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As dawn breaks, hundreds of men gather at a dusty square in Chaghcharan, the capital of Ghor province in Afghanistan. They line the roadside hoping someone will come along offering any work. It will determine whether their families eat that day. The likelihood of success, however, is low. Juma Khan, 45, has found just three days of…

The death toll in the latest round of fighting between Israel and the Iranian-backed Hezbollah in Lebanon surpassed 3,000, Lebanon’s health ministry said Monday. The ministry said the toll is now 3,020 killed in the Israeli strikes, including 292 women and 211 children. Fighting began on March 2 with the Hezbollah militant group firing at Israel, two…

Deciding when to get routine mammograms is confusing. Some health groups recommend women begin at age 40 or 45 while another recently opted for age 50. They also differ on whether yearly or every other year is best. The conflicting advice is at least partly because guidelines for breast cancer screening are designed for women at average…

The Trump administration announced Monday the creation of a nearly $1.8 billion fund to compensate allies of the Republican president who believe they have been unjustly investigated and prosecuted, an arrangement that Democrats and government watchdogs derided as “corrupt” and unconstitutional. The “Anti-Weaponization Fund” of $1.776 billion is part of a settlement that resolves President Donald Trump’s…

Israel’s cabinet on Sunday approved a plan to build a defence compound on the site of the recently demolished premises of ​the United Nations Relief and Works Agency in East Jerusalem. Israel in January demolished ‌structures inside the U.N. Palestinian refugee agency’s East Jerusalem compound after seizing the site last year, in an act condemned by the…

A luxury ‌liner at the centre of an outbreak of hantavirus reached the Dutch port of Rotterdam on Monday, marine tracking sites said, where authorities prepared quarantine arrangements for the 23 crew and two medical staff remaining on board. The ​Dutch-flagged MV Hondius had been carrying around 150 passengers and crew from 23 countries ​when a cluster…

President Donald Trump’s visit to Beijing this week may have produced modest results by the standards of U.S.-China summits but it highlighted a clear benefit for China: after the extremes of last year’s trade war, the countries ​have reverted to their familiar economic and strategic standoff. Two days of talks between Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping…

A drone strike caused a fire at a nuclear power plant in the ​United Arab Emirates, officials there said on Sunday, while Saudi Arabia reported intercepting three drones, as U.S. President Donald Trump warned that Iran must act “fast” after efforts to ‌end the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran appeared to have stalled. Emirati officials said they were…

Trump advisers fear China could move on Taiwan within five years, threatening global chip supplies, as Trump delays a 14 billion Taiwan arms package. Days after US President Donald Trump returned to Washington from China, concerns over a possible Chinese move against Taiwan have reportedly increased among some of his close advisers following his recent summit with…

The current impasse in diplomatic exchange between Iran and the United States comes after Iran’s preconditions to resume negotiations for ending the war. Amid a shaky ceasefire and exchange of warnings, the US has reportedly put forth a list of demands to resume negotiations for a peace deal. According to Iran’s Fars news agency, these demands include…

The diplomat, citing the recently held assembly elections in several regions in the country, said India is a “vibrant democracy” where “peaceful transition of power” is a key feature. New Delhi has rejected Dutch Prime Minister Rob Jetten’s reported remarks on India’s declining media freedom and erosion of religious and minority rights, asserting that the country is…

TYRANT Vladimir Putin has chosen UK as its number one enemy and is ready to attack, an exiled Russian oil tycoon has warned. Russia has ramped up its campaign of hybrid warfare and targeted assassinations across Europe since its invasion of Ukraine in 2022. Prominent Putin critic Mikhail Khodorkovsky told The Sun the West must not underestimate…

SECURITY planning for Iran’s World Cup soccer team has been under way for nearly a year over fears of protests, visa disputes, and political unrest during this summer’s tournament, a top official has told The U.S. Sun. World Cup Task Force leader Andrew Giuliani, the son of former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani, will oversee ensuring maximum…

Rafizi Ramli, who was formerly economy minister, said the “kamikaze mission” was worth it as he wants to offer a political platform to those who believe that political power belongs to the people. Two former Malaysian Cabinet ministers from Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim’s Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR) are quitting the party and vacating their respective parliamentary seats.…

