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US President Donald Trump is dispatching his Iran negotiating team, led by Vice President JD Vance, to Pakistan for talks, the White House told reporters on Wednesday, adding that the first round of negotiations would take place on Saturday.

Israel carried out its heaviest strikes on Lebanon since the conflict with Hezbollah broke out last month, even as the group paused attacks on northern Israel and Israeli troops in Lebanon under a two-week US-Iran ceasefire.

The United States will work closely with Iran and the two countries are discussing tariff and sanctions relief, US President Donald Trump said on Wednesday, following the announcement of a two-week ceasefire.

The United States and Iran agreed to a two-week ceasefire brokered by Pakistan, suspending a six-week-old war that has killed thousands, spread across the Middle East and caused unprecedented disruption to the world's energy supplies.

Israel's military has issued repeated urgent warnings to residents of the city of Tyre on Wednesday to evacuate their homes immediately and move north of the Zahrani River, saying it will strike the area.

Turkish authorities have detained 10 people in connection with Tuesday's gun attack near the Israeli consulate in Istanbul as the investigation widened, Turkish media reported on Wednesday.

Greece will ban access to social media for children under the age of 15 from January 1, 2027, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said on Wednesday, citing rising anxiety, sleep problems and the addictive design of online platforms.

Israel has supported US President Donald Trump's decision to suspend strikes against Iran for two weeks, but said the ceasefire does not include Lebanon, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office said on Wednesday.

Bahrain's Ministry of Interior has reported that several houses were damaged due to fallen debris from a drone interception in its Sitra area on Wednesday.

US President Donald Trump has agreed to a two-week ceasefire with Iran on Tuesday, less than two hours before his deadline for Tehran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz or face devastating attacks on its civilian infrastructure.

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese on Wednesday has welcomed a ceasefire in the Middle East struck between the US, Israel and Iran, while criticising the rhetoric of President Donald Trump.

The Iraqi armed group Kataib Hezbollah has released abducted American journalist Shelly Kittleson, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Tuesday.

China and Russia on Tuesday vetoed a UN resolution encouraging states to coordinate efforts to protect commercial shipping in the Strait of Hormuz, calling the measure biased against Iran, while Washington's ambassador to the world body called on "responsible nations" to join the US in securing the waterway.

US strikes on Iran's Kharg Island do not represent a change in American strategy, US Vice President JD Vance said on Tuesday as a US official separately told Reuters the additional strikes on military targets did not impact oil infrastructure.

One attacker was killed and two others were wounded in an extended gun battle with police outside the building housing the Israeli consulate in Istanbul on Tuesday, according to authorities and Reuters witnesses.

US Vice President JD Vance lashed out on Tuesday at what he called "disgraceful" interference from the European Union in an election in Hungary, as he lauded Prime Minister Viktor Orban as an ally of Donald Trump in the defence of Western civilisation.

A French high-speed train has crashed into a truck carrying military equipment at a level crossing near Calais on Tuesday morning, killing the train driver, a spokesperson for the local prefecture said.

The Israeli military on Tuesday has told people in Iran not to use trains or go near railway lines.

A Russian drone strike on a city bus has killed three people and injured 12 more on Tuesday in the city of Nikopol in the eastern Dnipropetrovsk region, Ukrainian officials said.

A Malaysian vessel has secured safe transit through the Strait of Hormuz and is currently proceeding to its final destination, Malaysia's foreign ministry said on Tuesday.

US President Donald Trump on Monday told reporters that Iran could be taken out in one night, "and that night might be tomorrow night," warning Tehran it had to make a deal by Tuesday night or face wider bombing raids.

The four astronauts of NASA's Artemis II mission flew deeper into space on Monday than any humans before them, as they cruised through a rare flyby of the shadowed far side of the moon that revealed a lunar surface under cosmic bombardment.

Iran said on Monday it wanted a lasting end to the war with the US and Israel, and pushed back against pressure to swiftly reopen the Strait of Hormuz under a temporary ceasefire.

The United Nations has renewed its call for all parties to the conflict in the Middle East to comply with international law regarding the conduct of hostilities, emphasising that civilian infrastructure must not be targeted.

The Public Prosecution in Bahrain ordered the detention of several individuals on Monday, arrested on charges of espionage for Iranian intelligence agencies and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).

An Israeli airstrike killed at least 10 people and wounded several others outside a school housing displaced Palestinians on Monday, health officials said, the latest violence to overshadow the fragile US-backed Gaza ceasefire deal.

