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India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi, left, and Cyprus' President Nikos Christodoulides attend a news conference during their meeting at the Presidential palace in Nicosia, Cyprus, Monday, June 16, 2025. (Iakovos Hatzistavrou/Pool Photo via AP)

India and Cyprus to step up defense, maritime and cybersecurity cooperation, Indian PM says

India’s prime minister says his country will step up its defense ties with Cyprus through collaboration between the two countries’ respective defense industries.

A man carries a wounded girl after an explosion in downtown Tehran amid Israel's three-day campaign of strikes against Iran, Sunday, June 15, 2025. (AP Photo/Morteza Zangene/ISNA)

Israel and Iran trade strikes for a third day and threaten more to come. Over 230 are reported dead

Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks with participants of the Time of Heroes, an educational program for veterans of special military operation, at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, Thursday, June 12, 2025. (Sergei Bulkin, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

Putin and Trump discussed Middle East tensions, Ukraine war in phone call

This combo made with two satellite images provided by Maxar Technologies shows the Natanz nuclear enrichment facility, 135 miles southeast of Tehran, Iran, on Friday, Jan. 24, 2025, top, and on Saturday, June 14, 2025, after multiple buildings were destroyed from recent Israeli strikes. (Maxar Technologies via AP)

Satellite photos reveal damage to Iranian missile bases and nuclear facilities after Israeli strikes

Smoke rises up after an explosion in Tehran, Iran, Friday, June 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Israeli strikes on Iran’s nuclear program are sweeping but can they decimate it?

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Israeli settlers set fires near West Bank town’s ancient church and cemetery

This week’s attack follows a similar one last month when men set fire to vehicles in Taybeh and in the nearby village of Kafr Malik, where three Palestinians were killed. Since the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza, Palestinian residents in the West Bank have reported a major increase in settler violence, Israeli checkpoints and delays across the territory. (AP video shot by Imad Isseid; Production by Jalal Bwaitel)

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Israeli report accuses Hamas of using sexual violence as a weapon of war on Oct. 7

Israel outlines plans to pack Gaza’s population into a closed border zone, AP explains

Netanyahu nominates Trump for Nobel Peace Prize, gives him a copy of nominating letter

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Syria's Interim Foreign Minister Asaad Al-Shibani talks to Kuwaiti journalist Ammar Taqi during the World Governments Summit in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Wednesday, Feb. 12, 2025. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)

Syria’s interim foreign minister says Russia-Iran ties to Assad are an open wound after war

A man walks between tents for displaced Palestinians next to destroyed buildings following the Israeli air and ground offensive in Jabaliya, Gaza Strip, Thursday, Feb. 6, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana, file)

Trump doubles down on plan to empty Gaza. This is what he has said and what’s at stake

A police officer stands near where anti-Israel graffiti is painted on a wall in Sydney, Australia, on Dec. 11, 2024. (Mick Tsikas/AAP Image via AP)y

Australian hospital examines patient records after nurse claims to have killed Israelis

Relatives and supporters of hostages held by Hamas in the Gaza Strip protest outside the prime minister's office in Jerusalem on Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2025. after Hamas announced it would delay a planned hostage release after accusing Israel of violating a fragile ceasefire. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)

Relatives of Israeli hostages are terrified as the Gaza ceasefire teeters

This is a locator map for Iraq with its capital, Baghdad. (AP Photo)

Iraq’s top court throws out challenge to new laws, including one increasing Islamic courts authority

Netanyahu threatens to resume fighting in Gaza if hostages aren’t released Saturday

A Palestinian family cooks on fire next to their tent, in an area largely destroyed by the Israeli army's air and ground offensive in Jabaliya, Gaza Strip, on Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)

Netanyahu threatens to resume fighting in Gaza if hostages aren’t released Saturday

State media in Iran say Khamenei pardons journalists who reported woman’s death, sparking protests

This is a locator map for Yemen with its capital, Sanaa. (AP Photo)

UN food agency worker dies in a Yemeni prison after being detained by Houthi rebels

Mohammed Shula speaks at a relative's house, where he and his wife have taken refuge, in the West Bank village of Kafr al-Labad, Monday, Feb. 10, 2025. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser)

Israel’s fatal shooting of a pregnant Palestinian woman puts the focus on West Bank violence

Protesters demanding the handover of hostages briefly block a main highway leading to Jerusalem

Tulsi Gabbard, Trump’s pick to oversee US spy agencies, advances to Senate confirmation vote