Thirteen buildings collapsed after the quake shook Guangxi’s Liuzhou city. A magnitude-5.2 earthquake in China’s southwest region of Guangxi early on Monday (May 18) killed two and forced more than 7,000 in the city of Liuzhou to evacuate as search and rescue operations continue and authorities warn of transport disruptions. There were two confirmed deaths with one…

The human rights group Amnesty International confirmed that at least 2,707 people were put to death in 2025 but said the actual number was much higher. Despite these figures, there are indications of possible progress. The number of executions worldwide reached its highest level in more than four decades in 2025, driven largely by a sharp increase…

US President Donald Trump has warned Iran the “clock is ticking” as talks to bring the war to an end have stalled. “They better get moving, FAST, or there won’t be anything left of them,” he wrote on his Truth Social platform. “TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE!” The message came as the president spoke with Israeli Prime…

One of Ukraine’s largest drone strikes on Russia killed at least four people, including three near Moscow, and wounded a dozen others, local authorities said Sunday. Debris fell on Russia’s largest airport without causing damage. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy confirmed the drone strikes, saying that they were “entirely justified.” Russia has repeatedly launched similar attacks on Ukraine’s…

Last weekend Jesse Derr and his wife, Jess Yeastadt, made the five-hour drive from their home in Phoenix to the Hard Rock Hotel in San Diego. On the agenda for their weekend trip: learn how to move to Mexico. Derr, 41, and Yeastadt, 45, were among the hundreds of Americans in San Diego last weekend who dream…

A group of protesters in London despicably called for a controversial rightwing figure to be killed, “like Charlie Kirk,” disturbing video shows. The crowd was filmed chanting about Tommy Robinson, who organized a massive “Unite the Kingdom” rally in London Saturday which saw tens of thousands of demonstrators turn out. “Shoot him in the neck like Charlie…

A humpback whale found dead this week off a Danish island has been identified as the animal released two weeks ago in a spectacular and contentious rescue effort, after repeatedly becoming stranded off Germany’s Baltic Sea coast, authorities said Saturday. The dead whale was stranded on Thursday just off the small island of Anholt in the Kattegat,…

The outbreak, caused by the Bundibugyo virus, does not meet the criteria of a pandemic emergency, said the World Health Organization. The World Health Organization on Sunday (May 17) declared an Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda a “public health emergency of international concern”. The WHO said the outbreak, caused by the Bundibugyo…

LARA Trump’s journey to Republican darling and, at one time, Senate hopeful was anything but ordinary. The former pastry chef has now become a top advisor to President Donald Trump, even joining him on his trip to China. Thursday saw Lara join her father-in-law for dinner with Chinese President Xi Jinping, wearing a traditional Chinese qipao for…

A MALDIVIAN diver has died in the search for the bodies of four Italians who were killed in a fatal cave expedition. Sergeant Major Mohammed Mahdi lost his life during the third day of recovery operations in Vaavu Atoll and was one of eight divers on the mission. The Coast Guard member reportedly fell ill on the…

A TWO-YEAR-OLD girl has been crushed to death by a chest of drawers in a horrifying accident at home. Helena Cochrane from Dentons, Texas, had been climbing the open drawers to reach for a toy when the 80lb antique, more than double her weight, fell on top of her on January 8. In the month where she…

DONALD Trump has made clear his interest in expanding the United States, with Venezuela and Greenland pinpointed as contenders to become the 51st state. Earlier this year, Trump sparked controversy after posting comments linking Venezuela to the idea of becoming part of the United States after its shock victory over the United States in the World Baseball…

Bulgaria has won the 70th Eurovision Song Contest. The kitsch pop music extravaganza, the world’s biggest live music contest, has again been overshadowed by protests and a boycott over Israel’s participation. Bulgaria won the Eurovision Song Contest final in Austria’s capital, Vienna, on Saturday night with the song “Bangaranga” amid a boycott by five countries over Israel’s…

Nigeria and the United States say they have killed a senior Islamic State (IS) leader in a joint-operation. Abu-Bilal al-Minuki was described by US President Donald Trump as the “second in command of ISIS globally” and “the most active terrorist in the world”. IS has radically shifted in recent years, with around 90% of its attacks now…

