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Small gestures sometimes say a lot: In his appearances since 2021, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei increasingly referred to himself when talking about the state. In late 2023, he even said that God had spoken through him. He recalled how more than 20 years ago, he had started to share an inspiring message with the Revolutionary Guard

The US military said on Saturday that it had received no reports of combat casualties after Iran launched hundreds of missiles and drones at Israel and Gulf states in retaliation for a major US-Israeli attack.  "Following the initial wave of U.S. and partner strikes, CENTCOM forces successfully defended against hundreds of Iranian missile and drone attacks. There have been no reports

On the morning of February 28, at around 8 a.m. local time, the first warning messages were sent to mobile phones throughout Israel. All residents were instructed to immediately seek shelter and await further instruction. Around the same time, Defense Minister Israel Katz declared a nationwide state of emergency. He said that a "preemptive strike" had

"Significant progress" had been made during talks in Geneva, Omani Foreign Minister Badr al-Busaidi said on Friday. His country mediated negotiations between the United States and Iran, with the latter offering assurances that it would not seek to acquire nuclear material for the production of an atomic bomb. This commitment was a "very important breakthrough" that

After Israel launched "preemptive strikes" against Iran on Saturday morning, President Donald Trump announced in a speech that "major combat operations" by the US were also underway. "Our objective is to defend the American people by eliminating imminent threats from the Iranian ⁠regime," Trump said in a video shared on social ⁠media, vowing to destroy

Pakistan and Afghanistan continued to exchange strikes on Saturday, offering conflicting reports on their progress and discrediting each others' versions of events. Pakistan's Information Minister Attaullah Tarar said on Saturday that over 331 Afghan Taliban forces had been killed and more than 500 wounded during ongoing airstrikes and clashes with Afghanistan. He added that air attacks targeted infrastructure

It was apparently meant as a joke but nobody in Iceland found it funny. In January, Billy Long, US President Donald Trump's nominee for ambassador to the Nordic island nation joked to some members of the US Congress that Iceland should become the 52nd US state and that he would be governor. There was immediate

In the early hours of Wednesday, a speedboat carrying 10 Cuban exiles drew near the coast of Cuba. It appears to have set out from Florida . It was intercepted by a patrol boat of the Cuban coastguard. There was an exchange of fire that left four people in the speedboat dead and the other six injured.

As the fallout from today's US-backed Israeli strikes on Iran unfolds, Lebanon's situation remains particularly precarious. Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salam has repeatedly said that his country will not interfere in foreign disputes. Earlier this week, he urged Hezbollah to not drag Lebanon into "another adventure." In January, Naim Qassem, secretary-general of the Iran-backed Hezbollah group, said that any US attack on Iran

It sounds like the plot of a screenplay, but it happened to two Berlin film students in real life.  Moritz Henneberg and Julius Drost had created an animated short film for their final project at university. "Butty" tells the tale of a household robot that gets kicked out when it can 't  do its job properly. When t he two