Lebanon's culture minister told AFP on Friday that Israeli strikes on the country's south are putting heritage sites, including in the ancient city of Tyre, in "serious danger"

Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth headlining Asia's premier defence summit

Three, still missing after the incident at Washington plant, feared dead

If approved by leadership in Washington and Tehran, it would amount to the biggest step towards peace since the conflict began on February 28

Video from the incident shows smoke emerging from beneath the rocket before it fully combusts into a massive fireball

The United States and Iran reached an outline agreement yesterday to extend their ceasefire pending the approval of President Donald Trump, after Iran had targeted a US air base in Kuwait following US strikes on what Washington called an Iranian drone operation.

Global average temperatures are likely to continue at or near record levels this year and for the next four years afterwards, the United Nations warned yesterday.

It was unclear how old the victims of the blaze

Calls for unity and cohesion among Iranians

The van, which had a maximum capacity of nine passengers but was carrying 16, hit the rear of the truck while on an expressway in Henan province at 2:40 am

The authority is a body Iran has set up to manage requests for passage through the Strait of Hormuz.

"These actions were measured, purely defensive and intended to maintain the ceasefire," the official said.

Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez Parrilla asked the international community for urgent help to prevent disaster in his country, which is under a US energy blockade, in a speech to the UN Security Council on Tuesday.

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.

World Bank-administered and UN-endorsed fund has received no money from donors

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