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    Yemen's Houthis attack Saudi tankers in Red Sea, threatening to widen Iran war

    CAIRO — Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi rebels said they attacked two Saudi oil tankers in the Red Sea on Thursday, potentially widening the Iran war as international oil topped $100 a barrel. The Houthis have threatened to shut down another key trade route, with the world economy already reeling from Iran's closure of the Strait of Hormuz. Meanwhile, Iran and the U.S. have stepped up their attacks as they vie for control of the strait, through which a fifth of the world's oil and gas transited in peacetime, setting off a scramble for alternative routes. As the U.S. carried out a 12th night of strikes across Iran, President Donald Trump threatened “major military punishment” against the Houthis if their attacks on ships continue. “If they do this again, the U.S. will hold Iran responsible, in that the Houthis are a Surrogate and/or Proxy of Iran, and major military punishment will be inflicted upon Iran and, of course, the Houthis, themselves,” Trump wrote on social media. As the rhetoric escalated, so did the economic fallout. The price of Brent crude oil, the international stand

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    Yemen's Houthis attack Saudi tankers in Red Sea, threatening to widen Iran war
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    In war-torn Gaza, hopeful Palestinian amputee footballers seek to score goal on global stage

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    In war-torn Gaza, hopeful Palestinian amputee footballers seek to score goal on global stage
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    ENHYPEN joins 'Twilight' cast at San Diego Comic-Con 2026 panel

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    Trump imposes double-digit tariffs on dozens of countries as 10% levies set to expire Friday

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    Trump imposes double-digit tariffs on dozens of countries as 10% levies set to expire Friday
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    US health officials investigate new outbreak of diarrhea-causing parasite

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Israeli incursion in southern Syrian town rattles villagers

ABDIN, Syria — As Israeli troops and vehicles entered the town of Abdin in southern Syria, residents blocked the roads with rocks, and some young men and boys threw stones to push back the military patrol. Tensions in this part of the country created by a buffer zone occupied by Israeli forces have flared into violence in recent days, leaving residents anxious that more escalation is coming. Residents of Abdin, located near a U.N.-patrolled buffer zone now controlled by Israeli troops, tried to resist against a military incursion Sunday. Residents said Israeli troops fired warnings shots at walls and between the angry protesters, before firing artillery rounds at the village. No one was harmed in the exchange, but most residents fled, and most were still too afraid to return on Monday. Many fear that there will now be more intense incursions and raids following the skirmish. “They come into the village regularly, every few days,” said resident Mohammad al-Hassan, standing not far from a group of children looking at an exploded shell. “They come in armored 4x4 vehicles, they roam

Jun 30, 2026By AP
Israeli incursion in southern Syrian town rattles villagers
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Explosion in Monaco injures 3, suspect flees to France

PARIS — A blast from an explosive device has seriously injured three people at a residential building in Monaco, and the attacker fled to France, local authorities said. French and Ukrainian media reported that a Ukrainian magnate and his family were those injured. The unusual attack Monday night stunned the elite principality on the Mediterranean Coast. Monaco’s leader Prince Albert II called it “an odious act” and said all the country's services were mobilized to ensure security. French and Monaco authorities are searching for the attacker, whose motive is under investigation, Monaco’s most senior government official, Minister of State Christophe Mirmand, told reporters. The explosion occurred around 9 p.m. at the entryway of a residence near the French border, injuring two adults and a child who were taken to hospitals in France, he said. The suspect crossed the border into France on foot, and was identified via video surveillance in Monaco and the neighboring French town of Beausoleil, Mirmand said. A French national police official said French police are searching for the s

Jun 30, 2026By AP
Explosion in Monaco injures 3, suspect flees to France
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Trump says Iran meeting to take place in Qatar

