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Major UAE port hit in drone strike after Trump claims key oil island ‘obliterated’President Donald Trump says he is not ready to make a deal with Iran because “the terms aren’t good enough yet”, according to a new interview with NBC.
The US leader said American forces had “totally demolished” military targets on Iran’s critical Kharg Island but suggested he might continue bombing it “just for fun”.
It comes as Israel launched “wide-scale” strikes on Iran overnight as the raging war between the countries entered its third week.
Residents of several neighbourhoods in southern Lebanon and Beirut were also ordered to evacuate by Israel on Sunday ahead of the latest wave.
An Israeli attack on a factory in Isfahan killed 15 workers, according to Iranian media.
On Saturday, the US-backed country targeted heavily armed checkpoints across Iran, according to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
Writing on Truth Social on Saturday, Trump called for “many countries” to send warships to the a..

An Israeli airstrike in the war-torn Gaza Strip on Sunday killed at least four Palestinians, including a young boy and his pregnant mother, according to hospital authorities.
The strike targeted a house in Nuseirat, an urban refugee camp in central Gaza, resulting in the deaths of a couple and their son, as confirmed by the nearby Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital.
A fourth fatality was transported to the Awda hospital, also in Nuseirat. The Israeli military has yet to issue a comment regarding the incident.
These deaths mark the latest casualties among Palestinians in the coastal enclave since an October ceasefire agreement aimed to halt the more than two-year conflict between Israel and Hamas in Gaza.
While the most intense fighting has subsided, the ceasefire has been punctuated by almost daily Israeli fire.
open image in galleryA young boy and his pregnant mother died after an Israeli airstrike, according to hospital authorities (AP)Israeli forces have conducted repeated airstrikes and f..

President Donald Trump’s invocation of the 25-year-old bombing of an American warship as part of his justification for launching a massive bombing campaign against Iran could hamper long-running Pentagon efforts to finally bring the alleged terrorists accused of perpetrating the terror attack to justice.
On two occasions over the nearly two weeks since the Defense Department launched Operation Epic Fury against targets across Iran, Trump has claimed Tehran was responsible for the October 2000 bombing of U.S.S. Cole, a grisly attack that killed 17 U.S. Navy sailors and left 37 others injured.
When he announced the start of the joint U.S.-Israeli campaign in the early hours of Feb. 28, Trump claimed Tehran “knew and [was] probably involved” with the Cole attack, and he repeated the allegations during a press conference on Monday when he insisted that Iran had been “involved very strongly” in the attack.
Yet according to the very government he leads — including a blue-ribbon commission’s ..

Four of the six crew members aboard the U.S. KC-135 Stratotanker refueling aircraft that went down in western Iraq on Thursday have been confirmed dead, U.S. Central Command officials have said.
This brings the number of U.S. service members killed in the conflict to 11.
Rescue efforts are continuing, and the circumstances of the incident are under investigation, the officials said, although the aircraft’s loss was not due to either hostile or friendly fire.
Officials believe that a collision in midair may have caused the crash, The New York Times reported.
The identities of the service members are currently being withheld until 24 hours after their next of kin have been informed.
It was earlier reported that the plane went down following an “incident” involving another U.S. plane at approximately 2 p.m. ET Thursday.
open image in galleryRescue efforts are continuing and the circumstances of the incident are under investigation, the offiicials said, although the loss of the aircraft ..

A US Air Force refuelling aircraft crashed in western Iraq during a mission linked to the ongoing war with Iran, according to military officials.
“Rescue operations are ongoing,” the officials said, adding that they were trying to establish the full details of the incident.
“US Central Command is aware of the loss of a US KC-135 refuelling aircraft,” Centcom, which runs US military operations in the Middle East, said in a statement.
“The incident occurred in friendly airspace during Operation Epic Fury, and rescue efforts are ongoing.”
However, the Islamic Resistance in Iraq, an umbrella group of armed factions backed by Iran, said it was responsible for downing the aircraft.
The group said in a statement it had shot down the aircraft “in defence of our country’s sovereignty and airspace”.
Centcom said “two aircraft were involved in the incident. One of the aircraft went down in western Iraq, and the second landed safely”.
“This was not due to hostile fire or friendly fire,” it adde..