Relatives of hostages, held by Hamas in the Gaza Strip, block a highway in Tel Aviv, Monday, Feb. 10, 2025 after the militant group announced it would delay hostage releases in the Gaza Strip after accusing Israel of violating a fragile ceasefire. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)

Hamas’ threat to delay the next release of Israeli hostages raises fears for Gaza ceasefire

President Donald Trump greets Jordan's King Abdullah II in the Oval Office at the White House, Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2025, in Washington. (Photo/Alex Brandon)

After meeting with Trump, Jordan’s king says his country opposes displacing Palestinians in Gaza

Suspected Somali pirates seize boat off Horn of Africa

Tulsi Gabbard, President Donald Trump's choice to be the Director of National Intelligence, arrives to appear before the Senate Intelligence Committee for her confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill Thursday, Jan. 30, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/John McDonnell)

Tulsi Gabbard, Trump’s pick to oversee US spy agencies, advances to Senate confirmation vote

Trump says Palestinians won’t have the right to return to Gaza under his plan

Israeli opposition members shout at Netanyahu as he tries to address parliament

This is a locator map for Yemen with its capital, Sanaa. (AP Photo)

UN suspends its humanitarian work in Houthi rebels’ stronghold in Yemen after more staff detentions

Priya Kathpal, right, and Taylor Williamson, who work for a company doing contract work for the United States Agency for International Development, or USAID, carry signs outside the USAID headquarters in Washington, Monday, Feb. 10, 2025. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Unspent aid worth billions lacks oversight as Trump dismantles USAID, watchdog warns

Israeli captives, from left to the right, Ohad Ben Ami, Eli Sharabi and Or Levy, who have been held hostage by Hamas in Gaza since Oct. 7, 2023, are escorted by Hamas fighters on a stage before being handed over to the Red Cross in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza Strip, Saturday, Feb. 8, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

Hamas says it will delay the release of more hostages, putting Gaza ceasefire at risk

In this frame grab from Saudi state television footage, doctoral student and women's rights advocate Salma al-Shehab speaks to a journalist at the Riyadh International Book Fair in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, in March 2014. (Saudi state television via AP, File)

Saudi authorities free doctoral student initially sentenced to 34 years for tweets, activists say

Booksellers Mahmoud, left, and Ahmad Muna appear in court after their arrest during an Israeli police raid of their long-established Palestinian-owned Educational Bookshop in east Jerusalem, Monday, Feb. 10, 2025. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)

Israeli police raid Palestinian bookshop in east Jerusalem and seize books they say incite violence

Iranian demonstrators burn a representation of the U.S. flag during a rally commemorating anniversary of 1979 Islamic Revolution that toppled the late pro-U.S. Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi and brought Islamic clerics to power, in Tehran, Iran, Monday, Feb. 10, 2025. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

With Trump in the White House, Iranians mark the anniversary of the 1979 Islamic Revolution

A flag is raised during halftime of the NFL Super Bowl 59 football game between the Kansas City Chiefs and the Philadelphia Eagles, Sunday, Feb. 9, 2025, in New Orleans. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum)

What’s happening in the Gaza Strip and Sudan that sparked a protest at the Super Bowl halftime show?

Free Syrian Army fighters walk through tunnels built by the Kurdish Syrian Democratic Forces under the town of Tel Rifaat in the Aleppo region of northern Syria, Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2025. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)

AP PHOTOS: Syrians returning to the town of Tel Rifaat find homes in ruins and underground tunnels

Trader Peter Mancuso works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

Stock market today: Wall Street takes Trump’s latest tariff threats in stride, and indexes rise

Aboard Air Force One, Trump says he will announce 25% steel and aluminum tariffs Monday

People carry the coffin of Prince Karim Al-Hussaini, the Aga Khan IV and 49th hereditary imam of the Shiite Ismaili Muslims, who died Tuesday in Portugal, to be buried at the Aga Khan mausoleum, in Aswan, Egypt, Sunday, Feb. 9, 2025. (AP Photo/Haytham Fahmy)

Aga Khan, the leader of Ismaili Muslims, laid to rest in Egypt during private burial ceremony

Arab League Secretary-General Ahmed Aboul Gheit, right, meets with Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammed Mustafa during his visit at the Arab League headquarters in Cairo, Egypt, Thursday, Feb. 6, 2025. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)

Egypt announces emergency Arab summit after Trump’s Gaza plan infuriates key allies