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US President Donald Trump praised Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and said she was willing to help the US and Israel in their war with Iran, Italy’s Corriere della Sera reported on Sunday

Lebanon was dragged into the wider Middle East war on Monday when Hezbollah fired at Israel, which responded with a new military campaign that has killed nearly 300 people and forced hundreds of thousands of Lebanese from their homes.

Kuwait Petroleum Corporation began cutting oil output on Saturday and declared force majeure, adding to earlier oil and gas reductions from Iraq and Qatar as the US-Iran war blocked shipments from the Middle East for the eighth consecutive day.

The Pentagon on Friday named as chief data officer Gavin Kliger, a computer scientist who aided billionaire Elon Musk’s efforts to overhaul the government last year and who has boosted white supremacists and misogynists online.

Production across the global auto industry was disrupted in October when Beijing imposed export controls on Chinese-made Nexperia chips after The Hague seized the company from its Chinese parent Wingtech.

Pope Leo on Saturday named a senior church diplomat who represented the Vatican in the Philippines during former President Rodrigo Duterte‘s war on drugs as the Vatican’s US ambassador and envoy to the Trump administration.

Brussels is looking for quick fixes after companies warned they cannot compete with rivals in China and the US — even before this week’s surge in oil and gas prices sparked by the US-Israeli war on Iran.

A divided US appeals court has refused to let the Trump administration revoke legal protections that allow more than 350,000 Haitians to live and work in the US and avoid being returned to their gang-violence-stricken country.

Beijing elevated BCIs to a core future strategic industry in its new five-year plan released this week, placing it alongside sectors such as quantum, embodied AI, 6G and nuclear fusion.

Iran said its temporary leadership council had agreed to suspend attacks on nearby states unless strikes on Iran originated from their territory.

US President Donald Trump said Iran would be “hit very hard” on Saturday and that he was considering widening the areas and groups of people being targeted, without providing details.

Pakistan on Friday raised consumer prices for diesel and petrol about 20%, citing higher oil prices driven by conflict in Iran

Russian President Vladimir Putin expressed his condolences to Iran’s president over the numerous civilian casualties resulting from “the armed Israeli-American aggression against Iran” and called for an immediate halt to hostilities

Airline pilots have faced escalating risks in recent years, from drone incursions to flight paths squeezed by conflict. Now US-Israeli attacks on Iran are making the skies even more perilous and ratcheting up the pressure on those flying through them

President Donald Trump’s administration said on Friday a Colombian reporter for a Spanish-language news outlet in Tennessee, arrested by federal immigration agents, will get due process