The head of the intelligence organisation of Iran's elite Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps was killed on Monday in an "attack by the... enemy", Iranian media said, citing a statement by the Guards.

Indian refiners have postponed maintenance shutdowns of their units to meet local fuel demand, a government official said on Monday.

Spain's ruling Socialist Party has gained voter support amid Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez's staunch opposition to the US-Israeli war on Iran, while far-right Vox, which supports the offensive, has seen a decline, two surveys published on Monday showed.

Kuwait's Ministry of Health has reported that six people were injured early on Monday due to falling projectiles and debris in a residential area in the northern part of the country.

Russia has launched a drone attack on Ukraine's Black Sea port of Odesa overnight on Monday, killing three people, and damaging infrastructure, residential and administrative buildings, the regional governor said.

US special forces rescued a downed airman in Iran in a complex operation that averted a potential crisis for President Donald Trump, as the war entered its sixth week with little sign of progress in diplomatic efforts for a resolution.

Two merchant vessels near the Italian coast recovered the bodies of two migrants and rescued 32 survivors from a boat trying to cross to Europe from Libya on Easter weekend, rescue charities said, citing the survivors as saying 71 others were lost at sea.

Nigeria's army said on Sunday that it had rescued 31 civilians who were taken hostage during an attack on a church in northwest Kaduna state, while five people were found dead at the scene.

An Israeli airstrike on Kfarhata, a village in south Lebanon, killed seven people on Sunday, including a 4-year-old child, while another attack on the Jnah neighbourhood in Beirut killed four people and injured 39 others, Lebanon's health ministry said in a statement.

Iranian drone attacks hit various targets in Kuwait on Sunday, with state energy company Kuwait Petroleum Corporation (KPC) reporting fires and "severe material damage" at some operating units.

Bahrain's Gulf Petrochemical Industries Company said a fire at its operating units after an Iranian drone attack was brought under control, the state news agency reported on Sunday.

Oman and Iran have held talks at the deputy foreign minister level to discuss options for ensuring the smooth transit of vessels through the Strait of Hormuz, Oman's Foreign Ministry wrote on X on Sunday.

An Israeli airstrike killed four Palestinians in the northern Gaza Strip on Sunday, local health authorities said, in the latest violence to overshadow a fragile ceasefire amid a new push by mediators to bolster the agreement.

At least 77 people have been killed and 137 more injured in Afghanistan over 10 days after torrential rain triggered widespread flooding in the country.

At least 15 people were injured on Saturday, some critically, after a car slammed into a crowd near a community event in New Iberia, Louisiana, law enforcement officials said.

Satellite imaging firm Planet Labs has announced on Saturday that it will indefinitely withhold visuals of Iran and the region of conflict in the Middle East to comply with a request from the US government.

At least four people were killed on Saturday after a passenger vehicle plunged off a road near Sojha in India's northern state of Himachal Pradesh, ANI reported, citing district officials.

The Arab Parliament and the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) have strongly condemned the attack targeting the premises of the UAE embassy and the residence of the Head of Mission in the Syrian capital Damascus.

Iranian and US forces were searching for a missing American pilot on Saturday from one of two warplanes downed over Iran and the Gulf, while President Donald Trump warned Tehran time was running out on his latest deadline for a deal to end the war.

US federal agents have detained the niece and grand-niece of late Iranian military commander Qassem Soleimani after Secretary of State Marco Rubio revoked their lawful permanent resident status, the State Department said on Saturday.

Five people were killed and 19 others wounded by a Russian drone strike on a market in the frontline Ukrainian city of Nikopol on Saturday morning, Ukraine's prosecutor general's office said.

The UN Security Council is now expected to vote next week on a Bahraini resolution to protect commercial shipping in and around the Strait of Hormuz, diplomats said on Friday, but veto-wielding China has made clear its opposition to authorising any use of force.

Bahrain said four citizens were injured and a number of homes damaged from falling debris from drone interceptions early Saturday.

Eight people were killed and one child was injured on Friday when a house collapsed in Kabul following an earthquake in Afghanistan, the National Disaster Management Authority said.

Iran shot down a US warplane on Friday in the first such known incident of the five-week war, officials from both nations said, with one of the crew members rescued after ejecting and the other still missing, according to a US source.

A large-scale daytime Russian strike killed at least two people in Ukraine on Friday, officials said, in what President Volodymyr Zelenskyy denounced as an "Easter escalation", as Moscow shifts tactics to avoid Ukrainian air defences.

