aimed at disrupting Moscow's war effort since the full-scale conflict began over three years ago. Prosecutions of those suspected of terrorism and sabotage in Russia have jumped, with 40% more terrorism cases sent to court in 2024 than the year before, or 429 in total, according to an Investigative Committee official cited by TASS.
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WorldJapan's royal couple mourn A-bomb victims ahead of Hiroshima's 80th anniversary
Japan’s Emperor Naruhito paid respects to atomic bombing victims in Hiroshima as the city marks the 80th anniversary of the tragedy later this year. The atomic bomb dropped by the United States on Hiroshima on Aug. 6, 1945, destroyed the city, killing 140,000 people.
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WorldNetanyahu declares Israel 'will exact the full price' after Iranian strike hits hospital in Israel
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared Israel "will exact the full price from the tyrants in Tehran" after the rogue regime struck an Israeli medical facility.
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WorldIndian canteen worker's hopes dashed, no second miracle in air crash
AHMEDABAD, India (Reuters) -Ravi Thakor had been hoping his mother and two-year old daughter had escaped just before an Air India jet crashed into the building they were in. A week after one of the world's worst aviation disasters killed more than 270 people in the western Indian city of Ahmedabad, Thakor's hopes were dashed when doctors matched his DNA on Wednesday with the remains of his mother Sarla and daughter Aadhya. A canteen worker in a college hostel, Thakor and other family members had left the hostel around 30 minutes before Air India's Boeing 787 Dreamliner aircraft crashed into the building.
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USHurricane Erick slams into Mexico’s coast as Category 3 storm
US National Hurricane Center warns of risk of ‘life-threatening flooding and mudslides’.
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WorldHackers say they wiped out $90 million from Iran cryptocurrency exchange
Hackers with possible links to Israel have drained more than $90 million from Nobitex, Iran’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, according to blockchain analytics firms. The stolen funds were transferred to addresses bearing messages that criticized Iran’s Revolutionary Guard, Blockchain analytics firm Elliptic wrote in a blog post. The hackers group, Gonjeshke Darande — “Predatory Sparrow” in Farsi — accused Nobitex of having helped Iran’s government to evade Western sanctions over the country's rapidly advancing nuclear program and transfer money to militants, in a post on X claiming the attack.
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Israel’s defense minister says Iran’s supreme leader 'cannot continue to exist' after latest Iranian missile attack
Israel's defense minister says Iran's supreme leader 'cannot continue to exist' after latest Iranian missile attack.
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Turkey ups border security as Iran-Israel conflict rages
ANKARA (Reuters) -Turkey has stepped up security on its border with Iran since the start of Tehran's conflict with Israel, but has not yet seen any increase in people trying to cross the frontier, a Turkish Defence Ministry source said on Thursday. Turkey - a NATO member which shares a 560-km (350-mile) border with Iran - has condemned Israel's attacks on Iran, saying they violate international law. "Intense security precautions have been taken via additional measures at all our borders including with Iran," the source said, speaking on condition of anonymity.
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WorldBulgaria closes Tehran embassy as Iran-Israel conflict intensifies
Zhelyazkov said 12 people from the embassy and their families were evacuated after Israel advised residents to evacuate the third district of Tehran. "The Bulgarian embassy is in the immediate vicinity of this area and we decided to have our diplomats leave the country," he said, adding that the embassy would continue to operate from Baku.
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Detectives investigating UCLA student's murder uncovered a stunningly personal betrayal
When a young man was found dead in a pitch-black tunnel frequented by occultists, the LAPD considered the possibility of ritual sacrifice. But Ronald Baker's murder would eventually be traced to a shockingly sinister deception.
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WorldIsrael attacks Iran’s Arak reactor as Iranian missile hits Israeli hospital
Iranian media report air defences were activated in the area of the Khondab nuclear facility, formerly called Arak.
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WorldFinnish parliament votes to exit landmines treaty due to Russia threat
HELSINKI (Reuters) -Finland's parliament voted on Thursday in favour of withdrawing from the Ottawa Convention that bans the use of anti-personnel landmines amid concerns over a military threat posed by neighbouring Russia. Finland joins other European Union and NATO members bordering Russia - Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia and Poland - in leaving or planning to leave the treaty, as fears grow about their much larger neighbour.
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WorldZelenskyy calls for more pressure on Russia after deadly Kyiv missile strike
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Thursday said a Russian missile strike on a nine-story Kyiv apartment building was a sign that more pressure must be applied on Moscow to agree to a ceasefire, as Moscow intensifies attacks in the three-year war. The drone and missile attack on Kyiv early on Tuesday, the deadliest assault on the capital this year, killed 28 people across the city and injured 142 more, Kyiv Military Administration head Tymur Tkachenko said on Thursday.
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Iran's foreign minister says he'll meet with European counterparts in Geneva, state media reports
Iran's foreign minister says he'll meet with European counterparts in Geneva, state media reports.
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