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A bomb blast at a crowded cafe in central Damascus killed at least five people and wounded 16 others on Thursday, Syrian state media reported.

Syria's foreign minister said during a visit to Beirut on Thursday that Damascus was open to meeting the Iran-backed Lebanese group Hezbollah "if interests require it", Lebanon's state news agency reported.

While France severs diplomatic ties with Burkina Faso and Western nations distance themselves from Ouagadougou's military junta, Israel is quietly moving in the opposite direction.

Syria's foreign minister travelled to Beirut on Thursday to meet Lebanese government leaders, in his first visit there since U.S. President Donald Trump raised the possibility of Syrian forces combating Iran-backed Hezbollah in Lebanon.

Iran's chief nuclear negotiator and Parliament Speaker Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf called Thursday on all Iranians to attend the funeral of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, killed in Israeli-American strikes in late February, using the occasion to issue a call for revenge.

The United States signed an agreement Wednesday to build its permanent embassy in Jerusalem, cementing in stone and steel a political decision that Donald Trump first made during his initial term in office.

Iran and the United States concluded a round of indirect talks on Wednesday with no sign they had made headway toward a lasting peace, focusing instead on issues that they had supposedly resolved two weeks ago.

Royal Air Maroc (RAM) announced Wednesday it will operate 12 special direct flights between Casablanca and Houston to carry Moroccan supporters to their team's Round-of-16 clash against Canada on Saturday.

A reparations law granting descendants of Spaniards the right to citizenship has sparked a heated political debate as right-wing opposition figures accuse the government of trying to sway next year’s election with new voters.

Jean-Luc Mélenchon, leader of La France Insoumise and France's most prominent hard-left politician, is now the subject of a criminal complaint for apology of terrorism filed by three French victims of the October 7 Hamas massacre.

President Donald Trump said on Wednesday the United States was getting along very well with Iran and that recent meetings in Qatar went well.

The U.S. and Iran held technical talks in Doha on Wednesday as they seek to agree on the flow of shipping through the Strait of Hormuz and secure a lasting ceasefire, a source with direct knowledge of the talks and an Iranian official said.