Hezbollah has increased its use of small first-person view (FPV) drones to attack Israel, including systems controlled by fibre-optic cables to evade sophisticated defences. BBC Verify has geolocated 35 videos shared by the Lebanese armed group since 26 March which show strikes on Israeli soldiers, armoured vehicles and air defence systems in southern Lebanon and northern Israel.…

Bulgarian pop star Dara has won the Eurovision Song Contest with her pneumatic dance anthem Bangaranga. The 27-year-old topped both the public and the jury vote in a nail-biting conclusion, soaring ahead of Israel in second and Romania in third to score a massive 516 points. Dara was far from a front-runner going into the contest, but…

AI is coming for your job — but not in the way you think. Karen says the real shock isn’t mass replacement (yet). It’s that AI is already reshaping work into something more precarious, more fragmented, and easier to squeeze. Data annotation and “AI training” are booming – but now the growth is in skilled labour. AI…

Video of Donald Trump opening a folder at a China banquet sparks speculation he peeked at Xi Jinping’s notes, but further footage suggests the folder was Trump’s own. A brief moment from US President Donald Trump’s recent visit to China has triggered a wave of speculation online, after social media users claimed he was seen looking through…

Few could have predicted that blaming Israel and the Jews who support it would flare up in the early 21st century — and in America of all places. After all, Israel is the only consensual society in the Middle East: It holds regular elections and maintains tripartite judicial, executive and legislative checks and balances. Free speech is…

From your weight and facial expressions to your destination, cars collect a startling amount of data about you. Some of it may even raise your insurance costs. But you can take some simple steps to limit what they know about you. Cars used to mean freedom. When I first got the keys to the old family Toyota…

In the past few weeks, flowers, messages and cuddly toys have grown like a creeper on the chain link fence at the entrance of Old Timers town camp in Australia’s Northern Territory. A little girl gets out of a car with her brother and mother to add to the pile, laying a bright pink cuddly toy on…

When Donald Trump strode on to a stage at a campaign rally in Indiana in 2016, he made one thing clear: China was America’s chief economic antagonist. “We can’t continue to allow China to rape our country,” he told a crowd in Fort Wayne. “We have the cards. Don’t forget it.” The anti-China rhetoric didn’t let up…

REAL Housewives of Rhode Island star Dino Guilmette is facing life in prison after he was caught allegedly smuggling kilos of cocaine into the US from the Caribbean. In court records obtained by The U.S. Sun, the RHORI star was hit with seven felony charges stemming from an incident on November 10, 2021. Dino, best known as…

XI Jinping asked if the US would defend Taiwan in an invasion, says Donald Trump – amid fears the conflict could spark World War Three. The US president said the pair talked a lot about the fate of the island during his high-stakes diplomatic summit in Beijing. Trump said he refused to comment on Washington’s loyalties to…

A LUXURY watch release has sparked chaotic lines with collectors and savvy resellers queuing up for days amid complaints of a foul stench and medical emergencies. The atmosphere outside the Swatch flagship store in Times Square on Friday was akin to something out of The Hunger Games, with some having set up tents as early as last…

What began as a disturbing opinion piece by Nicholas Kristof in The New York Times has now spiralled into a global debate. In his piece in the NYT, Kristof alleges the use of dogs to rape Palestinian prisoners by Israeli forces. Amid the repulsion it has triggered, experts are debating if human penetration by dogs is biologically…

On Christmas Eve 2024, Elianis Caridad Morejón Pérez, a young Cuban woman, told her mother by phone that she had put on a life jacket and was boarding a boat to travel from southern Mexico toward the United States. It was her final message from San José El Hueyate, a town in the state of Chiapas, before…

KYIV: Russia carried out its largest aerial attack over a two-day period since the start of its war in Ukraine, pounding the capital Kyiv and other cities with hundreds of drones, Ukrainian officials said on Thursday (May 14). Russia had launched 1,567 drones since the start of Wednesday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said. At least 27 civilians…

Andriy Yermak resigned in November 2025, after investigators raided his home in a sweeping corruption probe. Ukraine’s anti-corruption court on Thursday ordered the pretrial detention of Andriy Yermak, a close ally of President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, on suspicion of money laundering, according to prosecutors. The court set bail at 140 million hryvnias ($3.19 million, €2.72 million), allowing Yermak…

