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  • Rescue workers extract bodies from the rubble after a previously damaged six-story building collapsed in Gaza City on Wednesday.
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    Gaza building collapse kills more than 20, dozens remain trapped under rubble
  • General view of the Grand Mosque during hajj in the holy city of Mecca, Saudi Arabia, May 29, 2026.
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    Saudi Arabia accuses Houthis of ‘red line’ attack on Mecca as rebels face outrage from Muslim world
  • Daily life continues in the strategic port city of Bandar Abbas on the Strait of Hormuz amid ongoing tensions between Iran and the United States, in Bandar Abbas, Iran on September 12, 2026.
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    Iran reports commercial vessel struck in Strait of Hormuz
  • Yemen's Houthi rebels march during a mobilization campaign in Sanaa, Yemen, Thursday, Sept. 10, 2026.
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    Why Saudi Arabia has few options in its conflict with the Houthis
  • Israel's Foreign Minister Gideon Sa'ar, left, is welcomed by his Slovenian counterpart Tone Kajzer in Ljubljana, Slovenia, Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2026. (AP Photo/Darko Bandic)
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    An ambassador in Ljubljana, but not in London: Israel’s foreign policy shifts away from longstanding allies
  • Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during a press conference in Jerusalem on March 19.
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    Netanyahu faces backlash over report he was warned of Hamas attack days before October 7
  • A boatyard that was hit by US strikes in the port city of Bandar Abbas in southern Iran on September 5, 2026.
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    Trump’s blockade pushes Iran toward military escalation
  • U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) forces struck three Iranian crude oil carriers, Sept. 5, after the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) launched ballistic missiles toward two U.S. Navy warships patrolling regional waters.
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    US military strikes three Iranian tankers in retaliation for missile attacks
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  • A young Iranian activist who was deported from the US to Bangui, in the Central African Republic.
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    She fled Iran. America sent her to Africa
  • TEL AVIV, ISRAEL - AUGUST 24: Israeli Minister of National Security, Itamar Ben Gvir, speaks during a press conference at the Etzel Museum following the discovery of the Altalena ship after 78 years at bottom of the Mediterranean sea on August 24, 2026 in Tel Aviv, Israel. The wreckage of the ship Altalena has been found fully intact at a depth of 503 metres off the coast of Israel. She was a decommissioned US Navy ship purchased by the Irgun paramilitary group that arrived during Israel's War of Independence carrying 930 Jewish immigrants and a large cargo of weapons. A dispute erupted when Irgun leader Menachem Begin demanded a portion of the arms be reserved for his units, which Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion refused, viewing it as a threat to a centralised state military. On Ben-Gurion's orders, the newly formed Israel Defense Forces shelled the ship off the Tel Aviv beach, causing an explosion that killed 16 Irgun fighters and 3 IDF soldiers before the ruined hull was later towed out and sunk. (Photo by Amir Levy/Getty Images)
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    Israel’s far-right competes for votes with increasingly extreme visions
  • Israeli soldiers secure a building under construction as ambulances evacuate injured Palestinians following an attack by Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank village of Qusra, on August 29. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)
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    Israeli settlers storm Palestinian village, seizing home with owner inside
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  • People walk next to a symbolic mockup of an Iranian missile and an Iranian flag at Imam Hussein Square in Tehran, Iran, on July 12.
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    ‘We will retaliate like an earthquake’: How Iran could respond to Trump’s economic ‘D-Day’
  • A drone view of an election billboard by Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud Party depicting Iran's Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan and Hezbollah chief Naim Qassem and a text in Hebrew that reads "They Want Netanyahu to Lose, Don't let them Win", in Tel Aviv, Israel August 17, 2026 REUTERS/Amir Cohen
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    As elections near, Netanyahu casts Turkey as Israel’s latest enemy
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  • A girl crosses a busy road at the Islamic Revolution Square in Tehran on July 21.
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    Iranian women defy efforts by hardliners to enforce wearing of hijab
  • UNSPECIFIED, ISRAEL - AUGUST 22: A view over the area where the Israeli government plans to build a new neighborhood as part of E1 settlement project, near the Jewish settlement of Ma'ale Adomim on August 22, 2025 in near Jerusalem, Israel. On Wednesday Israel approved plans put forward by far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich that would see a new Israeli settlement of 3,400 homes built east of Jerusalem in the E1 zone, effectively bisecting much of the occupied West Bank. Until now construction in the area has been prohibited for two decades, and is considered illegal under international law. The move has been condemned by the international community, with critics accusing Israel of sabotaging any prospect of a future two-state solution. (Photo by Amir Levy/Getty Images)
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    Israel moves forward with internationally condemned settlement plan that could ‘bury’ two-state solution
  • Yalda Moaiery speaks onstage during the IWMF Courage in Journalism Awards in Washington, DC, on October 23, 2023.
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    This photojournalist was sentenced to 15 years in an Iranian prison. She refuses to be silenced
  • An undated photo of Hind Rajab.
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    Israeli military admits for first time to firing on car carrying 5-year-old Hind Rajab as it opens criminal probe
  • A defaced portrait of Syria's ousted president Bashar al-Assad hangs on a wall in the capital Damascus on June 2, 2025.
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    What the death sentence for former Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad tells us about the future of the country
  • <p>The Emirati Genome Program aims to map the DNA of more than one million citizens to help create a personalized healthcare system. But what are the wider implications? CNN’s Hanako Montgomery finds out.</p>
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  • Israeli soldiers stand guard outside a Palestinian house in the village of Qusra, in the occupied West Bank, on Thursday.
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    Trapped and cut off: Palestinian families under settler siege in the West Bank
  • A satellite image shows the damaged vessel Caroline Bezengi at sea off the coast of Oman, August 13, 2026. Pléiades Neo © Airbus DS 2026/Handout via REUTERS    THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY. NO RESALES. NO ARCHIVES. MANDATORY CREDIT.
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    Huge oil spill off the coast of Oman now covers hundreds of square miles
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