വൈദ്യുതി, കടൽ-വെള്ള ശുചീകരണ പ്ലാന്റുകളിലാണ് ഇറാനിയൻ ആക്രമണം റിപ്പോർട്ട് ചെയ്തത്.

Kuwait's Ministry of Electricity, Water, and Renewable Energy has reported material damage to a power and water desalination plant due to an Iranian attack on Friday.

US President Donald Trump has warned late on Thursday about striking and destroying bridges and electric power plants in Iran in his latest threat to hit the country's infrastructure.

The Kuwaiti Petroleum Corporation (KPC) has reported a drone attack that targeted its Mina al-Ahmadi refinery early on Friday, which resulted in a fire breaking out at its operating units, with no injuries reported.

Bangladesh has launched fresh measures to curb energy consumption, cutting office hours and trimming public spending as conflict in the Middle East disrupts global fuel markets and strains power supply in the South Asian nation.

The UN Security Council is to vote on a Bahraini resolution to protect commercial shipping in and around the Strait of Hormuz, diplomats said on Friday, but veto-wielding China made clear its opposition to authorising any use of force.

US Army Chief of Staff Randy George was fired on Thursday by Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth, two defence officials and a source familiar with the matter told Reuters, in the latest purge among the Pentagon's most senior ranks.

US President Donald Trump has removed Attorney General Pam Bondi from her post, a White House official said on Thursday, following mounting frustration with her performance, including her handling of investigative files related to the late Jeffrey Epstein.

Cuba announced on Thursday that it would free more than 2,000 prisoners from the island's jails, according to state-run media, the second time this year its government has announced a prisoner amnesty amid talks with the administration of US President Donald Trump.

The United Nations Security Council has reaffirmed its strong commitment to the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Gulf Cooperation Council member states, while praising their role in supporting regional and international peace.

Around 40 countries are discussing joint action to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, Britain said on Thursday, after US President Donald Trump said securing the waterway was a problem for other nations to resolve.

Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salam said on Thursday there was no end in sight to a war that had already displaced a million people over the last month, as families fleeing Israeli strikes said they were exhausted by repeated rounds of conflict.

US President Donald Trump has discussed firing Attorney General Pam Bondi amid his frustration with her leadership, including what he sees as a lack of aggression in targeting his enemies and over her handling of the Epstein files, the New York Times reported on Wednesday.

The United States will carry out aggressive strikes on Iran over the next two to three weeks and is nearing completion of its main strategic objectives in the war, President Donald Trump said in a televised address to the nation on Wednesday.

An earthquake of magnitude 7.6 has struck in Indonesia's Northern Molucca Sea on Thursday, killing one person, damaging some buildings, and triggering tsunami waves, authorities and witnesses said.

The vice mayor of Coral Springs, Florida, has been shot and killed on Wednesday, with her husband taken into custody as the lone suspect in what police called a case of domestic violence, officials said.

Four astronauts have blasted off from Florida on NASA's Artemis II mission, a high‑stakes 10-day trip around the moon that marks the United States' boldest step yet towards returning humans to the lunar surface this decade before China's first crewed landing.

An earthquake of magnitude 7.4 struck the Northern Molucca Sea off Indonesia's historic spice island of Ternate on Thursday, the United States Geological Survey (USGS) said, triggering a tsunami warning for neighbouring Southeast Asian nations.

The United States will end its war on Iran fairly soon and could return for "spot hits" if needed, President Donald Trump told Reuters on Wednesday, hours before he was scheduled to make a primetime address to the nation.

Italy's coast guard recovered the bodies of 19 migrants and rescued 58 survivors from a boat that broke down while trying to cross to Europe from Libya, rescue officials and migrant rescue charities said on Wednesday.

Iran has asked the United States for a ceasefire, President Donald Trump said in a Truth Social post on Wednesday, adding Washington would consider this once the Strait of Hormuz was open.

US President Donald Trump made a historic visit to the Supreme Court on Wednesday to attend arguments over the legality of a policy he considers crucial to his hardline approach toward immigration - a directive he signed last year on his first day back in office that would limit birthright citizenship.

ഖത്തറിൽ എണ്ണ ടാങ്കറിൽ ഇറാനിയൻ മിസൈൽ ആക്രമണം ഉണ്ടായതായി അധികൃതർ സ്ഥിരീകരിച്ചു.

They've never known their parents, and they've never known Gaza, born prematurely two years ago and evacuated to Egypt as Israeli forces drew dangerously close to their neonatal care unit.