Elon Musk’s disciples in his so-called Department of Government Efficiency were embedded across federal agencies with a mandate to fire thousands of public employees and radically cut federal spending.
When Musk deployed DOGE into the National Endowment for the Humanities, which provides vital financial support to research and arts programs, Musk’s staff abruptly choked off more than 1,400 grants, eliminating tens of millions of dollars in public funding within less than a month.
More than 10 hours of newly released video testimony from January uncovers how two DOGE operators relied on ChatGPT and their own largely uninformed judgments to make sweeping decisions about funding for a range of programs and projects — and the people who rely on them.
The depositions, stemming from a lawsuit from the Modern Language Association, the American Council of Learned Societies and the American Historical Association, included testimony from two young DOGE officials, Justin Fox and Nathan Cavanaugh..

Fuel tankers erupt in flames after Iranian boat attacks in GulfThe International Energy Agency warned on Thursday that the world is facing the worst oil supply disruption in history.
Oil prices have surged past $100 a barrel again after more fuel tankers were struck by explosive-laden boats in a suspected Iranian attack this morning.
Two tankers were ablaze in Iraqi waters on Thursday after what appeared to be Iranian strikes, as Iran warned the world should be ready for oil to hit $200 a barrel.
An Iraqi official told state media that its oil ports “have completely stopped operations.” Other countries have moved vessels out of the area as a precaution.
Three crew members are still believed to be trapped on a Thai-flagged bulk carrier hit in the Strait of Hormuz on Wednesday.
As oil markets felt the impact of the war on global trade, Donald Trump insisted that the US had won the war but didn’t want to have to go back every two years.
“We don’t want to leave early do we?” he said on W..

US drugmaker Eli Lilly has issued a public warning about potential health risks from compounded weight-loss drugs containing vitamin B12 and the active ingredient in its medication, Zepbound. The company stated on Thursday that a previously unidentified impurity, arising during preparation, could pose dangers to consumers.
This alert marks the latest move in Lilly's ongoing efforts against drug compounders, which it accuses of marketing illicit versions of Zepbound and its diabetes treatment, Mounjaro. Both drugs share the same key ingredient, tirzepatide. Lilly has initiated legal proceedings against various compounders, wellness centres, and other entities for selling products claiming to contain tirzepatide.
Conversely, compounders maintain their offerings are legitimate under a specific federal law. This provision permits compounding when patients require tailored medications due to medical concerns, such as the inclusion of vitamins or dosages not available in branded product..

Donald Trump's plans for Iran are “incoherent”, “incomplete”, and are on course to drag his administration into a state of “endless war”, a senior Democrat has warned.
The comments from Connecticut Senator Chris Murphy came after he attended a two-hour briefing on the White House's current aims for the conflict.
In a thread on X, Murphy said that while he was unable to share classified information, the private briefings indicate that Trump is unable to “defend this war in public”, and revealed that the administration is not seeking to destroy Iran's nuclear weapons programme, nor force regime change in the country.
“The war goals DO NOT involve destroying Iran's nuclear weapons program,” Murphy wrote, adding that this was surprising “since Trump says over and over this is a key goal”.
open image in galleryBlack smoke and flames billow over Iranian capital Tehran following strikes on an oil depot in the city (Middle East Images)”But then of course we already know a..

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth’s Pentagon apparently isn’t feeling the same affordability struggles as many average Americans, as he approved spending more than $93 billion in September, including on luxury food items and iPads.
A new analysis published by government watchdog Open the Books found that in September — the end of the 2025 fiscal year — Hegseth reportedly burned through cash, including spending $9 million on crab and lobster dinners.
According to Military.com, an increase in military officials eating pricey meals has traditionally been viewed as a sign that something may be brewing — such as President Donald Trump’s war in Iran — though it appears Hegseth has been dining well at the Pentagon since at least last spring.
The spending review found that in the month of September alone, the Defense Department spent $6.9 million in total on lobster tail and $2 million on Alaskan king crab, according to the government watchdog. In 2025, the department also spent more than $7.4..