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  • Members of the Israeli special forces check the apparent remains of a ballistic missile lying on the ground before being evacuated from the location where they were found, following missile attacks by Iran on Israel, in northern Israel, June 18, 2025. REUTERS/Gil Eliyahu ISRAEL OUT. NO COMMERCIAL OR EDITORIAL SALES IN ISRAEL.     TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY
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    Western intelligence says Iran is rearming despite UN sanctions, with China’s help
  • Chief Justice of the United States John Roberts, left, and former Chief Justice of the United States William Rehnquist.
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    William Rehnquist, his clerk John Roberts and the Supreme Court precedent at the center of Trump’s tariffs case
  • Iranians walk past shops in the Grand Bazaar in Tehran on August 13, 2025. Britain, France and Germany have told the United Nations they are ready to reimpose UN-mandated sanctions on Iran over its nuclear programme if no diplomatic solution is found by the end of August, according to a joint letter obtained by AFP.
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    How Western sanctions on Iran have hurt the same middle class that drives reform
  • A woman walks past posters with the portraits of Cecile Kohler and Jacques Paris, two French citizens held in Iran, on the day of support rallies to mark their three-year detention and to demand their release, in front of the National Assembly in Paris, France, May 7, 2025. The slogan reads "Freedom for Cecile Kohler and Jacques Paris". REUTERS/Abdul Saboor
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    Iranian court gives lengthy jail sentences to two French citizens on spying charges
  • US President Trump along with mediators Egypt, Qatar and Turkey sign document on Gaza ceasefire deal
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    Live Updates Israeli hostages and Palestinian detainees released as mediators sign Trump’s Gaza ceasefire deal
  • TOPSHOT - People wave US and Israeli flags at Hostage Square in Tel Aviv on October 9, 2025, following the announcement of a new Gaza ceasefire deal. Israel and Hamas on October 9 agreed a Gaza ceasefire deal to free the remaining living hostages, in a major step towards ending a war that has killed tens of thousands of people and unleashed a humanitarian catastrophe. (Photo by Jack GUEZ / AFP) (Photo by JACK GUEZ/AFP via Getty Images)
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    Live Updates October 9, 2025 - Israel-Hamas war
  • People embrace next to memorials of victims of the 2023 October 7 attacks at the Nova Festival grounds in Reim in southern Israel on the second anniversary of the attacks on October 7, 2025. Israel marks the second anniversary of the October 7, 2023 attack as Hamas and Israeli negotiators hold indirect talks to end the two-year war in Gaza under a US-proposed peace plan. Two years prior to the day, at the close of the Jewish festival of Sukkot, Hamas-led militants launched a massive assault on Israel, making it the deadliest day in the country's history. (Photo by JOHN WESSELS / AFP) (Photo by JOHN WESSELS/AFP via Getty Images)
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  • IMPERIAL BEACH, CALIFORNIA - AUGUST 17: A U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Border Patrol agent stands at Border Field State Park with the US-Mexico border wall in the background on August 17, 2025 in Imperial Beach, California. (Photo by Kevin Carter/Getty Images)
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    Dozens of Iranians to be deported from US to Iran, Tehran says
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  • Oliver North, left, and Fawn Hall, both pictured in 1987.
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    Oliver North marries Fawn Hall, his document-shredding secretary at the center of Iran-Contra scandal
    Sep 9, 2025
  • President Donald Trump signs an executive order in the Oval Office of the White House, Friday, September 5, 2025.
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    Trump signs executive order creating ‘state sponsor of wrongful detention’ designation
    Sep 5, 2025
  • There is a proposal being floated barring Iranian diplomats from shopping at big, members-only wholesale stores like Costco and Sam’s Club without first receiving the express permission of the State Department.
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    US considers banning Iranian diplomats from shopping at Costco during UN meeting
    Sep 5, 2025
  • Russian President Vladimir Putin and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un sit in a vehicle during their visit to Beijing to attend China's commemoration of the 80th anniversary of the end of World War Two, in Beijing on September 3, 2025.
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    A parade and a summit in China underscore how European security will never be the same again
    Sep 4, 2025
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  • <p>President Trump’s transactional approach to foreign policy has led to an enormous diplomatic achievement, Fareed says, as Israel and Hamas have agreed to a ceasefire and hostage release deal. Fareed breaks down what the deal reveals about the new Middle East, and argues that, going forward, peace will require not just a transactional deal but a vision for the future.</p>
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    Video Fareed’s take: What the Gaza ceasefire reveals about the new Middle East 5:40
    Oct 12, 2025
  • <p>Watch CNN's Fred Pleitgen describe how a building in the Iranian capital was badly damaged by an airstrike and speak to residents who witnessed the blast.</p>
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    Video CNN goes inside building hit by an Israeli airstrike in Iran 1:49
    Sep 24, 2025
  • <p>Fareed asks former Mossad Director Yossi Cohen about the future of the Iranian regime and whether it will persist in the long term.</p>
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    Video On GPS: Former Mossad director on the Iranian regime’s survival 4:32
    Sep 21, 2025
  • <p>As the IAEA looks to start inspections in Iran, the EU triggers a sanctions snapback mechanism, giving Iran and the EU 30 days for diplomacy. International Atomic Energy Agency chief Rafael Grossi discusses it with Becky Anderson.</p>
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    Video EU triggers a U.N. mechanism to re-impose sanctions on Iran 4:32
    Aug 28, 2025

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