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  • Excavators remove rubble from destroyed buildings that were hit by Israeli airstrikes on Thursday, as rescuers search for victims in the city of Tyre, southern Lebanon, Saturday, April 18, 2026. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)
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    Live Updates 50 min ago Trump says ‘no time frame’ on Iran war as blockade standoff stalls talks
  • A satellite view of the Strait of Hormuz, a strategic waterway between Iran and Oman that links the Persian Gulf to the Arabian Sea. This vital energy chokepoint handles nearly 20% of global oil and 25% of liquefied natural gas exports, on January 11, 2025. Major exporters using the strait include Saudi Arabia, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Qatar, and the UAE.
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    Live Updates 50 min ago Day 54 of Middle East conflict - Trump says no timeline
  • 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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    Lebanese PM accuses Israel of war crimes after strike kills journalist
  • Commuters make their way past a giant billboard of slain Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei at the Valiasr Square in Tehran on April 19, 2026. The strategic Strait of Hormuz was again closed on April 19 in the stand-off between Iran and the United States, with Iran's powerful parliament speaker signalling a final peace deal remained "far" off despite some movement in negotiations.
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  • US troops boarding the M/T Tifani on Aril 21, 2026.
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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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  • 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
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    Why are some ships going through the Strait of Hormuz during a blockade?
  • 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.
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    Israel’s new spymaster is a Netanyahu aide who believed war with Iran would topple the regime
  • 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
  • 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
  • Security personnel inspect vehicles entering the Foreign Ministry office in Islamabad
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  • A new Israeli settlement near Nablus, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, on Thursday.
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    Israeli government secretly approves over 30 new settler outposts
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  • Iranians react after a ceasefire announcement at the Enqelab square, in Tehran, on April 8, 2026.
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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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  • Iranian state media released photos on April 3, of what it claimed is the wreckage of a US Air Force fighter jet downed by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. The debris is consistent with US Air Force F-15.
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  • A woman uses a smartphone to record the damage at an impact site, following a barrage of missiles launched from Iran, amid the U.S.-Israeli conflict with Iran, in Ramat Gan, Israel, April 4, 2026.
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    As the Iran war drags on, Israeli solidarity comes under strain
  • Pope Leo XIV presides over the solemn liturgy of the Lord's Passion on Good Friday in St. Peter's Basilica on April 03, 2026 in Vatican City, Vatican. The Church celebrates the Solemn Liturgy of the Passion of the Lord, consisting of three parts: the Liturgy of the Word, culminating in the chanting of the Passion according to St. John; the Adoration of the Cross; and reception of Holy Communion.
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    Not in God’s name: How Pope Leo is pushing back on divine justification of war
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