As Japanese society changes, many elderly people find themselves isolated and facing a “lonely death.” Government agencies and private groups are working hard to give them a new lease on life. Japan is facing a rising number of “lonely deaths,” or people dying in isolation, despite government efforts to stem the tide. The issue has become such…

US-Iran war highlights: As the peace talks between the United States and Iran remain in limbo, former US President Barack Obama has defended the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran. Speaking to CBS, Obama stated that the US managed to get 97 per cent of Iran’s enriched uranium out, without triggering a regional dispute and killing thousands. “We pulled…

Twice this week, U.S. President Donald Trump has expressed interest in turning Venezuela into his country’s 51st state. The latest came via a Truth Social post Tuesday with a map showing the South American country filled with the U.S. flag. Previous statements doubting Venezuela’s sovereignty over the past 25 years have been met with immediate derision from…

PETE Davidson and Elsie Hewitt have officially split just five months after welcoming their daughter, The U.S. Sun has exclusively learned. Insiders close to the couple said the problems in their relationship began to escalate after the model, 30, gave birth to their first child, Scottie Rose, in December. A source claimed Pete‘s busy work schedule formed…

BEIJING — President Trump’s much-anticipated summit with Chinese leader Xi Jinping has been marred by multiple physical altercations just offstage. Among the incidents that took place Thursday: A White House staffer was trampled by Chinese reporters. A Secret Service agent was kept out of official events. American journalists were prevented from joining the presidential motorcade. The chaos was all…

“Our oversight of the Strait of Hormuz will generate significant economic revenues for our country – potentially even doubling our oil income,” said a spokesperson for Iran’s military. Iran’s military spokesman said on Wednesday (May 13) that Tehran’s control over the Strait of Hormuz could generate “significant” economic revenue and strengthen the country’s international position. Iran has…

A survivor of Jeffrey Epstein’s abuse has told how the late sex offender sexually abused her while he was under house arrest for soliciting prostitution from a minor. Roza, who was recruited from Uzbekistan as a teenager by Epstein’s associate and modelling agent Jean-Luc Brunel, spoke publicly for the first time alongside a number of victims in…

A senior diplomat tasked with implementing Donald Trump’s peace plan for Gaza has said Hamas could survive as a political movement after handing over power, if it rejected armed conflict and gave up its weapons and military structures. Nickolay Mladenov, high representative for Gaza to the US-led Board of Peace, speaking to journalists on a visit to…

Hundreds of people descended on a girls’ boarding school in the Indonesian village of Tlogosari, Central Java on 2 May, shouting chants and waving banners. “Women are not sexual objects” read one. Another said, simply, “The Predator”. The mob was there to accost and hurl insults at 58-year-old Kiai Ashari, the caretaker of the Ndholo Kusumo Islamic…

A hormonal condition affecting 1 in 8 women around the world just got a new name in hopes of improving care. It Is now called polyendocrine metabolic ovarian syndrome instead of polycystic ovary syndrome. Researchers and supporters of the change said the old name, often shortened to PCOS, is inaccurate. It reduced a complex hormonal or endocrine…

Taiwan downplays Xi-Trump talks Taiwan said nothing surprising had emerged from the talks between Chinese President Xi Jinping and US President Donald Trump. “So at this point, all we can say is that there has been no surprising information so far and we will continue to maintain close communication with the American side,” Mainland Affairs Council Deputy…

The foreign ministers meeting is taking place before the 2026 BRICS summit in India in September. A meeting of BRICS foreign ministers kicked off in the Indian capital New Delhi on Thursday, with the Iran war likely to cast a shadow on the two-day event, which coincides with United States President Donald Trump’s state visit to China.…

THE author of a children’s book about grief who was convicted of killing her husband has been handed a life sentence after addressing her sons in court who begged the judge to lock her up. Kouri Richins, 35, became emotional as she admitted to making mistakes in the past, including during her marriage, as she spoke during…