TEHRAN — U.S. President Donald Trump said Iran has requested a meeting that will be held Tuesday in Qatar, despite Tehran denying any direct negotiations were planned with Washington on the deal aimed at ending the Middle East war. The announcement came after Iran held its first talks with Oman on managing the Strait of Hormuz since the U.S.-Iran deal was signed, and as Washington and Tehran agreed to halt their attacks, which had strained the agreement. "IRAN HAS REQUESTED A MEETING. IT WILL TAKE PLACE TOMORROW IN DOHA!" Trump posted Monday on his Truth Social platform, without specifying the participants. White House spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt later told Fox News that U.S. envoy Steve Witkoff and Trump's adviser and son-in-law Jared Kushner "will be flying to Doha for high-level meetings this week". Iranian foreign ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baqaei on Monday said a delegation of the country's own experts would travel to Doha this week, but staunchly denied any sit-down with the Americans. "We have not yet entered the stage of negotiating a final agreement," he said, noting that "ove

Jun 30, 2026By AFP
Trump says Iran meeting to take place in Qatar
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Police say 5 people killed in shooting in northern Germany

BERLIN — Five people were killed in a shooting on Monday at a youth welfare facility in the northern German town of Stade, police said. Two people were arrested, including the suspected shooter. There were also injuries, police said, but they did not give a figure. Police said the shooting took place in the facility on Dankersstrasse, a street south of the town center. They said that there was no danger to the public. Two suspects were arrested, one of whom is believed to have fired the shots. Police said they were working to establish the background to the shooting and what exactly happened. Germany’s gun laws are more restrictive than those in the United States, and mass shootings are rare but not unheard-of. Stade has about 50,000 inhabitants and is located about 40 kilometers from Hamburg.

Jun 29, 2026By AP
Police say 5 people killed in shooting in northern Germany
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Trump says Iran has requested meeting, but Iranian officials say nothing has been scheduled

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — President Donald Trump said Monday on social media that Iran had requested a meeting with U.S. counterparts, though Iranian officials said no such meeting was scheduled. The U.S. president has tried to preserve an increasingly fragile interim deal as hostilities have mounted in the Strait of Hormuz in recent days, which could cause oil prices to rise and undermine Trump’s claims to voters that inflation in America was easing. Trump said the meeting with Iran would happen on Tuesday in Doha, Qatar. Earlier on Monday, Iran's president said that $6 billion in frozen Iranian assets would be released by Qatar, as negotiations with the United States were challenged by attacks across the Persian Gulf this weekend . Masoud Pezeshkian's mention of the funds appeared aimed at selling the Iranian public on the interim deal, particularly as its grip on the Strait of Hormuz has been tested by efforts to open Oman's territorial waters to both inbound and outbound traffic from the Persian Gulf. Iran's attacks and threats stopped cargo ships and tankers from moving throu

Jun 29, 2026By AP
Trump says Iran has requested meeting, but Iranian officials say nothing has been scheduled
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Malaysia extends search for MH370 for another year, keeping families’ hopes alive

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — Malaysia has extended for another year its contract with marine robotics company Ocean Infinity for a deep-sea search in the southern Indian Ocean for wreckage of a Malaysia Airlines flight that disappeared 12 years ago. The Cabinet on Friday approved the extension of a “no-find, no-fee” agreement with Ocean Infinity until June 30 next year, Transport Minister Anthony Loke said Monday. “This decision is a manifestation of the government’s continuous and unwavering commitment to provide a closure for the next of kin of the passengers aboard flight MH370,” he said in a statement. The extension enables Ocean Infinity to complete the remaining 7,428.54-square-kilometer (2,868-square-mile) search area, after temporarily redeploying its primary search assets to fulfill other commercial contracts, he said. The Boeing 777 plane vanished from radar shortly after taking off on March 8, 2014, carrying 239 people, mostly Chinese nationals, on a flight from Malaysia’s capital, Kuala Lumpur, to Beijing. Satellite data showed the plane turned from its flight path

Jun 29, 2026By AP
Malaysia extends search for MH370 for another year, keeping families’ hopes alive
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Record heat wave fills Paris mortuaries, leaving families in distress

