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U.S. President Donald Trump said on Wednesday Washington will strike Iran "extremely hard" over the next two to three weeks and hit the country into the "Stone Ages."

Thousands of Christians still living in a cluster of towns along Lebanon's southern border say they are trapped and terrified after an Israeli military advance nearby triggered the withdrawal of Lebanese troops from the area.

In a ruling that exposes the staggering dysfunction at the heart of the French justice system, the Court of Cassation has annulled the conditional release granted last July to Georges Ibrahim Abdallah, the Lebanese terrorist convicted of complicity in the murders of two diplomats in 1982. 

Iran's new leader has just asked the United States for a ceasefire, U.S. President Donald Trump said in a Truth Social post on Wednesday.

The Jordan Armed Forces announced Wednesday that the Royal Jordanian Air Force successfully intercepted a missile launched from Iran and two drones that had targeted Jordanian territory, in operations carried out over the preceding 24 hours.

Dubai Taxi Company (DTC) and Chinese tech giant Baidu have officially launched commercial driverless taxi services in Dubai through the Apollo Go platform,  a deployment that positions the emirate at the cutting edge of next-generation mobility.

In a precise overnight strike, the Israeli Navy has eliminated Haj Youssef Ismail Hashem, commander of Hezbollah's Southern Front, in the Jnah neighbourhood of southern Beirut. 

Spanish police launched an investigation on Wednesday into Islamophobic and xenophobic chants during Tuesday's friendly against Egypt which also drew sharp criticism from Spain's  football officials and the government.

France suspects a pro-Iranian group known as HAYI to be behind a foiled attack on Bank of America's Paris offices, its anti-terrorism prosecutor said on Wednesday, although it stressed the link has not yet been formally established.

Hundreds of Serbian students clashed with police on Tuesday during a protest against a police search of University of Belgrade offices, which inflamed tensions between authorities and anti-government activists that have flared up regularly for more than a year.

Iran has struck a Qatar Energy tanker with a ballistic missile inside Qatari territorial waters, a brazen attack on a country that, until recently, maintained cordial relations with Tehran.

Dubai-based airline Emirates' website said on Wednesday that Iranian nationals were not allowed to enter or transit the United Arab Emirates.