Iran’s Deputy Foreign Minister, Dr Kazem Gharibabadi, told CNN-News18 that the Hormuz Crisis and the resultant fuel price increase were because of USA As US President Donald Trump touches down in Beijing, Iran expresses hope that Xi Jinping will push for a solution to the Hormuz crisis. Iran’s Deputy Foreign Minister, Dr Kazem Gharibabadi, told CNN-News18 during…

Israel claimed Benjamin Netanyahu secretly visited the UAE during the Iran war and held breakthrough talks with the Emirati president. The UAE publicly denied the visit, calling reports of secret meetings or Israeli military delegations “baseless.” Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said the Israeli Prime Minister secretly visited the United Arab Emirates during the Israel-Iran war, but the UAE…

Fifteen years after leaving the Federal Reserve in opposition to an expansive bond-buying program that has since saddled it with a $6.7 trillion portfolio, Kevin Warsh is returning to the U.S. central bank as its leader with an extensive reform agenda that may be tough to translate into quick changes. The U.S. Senate on ​Wednesday confirmed Warsh…

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that Americans’ financial struggles are not a factor in his decision-making as he seeks to negotiate an end to the Iran war, saying ​that preventing Tehran from acquiring a nuclear weapon is his top priority. Asked by a reporter ‌to what extent Americans’ financial situations were motivating him to strike…

Saudi fighter jets bombed targets linked to powerful Tehran-backed Shi’ite militias in Iraq during the Iran war, while retaliatory strikes were also launched from Kuwait into ​Iraq, multiple sources familiar with the matter said. The strikes are part of a broader pattern of military responses around the Gulf that remained largely hidden during a conflict ‌that began…

The Trump administration will block new home healthcare and hospice providers from enrolling in Medicare for at least the next six months, according ​to a government, statement, opens new tab posted on Wednesday, citing concerns about widespread fraud. The moratorium will temporarily bar new providers in those categories from signing up for reimbursement from Medicare, a U.S.…

Russia unleashed a massive daytime drone attack on Ukraine on Wednesday, targeting critical infrastructure in the west, killing at ​least six people and prompting NATO-member Poland to scramble fighter jets, officials said. Hungary, now led by a government more in line with the ‌European mainstream, condemned the strikes on areas of Ukraine with ethnic Hungarian communities and…

The posts came as Trump travelled to China for high-stakes talks with Xi Jinping and days after he floated the idea of Venezuela becoming a US state. US President Donald Trump on Tuesday shared a graphic depicting Venezuela as the “51st State” of the United States, while Secretary of State Marco Rubio was spotted aboard Air Force…

President Trump reiterated his strong stance on Iran while en route to a summit with China’s Xi Jinping, asserting that Iran is under control and emphasizing the US’s commitment to preventing its nuclear armament. US President Donald Trump issued a fresh warning to Iran as he heads to China for a two-day summit with President Xi Jinping.…

Saudi Arabia launched numerous, unpublicized strikes on Iran in retaliation for attacks carried out in the kingdom during the Middle East war, two Western officials briefed on the matter and two Iranian officials said. The Saudi attacks, not previously reported, mark the first time that the ​kingdom is known to have directly carried out military action on…

Both Iraq and Pakistan have cut deals with Iran to ship oil and liquefied natural gas from the Gulf, according to five sources with knowledge of the matter, in a demonstration of ​Tehran’s ability to control energy flows through the Strait of Hormuz. The U.S.-Israeli war with Iran has slashed energy exports from a region that normally…

Extensive testing, contact tracing, and quarantine procedures are still needed to contain the outbreak, WHO says. However, it has stressed that the current outbreak is vastly different to the COVID-19 pandemic. The push to contain the recent hantavirus outbreak “is not over” yet, World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Tuesday. Tedros’ comments came…

The ShinyHunters hacking group stole student data from the popular education platform Canvas last week. Parent company Instructure apologized for the hack and said Canvas “remains safe to use.” The US parent company of online learning system Canvas said Monday that it has reached a deal with a hacking group which stole student and school data on…

On a visit to Indonesia, Singapore Foreign Minister Vivian Balakrishnan also thanked the search and rescue personnel who retrieved the bodies of victims, including two Singaporeans, who died on Mount Dukono on May 8. Indonesia and Singapore want to deepen ties and collaboration as they commemorate 60 years of bilateral relations next year, said the foreign ministers…

