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Turkey’s potential move comes as the island, split between a Turkish-backed breakaway state in the north and the Greek-speaking EU member state of Cyprus in the south, has been targeted in a series of drone and missile strikes since the U.S.-Israeli attacks on Iran started a week ago. The Republic of Cyprus houses the British airbase at Akrotiri, which was targeted by drones in the opening days of the Israeli-U.S. campaign against Iran. The Iranian threat to Cyprus has triggered various European countries, including Greece, France and the U.K., to move military hardware toward the eastern Mediterranean island. On Monday,…
The Israeli military ramped up strikes on southern and eastern Lebanon overnight into Saturday as it continues to clash with Hezbollah militants in the area. The bombing campaign intensified on Friday night when Israeli forces struck the town Nabi Chit in the eastern Baalbek district at least 12 times, with Hezbollah saying Israeli troops infiltrated the town from the air. On Saturday, Lebanon’s health ministry said the strikes had killed at least 41 people. “The series of raids launched by the Israeli enemy on the town of Nabi Chit and surrounding towns in the Baalbek district resulted in a total…
Russian missiles and drones claimed the lives of at least seven people, including children, in the city of Kharkiv, as Moscow’s forces attacked civilian infrastructure across Ukraine, according to Ukrainian officials. The overnight attacks, which involved 480 drones and 29 missiles, also caused casualties in the capital Kyiv as well as Odessa and Dnipro, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on his Telegram channel. In Kharkiv, a Russian ballistic missile partially destroyed a residential apartment building, killing civilians, said Zelenskyy. The Ukrainian president said that emergency responders were still combing the rubble in the search of victims.
By Sasha Vakulina & Lilly Douse Published on 07/03/2026 – 14:38 GMT+1•Updated 14:40 Euronews journalist Lilly Douse was travelling from Dubai International Airport on Saturday morning when the Iranian drone attacked the vicinity of the compound. Douse had already boarded her flight to Cape Town when, suddenly, all the passengers were rushed to disembark, return to the airport and seek shelter as soon as possible, guided by airport staff. Douse reported that everyone was being evacuated and told to leave from the gate to seek shelter. As she filmed the dramatic events, she said that at first people did not really understand exactly…
U.S. President Donald Trump said an apology by Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian to neighboring countries on Saturday is a sign Tehran has “surrendered,” while also promising to escalate the U.S.-led bombing campaign against the Islamic Republic. In a post on Truth Social Saturday, Trump dismissed the public apology from Pezeshkian, who said earlier Saturday that his country regrets the retaliatory strikes that Iran has conducted on its neighbors in response to the U.S.-Israeli military campaign against Iran. The U.S. president said the American military will be ramping up its attacks soon, posting: “Today Iran will be hit very hard!” He…
This Sunday’s vote in Baden-Württemberg — a state of some 11 million people and the cradle of Germany’s increasingly troubled auto industry — is the first in a series of five state votes seen as key tests of the national mood, particularly as the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) vies for first place in many national polls. For most of Germany’s postwar history, national elections have been dominated by either the the center-right Christian Democrats or the center-left Social Democrats, with the FDP choosing at varying times to form coalition governments with both of these parties. It served as a junior…
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian issued a direct apology to his country’s neighbors on Saturday as Israeli fighter jets unleashed a massive overnight bombardment on the Iranian capital. In a prerecorded address broadcast on state television, Pezeshkian said that he would seek to to deescalate tensions with Iran’s neighbors following a week of cross-border missile and drone exchanges. The Iranian president said that the country’s interim leaderhip council, appointed after the killing of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei last Saturday, had approved a new directive on responding to military threats, according to a copy of the remarks published by state-controlled broadcaster…
In a significant development that is expected to bring relief to the Gulf states and to rattled energy markets, Iran’s president Masoud Pezeshkian announced on Saturday that the interim leadership council decided and instructed Iran’s armed forces that “from now on they should not attack neighboring countries or fire missiles at them, unless we are attacked from those countries.” In addition, Pezeshkian apologised to Iran’s neighbours explaining that “what happened was that our commanders and our leader lost their lives following the barbaric aggression and our armed forces, the champions that are sacrificing their lives to defend our territorial integrity,…
The Dutch leader also questioned what the ultimate objective of the U.S.-Israeli military campaign is. “The main question remains: when will the attacks be considered successful?” Jetten said, adding that, before being able to pass judgment on whether or not his government is supportive of the methods chosen by the U.S. and Israel in Iran, they will need to “understand what the intentions and goals are with these attacks.” After days of mixed signals from the White House on the justifications and aims of the war on Iran, Trump on Friday said his administration’s ultimate goal is “unconditional surrender” by…
Updated: 07/03/2026 – 10:21 GMT+1 Three people were killed and 12 others injured after a tornado was believed to have struck the Union Lake area in the US state, authorities said. Powerful storms swept across the state on Friday, damaging buildings and knocking down trees as tornado warnings were issued across southern Michigan. … More