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  • A bright missile launches upward through billowing orange and white clouds of smoke and exhaust

    Two US troops killed and one missing in Jordan after Iranian attacks

    Sirens sound in Bahrain and Kuwait accuses Tehran of targeting civilian sites and infrastructure as Iran strikes US allies
  • A person in a black coat walks through a heavily damaged building interior in Tehran filled with rubble

    Why is Trump risking midterm disaster by resuming the unpopular Iran war?

    Less than a month after hailing a ceasefire, Trump resumed strikes on Iran, a move experts warn could prolong the war and hurt Republicans before the midterms
    • US launches seventh night of Iran strikes as Hormuz conflict escalates

    • Israeli ministers announce plans for new illegal settlements in Gaza and West Bank

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  • Fans climb onto a bus stop roof while a crowd celebrates below after Argentina’s victory over England in the World Cup semi-final

    Twenty photographs of the week
    The week around the world in 20 pictures

    Israeli airstrikes in Gaza, wildfires in Europe, ICE in Maine and the World Cup semi-finals – the past seven days as captured by the world’s leading photojournalists
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  • A house damaged in an Israeli airstrike west of Nuseirat refugee camp.

    Israeli strike on Gaza funeral killed at least seven people, hospital says

    Another 22 reportedly injured while mourning Palestinian killed in Israeli attack earlier in the day
    • US hits civilian infrastructure as it expands strikes against Iran

    • Iran proves it can still inflict damage despite waves of US attacks

    • Middle East crisis live
      Iranian airport and bridges hit as US forces board ship amid ports blockade – as it happened

  • Footage released on Thursday by Iran's Revolutionary Guards shows a missile being launched from an undisclosed location towards US targets in Jordan, Kuwait and Bahrain

    Middle East crisis live
    Iran reports fresh strikes near Qeshm Island and accuses US over ‘barbaric’ hospital attack – as it happened

    Iranian news agencies say a US missile hit island in strait of Hormuz, after foreign ministry said children’s cancer hospital in Ahvaz had to be evacuated
  • Planes fly in formation over the USS George HW Bush

    US intensifies attacks on Iran as Tehran hits back at Gulf states

    Sixth day of fighting threatens to turn into all-out war and casts serious doubt on peace deal struck last month
    • Trump’s Board of Peace drops full Gaza recovery plan in favour of tiny pilot scheme

    • US gas prices edge up again as US-Iran tensions heighten over strait of Hormuz

    • The Pegasus project
      Moroccan intelligence insider reveals widespread use of Pegasus hacking software

  • US sailors observe a fighter jet preparing to land on the flight deck of aircraft carrier USS George HW Bush

    Middle East crisis live
    US says latest attack wave on Iran completed – as it happened

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  • A US navy handout photo shows a US sailor aboard a missile destroyer as the naval blockade against Iran in the strait of Hormuz is reimposed.

    US attacks oil tanker in strait of Hormuz as strikes reported in Tehran

    US disables unladen oil tanker using Hellfire missiles in strait of Hormuz amid concerns strikes could spiral into open conflict
    • Chaos and confusion bring US no closer to resolution on strait of Hormuz

    • Iran threatens to halt all Middle East energy exports amid renewed US blockade

    • ‘They want to break our will’: Gaza flotilla activist tells of rape in Israeli detention

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