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Iran Parliament Confirms $2 Million Per Vessel From Hormuz Fees - and Shipping Firms Face a Sanctions Trap

New Delhi, June 7 -- The number surfaced not from a government ministry or an IRGC press briefing, but from a budget committee. Mohsen Zanganeh, a member of the Iranian parliament's Planning and Budge... Read More


IDF Strikes Dahiyeh Again as Netanyahu Vows No Sanctuary for Hezbollah Command Centers

That sequence, June 7 -- The smoke had not finished rising from the last round of strikes on Dahiyeh when the next order came down. On Sunday afternoon, Israeli forces hit what the Israeli military de... Read More


Sri Lanka's Anti-Corruption Blitz Claims Officials from Motor Traffic to Parliament

The commission, June 7 -- The bureaucrat who signed off on an irregular vehicle transfer in 2017 did not expect to face handcuffs nearly a decade later. Neither, perhaps, did the finance official at a... Read More


Inside the Bomb Lab That Greek Intelligence Found Before the Ship Arrived

ATHENS, June 7 -- The apartment on Acharnon Street in the Kato Patisia district of Athens looked like any other rented flat in the middle of a working-class neighbourhood. But when Greek counterterror... Read More


Hamas Member Arrested in Crete Had Athens Bomb Lab and Cruise Ship Target, Greek Police Say

HERAKLION, June 7 -- He had kept a low profile for nearly two years, renting a room in the eastern Cretan town of Agios Nikolaos while working seasonal shifts at a nearby hotel. His Athens apartment, ... Read More


Pakistan Delivers Joint Military-Civilian Message to Iran's Supreme Leader as Nuclear Deal Stalls

New Delhi, June 7 -- The envelope reached Iran's foreign minister on a Sunday morning, but its intended recipient has not been seen in public since February 28, the day the war began. Pakistan's Inter... Read More


Iran Accuses US of Ceasefire Violations, Warns of Escalation After Radar Strikes

TEHRAN, June 7 -- The warning arrived in the language of formal diplomatic censure, but the message was unambiguous: Iran's Foreign Ministry declared Saturday that the United States had become the reg... Read More


Israel's Anti-Corruption Unit Questions Three Senior Government Officials, Including a Ministry Director General

New Delhi, June 7 -- The official had, according to Israeli police, a straightforward goal: keep a colleague from being dismissed. What he is suspected of doing to achieve it is why three senior gover... Read More


North Korea's Defense Ministry Escalates Arms Rhetoric as US Approves $106M Precision Bomb Sale to Seoul

New Delhi, June 7 -- The complaint came not from a diplomat but from a weapons official, and the target was not a missile or a warship but a bomb-guidance kit. That distinction, buried in a Sunday dis... Read More


Two Israeli Soldiers Killed in Lebanon as Ceasefire Collapses Into Daily Attrition

BEIRUT, June 7 -- Cpt. Shahar Gamla did not die immediately. The 23-year-old deputy squad commander in the Commando Brigade's Egoz Unit was struck by a Hezbollah drone in the hills of southern Lebanon... Read More