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Saudi Arabia acknowledges widespread damage to energy sector during war

Statement said strikes targeted production, transport and refining sites, as well as petrochemical and power facilities in Riyadh

Kuwait claims attack by Iran, Saudi says pipeline damaged despite ceasefire

Kuwait said the drone attacks 'targeted some vital Kuwaiti facilities' while Saudi Arabia acknowledged a recent attack in the war that damaged its crucial East-West pipeline

'False stories': Melania Trump denies knowledge of Jeffrey Epstein's crimes

The first lady's comments almost assuredly served to push the story back into the political spotlight even as the president urged the public and media to move on from the case

Putin announces 32-hour ceasefire in Ukraine for Orthodox Easter weekend

Putin's decree, released by the Kremlin, orders Russian forces to observe a ceasefire starting on 4 pm Saturday and lasting until the end of Sunday

Israel seeks to begin peace talks with Lebanon soon, says Netanyahu

Netanyahu said he had directed the cabinet to begin direct peace talks with Lebanon, focusing on the disarming of Hezbollah and efforts to establish peaceful relations between the two countries

'Pro-Iran groups used AI to troll Trump, tried to control war narrative'

Analysts say the memes appear to be coming from groups linked to the government in Tehran and are part of a strategy of leveraging its limited resources to inflict damage on the US

Iran publishes chart showing it may have put sea mines in Strait of Hormuz

The chart suggested ships travel further north through waters closer to Iran's mainland near Larak Island, a route that some ships were observed taking during the war

Artemis II astronauts follow Apollo, name lunar features after loved ones

Commander Reid Wiseman and his crew asked permission to name one small, fresh crater after their capsule called Integrity and another after his late wife, Carroll

European nationalists, once MAGA allies, turn against Trump over Iran war

Backlash over the war follows European broad revulsion at Trump's threats earlier this year against Nato ally Denmark over his demand that the country give Greenland to the United States

Pakistani man pleads guilty over plot to attack Jewish centre in New York

Muhammad Shahzeb Khan, 21, said he answered the group's call for Muslims to kill Jewish people by plotting to attack the Jewish centre in October 2024

Mountaineer Jim Whittaker, first American to summit Everest, dies at 97

Whittaker's 1963 ascent of Everest alongside Nawang Gombu came 10 years after the pioneering climb of Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay

Over 1,000 aid workers killed globally, nearly triple in past 3 years: UN

Last year alone at least 326 aid workers were recorded as killed in 21 countries

Matthew Perry death: 'Ketamine Queen' gets 15 yrs jail for supplying drugs

In September, she became the last of five co-defendants to plead guilty, admitting to one count of using her home for drug distribution

'Wasn't there when we needed': Trump slams Nato, revives Greenland push

Republican president has had a warm relationship with Rutte in the past, and the meeting came after the US and Iran late Tuesday agreed to a two-week ceasefire that includes the reopening of Hormuz

RFK Jr announces new podcast to expose 'lies' that have made Americans sick

'The Secretary Kennedy Podcast' launches next week, featuring Kennedy in talks with doctors, scientists and HHS officials as he reshapes US health policy

US court rebuffs Anthropic in latest round of AI battle with Trump admin

Anthropic filed the two separate lawsuits in San Francisco and the Washington appeals court last month, asserting the Trump administration was engaging in an "unlawful campaign of retaliation"

Iran's proposal to collect toll in Hormuz risks breaching int'l trade norms

Collecting tolls in the strait would violate a basic and enduring principle of international maritime trade: freedom of peaceful navigation

Israel strikes Beirut after ceasefire, says Iran deal doesn't apply there

Lebanon's health ministry said dozens were killed and hundreds wounded in an early estimate

Turkiye detains 9 over attack outside Israeli Consulate in Istanbul

Interior Minister Mustafa Ciftci said one of the assailants had links to a group that he said "exploits religion," without naming the organisation

North Korea fires missiles, rejects Seoul's hopes for warmer ties

Seoul later said North Korea fired an additional ballistic missile toward its eastern waters without giving further details