Trump says may warn Putin Ukraine could get Tomahawks if Russia doesn’t end invasion
US President Donald Trump said Sunday he may warn Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin that Ukraine could get Tomahawk cruise missiles...
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Qantas: stolen data from 5.7 million customers leaked online
Sydney, Australia -- Australian airline Qantas said Sunday that data from 5.7 million customers stolen in a major cyberattack in...
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Hamas rejects US president’s comment on two-state solution
A senior Hamas official dismissed comments by US President Joe Biden about the possibility of Israel agreeing to the establishment...
- "The illusion that Biden is preaching about a state of Palestine and its characteristics does not fool our people," a Hamas member said.
- The call between Biden and Netanyahu came a day after the Israeli leader said he opposes allowing Palestinian sovereignty.
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Iran launches research satellite, says minister
Iran's Revolutionary Guards launched a research satellite, a minister said, putting it into a higher orbit in a milestone for...
- "The Soraya satellite of the Iranian Space Organization... was successfully launched with the Ghaem-100 satellite carrier of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps," a report said
- It cited Telecommunications Minister Issa Zarepour as saying that the satellite, which weighs about 50 kilograms (110 pounds), was put in orbit 750 kilometers above Earth
US carries out fresh strikes against Yemen’s Houthis
Washington is seeking to reduce the Iran-backed Houthis' capabilities, but the Yemeni rebels are still able to attack despite a week...
- The air campaign against the Houthis began last week with American and British strikes on nearly 30 sites in Yemen using more than 150 munitions
- Washington is also seeking to put diplomatic and financial pressure on the Houthis, re-designating them as a "terrorist" entity
5 dead in Israel strike on Syria targeting ‘Iran-aligned leaders’: monitor
The mid-morning strike, which caused a large plume of smoke to billow into the sky, was also reported by Syrian...
- Targeted neighborhood is known to be a high-security zone home to leaders of Iran's IRGC and pro-Iran Palestinian factions
- "They were for sure targeting senior members" of those groups, said Observatory director Rami Abdel Rahman
Israel to allow flour shipments for Gaza through key port: US
Three UN agencies -- the World Food Program (WFP), UNICEF and the World Health Organization (WHO) -- pushed for the...
- The move comes days after the UN called on Israel to allow access to the port for the urgent delivery of humanitarian aid for Gaza
- US teams would "separately work on options for more direct maritime delivery of assistance into Gaza," the Whit House statement said
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Israel bombards Gaza’s south as leaders discuss post-war future
Netanyahu has said Israel expects the war to continue for months, but his comments on Thursday rejecting a so-called two-state...
- Witnesses said the Israeli bombardment was again focused overnight on Khan Yunis, the largest city in Hamas-controlled Gaza's south
- Biden and Netanyahu held their first call since December 23 a day after the Israeli leader reiterated his rejection of any form of Palestinian sovereignty
US drone crashes in Iraq, Islamic resistance fighters claim hit
US and allied forces in Iraq and Syria have been hit by some 140 attacks since mid-October, according to the...
- "A US UAV crashed near Balad airbase, Iraq" on Thursday night local time, a US defense official said, without identifying the type of drone that was lost
- The Islamic Resistance in Iraq said Friday that it fired on a US MQ-9 which was operating over Iraq the day before
EU’s Borrell accuses Israel of ‘creating’ and ‘financing’ Hamas
Hamas was created in December 1987 shortly after the start of the first Palestinian intifada, or uprising, in the Israeli-occupied...
- Israeli PM has in recent days reaffirmed his opposition to the creation of a Palestinian state, drawing criticism from his US ally, which is still advocating a two-state solutions
- "Israel is reaffirming its refusal (of this solution), and to prevent it they have gone so far as to create Hamas themselves," the EU's top diplomat Josep Borrell said
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Biden on Palestinian state: some states ‘don’t have their own militaries’
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken told the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland this week said Israel would not...
- Biden said it was not impossible Netanyahu might come round to some form of two-state solution, mooted for decades as a way to end Middle East tensions
- The Israeli premier said on Thursday that his country "must have security control over all the territory west of the Jordan (River)."
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Iraq upsets Japan to sail into knockouts of Asian Cup
Doha, Qatar - Aymen Hussein scored two first-half headers as Iraq stunned Asian Cup favorites Japan 2-1 on Friday to reach...
- Iraq -- ranked 63 in the world to Japan's 17 -- endured a nervous finish after Liverpool's Wataru Endo pulled one back in the third of eight minutes of injury time
- It was Japan's first Asian Cup group-stage defeat in 26 matches and set them on a potential collision course with South Korea in the last 16 in Qatar
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Trump says may warn Putin Ukraine could get Tomahawks if Russia doesn’t end invasion
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Pro-Palestinian protest leader released from US custody
Mahmoud Khalil, a former Columbia University student who was one of the most visible leaders of nationwide pro-Palestinian campus protests,...
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Tech-fueled misinformation and disinformation distorts Iran-Israel fighting
AI deepfakes, video game footage passed off as real combat, and chatbot-generated falsehoods -- such tech-enabled misinformation is distorting the...
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Israel says delayed Iran’s presumed nuclear programme by two years
Western powers have repeatedly expressed concerns about the rapid expansion of Iran's nuclear programme, questioning in particular the country's accelerated...
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IAEA warns of nuclear disaster if Israel attacks Iran’s Bushehr plant
Rafael Grossi, director of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), told the UN Security Council that he has not yet...
- Grossi warned of equally dire consequences even if Israel strikes the lines that supply electricity to Bushehr, saying such disabling of power could trigger a meltdown.
- In a worst case scenario, evacuations and orders to take shelter would need to be issued for areas within several hundred kilometers of Bushehr, which would include Gulf states.
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More microplastics in glass bottles than plastic
For water, both flat and sparkling, the amount of microplastic was relatively low in all cases, ranging from 4.5 particles...
- Researchers detected the tiny, mostly invisible pieces of plastic throughout the world, from in the air we breathe to the food we eat, as well as riddled throughout human bodies.
- There is still no direct evidence that this preponderance of plastic is harmful to human health, but a burgeoning field of research is aiming to measure its spread.
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US 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...
- Barrack, who is also the US ambassador to Turkey, is on his first visit to Beirut, where he met top Lebanese officials including parliament speaker Nabih Berri, a Hezbollah ally
- In a statement, Hezbollah leader Naim Qassem said the group will provide Iran "with all forms of support that contribute to putting an end to this tyranny and oppression