JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israeli forces have recovered the bodies of three hostages which had been held in the Gaza Strip since the Palestinian militant group Hamas’ 2023 attack, the military and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday. The hostages were identified as civilians Ofra Keidar and Yonatan Samerano, and soldier Shay Levinson. All were …
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By Andrew MacAskill, Federico Maccioni and Pesha Magid LONDON/DUBAI (Reuters) -President Donald Trump said Iran’s main nuclear sites had been “obliterated” in military strikes overnight, including on the deeply buried Fordow facility, as the U.S. joined attacks launched by Israel on June 13. Experts have said military strikes on Iran’s uranium enrichment facilities pose limited …
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By Matt Spetalnick WASHINGTON (Reuters) -With his unprecedented decision to bomb Iran’s nuclear sites, directly joining Israel’s air attack on its regional arch foe, U.S. President Donald Trump has done something he had long vowed to avoid – intervene militarily in a major foreign war. The dramatic U.S. strike, including the targeting of Iran’s most …
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By Phil Stewart and Steve Holland WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. forces struck Iran’s three main nuclear sites, President Donald Trump said late on Saturday, and he warned Tehran it would face more devastating attacks if it does not agree to peace. After days of deliberation and long before his self-imposed two-week deadline, Trump’s decision to …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Air Force’s B-2 Spirit stealth bombers were involved in strikes on Iran’s nuclear sites on Saturday. Three Iranian nuclear sites were struck in a “very successful attack,” President Donald Trump said on Saturday, adding that the crown jewel of Tehran’s nuclear program, Fordow, is gone. The B-2 is one of America’s …
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By Andrius Sytas and Mark Trevelyan VILNIUS (Reuters) -Siarhei Tsikhanouski, a leading Belarus opposition figure, was freed on Saturday after more than five years in prison, in the most significant move so far by President Alexander Lukashenko to try to ease his isolation from the West. The 46-year-old was driven across the border into Lithuania …
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(Reuters) -Russian strikes on Saturday on key towns in Donetsk region on the eastern front of the war in Ukraine killed at least one person while another died in a drone attack in the north near the Russian border, officials said. The Russian military said its forces had captured another village in its slow advance …
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BEIRUT (Reuters) -A member of Lebanese armed group Hezbollah was killed in an Israeli air strike on Tehran alongside a member of an Iran-aligned Iraqi armed group, a senior Lebanese security source told Reuters and the Iraqi group said on Saturday. The source identified the Hezbollah member as Abu Ali Khalil, who had served as …
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NICOSIA (Reuters) -Police in Cyprus have arrested a British man on suspicion of terror-related offences and espionage, authorities said on Saturday, with Israel accusing Iran’s Revolutionary Guards of trying to attack Israeli citizens on the island. The man appeared before a district court on Saturday, which ordered an eight-day detention pending inquiries. Police gave no …
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VATICAN CITY (Reuters) -Pope Leo warned politicians on Saturday of the challenges posed by the rise of artificial intelligence (AI), addressing its potential impact on younger people as a prime concern. Speaking at an event attended by Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and parliamentary delegations from 68 countries, Leo revisited a topic that he has …
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