“We pray for the safety of our brave servicemembers and our allies involved in Operation Epic Fury,” the top Republican in Congress added.

Russia said it was “ready to contribute to the search for peaceful solutions” that are “based on international law, mutual respect and balance of interests.”

Iran is a vast, ethnically diverse Muslim-majority country rich in resources that has been ruled by a clerical system since the 1979 revolution ousted the monarchy.

“This will be probably your only chance for generations,” Trump said. “The hour of your freedom is at hand.”

Israel’s defence ministry announced a “preemptive strike” against Iran on Saturday as sirens sounded in Jerusalem and people across the country received phone alerts about an “extremely serious” threat.

France’s health ministry said Friday that administrative details and medical notes on more than 15 million people had been hacked.

“Children, women, and old people were running,” Gander Khan, a 65-year-old returnee, told AFP in front of rows of tents at the Omari camp.

Talks between the two sides, relaunched last year by the United States, have so far failed to halt the fighting, which has devastated the country and left it facing a mammoth reconstruction task.

Kenya began administering the first dose of a groundbreaking HIV prevention drug in a Nairobi slum on Thursday.

“Thanks for coming. I think there are many things to consider… I feel confident that we will have fun,” Epstein wrote to Wade on November 15, 2010 after their first meeting in Paris.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has suggested his country could “get along well” with the United States but declared that South Korea remained its “most hostile” enemy, state media reported Thursday.

The United States on Wednesday announced fresh sanctions targeting Iran, pressing on with what Washington calls its “maximum pressure” campaign ahead of talks between both sides in Geneva.

Zimbabwe has frozen exports of raw minerals and lithium concentrate, the mines ministry said on Wednesday, tightening control over materials key to clean‑energy technologies and defence industries. The ban takes immediate effect, covers all raw minerals already in transit and will remain in place until further notice, the ministry said. “Government expects cooperation of the […]

Tehran has repeatedly said it would respond firmly to any attack, warning that even a limited strike “would be regarded as an act of aggression”.

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum on Tuesday offered “full guarantees” for the safety of football fans at World Cup games in the violence-plagued city of Guadalajara.