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A German court has sentenced an Iraqi couple linked to the so-called Islamic State (IS) militant group to lengthy prison terms for enslaving, torturing, and sexually abusing two Yazidi girls in Iraq.

The long-simmering war on the Arabian Peninsula erupted again Monday as Saudi forces struck Yemen’s Houthi-controlled capital and the Iranian-backed rebels answered within hours with ballistic missiles and drones aimed at southern Saudi Arabia.

The United States military has used unmanned sea drones in combat for the first time, striking Iranian naval facilities near the strategically vital Strait of Hormuz, U.S. Central Command announced Monday.

Former Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is under house arrest in Iran after authorities reportedly uncovered what they say was an Israeli covert operation to recruit him as an intelligence asset and ultimately install him as Iran’s leader, according to The New York Times and officials cited by the newspaper.

Hungary’s parliament was to vote Monday on a constitutional amendment proposed by Prime Minister Péter Magyar’s government to remove President Tamás Sulyok from office, a move that has sharply divided the country and prompted protests in the capital.

Britain announced Monday that it will designate Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps under sweeping new national security powers, citing IRGC-linked threats, intimidation, and activity endangering lives on British soil.

The fragile memorandum of understanding between the United States and Iran has effectively collapsed after President Donald Trump announced that Iranian vessels would again be blocked from passing through the Strait of Hormuz.

The United States launched another wave of strikes against Iran late Sunday, targeting military sites near the strategically vital Strait of Hormuz after Tehran attacked commercial shipping and widened its assault against American-aligned Gulf nations.

Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Svyrydenko stepped down on Sunday after a weekend in which numerous people died in Russian air strikes and Kyiv’s counterattacks, while Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced fresh changes to his war-torn nation’s government.

At least 27 people have been killed in a fire that tore through a bar in Bangkok, one of the world’s nightlife centers, Thailand’s Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul said.

French anti-terrorism prosecutors launched an investigation Sunday after weapons were discovered inside an abandoned vehicle near a synagogue in Sarcelles, a Paris suburb home to one of France’s largest Jewish communities, prompting the evacuation of hundreds of people.

A manhunt was underway Sunday after two men were killed and four others were wounded in a shooting at Canada’s largest Latin street festival in Toronto, police said.

An elderly Serbian man was recovering in hospital from friction burns Friday after he was partially sucked out of a Ryanair aircraft when a cabin window failed shortly after takeoff during a flight from Thessaloniki, Greece, to Memmingen, Germany, authorities confirmed.

The massive anti-Israel protest movement that swept Britain after Hamas’ October 7 attack has been driven largely by a coordinated and internationally financed network of activist organizations, according to a major new report presented Wednesday at the House of Lords.

Thousands of people gathered near Srebrenica on Saturday to mark the 31st anniversary of Europe’s worst single atrocity since World War Two.

Spain’s King Felipe VI, Queen Letizia, and their two daughters observed a minute of silence Friday after authorities confirmed that at least 12 people were killed in a fast-moving wildfire that swept through a tourist area in Spain’s southern Andalusia region.

Thousands of Hungarians rallied outside Budapest’s Sándor Palace on Thursday in protest against Prime Minister Péter Magyar, whom they accuse of undermining democracy through planned constitutional changes that would pave the way for removing President Tamás Sulyok from office.

President Donald Trump closed a tense NATO summit Wednesday by hailing what he called “tremendous unity” inside the alliance, even after delivering blunt warnings to Spain, renewing his push for U.S. control of Greenland, and announcing a major step to strengthen Ukraine’s air defenses against Russia.

President Donald Trump said he was uncertain whether the United States and Iran were sliding back into a full-scale war after U.S. forces launched a second wave of strikes on Iranian military targets and Tehran retaliated against Gulf states hosting American forces.President Donald Trump said he was uncertain whether the United States and Iran were sliding back into a full-scale war after U.S. forces launched a second wave of strikes on Iranian military targets and Tehran retaliated against Gulf states hosting American forces.

Hours after President Donald Trump declared that the U.S.-Iran memorandum of understanding was “over,” American forces launched a second wave of strikes against Iran, widening a fast-moving crisis that began with Tehran’s attacks on commercial shipping in the Strait of Hormuz.