Iran’s Revolutionary Guards yesterday said that a return to war with the United States was unlikely, but warned the Islamic republic stood ready to respond to any attack.

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Hamas has not yet commented

Donald Trump said an annual medical checkup had gone "perfectly" Tuesday, as the health of the oldest US president ever to take the oath faces growing scrutiny with the approach of his 80th birthday

Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon fell last year to its lowest level since 2019, according to a report published Wednesday that will be seen as good news for leftist President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva

"I go to the market only to look around because I cannot afford to buy anything. Whenever I ask about prices, I return heartbroken," Nadia Abu Shamala, a Palestinian resident of Gaza, told AFP.

Conducted self-defence strikes in southern Iran to protect troops, US says

Iran accused the United States of breaching their ceasefire yesterday and warned it was ready to retaliate after overnight US strikes targeting Iranian missile sites and mine-laying boats threatened a deal to end the war.

Gaza health officials said Israeli airstrikes killed at least seven people on Tuesday, including five in one attack, in the latest violence to hit the territory despite a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas.

Huge numbers of Muslims prayed on Mount Arafat yesterday at the climax of the hajj pilgrimage.

Belgium, ⁠where a dense railway network criss-crosses towns and villages, ​has a history of accidents ​at ⁠level-crossings

Iran's Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei said on Tuesday that regional countries would no longer be shields for US bases, in a written statement carried by state television

More than 1.5 million people have joined the hajj this year despite the shadow of war across the Middle East created by the US and Israeli war with Iran

Rubio told reporters that "the straits have to be open"

The strikes came as Iran's top negotiator and its foreign minister were in Doha for talks with Qatar's prime minister on a potential deal with the US to end the three-month-old war

The United States and Iran are edging closer to a framework agreement that could transform the current ceasefire into a lasting settlement. Both sides are discussing a “memorandum of understanding” (MoU) that would outline steps to resolve outstanding issues, though officials caution that a final deal is not imminent.

At least eight people have been killed in missile and drone attacks on Russian and Ukrainian territory in the past 24 hours, local authorities on both sides said yesterday, with damage reported to energy infrastructure in Russia’s Belgorod region.

China’s President Xi Jinping yesterday hailed Beijing’s “unbreakable” friendship with Pakistan as he met visiting Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, seeking to deepen their “all-weather” partnership.

A small artisanal gold mine collapsed in northern Angola at the weekend, claiming the lives of at least 28 miners, nearly half from one family, reports and officials said.

Over 1.5 million Muslims began filling a vast tent city in the holy city of Makkah yesterday for an annual hajj pilgrimage carried out against the backdrop of hopes for an end to the war in the Middle East.