The Russian leader had said, without elaborating, that he believed the war was “heading to an end”. The Kremlin said Tuesday (May 12) there was no concrete plan to end the Ukraine war, days after Russian leader Vladimir Putin suggested Europe’s worst conflict since WWII could be winding down. Moscow and Kyiv resumed attacks overnight after the…

The Democratic primary for a key U.S. House seat in Nebraska was too early to call late Tuesday, as two candidates were separated by a narrow margin in a contest that could decide the fate of the state’s “blue dot” — a small, but significant factor in presidential politics. Political activist Denise Powell had a lead of…

Kuwait said on Tuesday that Iran launched a failed attack earlier this month on an island where China is helping build a port in the Gulf Arab country. The accusation came just hours before U.S. President Donald Trump was to depart for Beijing on a high-stakes visit over the Iran war and other issues. Trump said he…

On a rainy, cold morning Masooda makes her way to a hillside cemetery in north-west Kabul to visit the grave of her younger brother Mirwais. But she doesn’t know exactly where he was buried after he was killed in a Pakistani airstrike two months ago. Instead, she stands at the edge of a mass grave, neatly covered…

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer is to meet Health Secretary Wes Streeting, one of his potential leadership challengers, this morning, as his government faces an attempt by Labour MPs to oust him from the top job. The meeting comes after four ministers resigned, including prominent MP Jess Phillips who quit as safeguarding minister, and Streeting ally Zubir…

James Van Der Beek’s wife, Kimberly, shared a heartbreaking life update three months after the actor tragically died from cancer. “To say I’m heartbroken is a severe understatement,” the film producer wrote via Instagram Tuesday alongside photos of Van Der Beek and their kids. “Words just don’t capture what grief is. The comforts of shock have worn…

Mal Anderson, the first unseeded player to win the US Open men’s singles title, has died aged 91, Tennis Australia said on Monday. Mal Anderson, the first unseeded player to win the US Open men’s singles title, has died aged 91, Tennis Australia said on Monday. Anderson’s career started on a dirt court on a farm and…

The United States government on Monday (May 11) announced sanctions against three people and nine companies, including four based in Hong Kong and four in the United Arab Emirates, for aiding Iran’s shipment of oil to China. The ninth company is based in Oman. The Treasury move follows sanctions announced on Friday on individuals and companies aiding…

Passengers on the ill-fated cruise from several European countries, including Germany, are returning home and will be screened by health authorities. One French woman developed symptoms on the return flight. Thanks for joining us We’re going to bring these updates to a halt now, after several days keeping an eye on the MV Hondius and its passengers.…

A Ukrainian initiative to repatriate abducted Ukrainian children reports that at least 20,000 girls and boys are being held by Russian families and authorities. Can these children ever find their way home? In March, the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on Ukraine of the UN Human Rights Council found that Russia had systematically deported and forcibly transferred…

A Palestinian family has described how Israeli settlers in the northern West Bank forced them to exhume the newly buried grave of an older relative, claiming it was too close to a settlement recently authorized by Israel’s government. Mohammed Asasa said his family had coordinated the burial of his 80-year-old father, Hussein, with the Israeli military. He…

His head, chest and hands strapped with body cameras, David Park deftly folded a banquet napkin the way he has thousands of times during his nine years at the five-star Lotte Hotel Seoul. Each of his motions is fed into a database that will one day teach a robot to do the same. The hotel chain is…

A THIRD rat virus cruise passenger has tested positive for hantavirus with the ship leaving Tenerife with just crew on board. A Spanish guest tested positive for the deadly virus and is said to be asymptomatic as medics quickly took them to quarantine in Madrid. Three cruise passengers have already died, with two of them confirmed to…

The cabinet is to meet formally this morning amid splits at the top of government over the future of the prime minister, with Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood among a number of ministers calling for Sir Keir Starmer to set out a timetable for his resignation. It is understood Mahmood is in the minority in the cabinet over…

The United Arab Emirates quietly carried out military counter-strikes against a key Iranian oil refinery just as President Trump declared a cease-fire last month, according to a new report. After suffering repeated bombardments from Iran, the UAE fired a series of retaliatory attacks against the Islamic republic, with one of the known strikes hitting the Lavan Island…