PARIS — Every few minutes, the mortuary owner's phone rings. Since a record-smashing heat wave started taking lives and storage space for bodies in Paris and beyond, the funeral directors and mourning families calling him mostly have the same question: Do you have room for one more? With all 32 places in his cold room taken, Zouhaeir Hertelli reluctantly has to gently say “Non,” over and over and over again. “We're facing a really catastrophic situation," he said. “I'm getting hundreds of calls." As the historic heat wave shifted its deadly temperatures eastward this weekend to other parts of Europe, France began counting the human cost it left in its wake. Tallying heat-related deaths could take time The statistical and public health work of tallying heat-related deaths could take weeks or months. But it's already apparent that the toll exacted by the intense, unrelenting extreme temperatures was terrible in France, the first country hit from mid-June, particularly among older people who died at home. “We're dealing with an enormous spike of deaths because of the heat wave and

Jun 29, 2026By AP
Record heat wave fills Paris mortuaries, leaving families in distress
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Ukraine's drone set another Russian oil refinery ablaze as Putin admits fuel shortages

KYIV, Ukraine — Ukraine kept up its heavy drone assault on Russia, setting fire to a major oil refinery in the south, as President Vladimir Putin acknowledged for the first time on Sunday that the country was facing a “certain deficit” of fuel and vowed to strengthen protection of oil facilities and boost fuel output. Ukraine has markedly stepped up its long-range attacks on Russian military industries and energy facilities in recent months, aiming to cut Moscow’s revenue for its invasion — now in its fifth year — and make Russians feel the consequences. “Our ‘long-range sanctions’ reached two oil refineries in Russia,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy wrote on the Telegram messaging app on Sunday. “Each (strike) means a reduction in the resources that fuel the Russian war machine, and another step toward peace.” The campaign has choked Russian fuel supplies, causing widespread shortages and long lines at gas stations across the country and prompting authorities in many regions to introduce fuel rationing. According to Western analysts, it has also slowed

Jun 29, 2026By AP
Ukraine's drone set another Russian oil refinery ablaze as Putin admits fuel shortages
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Australia to double potential fines for Facebook, Instagram over child social media accounts

MELBOURNE, Australia — Australia plans to double potential fines for social media platforms, including Facebook and Instagram, who fail to prevent Australian children from holding accounts as critics argue the world-first ban on under-16s was failing. Communications Minister Anika Wells on Monday blamed the platforms’ resistance to the age restrictions for the need to toughen the laws that came into force on Dec. 10. “We can all agree we would like the scheme to work better than it is currently, but that is on Big Tech taking the Mickey,” Wells told the Australian Broadcasting Corp., using an Australian slang term for deceiving, teasing or mocking. The government announced Sunday it would introduce draft legislation into Parliament this week that would double the maximum fine to 99 million Australian dollars ($68 million) for platforms that fail to take reasons steps to prevent Australian children from holding accounts. The amendments would also increase the powers of eSafety Commissioner Julie Inman Grant, Australia’s online safety watchdog, to demand information and documents

Jun 29, 2026By AP
Australia to double potential fines for Facebook, Instagram over child social media accounts
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US says Iran talks to continue, 'both sides' pausing strikes

WASHINGTON — The United States and Iran have agreed to stop attacking each other and plan to meet and resume talks aimed at ending the Middle East war, a U.S. official said late Sunday. U.S. and Iranian forces traded strikes in recent days despite a fragile June 17 memorandum of understanding (MOU) that seeks a comprehensive end of the conflict that began in late February and disrupted shipping through the vital Strait of Hormuz. Under that agreement, Tehran committed to allow safe passage of commercial vessels through the strait while Washington agreed to lift its blockade of Iranian ports. "Technical talks are slated to continue on all areas of the MOU," a U.S. official told AFP in an email. "Both sides will stand down for now and vessels can move freely." The official did not provide details on what day or where the talks would take place, but two U.S. officials and a third source with knowledge of the matter told American media outlet Axios that discussions would resume Tuesday in Qatar. CNN reported similar comments citing a Trump administration official, saying the two sides will

Jun 29, 2026By AFP
US says Iran talks to continue, 'both sides' pausing strikes
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