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  Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has condemned the desecration of a statue of Jesus Christ that was carried out by an IDF soldier in a southern Lebanese village. Israel has acknowledged and condemned the apparent desecration by an Israeli soldier of a statue of crucified Jesus in South Lebanon. The photograph, which was widely circulated across social media on Monday, shows a soldier smashing the face of the religious icon with a sledgehammer or the blunt side of an axe. The Israeli authorities have confirmed its authenticity. In an X post shared on Monday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu condemned the act "in the strongest terms, announcing that military authorities were conducting a criminal probe and that the offender would be subject to "harsh disciplinary action." "Yesterday, like the overwhelming majority of Israelis, I was stunned and saddened to learn that an IDF soldier damaged a Catholic religious icon in southern Lebanon", h...

The US claims the ship was trying to evade its naval blockade. Iran calls it ‘piracy’. The Touska is the first non-military Iranian ship the US is known to have hit during the war. The United States military seized an Iranian container ship near the Gulf in the early hours of Monday, sending tensions spiralling hours before Washington is due to send negotiators to Pakistan for talks aimed at ending their war. The US Central Command (CENTCOM) and President Donald Trump claimed the Touska was hit after it refused to follow US orders to withdraw from its planned passage through the Strait of Hormuz. The US has been imposing a naval blockade since last Monday. Iran has responded by describing the attack and hijack as an act of “piracy”, and threatened retribution. On Monday, hours after the attack and capture, Iran said it had no plans to send its negotiators for talks with the US in Islamabad. This is the first non-military Iranian ship that US forces are known to have hit during the curr...

  Trump announces new talks with Iran as ceasefire hangs by a thread amid renewed US threats to restart war with Tehran. United States President Donald Trump has claimed a second round of negotiations with Iran will take place in Pakistan on Tuesday as mediators try to revive negotiations before the end of an ongoing yet fragile two-week ceasefire. The announcement on Sunday came alongside a sharp escalation in rhetoric. Trump warned that Iran must agree to a deal “one way or another – the nice way or the hard way” and threatened to target key infrastructure if negotiations fail. He also renewed his threat of striking “bridges and power plants”, which  experts said  could amount to war crimes under international law. Iran, however, has so far denied it will participate in the talks, accusing the US of  “armed piracy”  after US forces struck and seized an Iran-linked tanker on Sunday, further heightening tensions between the longtime adversaries. What has the US ...

  The scene is as old as warfare itself. Two soldiers, hands in the air, surrendering and carefully following the orders barked at them by the other side. Except in this case, there were no human captors in sight. Instead, the two Russians were submitting to Ukrainian land robots and drones controlled by a pilot from the safety of a position miles away from the front line. This is the future of warfare – and it’s happening now. “The position was taken without a single shot being fired,” Mykola “Makar” Zinkevych, the commander of the Ukrainian unit that conducted the mission, told CNN. Zinkevych, who serves in the “NC13” unit of Ukraine’s Third Separate Assault Brigade, handling ground-based, robotic strike systems, said the operation last summer was the first time in history that an enemy position was stormed and prisoners taken by ground robots and drones without the involvement of infantry. It’s a claim that’s hard to corroborate, but it underscores Kyiv’s pride in its technology...