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Middle East

  • Vessels in the Strait of Hormuz near Bandar Abbas, Iran, May 4, 2026.
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    Amirhosein Khorgooi/ISNA/Wana/Reuters
    Live Updates a min ago Oil prices drop after Trump hails ‘great progress’ in Iran talks
  • President Donald Trump speaks during a Small Business Summit in the East Room of the White House in Monday, May 4, 2026.
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    Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc./Getty Images
    Live Updates a min ago Day 67 of Middle East conflict - Marco Rubio says Operation Epic Fury in Iran ‘is over’
  • A boy sits near a motorbike as ships are anchored near the shoreline of Bandar Abbas, Iran, on April 22, 2026.
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    UN warns of ‘unprecedented’ crisis for seafarers in Persian Gulf as war strands crews at sea
  • Ships and boats in the Strait of Hormuz, Musandam, Oman, on May 1, 2026. REUTERS/Stringer/File Photo
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    Live Updates a min ago Day 66 of Middle East conflict - Iranian attacks on UAE, Trump warns against targeting US ships
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  • Israeli police detained Alex Sinclair for wearing a kippah embroidered with an Israeli and a Palestinian flag.
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  • US forces patrol the Arabian Sea near the Iranian-flagged Touska on April 20, after it attempted to evade a US naval blockade.
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  • Lebanese journalist Amal Khalil, who works for the daily Al-Akhbar newspaper, reports near a destroyed bridge in Qasmiyeh, Lebanon, Sunday, March 22, 2026.
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  • US troops boarding the M/T Tifani on Aril 21, 2026.
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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.
    Zain Jaafar/AFP/Getty Images
    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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  • A view of Iranian-flagged cargo ship M/V Touska as the US Navy Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Spruance conducts its interception in a location given as the north Arabian Sea, in this screen capture from a video released April 19, 2026.
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    Iran cargo ship seized by US could become ‘spoils of war’
  • The sun rises behind tankers anchored in the Strait of Hormuz off the coast of Qeshm Island, Iran, on Saturday, April 18.
    Asghar Besharati/AP
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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.
    Jonathan Ernst/Reuters/File
    With a ceasefire in Lebanon, Trump has forced Netanyahu’s hand – again
  • Police officers investigate discarded items in Kensington Gardens, central London.
    Jordan Pettitt/PA
    Counter-terror police investigate incident near Israeli embassy in London
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  • Israel's Military Secretary to the Prime Minister Roman Gofman waits before a joint press conference with US President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in the State Dining Room of the White House on September 29, 2025.
    Jonathan Ernst/Reuters/File
    Israel’s new spymaster is a Netanyahu aide who believed war with Iran would topple the regime
  • 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
  • South Korean President Lee Jae Myung delivers a speech at the Philippines-Korea Business Forum in Pasay, Metro Manila, Philippines, on March 4, 2026.
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    South Korea’s president draws Israeli anger by using old video to make point about human suffering
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