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Ahead of attending the long-awaited G7 summit in Évian, US President Donald Trump has announced a peace deal with Iran could be finalised on Sunday, paving the way for the opening of the Strait of Hormuz. “The Deal is scheduled to get signed tomorrow, and immediately after it is signed, the Hormuz Strait is OPEN TO ALL,” Trump said in a post on his Truth Social platform on Saturday. Donald Trump also says the US will take Iran’s enriched uranium ‘dust’ when ‘all is calm’. Trump’s statement, however, ran counter to Iran’s foreign ministry which indicated earlier in the day…
Carney touted “the possibility of a more durable ceasing of hostilities,” and he described G7 host France’s planned inclusion of the leaders of Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates in an expanded summit format as “timely.” But Carney emphasized any credible deal would require “a broader cessation of hostilities, including in Lebanon.” Martin — whose government has been sharply critical of Israel, which shut its Irish embassy in protest — concurred, saying it would be “extremely important that Lebanon is included in the peace process. Lebanese sovereignty is absolutely essential.” Lebanon is of particular importance to Ireland,…
U.S. President Donald Trump said Saturday that an agreement with Iran is scheduled to be signed Sunday, potentially marking the culmination of months of negotiations that repeatedly veered between threats of military action and promises of a diplomatic breakthrough. “The Deal is scheduled to get signed tomorrow,” the president wrote on Truth Social, adding that the Strait of Hormuz would be “OPEN TO ALL” immediately following the signing of the deal. Iran has not confirmed a deal has been reached, but Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said Friday that a deal “has never been closer.” Iranian state-run media has at times described…
Published on 13/06/2026 – 15:13 GMT+2 Kyiv and Moscow traded strikes overnight and into Saturday morning, local authorities said, with multiple people injured in southeastern Ukraine and one killed in southern Russia. Oleksandr Hanzha, the head of the Dnipropetrovsk Regional State Administration, said nine people were injured in an attack on Ukraine’s Dnipropetrovsk Oblast. Russia targeted three districts with more than 20 strikes, using drones and aerial bombs, Hanzha said in a post on Telegram. One 40-year-old man was taken to hospital and is in a critical condition, he added. The local governor of Russia’s Krasnodar Krai region, Veniamin Kondratyev,…
By Farsi team Published on 13/06/2026 – 16:16 GMT+2•Updated 16:24 The funeral ceremonies for Ali Khamenei, the former leader of the Islamic Republic, will be held from July 4 to July 9. Khamenei was killed on February 28, 2026, in the opening hours of a joint U.S.-Israeli attack on Iran, along with a number of senior officials and military commanders. According to a statement by the committee in charge of commemorating Iran’s former leader, his body will lie in state at the Tehran Mosalla on July 4 and 5, 2026. According to the same announcement, a funeral procession for Ali Khamenei…
After stand-in forward Jovo Lukić headed in a corner kick in the 21st minute for Bosnia and Herzegovina in its World Cup opener against one of the host nations Canada on Friday, a small yet vibrant group of Bosnian fans erupted in joy at the Toronto Stadium. The Western Balkan nation of some 3 million has been anxiously awaiting its World Cup appearance — only its second since declaring independence from the former Yugoslavia in 1992, triggering a bloody four-year war within weeks — after it came up big, eliminating four-time champion Italy in the European playoffs with a feverish…
A nuclear detonation in space would not look like a conventional strike on Earth. But its effects could be devastating for modern societies and militaries that rely on satellites for communications, navigation, banking, transport, weather forecasting and military targeting. “If something similar to Starfish Prime happened today,” Traut said, referring to a 1962 U.S. high-altitude nuclear test, “up to one-third of all satellites in low-Earth orbit” could stop functioning over the following weeks and months. That, he warned, would worsen the problem of space debris and increase the risk of cascading collisions — the so-called Kessler effect. “It is even…
European politicians have sounded the alarm on sovereign AI after US firm Anthropic announced it was halting access to some of its top AI models following a directive from the Trump administration. The company said late on Friday that it had received a letter from the government ordering it to suspend access to its Fable 5 and Mythos 5 AI models for foreign nationals over national security concerns. “The net effect of this order is that we must abruptly disable Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for all our customers to ensure compliance,” Anthropic said. The news has prompted a wave…
Which city will be next to follow suit? After several major conurbations such as Toulouse or Clermont-Ferrand, Moulins (19,000 inhabitants) on Friday in turn introduced (source in French) a night-time curfew for under-16s for the duration of the FIFA World Cup. The move follows several episodes of urban violence in recent weeks, notably after PSG’s victory in the Champions League. In the Pink City, the effects of this curfew will be seen for the first time on Saturday evening, during the much-anticipated clash between Brazil and Morocco. The municipality led by Jean-Luc Moudenc, a centre-right politician, explains (source in French)…
Sweden said on Saturday that it scrambled JAS 39 Gripen fighter jets the day before to intercept Russian military aircraft that appeared to be flying near Swedish borders. The Swedish military reported in a statement that there were two separate incidents on Friday when Russian Su-24 and Su-34 fighter jets flew in the Baltic Sea region, but never entered Swedish airspace. “Russia’s actions are serious and are a recurring behavior that threatens both our territorial integrity and security,” Vice Admiral Ewa Skoog Haslum, chief the armed forces operations command, said in a statement. “Swedish and allied fighter aircraft acted quickly,…