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Israeli army says it used 15 jets on attacks against western Iran The Israeli military said on Friday that it has used 15 fighter jets and more than 30 weapons in the latest wave of strikes against Iran It said the attacks targeted “missile launch sites”. Earlier, it said that it intercepted 15 Iranian drones. Israel’s attacks on Iran have killed hundreds of civilians over the past week.
Published on: June 20, 2025 | Source:On World Refugee Day, scores of families approved for resettlement in US are stuck in limbo Submitted by Syma Mohammed on Fri, 06/20/2025 - 19:51 A lawsuit challenging Trump's executive order banning refugees offers hope to families who had been approved for resettlement in US A sign at the United Methodist building reads 'Immigrants and Refugees are Welcome Here' next to the US Supreme Court, on 25 April 2018, in...
Published on: June 20, 2025 | Source:Liverpool pay club record fee to Bayer Leverkusen for signing of German international midfielder Florian Wirtz.
Published on: June 20, 2025 | Source:Iran and Israel clashed at the UN. Tehran vowed self-defence, Israel pledged strikes until Iran’s “nuclear threat” ends.
Published on: June 20, 2025 | Source:Here are the key events on day eight of the Israel-Iran conflict.
Published on: June 20, 2025 | Source:Yashasvi Jaiswal and captain Shubman Gill both score centuries for India on the first day of their Test tour of England.
Published on: June 20, 2025 | Source:‘Israel’s doing well in terms of war,’ says Trump US President Donald Trump said on Friday that “Israel’s doing well in terms of war, and I think you would say that Iran is doing less well”. He added that he “might” support a ceasefire deal. And when answering a question of a reporter who asked him to comment on Tulsi Gabbard, the US director of national intelligence’s claim that there is no evidence that Iran is...
Published on: June 20, 2025 | Source:Judge orders immediate release of Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil Submitted by MEE staff on Fri, 06/20/2025 - 19:20 The Columbia University graduate will hold his newborn son for the first time since being taken into detention Department of Homeland Security police officers stand guard as protesters take part in a rally organised by Jewish activists against the detention of Palestinian activist and Columbia...
Published on: June 20, 2025 | Source:A Ukrainian woman was rescued from a burning building after it was targeted during a deadly Russian strike on Odesa.
Published on: June 20, 2025 | Source:Israel says ‘ready for a prolonged campaign’ against Iran Israeli military chief Eyal Zamir said on Friday that his country should be “ready for a prolonged campaign” against Iran. “We have embarked on the most complex campaign in our history to remove a threat of such magnitude, against such an enemy. We must be ready for a prolonged campaign,” Zamir said in a video statement. He added: “The campaign is not over....
Published on: June 20, 2025 | Source:The court declined to fast-track the review of the dispute over Trump having legal power to impose broad tariffs.
Published on: June 20, 2025 | Source:'Not our war': US lawmakers attempt to rein in potential strikes on Iran Submitted by Yasmine El-Sabawi on Thu, 06/19/2025 - 20:36 Legislators are trying to assert to the US president, and the public, that only Congress authorises war US Democratic Senator Tim Kaine takes questions from reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, on 19 May 2025 (Nathan Howard/Reuters) Off Two US lawmakers in the House of...
Published on: June 20, 2025 | Source:Israel blocks thousands of Palestinians from performing Friday prayers at Al-Aqsa Mosque Submitted by Lubna Masarwa on Fri, 06/20/2025 - 12:34 Israel continues restrictions at Islam's holy site, with Palestinians fearing Israel's hostilities with Iran are being exploited to tighten control over site Israeli security forces stand outside the empty Damascus Gate of the old city walls of Jerusalem, on 13 June 2025 (Ahmad...
Published on: June 20, 2025 | Source:Trump revives old grievance as White House consumed by decision on whether to get directly involved in Israel-Iran war.
Published on: June 20, 2025 | Source:US judge orders release of pro-Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil A US judge on Friday ordered that pro-Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil be released from custody. Khalil was arrested by immigration agents in his Columbia University residence in Manhattan on 8 March for his pro-Palestinian advocacy against Israel’s war in Gaza during encampments that swept across the US last year. When the student protests began at...