A measles outbreak in Bangladesh has led to 15 confirmed deaths, officials said on Wednesday, as the government readies to launch an emergency immunisation programme as part of efforts to try to contain the disease.

Qatar's Ministry of Defence has announced that an oil tanker was struck by a cruise missile in its territorial waters on Wednesday, with no casualties reported.

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has warned the economic shocks of the war in the Middle East would be felt for months and encouraged citizens to take public transport in a rare address to the nation on Wednesday.

An Iranian drone attack has targeted fuel tanks at Kuwait International Airport on Wednesday, causing a major fire that broke out at the site, with no injuries reported.

At least 18 people were killed when an inflatable boat carrying migrants sank off Turkey's western province of Mugla on Wednesday, the coastguard said in a statement, adding that search and rescue efforts continued in the area.

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has said on Tuesday that Washington could see the "finish line" in the Iran war, which is now in its fifth week, and the US will have to reexamine ties with NATO after the conflict.

Bahrain's Interior Ministry has announced on Wednesday that its civil defence teams were extinguishing a fire at a company facility caused by an Iranian attack.

US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth said on Tuesday the next few days in the war against Iran would be decisive and warned Tehran the conflict would intensify if it did not make a deal, while Iran said it will target US companies in the region from Wednesday.

At least seven people were killed and 24 wounded in two Israeli strikes in the Beirut area, the Lebanese health ministry said on Wednesday, in attacks that hit vehicles in Beirut's southern outskirts and in an area just south of the capital.

A Russian An-26 military transport plane crashed into a cliff in Crimea, killing 29 people on board, Russian news agencies reported the country's defence ministry as saying early on Wednesday.

A US judge said on Tuesday that President Donald Trump cannot construct his planned $400 million ballroom on the site of the White House's demolished East Wing without approval from Congress, halting for now one of the president's most visible efforts to reshape the seat of American power.

China and Pakistan on Tuesday called for an immediate ceasefire in the Gulf and the wider Middle East, urging the swift launch of peace talks and the restoration of normal navigation in the Strait of Hormuz, as their foreign ministers met in Beijing.

Saudi Arabia announced on Tuesday that debris from an intercepted drone fell on three houses and a number of vehicles in a residential neighbourhood in Al-Kharj governorate, leaving two individuals injured.

Bangladesh is considering introducing partial online classes in schools as part of austerity measures to ease pressure from the global energy crisis and domestic constraints.

A large fire broke out at a petrochemicals plant in Russia's Tatarstan region on Tuesday, killing at least three people, including a firefighter, and injuring dozens.

Three Chinese ships have recently sailed through the Strait of Hormuz after coordination with relevant parties, a foreign ministry spokesperson told a regular daily press briefing on Tuesday, while calling for peace and stability in the Gulf Region.

Three United Nations peacekeepers from Indonesia have been killed in two separate incidents in southern Lebanon after a weekend that killed Lebanese journalists and medics in Israeli strikes.

Russian attacks on central and northern Ukrainian regions on Monday have killed two people and injured more than 20, regional officials said.

President Donald Trump warned on Monday that Iran's energy plants and oil wells would be obliterated if it did not open the Strait of Hormuz, after Tehran described US peace proposals as "unrealistic" and fired waves of missiles at Israel.

Japan and Indonesia have agreed to step up coordination on energy security, Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi said on Tuesday, as the US-Israeli war on Iran squeezes oil and gas supplies vital to Asia.

A Mexican immigrant has died in US immigration custody in Los Angeles on March 25, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement announced on Monday, marking at least 14 deaths in ICE custody in 2026 and prompting criticism from the Mexican government.

Israel's parliament passed a law on Monday making the death penalty a default sentence for Palestinians convicted in military courts of deadly attacks, fulfilling a pledge by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s far-right allies.

At least 70 people were killed and 30 injured during an attack in Haiti's breadbasket Artibonite region, a human rights group said on Monday, significantly higher than official estimates.

Spain has closed its airspace to US planes involved in attacks on Iran, a step beyond its previous denial of use of jointly-operated military bases, Defence Minister Margarita Robles said on Monday.

President Donald Trump said on Monday the United States was in talks with a "more reasonable regime" to end the war in Iran but repeated his warning to Tehran to open the Strait of Hormuz or risk US attacks on its oil wells and power plants.

Israeli airstrikes killed at least four people in the Gaza Strip on Monday, local health officials said, in the latest round of violence since a US-brokered ceasefire took effect more than five months ago.

