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Less than 24 hours after Trump announced a three-week extension of the Israel-Lebanon ceasefire, Hezbollah fired projectiles into Israeli territory and Israel launched airstrikes on southern Lebanon, killing at least four people. Netanyahu accused Hezbollah of 'sabotaging' the peace process. Beirut called for the truce to hold. Lebanon finds itself trapped between Israeli pressure to disarm Hezbollah and the group's flat refusal to negotiate its own dismantlement.
Around one million Palestinians head to the polls for fragmented municipal elections — in Gaza, voting takes place by candlelight in the sole city not invaded by the Israeli military.
U.S. missile stockpiles are depleting at a pace that alarmed the Pentagon — and an internal email proposed suspending Spain from NATO.
Tehran captures two cargo vessels and fires on a third in the Strait of Hormuz while Washington removes its Navy Secretary—both sides are escalating without any clear path out of the impasse.
Florida launches criminal investigation into OpenAI after a student used ChatGPT to prepare a campus shooting — a global first.
A viral photo shows an IDF soldier smashing a Jesus statue with an axe in a Christian village in southern Lebanon — and for the first time, American evangelicals raise their voice against Israel.
A magnitude 7.7 earthquake strikes northeastern Japan, triggering a tsunami alert and an unprecedented warning: 1% probability of a magnitude 8+ megaquake within the week.
Iran announces the re-closure of the Strait of Hormuz 48 hours after reopening it, accusing the US of violating the deal. Trump claims a peace deal is near while negotiations stall over nuclear issues and blockade terms.
The Strait of Hormuz has been declared officially reopened to commercial shipping by Iran and confirmed by Trump, but underlying tensions persist. France and the UK have launched an independent joint naval mission outside NATO framework after Trump explicitly rejected NATO involvement in securing the strait. Maritime companies and insurers remain cautious despite the official reopening, and a fundamental divergence exists between Iran's claim of full sovereignty over the reopening and Western interpretations attributing it to American pressure. This development reveals a deeper fracture: Trump's rejection of NATO for this mission forces Europe to build independent naval capacity, marking a potential shift in the global security architecture surrounding critical maritime routes.
Washington is completing the transfer of its bases in Syria, warning Europe of delays in weapons deliveries, and discovering that the Pentagon depends on a private company for its drones—three signals of the same overcommitment.
Trump announces a 10-day ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon and invites their leaders to the White House—a first in 34 years—while Iran negotiates the handover of its enriched uranium.
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