Middle East

The satellite images, taken by Maxar Technologies, show construction ongoing on the wall, which sits along the Sheikh Zuweid-Rafah Road, some 3.5 kilometres west of the border with Gaza.

The overall commander of the mission will be Greek, while the lead officer in operational control at sea will be Italian, an EU official said.

The announcement came after ministers boycotted a parliamentary session on Wednesday in objection to a speech delivered by one lawmaker.

Dressed in a light pink silk dhoti and kurta paired with a sleeveless jacket and stole, the prime minister participated in rituals of a ceremony to dedicate the temple to the people.

The Star Iris had been heading from Brazil to Bandar Khomeini in Iran, the main backer and armer of the Houthis in Yemen's yearslong war.

Al-Qahera News, which has links to Egyptian intelligence, reported the "quartet meeting" as international pressure grows for a truce between Israel and Hamas.

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Experts and local officials said the search was complicated by the presence of cyanide in the ground.

No one was wounded in the attack and the ship was continuing on its journey, the British military’s United Kingdom Trade Operations center said in a statement.

Al-Shabab, or “the youth” in Arabic, is a Sunni Islamic extremist group in Somalia born out of that country's years of anarchy following its 1991 civil war.

American forces destroyed four explosive-loaded drone boats and seven mobile anti-ship cruise missile launchers Thursday.

Meta, based in Menlo Park, California, offered no specifics about its reasoning. However, it said it removed the accounts “for repeatedly violating our Dangerous Organisations and Individuals policy”

The next presidential vote was set for next year, but Aliyev called for an early election shortly after Azerbaijani troops retook the Karabakh region from ethnic Armenian forces that had controlled it for three decades.

Last year's February 6 disaster flattened swathes of cities across 11 southeastern Turkish provinces and parts of Syria, becoming the earthquake-prone region's worst catastrophe in centuries.

The private security firm Ambrey identified the vessel as a Barbados-flagged, United Kingdom-owned cargo ship. No one was hurt onboard the vessel, which suffered “minor damage,” the firm said.

The US airstrikes, combined with sanctions and charges, serve as a multifaceted strategy to deter further aggression from Iran and its proxies.

The strikes took place over about 30 minutes, and three of the sites struck were in Iraq and four were in Syria, said Lt. Gen. Douglas Sims, director of the Joint Staff.

A full-scale war would likely spread to multiple fronts, escalating the involvement of Iranian proxies in Syria, Iraq, and Yemen—and perhaps even drawing in Iran itself.

The ship, he said, had been heading to "the ports of occupied Palestine", a phrase which is sometimes used to mean Israel.

"Iranian-backed Houthi militants fired one anti-ship cruise missile from Houthi-controlled areas of Yemen toward the Red Sea," a Centcom statement said.