ഇറാനിയൻ ആക്രമണത്തിൽ ഒരു തൊഴിലാളി കൊല്ലപ്പെടുകയും വൈദ്യുതി, ജലശുദ്ധീകരണ പ്ലാന്റിലെ ഒരു സർവീസ് കെട്ടിടത്തിന് കേടുപാടുകൾ സംഭവിക്കുകയും ചെയ്തതായി കുവൈറ്റിലെ വൈദ്യുതി, ജല, പുനരുപയോഗ ഊർജ്ജ മന്ത്രാലയം ഞായറാഴ്ച അറിയിച്ചു.

Spain has closed its airspace to US planes involved in attacks on Iran, a step beyond its previous denial of use of jointly-operated military bases, Spanish newspaper El Pais reported on Monday, citing military sources.

A United Nations peacekeeper has been killed in southern Lebanon overnight, prompting condemnations on Monday after a weekend in which Lebanese journalists and medics were killed in Israeli strikes.

Kuwait's Ministry of Electricity, Water, and Renewable Energy has announced on Sunday that an Iranian attack has killed one worker and damaged a service building at one of its power and water distillation plants.

Iran said it was ready to respond to a US ground attack, accusing Washington on Sunday of preparing a land assault even as the Trump administration sought talks and as regional powers met in Pakistan to try to end the conflict.

Heavy rain that triggered severe flooding and caused buildings to collapse has killed 22 people and injured 32 in Afghanistan over the last two days, the country's National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) said on Monday, as it warned of continued risk due to bad weather.

Australian police have shot dead a fugitive gunman who had been on the run since August after allegedly killing two officers in the state of Victoria, Australian media reported on Monday.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday he had instructed the military to further expand the existing security buffer zone in southern Lebanon, vowing to fundamentally change the security situation there.

Ten Kuwaiti military personnel were injured in an Iranian missile attack on a military camp in the Gulf country, the Kuwaiti army said on Sunday, without giving a location.

Oman's foreign ministry said on Sunday that it condemns attacks on its territory, adding that no party has claimed responsibility.

Demonstrators decrying US President Donald Trump's aggressive deportation efforts, war in Iran and other policies took to city streets across the country on Saturday in the third round of the "No Kings" rallies.

Two Israeli air strikes on two checkpoints of the police force killed at least six Palestinians, local health officials said, in the latest round of violence despite a US-brokered ceasefire that is now more than five months old.

Aluminium Bahrain, also known as Alba, confirmed early Sunday that its facilities were targeted in an Iranian attack a day earlier, Bahrain's state news agency reported.

Kuwait International Airport has suffered "significant damage" to its radar system after being targeted by multiple drone attacks, according to a statement from Kuwait's General Authority of Civil Aviation.

Israeli forces killed three Lebanese journalists in southern Lebanon on Saturday in an airstrike that Israel's military said had targeted one of the reporters, with a follow‑up strike on the rescue workers sent to assist them also causing fatalities.

The Israeli military have killed a 15-year-old Palestinian boy near Bethlehem late on Friday, according to the Palestinian health ministry, as violence in the Israeli-occupied West Bank surges.

Yemen's Houthis said they carried out a second attack on Israel in less than 24 hours using missiles and drones.

Russia launched a barrage of drones in waves of attacks on Ukraine, killing four people and damaging gas production facilities, port infrastructure, residential buildings and a maternity hospital, Ukrainian officials said on Saturday.

The Philippines and China have resumed high-level talks this week over the disputed South China Sea, exploring preliminary steps toward oil and gas cooperation while addressing energy and fertiliser supply issues amid the ongoing Middle East conflict, the Philippine foreign ministry said.

Yemen's Houthis confirmed on Saturday they had launched an attack on Israel for the first time during the current Israeli-US war against Iran, marking their entry to the conflict and raising the prospects of a broader regional confrontation.

Nepal's former prime minister, K.P. Sharma Oli, was arrested on Saturday as police investigate whether he was negligent in failing to prevent dozens of deaths in a crackdown on Gen Z-led anti-corruption protests last September, officials said.

United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres has announced the establishment of a dedicated task force to address current challenges related to navigation in the Strait of Hormuz, with the aim of securing global humanitarian needs.

An worker was injured in a drone attack on Oman's Salalah port while a crane suffered limited damage, Oman's government said on Saturday.

The Bahrain Ministry of Interior confirmed in the early hours of Saturday morning that a fire had been brought under control at a "facility" following an attack from Iran.

