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Iran says diplomatic exchanges with the US via mediators continue despite fresh strikes, as fighting resumes and Hormuz tensions rise.

Iran struck Gulf neighbors Kuwait, Jordan and Syria as US strikes on Tehran continue, pushing oil prices to a one-month high near $91 a barrel

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio says Iran is using the Strait of Hormuz as leverage, urging other nations to help protect global shipping

US strikes Iran after American troop deaths in Jordan; Tehran hits back at two US bases in Kuwait as ceasefire talks collapse

NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani says he's still weighing whether to arrest Netanyahu during his UN visit, calling him a war criminal

Andrew Tate and his brother Tristan were arrested in Miami. UK prosecutors are seeking extradition on rape and sex trafficking charges.

Iran's army says it struck two US military bases in Kuwait with kamikaze drones, hours after fresh American airstrikes hit Iranian territory

Iran says the Islamabad MoU is suspended after the US violated its commitments, as strikes escalate and the death toll passes 50

Lebanon's president departs for Washington to meet Trump, the first such visit since 2009, as talks continue on Israel's withdrawal from the south

Kuwait says Iranian strikes hit a power plant and oil facility, causing injuries and fires as the Middle East war escalates further

Venezuela's quake death toll has passed 5,000 as the IMF releases $346 million in reconstruction funds for the earthquake-hit coastal region

Trump threatened higher Canada tariffs over wildfire smoke blanketing the U.S., as Detroit ranked the world's most polluted city and the World Cup final looms

Iran's Revolutionary Guards say they attacked a US base in Qatar to punish the aggressor, following overnight US strikes inside Iran

New US visa regulations set fixed time limits for foreign students, exchange visitors and journalists under a DHS rule taking effect in 60 days

China and Pakistan urged the US and Iran to halt hostilities and resume talks, warning that a hard-won ceasefire agreement must not collapse

Trump used a primetime address to revive unproven election fraud claims and accuse China of a mass voter data breach ahead of the US midterms

Trump is weighing ground forces in Iran, with officials reviewing island seizures, airstrikes and a strike on a nuclear-linked mountain site

The US State Department approved a $1.96 billion weapons sale to Saudi Arabia, including up to 10,000 precision-guided munitions, amid Gulf tensions

US strikes Iran hit command centers and air defenses as Iran fires drones at US bases in Jordan, Bahrain and Kuwait amid Hormuz tensions

Iran says US strikes have killed over 30 civilians as fighting resumes near the Strait of Hormuz, a month after a ceasefire deal