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Americas
Melania Trump to Chair UN Security Council as Iran War Rages
First Lady Melania Trump is slated to chair a UN Security Council meeting on Monday, an appearance that was announced last week before the US launched its war against Iran.
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Middle East
Trump Says ‘We Expect Casualties’ After Three US Service Members Die
US President Donald Trump said that American soldiers dying during strikes on Iran was to be expected in a war that was nevertheless a "great deal" for the world.
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Europe
Belgium Seizes Russian ‘Shadow Fleet’ Tanker
Belgium said Sunday its special forces had boarded and seized an oil tanker from the "shadow fleet" Russia uses to circumvent Western sanctions over the war in Ukraine, in an overnight operation.
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Middle East
Lebanon’s Hezbollah Vows to ‘Confront Aggression’ of US, Israel
Lebanese militant group Hezbollah vowed Sunday to confront the United States and Israel over their strikes on the group's key backer Iran.
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War
Blasts in Kabul as Afghan Gov’t Says Responding to Pakistan Attacks
Explosions were heard in the Afghan capital Kabul Sunday, AFP journalists said, with the Taliban government saying they were responding to aerial Pakistan attacks.
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Americas
First US Service Members Killed in Operation Against Iran
Three members of the US military have been killed and five others wounded in the operation against Iran, the Pentagon said Sunday, announcing the first American deaths in the US-Israeli campaign that killed the Islamic Republic's supreme leader.
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Middle East
Iran Leader Khamenei Killed in Massive US and Israeli Attack
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran's supreme leader since 1989 and sworn enemy of the West, was killed in the opening salvo of a massive US and Israeli attack, sparking a new wave of retaliatory missile strikes from Tehran on Sunday.
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Asia Pacific
Afghanistan Says Pakistan Fighter Jet Down as Cross-Border Strikes Flare
A Pakistani fighter jet crashed in Jalalabad in Afghanistan's east, the Afghan military and police said on Saturday, after Islamabad launched air strikes on at least three cities in a flare-up of cross-border fighting.
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Americas
Trump Says US Discussing ‘Friendly Takeover’ of Cuba
President Donald Trump on Friday suggested a "friendly takeover" of communist-led Cuba, with tensions high between Washington and Havana in the wake of the US toppling of Venezuelan strongman Nicolas Maduro.
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Europe
UK to Award Leonardo $1.3 Billion Military Helicopter Contract
The UK government is set to award Italian defense company Leonardo a contract to build a new fleet of military helicopters, a source close to the matter told AFP Friday.
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