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  • Jared Kushner, left, and Steve Witkoff, Special Envoy for Peace Missions listen as Vice President JD Vance speaks during a news conference after meeting with representatives from Pakistan and Iran, April 12, 2026 in Islamabad, Pakistan.
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    Live Updates 2 min ago Iran’s foreign minister in Islamabad as Pakistan pushes to restart peace talks
  • UN peacekeepers stand guard, as displaced people make their way back to their homes after crossing the bridge linking southern Lebanon to the rest of the country, following the ceasefire between Lebanon and Israel in Qasmiyeh, Lebanon, April 18, 2026.
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    Live Updates 2 min ago Day 56 of Middle East conflict - Uncertainty remains in US-Iran peace talks
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  • Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during a video statement on Thursday, April 16.
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  • Italian peacekeepers and a priest pose with the new statue in the Lebanese village of Debel
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    Italian peacekeepers replace Jesus statue vandalized by Israeli soldiers
  • In this picture obtained from Iran's ISNA news agency, Mojtaba Khamenei (C), son of Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, walks along a street in Tehran on May 31, 2019. (Photo by Hamid FOROUTAN / ISNA / AFP via Getty Images)
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  • Relatives mourn over the bodies of two Palestinians allegedly killed earlier in the day by Israeli settler gunfire the village of Al-Mughayyir, east of Ramallah in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, at a hospital in Ramallah on April 21, 2026.
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    Palestinian schoolboy among two killed by Israeli settlers, amid spate of attacks on education in the West Bank
  • Israeli soldiers patrol along the Israel-Lebanon border on April 10, 2026. The Israeli military said on April 10 that it had "dismantled" more than 4,300 Hezbollah sites in Lebanon since fighting with the militant group began last month. (Photo by Jalaa MAREY / AFP via Getty Images) /
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    Israel jails two soldiers who damaged and photographed a Jesus statue in Lebanon
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  • U.S. President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu hold a press conference after meeting at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach, Florida, on, December 29, 2025.
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    With a ceasefire in Lebanon, Trump has forced Netanyahu’s hand – again
  • Police officers investigate discarded items in Kensington Gardens, central London.
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    Counter-terror police investigate incident near Israeli embassy in London
  • Firefighters try to put out flames at the site of an airstrike that hit an apartment building in Beirut, Lebanon, on Wednesday, April 8. <a href="index.php?page=&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cnn.com%2F2026%2F04%2F09%2Fworld%2Flive-news%2Firan-war-trump-us-ceasefire%3Fpost-id%3Dcmnrg5ya40000356tw6nhkfw9">Iran is at odds with the US and Israel</a> over whether a two-week ceasefire applies to Israel’s military offensive targeting the Iranian-backed paramilitary group Hezbollah at Lebanon’s northern border.
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    Hospitals overwhelmed and communities destroyed: Lebanon reels from Israel’s unprecedented attacks
  • People gather around a destroyed Palestinian police jeep that was targeted by an Israeli air strike in Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip on March 22, 2026.
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    US and Hamas hold first direct talks since Gaza truce as ceasefire process stalls
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  • The USS Abraham Lincoln, USS Michael Murphy, USS Frank E. Petersen Jr., USNS Henry J. Kaiser, USNS Carl Brashear, USCG Robert Goldman and USCGC Clarence Sutphin. Jr. sail in formation in the Arabian Sea, on February 6, 2026.
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    How the US Navy could blockade Iran’s ports and sweep mines from the Strait of Hormuz
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  • Sam Rutherford, and Shannon in Scotland after crossing the Atlantic.
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    What happened when a tiny propeller plane met a US aircraft carrier in a war zone
  • Cameramen film US Vice President JD Vance's speech telecast by state run television after his meeting with Iranian officials at a media center in Islamabad on Sunday.
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    Failure of US-Iran talks is a blow to hopes of finding an off-ramp to crisis
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  • Security personnel inspect vehicles entering the Foreign Ministry office in Islamabad
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  • TOPSHOT - US journalist Shelly Kittleson poses for a picture in Baghdad on March 31, 2026. Kittleson was kidnapped on March 31, in Baghdad by a suspected Iranian-backed Iraqi armed group, the United States said, as regional security deteriorates following the US-Israeli attack on Iran. The State Department said it had warned the journalist of security risks and was working to ensure the American's release "as soon as possible". (Photo by AFP via Getty Images)
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    Rubio says kidnapped American journalist has been released by pro-Iran militia in Iraq
  • U.S. President Donald Trump, flanked by Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, speaks during a press conference in the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., April 6, 2026. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque
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  • Satellite view of Kharg Island off the coast of Iran.
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    US has struck Iranian military targets on Kharg Island. Here’s what we know about it
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