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Eleven Iranians among dead in Israel strikes on Syria Thursday: monitor 12 May 2018 - 10:28 am
An image released by the Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) early on May 10, 2018 purportedly shows what the official news agency said was air defence systems intercepting Israeli missiles over Syrian airspace, without specifying the location. AFP PHOTO / SAN
Iraqis start voting in first election since defeating Islamic State 12 May 2018 - 08:34 am
An Iraqi man casts his vote at a polling station during the parliamentary election in the Sadr city district of Baghdad, Iraq May 12, 2018. REUTERS/Thaier al-Sudani
Iran cleric threatens destruction of Israeli cities 11 May 2018 - 08:49 pm
An Iranian woman walks past a mural of the Iranian flag in the capital Tehran on October 14, 2017 (AFP)
Israelis shoot dead Palestinian in Gaza border protests 11 May 2018 - 07:10 pm
A wounded Palestinian is pictured on the ground during clashes with Israeli forces along the border with the Gaza strip, east of Gaza City, on May 11, 2018, as Palestinians demonstrate for the right to return to their historic homelands in what is now Isr
It's about war and peace: Germany and France urge restraint in Middle East 10 May 2018 - 10:16 pm
Lebanese soldiers inspect remains of a surface to air missile that landed in the southern Lebanese village of Hebarieh, early on May 10, 2018. AFP / Ali Dia
Iran does not want 'new tensions' in Mideast: Rouhani 10 May 2018 - 09:42 pm
Iran President Hassan Rouhani speaks during a news conference in Islamabad Pakistan March 26 2016 Reuters Faisal Mahmood
Israel hits Iranian positions in Syria after missile barrage 10 May 2018 - 09:42 pm
Merkava Mark IV tanks are deployed next to cows near the Syrian border in the Israel-annexed Golan Heights on May 10, 2018. AFP / Menahem Kahana
Guterres demands end to 'hostile acts' after Israel-Iran escalation 10 May 2018 - 09:34 pm
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres speaks during a press conference at UN Headquarters in New York, February 2, 2018. (At?lgan Özdil / Anadolu Agency)
Britain says it supports Israel's right to defend itself against Iran 10 May 2018 - 09:24 pm
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Erdogan and Rouhani discuss US withdrawal from Iran nuclear deal 10 May 2018 - 09:24 pm
FILE PHOTO: A handout photo provided by the office of Iran supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei shows himand President Hassan Rouhani meeting with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on October 4, 2017 (AFP)
Israel-Iran flare-up raises spectre of major escalation in regional conflict 10 May 2018 - 07:36 pm
An Israeli flag is seen placed on Mount Bental in the Israeli-annexed Golan Heights on May 10, 2018. AFP / Jalaa Marey
Hamas leader hints of mass breach of Israeli border 10 May 2018 - 07:05 pm
Leader of Hamas in the Gaza Strip, Yahya Sinwar attends the commemorative ceremony for Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades' six members who who lost their lives on the blast in central Gaza Strip, on May 8, 2018 in Deir Al Balah, Gaza on May 08, 2018. (Ashraf A
Germany calls for de-escalation in Middle East 10 May 2018 - 04:39 pm
Israeli soldiers walk among armored vehicles in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, Israel May 10, 2018. REUTERS/Ronen Zvulun
UK warns against 'further escalations' between Iran and Israel 10 May 2018 - 04:26 pm
Israeli Merkava tanks and soldiers are seen in a deployment area near the Syrian border in the Israel-annexed Golan Heights on May 10, 2018. AFP / Menahem KAHANA
Turkey's Erdogan tells Iran's Rouhani that U.S. decision on nuclear deal wrong 10 May 2018 - 04:04 pm
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan delivers a speech during a mass opening of the Foundation Week and restoration of 250 works completed in seven districts via live stream ceremony at the Bestepe Culture and Convention Center in Ankara, Turkey on May
Iraq security forces vote in first poll since IS war 10 May 2018 - 01:27 pm
A member of the Kurdish Iraqi security shows his ink-stained index finger after voting at a polling station ahead of parliamentary elections in Arbil, the capital of the Kurdish autonomous region in northern Iraq on May 10, 2018. AFP / SAFIN HAMED
Douma accusations 'a farce': Assad 10 May 2018 - 09:06 am
Syria's President Bashar al Assad attends an interview with a Greek newspaper in Damascus, Syria in this handout released May 10, 2018. SANA/Handout via Reuters
Iran targets Israeli bases across Syrian frontier, Israel pounds Syria 10 May 2018 - 08:20 am
Missile fire is seen from Damascus, Syria May 10, 2018. REUTERS/Omar Sanadiki

Asia

Tourists from China cross a road in the Ginza shopping district in Tokyo on November 22, 2025. (Photo by Greg Baker / AFP) Japan businesses brush off worries over China tourists
An army personnel stands guard near the rubble that fell from a damaged building following an earthquake in Old Dhaka on November 21, 2025. (Photo by Munir Uz Zaman / AFP) Aftershock rocks Bangladesh as quake death toll rises to 10
This photo taken on November 20, 2025 shows people wading through floodwaters in Nha Trang in Vietnam's coastal province of Khanh Hoa. (Photo by Duc Thao / AFP) Vietnam flooding death toll rises to 55
(Files) India's Simu Das (L) plays a shot during the Women's Blind Twenty20 World Cup 2025 match between India and Pakistan at the BOI Cricket Stadium in Katunayake on November 16, 2025. (Photo by Ishara S. Kodikara / AFP) Cricket World Cup for blind women helps change attitudes

Europe

(Files) Police officers stand on duty at the edge of a cordon around the felled Sycamore Gap tree, along Hadrian's Wall, near Hexham, northern England on September 28, 2023. (Photo by Oli Scarff / AFP) First saplings from felled UK tree to be planted
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Africa

South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa gives the opening speech as he chairs the G20 Leaders' Summit plenary session at the Nasrec Expo Centre in Johannesburg on November 22, 2025. (Photo by Thomas Mukoya / POOL / AFP) South Africa opens G20 summit by stressing need for 'multilateralism'
(Files) A general view of an empty classroom of a Local Education Authority (LEA) Primary School in Lugbe, Abuja, on June 27, 2025. (Photo by Olympia De Maismont / AFP) Christian group says 315 seized in latest Nigerian school kidnapping
An adult and two juvenile Masai giraffes sprint across the savannah after one is darted with a tranquilizer from a helicopter during an exercise to translocate large herbivores from Kedong Ranch due to land subdivisions and corralling that have disrupted wildlife migratory routes in Naivasha, Nakuru County, on November 16, 2025. Photo by Tony Karumba/ AFP 'Stranded, stressed' giraffes in Kenya relocated as habitats encroached
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