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Apple announced at its Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) 2025 that iOS 26 will introduce Digital Passports in Apple Wallet, marking a significant step toward integrating official identity documentation into mobile devices. The feature, set to debut this fall, will allow users to store and present digital versions of their passports for select domestic travel and identity verification scenarios.

A team of researchers operating in Antarctica has detected strange and unexplained radio signals emanating from beneath the continent’s vast ice sheets, challenging current scientific understanding.

The U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS Nimitz, along with several Navy destroyers, and a surge of military air refueling planes are heading toward the Middle East as Washington strengthens its military posture amid the escalating conflict between Israel and Iran.

President Donald Trump arrived in Alberta, Canada, on Sunday evening to kick off the Group of Seven (G7) summit, where global economic challenges, escalating trade disputes, and the intensifying conflict between Israel and Iran are set to dominate the agenda.

U.S. President Donald Trump warned Sunday that the United States could be drawn directly into the escalating war between Israel and Iran if hostilities continue to spiral. While reiterating that the U.S. had no role in Israel’s latest strikes, Trump left the door open to military intervention, vowing a devastating response to any Iranian attack on American forces.

Despite war still raging, Russian President Vladimir Putin has told his U.S. counterpart Donald J. Trump that Moscow is ready to hold a fresh round of peace talks with Kyiv after June 22 once the sides complete exchanging prisoners and soldiers’ bodies in a conflict that is believed that have killed and injured more than 1 million people.

U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin held a lengthy phone conversation on Saturday, focusing heavily on the escalating war between Israel and Iran. The call, which lasted nearly an hour, came as tensions in the Middle East soared following Israel’s strike on Iranian nuclear sites and Iran’s deadly retaliation.

An Australian man was shot and killed, and another Australian man was injured on Indonesia’s tourist island of Bali, prompting a police search for two suspects, local officials said Saturday.

An Air India flight from Thailand’s Phuket island to India’s capital, New Delhi, was forced to return and make an emergency landing after an onboard bomb threat, officials confirmed.

Tehran launched a new wave of missiles at Israel after it said late Friday that 78 people were killed and 320 were wounded in Israel’s airstrikes on Iran.

Under heavy security and growing speculation, the Grand Hôtel in central Stockholm has become the focal point of global intrigue, as world elites gather behind closed doors for the annual Bilderberg Meeting. The historic hotel has been fully booked for days, with Swedish police confirming an ongoing operation involving multiple protected individuals.

U.S. President Donald J. Trump told Iran on Friday that the overnight Israeli strikes it experienced were just the beginning of “even more brutal” lethal force unless the Islamic Republic makes a nuclear deal that would prevent it from developing atomic weapons.

Amid the smoldering wreckage of an Air India passenger jet that crashed moments after taking off from the Indian city of Ahmedabad, all but one of the 242 people aboard miraculously survived, while dozens of others died on the ground, police and witnesses said.

An Air India plane bound for London crashed shortly after taking off from India’s western city of Ahmedabad on Thursday, killing 242 people on board in the world’s worst aviation disaster in a decade, officials confirmed.

Iran on Thursday vowed to dramatically escalate its uranium enrichment efforts in direct response to a formal censure by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), sharply raising the stakes in an already volatile standoff with the West and fueling fears of imminent military conflict.

The United Nations’ nuclear watchdog formally declared Iran in violation of its non-proliferation commitments on Thursday, marking the first such resolution in nearly two decades and igniting fears of renewed nuclear escalation in the Middle East.

Britain and Spain have agreed to mend fences over the future of the contested tiny, rocky territory of Gibraltar at the tip of the Iberian Peninsula, following years of tense negotiations.

Scores of people have been confirmed dead as devastating floods ravage South Africa’s poorest provinces, amid ongoing search and rescue efforts.

The United States has ordered the evacuation of non-essential diplomatic personnel from Iraq, Bahrain, and Kuwait amid rising fears of a regional military escalation over Iran’s advancing nuclear program and threats against U.S. forces.

President Donald Trump voiced deepening skepticism this week over the likelihood of securing a revised nuclear agreement with Iran, even as his administration pushes ahead with diplomatic talks aimed at halting Tehran’s uranium enrichment program.