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As Gaza Starves and the West Bank Burns, Canada Pledges Another $100 Million for Palestinians

PARIS, June 13 -- Canada will send another 100 million dollars to Palestinians in Gaza and the occupied West Bank, money for food, medicine and shelter in two territories where, by the United Nations'... Read More


Saudi Arabia Lifts Its Five-Year Ban on Lebanese Exports as Beirut Leans Back to the Gulf

BEIRUT, June 13 -- Saudi Arabia has reopened its market to Lebanese goods after nearly five years, lifting an import ban that gutted one of the country's most important export sectors and signalling t... Read More


Under a US Dollar Squeeze, Some of Iraq's Iran-Backed Militias Agree to Disarm. The Most Powerful Refuse.

BAGHDAD, June 13 -- Several of Iraq's most powerful Iran-aligned armed factions have pledged to place their weapons under state control, a shift the government is hailing as a milestone but one that i... Read More


Trump Says He Got Everything He Wanted From Iran. Tehran Says Nothing Is Final.

New Delhi, June 13 -- President Donald Trump announced on Friday that the United States and Iran had reached a deal to end their war, that it had been approved at the highest level of Iranian leadersh... Read More


Israel Moves to Fund 61 Instant Settlements Before Its Own Election Can Stop It

JERUSALEM, June 12 -- Israel's government has set in motion the largest settlement expansion of recent decades, a plan to finance 61 new settlement sites across the occupied West Bank with mobile home... Read More


Gunfight at Sea Off Yemen: Who Really Attacked That Cargo Ship?

ADEN, June 10 -- The ship's armed security team was already on watch. At 4:30 in the morning, a small craft appeared out of the darkness carrying six men with guns, closing fast on the cargo vessel fr... Read More


Iran Says Foreign Forces Near Hormuz Are at 'Constant Risk' - and the Strait Is Not Yours to Patrol

TEHRAN, June 10 -- The helicopter was down. The two pilots were safe. But the question Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi chose to answer Tuesday was not about the accident. It was about who had ... Read More


Iran's Parliament Draws a Line: 'They Should Understand We Are Serious'

Fida Hossein Maleki, June 10 -- The warning came not from a general, not from a diplomat, but from a lawmaker seated on the body that is supposed to oversee them both. and that Washington would do we... Read More


US Strikes Iran After Apache Downing as Tehran Answers With Missiles and Drones

DUBAI, June 10 -- In the Bamani district near Sirik, on Iran's southern coast, the taps ran dry on Tuesday. Two reservoirs that fed the area had been hit in an American airstrike, and the water that f... Read More


Iran Claims 70% Strike Success. The US Says Almost Everything Was Shot Down.

New Delhi, June 10 -- The two governments cannot both be right. Either Iran punched through American air defenses across three countries in a single overnight operation, or the most advanced missile s... Read More