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Human rights advocates term expansion of corporal punishment as reflective of wider restrictions under Taliban rule

Earlier, Trump threatens to 'obliterate' Iran power plants if Hormuz not reopened within 48 hours

World's second-biggest economy reported a record $1.2 trillion trade surplus for 2025

Thousands of places targeted in Iran including hospitals and residential blocks amid war in the region

Four of them were Qatari forces personnel, one from Qatar-Turkey joint forces, two technicians

Attack on El-Daein Teaching Hospital in the state capital occurred on Friday

Instructed to destroy all bridges over Lebanon's Litani River, which Katz said were used for "terrorist activity"

Bahrain acknowledged for the first time that a Patriot missile was involved in the explosion on Sitra Island

Statement comes after Trump threatened to target Iranian power plants if the waterway was not open within 48 hours

Taiwan, facing military threat from China, has complained of repeated delays to weapons ordered from the US

No Japanese company executives were listed on the guest list on the ​forum's website

TSA officers have called in sick, shortage of security agents has disrupted travel at major airports

Araqchi told Japan news agency on Friday that he spoke to Motegi about potentially letting Japanese vessels pass

Three ballistic missiles detected near Riyadh; one intercepted, two landed in an uninhabited area

Two direct impacts rip open the fronts of residential buildings and carve deep craters into the ground

Says US nears its goals, urges others to police Hormuz shipping lane

Call for immediate comprehensive moratorium on attacks on civilian infrastructure, including fuel installations

Over 500,000 Israelis live in West Bank settlements, deemed illegal under international law

Iran FM Araghchi says Starmer endangering British lives by allowing US to use UK airbases

Energy analysts say ​admin efforts to control ⁠prices will not have a meaningful impact until the Strait is open

Authorities say ⁠one victim found on the first floor, four on the second and nine on the third.

Rare ‘one-in-500-years’ event raises climate alarm

Court rules Musk statements on bots misled Twitter investors

'Trump has built himself ​a box called the Iran war, and he can’t figure out how to get out of it,' says ex-official

Mali, Niger and Afghanistan observed the occasion on Thursday, while Mideast, and Southeast Asia celebrated on Friday

Moscow blames US-Israel strikes for deepening Middle East conflict and energy shock

Three Indian refining sources say they will buy Iranian oil, awaiting govt directions and clarity from Washington

Calls ​for an ​end to ⁠Iran's closure of Strait of Hormuz, suggesting UN could ​help protect waterway

Airstrikes intensify in Lebanon amid widening regional conflict

Calls on BRICS bloc of major emerging ​economies to play independent role in halting aggression ‌against ⁠Iran

Complaint says Harvard ignored campus hostility, refused rules enforcement for Jews, Israelis

In Nowruz message, says war began after the enemy lost hope of sparking an uprising inside Iran

Masked settler attacks, arson, beatings and theft have become near-daily in the West Bank

No decision yet to send troops into Iran, but capacity will be built for future regional ops

'Without the USA, NATO is a paper tiger!' Trump lashes out

Govt says no new licences issued for war materiel exports to US since Feb 28 strikes on Iran

Rejects US assertions about major losses to Iran’s air defences and navy

Norris starred in more than two dozen films portraying silent loners, soldiers, lawmen, veterans, All-American heroes

'Our missile industry deserves a perfect score,' says Iran's Revolutionary Guards spokesman Ali Mohammad Naini

Researchers say Al-Aqsa Mosque closed in last 10 days of Ramazan and Eid since 1967 annexation ever

War boosts Netanyahu’s position on Iran but traps Trump in a risky conflict, hurting his economic narrative

Princess Mette-Marit says she wishes she had never met Epstein as documents reveal she stayed at his Palm Beach home

Albanese, Home Affairs minister booed in mosque visit, called genocide supporters

Trump has urged other world powers and NATO to help reopen the Hormuz Strait to commercial shipping

Israeli politician sought to paint a broad portrait of success

Link network to money laundering, terror financing operations

In the complaint, Brussels charged that Beijing's practices were inconsistent with international trade rules

Unsettled both the migrants aspiring to use the legalization window, and the frontline workers at immigration offices

US intel chief sidesteps Trump's claim

Recent strikes on the country's energy infrastructure led to 'a new stage in the war'