Rubio dismissed the media reports as "false" and said they did not capture the full picture, according to Politico.

The move follows an air war with Israel in which Iran's longtime enemy said it wanted to prevent Tehran developing a nuclear weapon.

A survey released last week said 83% of Jewish Israelis supported the assault on Iran and pollsters said they expected Netanyahu's Likud party,

In a separate incident, a soldier was severely wounded also in southern Gaza, the military added in a statement on Wednesday.

Trump was drawing attention to no attempts by Iran so far to close the Strait of Hormuz to oil tankers

Mamdani, meanwhile, is backed by the Democratic Socialists of America

"We have achieved a historic victory," Netanyahu said in a televised address to the nation after the start of a ceasefire agreed to by both countries.

Efforts to vaccinate children are faltering due to economic inequality, Covid-era disruptions and misinformation

Every precaution is in place to avoid a Trump blow-up at the Hague summit, from giving him credit for a historic spending deal to keeping the meeting short and sweet.

Trump said over the weekend that the US deployment of 30,000-pound bombs had "obliterated" Iran's nuclear program.

"THE NUCLEAR SITES IN IRAN ARE COMPLETELY DESTROYED!" the president posted on Truth Social.

President Donald Trump yesterday cast doubt over the United States’ commitment to defending its Nato partners, suggesting there were “numerous” definitions to the cornerstone of the alliance’s mutual defence clause.

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said his country would continue to "assert its legitimate rights" to the peaceful use of atomic power

Lebanon’s health ministry said an Israeli strike killed three people yesterday in the country’s south, the latest such raid despite a November ceasefire with the Iran-backed Hezbollah militant group.

Georgia arrested the country’s most celebrated poet yesterday and sentenced an opposition leader to several months in prison, intensifying a crackdown on dissent under the Georgian Dream party.

An estimated 2.5 million refugees worldwide will need to be resettled next year, the UN said yesterday, at a time when the United States but also other nations are shrinking resettlement access.

Scientists have found a way to use the bacteria E.Coli to convert plastic waste into a popular painkiller, a study said Monday, though outside experts doubted the technique would make a dent in the fight against plastic pollution.

Israeli forces killed at least 40 Palestinians in Gaza and ordered new evacuations yesterday, local medics and residents said, in further bloodshed shortly after Israel and Iran reached a ceasefire to end a 12-day air war.

A fragile ceasefire in the Iran-Israel war appeared to be holding yesterday, after 12 days of strikes that saw Israel and the United States pummel the Islamic republic’s nuclear facilities.

A divided US Supreme Court paved the way on Monday for the Trump administration to resume deportations of undocumented migrants to countries that are not their own.