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Middle East
Iran warns US to 'be careful' after Trump threat
Iran's chief negotiator Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf on Sunday warned the United States against making threats at the Islamic republic, vow...
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Lebanon
Trump threatens to bomb Iran if it doesn't stop Hezbollah from 'causing trouble'
U.S. President Donald Trump said Sunday in a surprising statement that "Iran must immediately stop their highly paid PROXIES in Lebanon from ca...
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Lebanon
Cautious calm engulfs south Lebanon as ceasefire appears to hold
Cautious calm has been engulfing south Lebanon since Saturday, after Israel's political leadership ordered its army to cease its operations, re...
A senior Iranian military officer said on Saturday that renewed fighting between the U.S. and Iran was "likely", hours after President Donald Trump said he was "not satisfied" with a new Iranian negotiating proposal.
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U.S. President Donald Trump said on Friday the U.S. Navy was acting "like pirates" as he described an operation seizing a ship amid the tit-for-tat American blockade of Iranian ports.
"We... land on top of it and we took over the ship. We took over the cargo, took over the oil. It's a very profitable business," Trump said at a rally in Florida.
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U.S. President Donald Trump said Friday that he was "not satisfied" with a new Iranian negotiating proposal, with peace talks between the two sides frozen despite a weeks-long ceasefire.
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Iran has delivered a new proposal for talks with the United States via mediator Pakistan, state media reported on Friday.
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The United Arab Emirates foreign ministry has announced a travel ban on Emirati nationals going to Iran, Lebanon and Iraq, citing regional developments including the Middle East war.
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Lebanon's health ministry said six people were killed in an Israeli strike on the village of Zebdine, raising the number of people killed in raids on the country's south on Thursday to at least 15.
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FIFA President Gianni Infantino reiterated that Iran will play their World Cup games in the United States as scheduled as football's power-brokers met in Vancouver on Thursday.
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Iraqi Prime Minister-designate Ali al-Zaidi received a call from U.S. President Donald Trump, who congratulated him on his nomination and invited him to the U.S. once his government is formed, his office announced Thursday.
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Tehran's air defenses were activated to counter small aircraft and drones late Thursday, as the White House signalled that it will not be reined in by a congressional deadline on the Iran war.
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The U.S. embassy in Beirut said on Thursday that Lebanon was at a crossroads and urged a meeting between President Joseph Aoun and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
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