Yaghoub Karimpour, 43, and Nasser Bakerzadeh, 26, were hanged on Saturday, and Mehrab Abdollahzadeh, 28, was executed on Sunday in Orumiyeh Central Prison.

The Iranian-flagged oil tanker was struck by 20 mm cannon fire from a jet launched by the US Navy, US CENTCOM said on Wednesday. 

The vessel's commission suggests that Iran’s energy sector and oil storage capacity are facing a crisis, as the US Navy continues to block the passage of tankers carrying Iranian oil out of the Gulf.

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South Africa hit back Wednesday against charges of xenophobia after protests against undocumented migrants and said African nations should address issues like instability and bad governance causing their people to leave.

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Eight people died and 36 were injured after a huge fire engulfed a shopping centre near tehran, prompting a criminal investigation.

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US had advanced knowledge, but there wasn't a "green light" request, a source told The Jerusalem Post.

"We are maintaining continuous contact with our friends in the US. I speak with President Trump on an almost daily basis," Prime Minister Netanyahu said.

Pollard, who had spent 30 years in prison for spying and providing Israel with top-secret classified information, has has since become a strong critic of Netanyahu.

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Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salam assured reporters on Wednesday that Lebanon was not heading towards normalization but towards peace with Israel.

Medics said an Israeli airstrike killed Naseem al-Kalazani, a colonel in the Hamas-run police force, when it targeted his vehicle near the al-Mawasi area in western Khan Younis, south of the enclave.

Persecution, population decline, and politics collide in the fight over how Middle East Christians are described.

The Flow Wynwood project will raise the current $200 million valuation of the complex over the $300 million line, Flow said, citing market sources' estimates.

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Search continues for two US soldiers who went missing in Morocco

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President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva said Tuesday (May 5) that Brazil’s automotive industry faces the challenge of competing for market share in Latin America and Africa.

“We must not leave [the market] to parent companies. We have to go after it and compete because we are closer,” said Lula.

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He attended an event in Brasília marking the 70th anniversary of the National Association of Motor Vehicle Manufacturers (Anfavea), which represents 26 companies responsible for producing motor vehicles and self-propelled machinery in Brazil.

According to the president, the government’s role in the sector is to help “create consumers” for vehicles. He also noted that the Brazilian workforce is “highly qualified and specialized.”

Less polluting biofuel

He also recalled that, at the Hannover Industrial Fair in Germany in April, Brazilians demonstrated that domestic biofuels are more efficient and less polluting, with 67 percent fewer greenhouse gas emissions.

“We don’t need to import the technological mix of European engines to clean up the planet. They’re the ones who need to buy our biodiesel to help clean up the planet from their side,” said Lula.

Booming sector

The association reported that the automotive sector’s performance exceeded its own expectations. According to the report, March was the best month for vehicle production since October 2019 and the strongest result since 2018, with 264,100 units produced, including passenger cars, light commercial vehicles, buses, and trucks.

This represented a 35.6 percent increase from March 2025 and 27.6 percent from February.

Year-to-date production totaled 634,700 units, up 6 percent from the same period last year.

Today, the sector operates 53 factories across nine states and 38 municipalities. The industry accounts for approximately 1.3 million direct and indirect jobs and represents roughly 20 percent of Brazil’s industrial production.

While the US might question whether the 2025 and 2026 wars were worth the hardship, from an Israeli point of view, both were clearly worth it.