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The United Kingdom will deploy drones, Typhoon fighter jets and the Royal Navy warship HMS Dragon as part of a future multinational mission to secure the Strait of Hormuz, the UK Defence Ministry said on Tuesday, Anadolu reports. The announcement came after a virtual summit involving defence ministers and representatives from more than 40 countries participating in the planned m...

Iran will not enter a second round of negotiations with the United States unless five trust-building conditions are met, Fars News Agency reported Tuesday, citing an informed source, Anadolu reports. The source said Tehran considers the conditions to be “minimum guarantees” necessary for starting any new negotiations with Washington. According to the report, Iran’s conditions in...

Ten people were killed and eight others injured Tuesday in Israeli strikes on southern Lebanon, including two civil defense workers killed while carrying out a rescue mission in Nabatieh despite ceasefire, according to official Lebanese media, Anadolu reports. An overnight Israeli airstrike targeting an inhabited house in Lebanon’s southern town of Kfar Dounine has killed at lea...

Nearly 50,000 people have been displaced across Sudan’s Blue Nile state since the beginning of 2026 amid ongoing clashes in the region, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) said Tuesday, Anadolu reports. In a statement, the organization said an estimated 49,512 people, or 9,899 families, were displaced across the southeastern state between Jan. 11 and May 4. Accord...

A group of people gathered on Tuesday outside the headquarters of the Belgian public broadcaster RTBF in Brussels to protest Israel’s participation in the Eurovision Song Contest, Anadolu reports. Waving Palestinian flags, protesters expressed their opposition to Israel being included in the competition and accused RTBF of being complicit in its participation. Some demonstrators...