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Iran has barred its national and club teams from travelling to countries it deems hostile, citing risks to athletes amid the ongoing Israeli-US war on the country.

The sport ministry said safety concerns prompted the decision.

“The presence of national and club teams in countries considered hostile and unable to ensure the security of Iranian athletes and team members is prohibited until further notice,” it said.

Authorities have instructed football officials to notify the Asian Football Confederation to move fixtures elsewhere.

The move follows reports that members of Iran’s women’s national team faced pressure from Australian police during a recent visit to defect to the country. Several did, before going on to change their minds and return to Iran.

Lebanon’s coastal southern city of Tyre – famed for its Roman ruins and white sandy beaches – is almost a ghost town.

The renewed war between Israel and Hezbollah, against the backdrop of the wider war between Israel, the United States and Iran, has forced more than one million people in to flee. But several thousand residents linger in Tyre, refusing to be expelled from their land.

“This is our land – where would we go? We won’t abandon our homes even when they’re destroyed,” said Jihan Salama, 55, surveying all that remained of her family’s apartment after an Israeli air strike.

Nader al-Ashqar, 60, awoke to the thunderous clap of bombardment and sprinted out of his building with his wife and two daughters as Israeli jets roared overhead.

“We saw our belongings flying in the air, hundreds of metres in the air. Everything is gone,” he said. “But God told me to stay here.”

Israel’s military says it needs more soldiers as its invasion in southern Lebanon deepens, part of a push to impose a so-called buffer zone along the border.

“On the Lebanese front, the forward defensive zone that we are creating requires additional [Israeli military] forces,” army spokesperson Effie Defrin said.

He acknowledged the army is stretched across multiple fronts, including Gaza, the occupied West Bank and Syria.

“For that, more combat soldiers are needed in the [Israeli army].”

US President Donald Trump denied being “desperate” to make a deal with Iran as he mixed threats with diplomacy in a push to wrap up his war in the Middle East.

Holding his first cabinet meeting since the start of the US-Israeli attack, Trump insisted Iran is “begging” for a deal despite Tehran’s denials.

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• Loud booms could be heard across Israel as it was repeatedly targeted by barrages from Iran. Its Magen David Adom emergency service said a man in his 30s was killed in the area of Nahariya, the country’s northernmost coastal city.
• In the United Arab Emirates, two people were reported killed by shrapnel from a missile interception over Abu Dhabi.
• Since the war began, more than 1,900 people have been killed in Iran, Deputy Health Minister Ali Jafarian told Al Jazeera.
• At least 18 people have died in Israel, while three Israeli soldiers have also been killed in Lebanon.
• At least 13 American troops have been killed and dozens wounded.
• More than a dozen civilians in the occupied West Bank and Gulf Arab states have also died.

Iran’s military headquarters says it targeted “various types of Israeli military vessels in the eastern Mediterranean” as well as “the fuel tanks of Israeli fighter jets in the port of Haifa”.

“We are determined to powerfully target the source of all aggression and evil, with the grace of God,” Revolutionary Guard spokesperson Lieutenant-Colonel Ebrahim Zolfaghari was cited as stating in state media.

Israel’s opposition leader Yair Lapid has accused Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of driving the country into a “security catastrophe” as the war intensifies.

Speaking on the 27th day of Israel’s war on Iran and Lebanon, Lapid said the military is overstretched and lacks the resources to sustain operations across multiple fronts.

“Our pilots, our fighters are currently writing glorious chapters in the history of the State of Israel … But the [Israeli army] is being pushed to the limit, beyond its limits,” he said, warning the government has left “the army wounded, abandoned on the battlefield.”

“The government is sending the army to fight a war on several fronts without a strategy, without the necessary resources and with far too few soldiers,” he added.

Iran has set out its conditions for ending the war, rejecting a US list of 15 demands.

Tehran says the proposal does not reflect reality, while US President Donald Trump has threatened to “unleash hell” if his terms are not accepted.

What are the red lines for both sides?

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Lebanon’s deputy prime minister, Tarek Mitri, has accused Israel of committing war crimes during its ongoing bombardment, warning parts of the country risk being devastated in the same way as Gaza.

“[Bezalel] Smotrich, the finance minister, has said we will turn southern Lebanon into Khan Younis, which is the southern part of Gaza. We have real fears that this is the case,” he told Sky News UK.

Mitri said authorities are documenting systematic violations of international humanitarian law, including the targeting of emergency workers.

“There is no doubt that Israel is committing war crimes. It’s violating the Geneva Accord,” he said.

At least 42 paramedics have been killed since Israel escalated its war on Lebanon on March 2.

Israel’s attacks on Lebanon have killed more than 1,116 people.

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio says intermediary countries are “passing messages and progress has been made” in talks with Iran.

“There’s a growing amount of energy that’s been flowing through the straits, not as much as should be flowing, but some of it has picked up,” he told reporters.

“There’s been some progress in regards to the exchange of messages, but that’s an ongoing and fluid process, and not one we’re going to negotiate or talk about in the media.”

Rubio said the Strait of Hormuz “can be open tomorrow if Iran stops threatening global shipping”.

“For all these countries that care about international law, they should be doing something about it,” he added.

The richest one percent are cashing in on war, while you’ll be stuck with higher bills.

As oil and gas profits surge during global conflict, rich Americans are seeing the biggest gains.

At the same time, rising energy costs mean things are about to get more expensive for everyone else.

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Lebanon’s Prime Minister Nawaf Salam has condemned “the discovery of a terrorist cell in Kuwait” in a call with its leader Sheikh Ahmad Abdullah Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah.

Kuwait has announced several arrests allegedly linked to Hezbollah in recent weeks.

Salam “expressed his regret that two of the accused belong to Hezbollah”, according to the Kuwaiti Interior Ministry.

Hezbollah earlier denied it has any presence in Kuwait, a day after the Gulf country announced more arrests of people allegedly linked to the Iran-backed group.

Lebanon’s Foreign Ministry has said Lebanese authorities are ready “to cooperate in the investigations”.

Let’s get you up to speed:

• Israel’s attacks on Lebanon have killed at least 1,116 people, the country’s health ministry said.
• US envoy Steve Witkoff says there are “strong signs” Iran could be convinced to make a peace deal, confirming that Washington had passed a 15-point plan to Tehran through mediator Pakistan.
• Iran has allowed 10 oil tankers to pass through the strategic Strait of Hormuz as a “present”, to show it is serious about negotiations to end the war, the US president says.
• The Israeli army again issued a displacement threat for all residents of Lebanon who live south of the Zahrani River.
• US Central Command said in a post on X that Admiral Alireza Tangsiri, commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) navy, was killed. Iran has not confirmed the news.
• The price of the international benchmark, Brent North Sea crude, jumped by 5.2 percent to $107.54 per barrel.