NATO military alliance leaders have agreed to invest 5 percent of their Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in defence by 2035, after Spain nearly torpedoed the deal by refusing to sign up to the pledge.

Iran’s parliament voted unanimously on Wednesday to suspend cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), erupting into chants of “Death to America! Death to Israel!” as lawmakers blamed the West for recent attacks on its nuclear facilities. The vote, which passed with 221 members in favor, signals a dramatic escalation in Tehran’s response to U.S. and Israeli strikes and the IAEA’s recent censure.

Iran executed three men on Wednesday accused of collaborating with Israel’s Mossad intelligence agency, part of a sweeping crackdown following the Islamic Republic’s military defeat in its 12-day war with Israel.

The U.S. strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities on June 22, 2025, was met with widespread praise across the Arab world, particularly among liberal intellectuals and journalists who took to social media to thank President Donald Trump for what they described as a historic act that “saved humanity.”

Iran is suspected of hiding “hundreds if not thousands” of advanced centrifuges in secret locations across the country, raising renewed fears that Tehran retains the capacity to build a nuclear weapon despite U.S. and Israeli airstrikes on its known facilities, The Telegraph reported Monday.

As a ceasefire between Iran and Israel appeared to be holding Wednesday, U.S. President Donald J. Trump said it underscored the effectiveness of his policy of peace through strength.

French police have detained 12 people after 145 individuals, most of them women and girls, reported being pricked with syringes during a nationwide street music festival over the weekend, officials said.

Iran announced Tuesday that it plans to press ahead with its nuclear program despite its recent military clash with Israel. Mohammad Eslami, head of the Islamic Republic’s Atomic Energy Organization, told the state-run Mehr news agency that Tehran aims to avoid any disruption in its nuclear industry, though he did not clarify whether that included military activities.

NATO leaders gathered in The Hague on Tuesday for a pivotal summit aimed at reshaping the alliance’s defense posture with a historic new spending pledge — even as divisions over the goal and mounting global crises threaten to overshadow the event.

U.S. President Donald J. Trump suggested Monday he won’t retaliate for Iran’s missile strikes at U.S. bases in the Middle East, saying the attacks were “very weak” and thanked Tehran for the advance notice of the attacks.

Israel’s military says Iran has launched missiles towards Israel, apparently in response to major setbacks suffered by Tehran’s proxies.

Israeli troops have entered Lebanon as the anticipated ground offensive has begun, Israel’s military confirmed early Tuesday, local time.

Around 31,000 Jewish people from over 100 countries immigrated to Israel in the last year, a period which has seen the October 7 attack by Hamas and the consequent war in Gaza, the Times of Israel (TOI) reports.

The United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) has confirmed that Fateh Sherif, who was killed in an Israeli air strike today, was the leader of Hamas in Lebanon while also employed as a school principal by UNRWA, the Times of Israel (TOI) reports.

Preparations were underway late Monday for Israel to invade Lebanon “the moment that the security cabinet approves” the military operation, meaning within hours, Israeli sources say.

Israeli special forces have been carrying out targeted raids into southern Lebanon, probing Hezbollah’s border tunnels and gathering intelligence in an effort to weaken Hezbollah’s capabilities, ahead of a potential broader ground incursion expected soon, the Wall Street Journal reported.

Israel last week secured an $8.7 billion US weapons package to support its fighting against Iranian proxies Hamas in Gaza, Hezbollah in Lebanon, and Houthi insurgents in Yemen, All Israel News (AIN) reports.

A gunman who opened fire on children at a Seventh-day Adventist elementary school in California last week left a note saying he was seeking “child executions” in response to US involvement in the “genocide and oppression of Palestinians,” the LA Times reports.

The latest federal numbers show the U.S. deficit is soaring as President Joe Biden heads out of office.

The U.S. House is set to vote on a compromise version of the National Defense Authorization Act which authorizes nearly $900 billion to support U.S. military service members, infrastructure, and defense capabilities during the 2025 fiscal year.

The Food and Drug Administration is proposing front-of-package warning labels that detail the calories, fat, sugar and salt content of processed food and drink products.

U.S. Tech giant Meta acknowledged Tuesday that “harmless content” was too often removed from its social media platform, infringing on “the free expression we set out to enable.”

President Joe Biden’s controversial pardon of his son Hunter may give President-elect Donald Trump a blank check to issue his own round of pardons upon taking office.

U.S. President-elect Donald J. Trump proclaimed Saturday on his Truth Social media platform the end of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s rule and suggested it was a moment of profound geopolitical change.