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Why Israel wants 60,000 one-tonne US bombs

$2.8b deal would replenish depleted stocks as concerns grow over use in populated areas

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Smoke and fire rise after a house was targeted by an Israeli strike in Khan Yunis, southern Gaza Strip, on September 9.

US met Houthis; US, Israeli ships spared from attacks

Previously undisclosed talks held at US Embassy in Muscat as Yemen conflict escalates

Houthi caretaker prime minister Mohammed Ahmed Miftah attends a press conference in Sanaa on September 12. The group has held previously undisclosed talks with US officials in Oman.

Gaza apartment block crash leaves 20 dead, many missing

Among the dead are five infants, while dozens of people remain trapped

Rescuers excavate rubble to retrieve bodies from a collapsed building in the Tal Al Hawa area of Gaza City on September 16, 2026.

Premature births strain Gaza’s hospitals

Gaza’s youngest already face an extremely precarious entry into the world

A medical worker checks on prematurely-born babies lying in infant warmer beds at the overcrowed neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) at Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip on September 7, 2026.

US-Iran war: What UAE residents need to know tonight

Iran is set to meet Gulf states in Oman on Monday to discuss the Strait of Hormuz

What UAE residents need to know tonight as US-Iran tensions continue (Sept. 13)

IRGC Navy warns tanker crews near Kuwait, Bahrain

As of September 7, CENTCOM says 94 vessels were redirected, three disabled and two boarded

As of September 7, CENTCOM says it has redirected 94 commercial vessels, disabled 3 and boarded 2 to enforce compliance with the blockade.

UK settlement ban: What happens to £6b Israel trade?

New measures target goods, services, financing as diplomatic tensions with Israel deepens

Britain's Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband delivers a speech on an import ban of goods from illegal settlements in occupied Palestinian territories.

Red Sea to Saudi Arabia: How Houthis became a menace

Iran war raises stakes as militantstarget Saudi oil sites and push towards Bab Al Mandab

Satellite imagery shows smoke rising from a Saudi Aramco oil facility in Abqaiq, Saudi Arabia.

Adidas apologises after Israeli soldier ad backlash

‘Single Shoe’ campaign draws anger as critics point to thousands of amputees in Gaza

Former Israeli soldier Shalev Biton runs with a prosthetic leg in an Adidas campaign.

Iran lashes out at Canada, warns S. Korea

Iran said the zone would target vessels attempting to transit the strategic waterway

Vessels transit the Strait of Hormuz off Bandar Abbas in southern Iran.

Iran threatens more intense response to US attacks

The latest round of clashes comes amid a six-month deadlock in the US-Iran war

CENTCOM said the M/T Kylo had 'joined Iran’s navy at the bottom of the sea'.

4 killed, 20 hurt in fresh Israeli strikes on Lebanon

Israel's army did not issue warnings for other areas where strikes were reported

People watch rescue workers use an excavator as they conduct a search operation at a destroyed house that was hit by an Israeli airstrike in Arab Salim village, southern Lebanon.

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