Published on: June 20, 2025 | Source:Divisions and anxiety rise in Europe over hostilities in the Middle East.
Published on: June 20, 2025 | Source:Hundreds of thousands of Iranians were seen protesting in cities across Iran on Friday over continued Israeli attacks.
Published on: June 20, 2025 | Source:Palestine Action to be proscribed as a terror group after break-in at UK's largest airbase Submitted by Imran Mulla on Fri, 06/20/2025 - 18:35 Pro-Palestine activists on electric scooters damaged two RAF planes at Brize Norton airbase A Palestine Action activist approaches an RAF plane on an electric scooter (Palestine Action) Off The British government will move to ban the activist group Palestine Action and proscribe...
Published on: June 20, 2025 | Source:Israeli official wanted by ICC sparks outrage online after column in major British paper Submitted by Reem Aouir on Fri, 06/20/2025 - 16:08 The Times newspaper is under fire for publishing a column co-authored by Yoav Gallant, wanted by the ICC for war crimes Traffic moves past a billboard bearing the images of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (L) and former Defence Minister Yoav Galant, with a message in...
Published on: June 20, 2025 | Source:Iran ready for negotiations if aggression stops, says Iranian foreign minister Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said on Friday that his country is ready to start negotiations if Israel stops its attacks. “Iran is ready to consider diplomacy once again - once the aggression is stopped and the aggressor is held accountable for the crimes committed,” Araghchi told reporters in Geneva. He said that “Iran’s nuclear...
Published on: June 20, 2025 | Source:The wife of the jailed Columbia University graduate student says the family 'can finally breathe a sigh of relief'.
Published on: June 20, 2025 | Source:US diplomat Dorothy Shea accidentally stated Israel’s government had “spread chaos, terror and suffering.”
Published on: June 20, 2025 | Source:IAEA’s Grossi and Security Council members urge diplomacy as Israel strikes at heart of Iran’s nuclear capability.
Published on: June 20, 2025 | Source:Iraqi air space violated, says Iraq’s representative to UN Abbas al-Fatlawi, the Iraqi representative to the United Nations, said on Friday that his country’s airspace had been breached ahead of the UN Security Council meeting held earlier today. The aircraft flew from the Syrian-Jordanian border areas, according to Fatlawi. “Twenty aeroplanes started, followed by 30 aeroplanes heading to the south of Iraq, and they...
Published on: June 20, 2025 | Source:We compare and contrast Israel’s outrage over Soroka with its own repeated strikes on Gaza hospitals.
Published on: June 20, 2025 | Source:Ross Barkan on the internal conflict in the Trump administration over joining Israel's attack on Iran.
Published on: June 20, 2025 | Source:Supreme Court has revived lawsuits against Palestinian authorities from Americans killed or wounded in Middle East.
Published on: June 20, 2025 | Source:UK could ban Palestinian Action group following RAF air base break in The Palestinian Action group, a pro-Palestinian protest group, could be banned in the UK and be defined as a "terrorist" organisation, according to the BBC. The move comes shortly after the group said on Friday that two of its members broke into a UK RAF air base on scooters, and defaced two military aircraft with red spray paint, in a breach of...
Published on: June 20, 2025 | Source:President Vladimir Putin tells attendees at St Petersburg Economic Forum that Moscow needs 'balanced growth'.
Published on: June 20, 2025 | Source:Israel and the US can’t and shouldn’t try to force regime change in Iran, said Haaretz columnist Gideon Levy.
Published on: June 20, 2025 | Source:European diplomats are meeting Iran’s foreign minister in Geneva on Friday in an attempt to find a way to end the curren
Published on: June 20, 2025 | Source:The dispute centred on an exception granted to California on national vehicle emission standards.
Published on: June 20, 2025 | Source:Gaza: Doctors Under Attack, which was due to air in February, was made by an independent company.
Published on: June 20, 2025 | Source:The Hamas-run health ministry says more than 400 Palestinians have been killed in this way since late May.
Published on: June 20, 2025 | Source:A White House spokesperson says President Trump will decide whether to attack Iran “within two weeks."
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