The US expects its operation against Iran to conclude within weeks, not months, and Washington can meet all its objectives without using ground troops, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Friday.

A new government law in Indonesia prohibiting children under the age of 16 from accessing digital platforms that could expose them to inappropriate online material or scams has come into effect today.

The four astronauts selected for NASA's Artemis II mission arrived in Florida on Friday, entering the final phase of preparations for the first crewed journey toward the Moon in more than five decades.

Iran-linked hackers have broken into FBI Director Kash Patel's personal email inbox, publishing photographs of the director and other documents to the internet, the hackers and the bureau said on Friday.

US President Donald Trump said he would again extend a deadline for Iran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz or face the destruction of its energy plants, after Tehran earlier rejected a 15-point US proposal to end the fighting.

More than 370,000 children have been forced from their homes in Lebanon in just three weeks, as intensified Israeli strikes and mass evacuation orders trigger one of the fastest and largest population displacements in the country's history, UN officials said on Friday.

The UN rights chief urged Washington to conclude its investigation into a fatal strike on a primary school in Iran at a UN Human Rights Council meeting on Friday, with some states voicing outrage over the incident.

Kuwait Ports Authority (KPA) has announced on Friday that the Shuwaikh Port came under an overnight hostile drone attack, with no casualties reported.

The Advocate General and Head of the Terrorist Crimes Prosecution in Bahrain announced Thursday that 14 defendants across four cases have been referred to the Criminal Court.

Austria's conservative-led, three-party government plans to introduce a ban on social media use for children under 14, it said on Friday.

US President Donald Trump said on Thursday that Iran was letting 10 oil tankers transit the Strait of Hormuz as an apparent goodwill gesture in negotiations.

The European Union has agreed on Thursday to an overhaul of its customs system, including a crackdown on mainly Chinese e-commerce platforms that face potential fines if they sell illegal or unsafe products into the bloc.

A US proposal for ending nearly four weeks of fighting is "one-sided and unfair", a senior Iranian official told Reuters on Thursday, while US President ​Donald Trump said Iran must make a deal or face a continued onslaught.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Thursday that he had arrived in Saudi Arabia and would hold "important meetings", part of an effort to bolster ties with Middle East countries amid the Iran war.

Jurors in the first two trials in the US from a growing wave of lawsuits targeting social media firms over harm to children have found Meta and Alphabet's Google liable, potentially teeing up an appeals fight that could reshape how US law shields tech companies from lawsuits.

Iran is reviewing a US proposal to end the war in the Gulf but has no intention of holding talks to wind down the widening Middle East conflict, the country's foreign minister Abbas Araqchi said on Wednesday.

ഗൾഫിലെ യുദ്ധം അവസാനിപ്പിക്കാനുള്ള യുഎസ് നിർദ്ദേശം ഇറാൻ പുനഃപരിശോധിക്കുകയാണെങ്കിലും, മിഡിൽ ഈസ്റ്റ് സംഘർഷം അവസാനിപ്പിക്കാൻ ചർച്ചകൾ നടത്താൻ ഉദ്ദേശിക്കുന്നില്ലെന്ന് ഇറാൻ വിദേശകാര്യ മന്ത്രി അബ്ബാസ് അരഖ്ചി ബുധനാഴ്ച പറഞ്ഞു.

At least 24 people have died after a passenger bus carrying around 40 passengers plunged into the Padma River while attempting to board a ferry in Bangladesh, officials said on Thursday.

The UN Human Rights Council has adopted a historic resolution on the human rights implications of Iranian attacks on the UAE, Bahrain, Oman, Qatar, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, and Jordan.

The number of children and young people out of school worldwide has climbed for the seventh consecutive year, reaching 273 million, according to a new report from the UN education agency, UNESCO.

Russian attacks have killed two people in Ukraine's northeastern city of Kharkiv and the region around it, while a strike on the Danube port of Izamil damaged port facilities and energy infrastructure, officials said.

Kuwait’s Ministry of Interior says the country's State Security Service has foiled a terrorist plot and dismantled a network planning assassinations targeting state leaders and symbols.

Israel and Iran have exchanged airstrikes on Wednesday, as Iran again rejected President Donald Trump's claim that the US was in negotiations to end the war, which has roiled energy and financial markets, saying the US is negotiating with itself.

Cyprus has initiated a discussion with London on the future of British bases on the island, its president said on Wednesday, after a drone strike on a military facility this month triggered fears their presence could expose it to the wider Iran conflict.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is racing to pass a state budget and stave off early elections he would likely lose, with the war in Iran so far doing little to improve his standing in the polls.

