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An Israeli airstrike on Kfarhata, a village in south Lebanon, killed seven people on Sunday, Lebanon's health ministry said in a statement.

Ukraine and Syria pledged greater security cooperation in talks on Sunday, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said as Kyiv seeks to promote its military expertise across the region following the outbreak of the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran.

China is willing to continue to cooperate with Russia at the U.N. Security Council and make efforts to cool down the Middle East situation, Foreign Minister Wang Yi told his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov in a phone call on Sunday.

U.S. forces staged the audacious rescue of an airman behind enemy lines after Iran downed his fighter jet, officials said on Sunday, resolving a crisis for President Donald Trump as he weighs escalating the war, now in its sixth week.

Cuba began releasing prisoners from its jails on Friday just hours after its communist-run government announced a sweeping amnesty coinciding with the most intense pressure campaign applied by the U.S. in decades.

Donald Trump has dramatically escalated his threats against Iran, issuing what amounts to a 48-hour ultimatum on Saturday, warning Tehran that catastrophic military consequences await if it fails to either reach a deal or reopen the Strait of Hormuz.

It has been one crisis after another. The Covid pandemic. The Hamas massacres of October 7, 2023. The twelve-day war against Iran last June. 

The United Arab Emirates on Saturday condemned what it described as "riots, acts of vandalism, and assaults" outside its diplomatic mission and the residence of its head of mission in Damascus.

The concept of Taqiyya, the religiously sanctioned practice of concealment and misdirection, has been a cornerstone of the Islamic Republic's diplomatic toolkit for four decades. 

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy announced greater security co-operation with Turkey after meeting his counterpart Tayyip Erdogan in Istanbul on Saturday, as Kyiv seeks to leverage its wartime know-how on the international stage.

Jordan's exports to European Union countries jumped 54.3% in January 2026, reaching JD 54 million compared to JD 35 million during the same period last year.

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni arrived in Doha on Saturday morning for an official working visit to Qatar, accompanied by a senior delegation.