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Exclusive: Saudi fighter jets bombed targets linked to powerful Tehran-backed Shi'ite militias in Iraq during the Iran war, while retaliatory strikes were also launched from Kuwait into Iraq, multiple sources familiar with the matter said reut.rs/4twfaO6

WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT Israel has escalated its attacks in Gaza in the five weeks since halting its joint bombing with the US in Iran, redirecting its fire back on the ruined Palestinian enclave where the military believes Hamas fighters are tightening their grip

The United States' war in Iran has cost $29 billion so far, a senior Pentagon official said, an increase of $4 billion from an estimate provided late last month. It is unclear how the Pentagon arrived at the figure reut.rs/4udJBtU

Exclusive: Saudi Arabia launched numerous, unpublicized strikes on Iran in retaliation for attacks carried out in the kingdom during the Middle East war, two Western officials briefed on the matter and two Iranian officials said reut.rs/4nprq1q

Restoration work has begun at the Ziggurat of Ur in Iraq's Dhi Qar province, as archaeologists race to protect the ancient Sumerian site from climate-linked erosion reut.rs/4wq4XFQ

Seventy children have been killed in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem since early 2025, or about one a week, according to the UN's children's agency. More than 90% were killed by Israeli forces, UNICEF said, while over 800 have been injured reut.rs/48Sw5TN

Climate change has driven record-breaking outbreaks of fire in Africa, Asia and elsewhere this year, with conditions expected to get worse as the northern hemisphere's summer approaches and El Nino weather patterns kick in, scientists warned reut.rs/4noIlS1

A surge in private cars is transforming North Korea's Pyongyang, bringing traffic jams and parking shortages to one of the world’s most isolated countries, according to verified footage and satellite imagery reut.rs/4d4DQZl

A new Manhattan installation has turned millions of pages of the Epstein files into thousands of bound books, creating a physical archive meant to show the scale of the documents released by the US Department of Justice

Lamine Yamal waved a Palestinian flag during Barcelona's open-top victory parade to celebrate winning LaLiga.

Snacks giant Calbee, crunched by Iran-related ink shortage, switches to monotone packaging reut.rs/4tuCAUk reut.rs/4tuCAUk

A new Manhattan installation has turned millions of pages of the Epstein files into thousands of bound books, creating a physical archive meant to show the scale of the documents released by the U.S. Department of Justice.

President Trump says the fragile ceasefire with Iran is hanging by a thread, after rejecting Tehran’s latest proposal to end the war reut.rs/4wp2Ods

The man accused of attempting to assassinate President Donald Trump at a White House reporters' gala last month pleaded not guilty to all charges. Cole Allen, 31, did not speak in court as his attorney Tezira Abe entered the plea on his behalf reut.rs/4dGtGxd

Palestinians in Gaza train in a gym beneath the rubble of a damaged building, describing it as a 'microcosm of Gaza'

Oil prices rallied on May 11, a day after President Trump said Iran's response to a US peace proposal was ‘unacceptable,’ raising supply fears as the Strait of Hormuz stayed largely closed reut.rs/3R1lnEm

Plumes of thick smoke were seen rising from southern Lebanon, following a series of Israeli airstrikes.

Louisiana's redistricting hearing erupted in chaos after a Supreme Court ruling struck down the state's majority-Black congressional map, making way for Republican-drawn proposals that could give the party five or all six of its US House seats reut.rs/49mt4LA

Zsolt Hegedus, the leading candidate for health minister in Hungary's new government, recreated his viral dance complete with air guitar moves on parliament steps as tens of thousands gathered in Budapest for Peter Magyar's inauguration as prime minister reut.rs/4dgB4PC

WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT: Israeli settlers forced a Palestinian family to exhume their father's body from a freshly dug grave in the occupied West Bank, claiming the cemetery land was part of their settlement reut.rs/4da35cR