A five-star hotel near the Elysee presidential palace in Paris reopened on Wednesday after a blaze earlier forced around 400 people to evacuate the building, the French capital's firefighters and the hotel said.

A German push to tax sugary drinks and ban energy drinks for under-16s will be voted on by the country's assembly of regional states on Friday as public and cross-party support emerges for tougher action on obesity and related illness.

Kuwait's Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has announced on Wednesday that a drone targeted a fuel tank at Kuwait International Airport, which led to a fire breaking out on the site.

The Pentagon is expected to send thousands of soldiers from the army's elite 82nd Airborne Division to the Middle East, according to reports on Tuesday, adding to the massive military buildup even as the Trump administration seeks talks with Iran.

The Philippines is working with Washington to secure waivers and exemptions so it can obtain oil from US-sanctioned countries to ensure supply, its ambassador to the United States has announced.

The National Transportation Safety Board said on Tuesday that a system which would have allowed a New York airport controller to track movement of aircraft and vehicles did not alert during a Sunday night fatal collision between an Air Canada commercial jet and a truck that killed two pilots.

A rare Russian daytime drone attack on Ukraine killed three people, wounded several dozen and set a building in the historic centre of the western city of Lviv aflame on Tuesday, officials said, following an overnight bombardment that killed five.

A total of 69 people died when a Colombian military plane crashed soon after takeoff earlier this week, the country's armed forces said in a statement on Tuesday, in an incident that injured 57 others.

The Ministry of Defense (MoD) have offered their condolences to the family of a Moroccan civilian contractor in the UAE Armed Forces who was killed during a routine mission in Bahrain following an Iranian missile attack.

There is no direct Qatari mediation between the United States and Iran, but Doha supports all formal and informal diplomatic channels to end the war, Qatar's foreign ministry spokesperson said on Tuesday.

Germany and France have both spoken out against United States President Donald Trump's actions over the conflict in Iran in a rare rebuke of a major ally.

Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr on Tuesday declared a state of national energy emergency in response to the Middle East conflict and what he called an "imminent danger" posed to the country's energy supply.

New York's LaGuardia airport is facing significant delays and cancellations for the second straight delay following the deadly collision Sunday night between an Air Canada Express jet and a fire truck on the runway.

Iran launched multiple waves of missiles at Israel, after US President Donald Trump postponed the attack on Iran's power plants and energy infrastructure because of what he described as productive talks with Iranian officials.

Lebanon has withdrawn accreditation from the Iranian ambassador Mohammad Reza Sheibani and declared him persona non grata, demanding his departure from Lebanon by Sunday, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said on Tuesday.

വ്യോമ പ്രതിരോധ ഇടപെടലുകളെത്തുടർന്ന് അവശിഷ്ടങ്ങൾ വീണ് ഉണ്ടായ കേടുപാടുകൾ കാരണം രാജ്യത്തിന്റെ പല പ്രദേശങ്ങളിലുമുള്ള ഏഴ് ഓവർഹെഡ് വൈദ്യുതി ലൈനുകൾ പ്രവർത്തനം നിർത്തിവച്ചതായി കുവൈറ്റ് വൈദ്യുതി, ജലം, പുനരുപയോഗ ഊർജ്ജ മന്ത്രാലയം തിങ്കളാഴ്ച വൈകി പ്രഖ്യാപിച്ചു.

Iran denied on Monday that it had engaged in negotiations with the United States, after President Donald Trump postponed a threat to bomb Iran's power grid because of what he described as productive talks with unidentified Iranian officials.

Israel's Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich has stated that Israel should extend its border with Lebanon up to the Litani River deep inside the country's south, as Israeli troops bombed bridges and destroyed homes in an escalating military assault.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said his country would permanently strengthen its nuclear forces and treat South Korea as its most hostile state, as he set out policy priorities in a speech to parliament, state media KCNA reported on Tuesday.

Japan plans to start releasing oil from joint stockpiles held by producing nations in the country by the end of March, Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi said in a post on social media website X on Tuesday.

The Kuwaiti Ministry of Electricity, Water, and Renewable Energy has announced late on Monday that seven overhead power lines in several areas of the country were taken out of service due to damage sustained from falling debris following air defence interceptions.

Airstrikes targeting a site belonging to Iraq's Popular Mobilisation Forces in the western province of Anbar killed at least 10 fighters, including the PMF's Anbar operations commander, and wounded 30 others, security and health sources told Reuters early on Tuesday.

