Iran launched ballistic missiles and drones toward Kuwait and Bahrain on Saturday, prompting air defence responses in both Gulf nations and further straining a fragile ceasefire between Tehran and Washington.
Bahrain’s government said Iranian missiles and drones targeting Bahrain and Kuwait were successfully intercepted and called on Tehran to immediately halt attacks against its Gulf neighbours, the Associated Press reported.
Since the start of Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza, attacks by Israeli soldiers and settlers in the occupied West Bank have escalated sharply, according to Al Jazeera.
At least 1,173 Palestinians have been killed in the territory since October 7, 2023, including 244 children. More than 12,200 people have been wounded.
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has dismissed the likelihood of a meeting between the country’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and US President Donald Trump, minimising earlier assertions made by the American leader regarding a potential meeting, ANI reported.
During a media interview, Araghchi categorised any potential discussions between the two leaders as unrealistic.
“I saw a report which apparently said that he (Trump) had stated that he was ready for a meeting or that he wanted to hold a meeting. I think we should be realistic and think and live in the real world,” Araghchi stated, according to Al Jazeera.
The Pentagon has elevated concerns regarding Israeli espionage activities, warning that senior American officials could become targets of intensified surveillance amid widening strategic rifts between US President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over the conflict with Iran.
According to a report by NBC News, two current US officials and one former official revealed that the Pentagon’s Defence Intelligence Agency (DIA) has recently raised Israel’s counter-intelligence threat designation to ‘critical’, its highest internal assessment level.
U.S. consumers haven’t stopped spending money since the Iran war drove up fuel prices, but many shoppers are reassessing what they buy and where, according to company executives and retail analysts.
The behavior changes observed so far are subtle, such as altered routines for buying gasoline and fewer visits to clothing and furniture stores. They also are uneven across the population. During recent earnings calls with analysts, executives from American mainstays like Walmart, McDonald’s and Dollar General cited overall shopper resilience as well as noticeable cutbacks by lower-income customers.
It added that two rockets that crossed from Lebanon towards the country’s territory were intercepted.
Hundreds have gathered in Hebron for the funeral of seven-month-old Sam Aby Haykal, a Palestinian baby killed after Israeli soldiers opened fire on his family’s car in the occupied West Bank.
The infant was struck in the face during the incident, according to his family. His mother was also wounded and remains in hospital, while his father was injured in the hand.
In their bare-bones tent in southern Gaza, Mostafa Shaaban built his family’s makeshift toilet behind a curtain in a corner. He dug a shallow pit in the sandy soil, poured a concrete slab around it, fixed a bottomless bucket over the hole, then topped it off with a battered, plastic toilet seat, AP reports.
It reeks with a foul odor and buzzes with flies and mosquitoes only a few feet from where they sleep and prepare meals. Every week, Shaaban has to dig the sewage sludge out of the pit. But at least it’s more private than the fetid communal latrines used by hundreds of other people in their sprawling tent camp.
Etihad Airways is ordering more widebody planes as the Middle East carrier expects to be flying about 8% more than a year ago by June 15, CEO Antonoaldo Neves said in an interview.
As per Reuters, He said on the sidelines of a global gathering of airline CEOs in Brazil on Saturday that the Abu Dhabi carrier is buying widebody planes in the double digits, declining to specify further.
Amid the ongoing war in the Middle East, new reports have emerged alleging that Israeli intelligence agencies have been eavesdropping on American negotiators involved in efforts to secure a peace agreement with Iran. The incident has raised fresh concerns within the US intelligence officials about Israeli espionage activities.
According to a report by The New York Times, recent US intelligence assessments have highlighted concerns that Israel has intensified efforts to gather information about Washington’s negotiating position as talks with Tehran remain deadlocked.
Red Card Glasgow has held a vigil outside Scotland’s national stadium on Friday, remembering hundreds of Palestinian footballers killed by Israel, Al Jazeera reported.
The vigil was organised in front of the main entrance of Hampden Park Stadium in Glasgow at the same time as Scotland’s women’s team played against Israel in Hungary behind closed doors.
Pakistan’s Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi has stated that his visit to the Iranian capital is specifically aimed at conveying an official message from the top civil and military leadership of his country, according to Iran’s semi-official news agency Tasnim.
“I am in Iran to deliver a special letter from the Commander of the Army and the Prime Minister of Pakistan to Ayatollah Sayyed Mojtaba Khamenei,” Naqvi said.
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