President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Monday that Ukrainian intelligence believed Russian forces were preparing a new, imminent mass attack on the country.

At least seven rockets were launched from the Iraqi town of Rabi'a towards a US military base in northeastern Syria on Monday, two Iraqi security sources said, the first attack of its kind since the start of the US-Israeli military campaign on Iran.

Hong Kong police can now demand that people suspected of breaching the city's national security law provide mobile phone or computer passwords in a further crackdown on dissent.

US immigration agents began deploying at more than a dozen US airports on Monday to aid security screening as staffing absences by unpaid airport security officers have caused massive delays.

An Air Canada Express jet collided with a fire truck while landing at New York's LaGuardia airport late on Sunday, killing both pilots, injuring dozens and closing the facility, authorities said.

Kuwait's Public Prosecution has launched investigations into two separate cases related to espionage and acts undermining state security.

US President Donald Trump and Iran threatened to escalate their war by attacking energy and desalination facilities in the Gulf, a potential widening of hostilities that could deepen a regional crisis and add to concerns in global markets.

A fuel reservoir in Baltic Sea port of Primorsk, Russia's largest western oil exporting hub, caught fire after a drone attack, revealed governor of Leningrad Oblast Alexander Drozdenko on messaging app Telegram on Monday.

Four ambulances belonging to a Jewish community organisation in north London were set ablaze, police said on Monday, adding that the incident was being treated as an antisemitic hate crime.

An Israeli airstrike on a police vehicle on Sunday killed three people in the middle of the Nuseirat camp in the central Gaza Strip, health officials said, hours after another person was killed in a strike on northern Gaza.

The Strait of Hormuz remains open to all shipping except vessels linked to "Iran's enemies", Iran's representative to the UN maritime agency was quoted as saying in Iranian media reports published on Sunday.

The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) has renewed its condemnation of continued Iranian attacks on member states, including the targeting of infrastructure and oil facilities, in flagrant violation of international law and a direct threat to regional security, stability and the safety of global energy supplies.

Seven people were killed in a helicopter crash in Qatar's territorial waters, Qatar and Türkiye said on Sunday.

Four people have died in Oman in the past 24 hours as a result of heavy thunderstorms on Saturday.

Japan could consider deploying its military for minesweeping in the Strait of Hormuz, a vital artery for global oil supplies, if a ceasefire is reached in the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran, Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi said on Sunday.

Saudi Arabia informed Iran's military attache, his assistant and three members of the embassy staff that they must leave the kingdom within 24 hours after being declared persona non grata, the Saudi foreign ministry said on Saturday, citing what it described as continued Iranian attacks on Saudi territory.

Ukrainian and US negotiators trying to move towards a settlement of the four-year war pitting Kyiv against Moscow opened their latest round of talks in Florida on Saturday, with more discussions planned through the weekend.

US President Donald Trump threatened to deploy Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents to US airports on Monday if congressional Democrats do not immediately agree to fund airport safety.

Robert Mueller, the no-nonsense former FBI chief who documented Russia's interference in the 2016 US election and its contacts with Donald Trump's campaign but opted not to bring criminal charges against a sitting president, has died at age 81.

Ukrainian forces shelled a public building in Russia's border region of Belgorod on Saturday, killing four people, the regional governor said.

Fourteen people died and 25 were seriously injured in a fire at a car parts factory in the South Korean city of Daejeon, fire authorities said on Saturday.

Russian attacks on Ukraine killed two people in Zaporizhzhia and left most of the northern region of Chernihiv without power on Saturday, Ukrainian officials said.

Donald Trump's Board of Peace has presented Hamas with a written proposal on how it could lay down its weapons, two sources said, a step the group has thus far refused to take as the US president pushes on with his plan for Gaza's future.

Iran is ready to let Japanese-related vessels pass through the Strait of Hormuz, a vital artery for global oil supplies, Kyodo news has reported, citing Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has congratulated Iranian leaders on Nowruz and said Moscow remained a loyal friend and reliable partner to Tehran, the Kremlin said on Saturday.

The Israeli military said early on Saturday it was striking Hezbollah targets in Beirut, after issuing an evacuation warning for seven neighbourhoods in the southern suburbs of the Lebanese capital.

The US military is deploying thousands of Marines to the Middle East, officials told Reuters on Friday, as President Donald Trump accused NATO allies of cowardice over their reluctance to send forces to help open the Strait of Hormuz.