WASHINGTON, June 11 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump said he has canceled planned strikes against Iran on Thursday, hours after threatening more bombings and a desire to "take" oil export hub Kharg Island.

"Based on the fact that discussions with the Islamic Republic of Iran have been brought to the highest level of Iranian leadership and approved, I have, as President of the United States of America, cancelled the scheduled strikes and bombings against Iran this evening," Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social.

By Patricia Zengerle

WASHINGTON, June 11 (Reuters) - Dozens of U.S. lawmakers urged President Donald Trump's administration on Thursday to roll back any plans to ship to unsafe third countries Afghan nationals who worked with U.S. forces during the war in their homeland.

In a letter seen by Reuters, more than 80 House of Representatives members, including at least three Republicans as well as Democrats, appealed to Secretary of State Marco Rubio to reconsider plans for 1,100 Afghans who have been stranded in Qatar awaiting relocation.

By Nidal al-Mughrabi and Ahmed Shalaby

CAIRO, June 11 (Reuters) - Israeli strikes killed three people in the Gaza Strip on Thursday, health officials said, as mediators struggled to make progress in renewed efforts to reinforce a fragile U.S.-brokered truce, sources close to the talks reported.

Medics said an Israeli strike on a house in Moghrabi Street in Gaza City killed one person. The Israeli military told Reuters it struck a militant.

DUBAI, June 11 (Reuters) - Iran's top joint military command, Khatam al-Anbiya Central Headquarters, said on Thursday the United States would receive a more severe response than before if it attacks Iran, after Trump said the U.S. would strike Iran again.

"Considering recent U.S. threats against Iran's oil infrastructure, either oil and gas exports are for everyone or they will be available for no one," the command said in a statement carried by state media, adding the war would become more widespread and extensive, causing insecurity in the region.

June 11 (Reuters) - Slovenia's government has revoked a 2025 decision banning the export and transit of weapons and military equipment to Israel, as well as most arms imports from the country, the Defence Ministry said on Thursday.

• The ministry said the ban, introduced in July, was no longer necessary as the trade in arms is already governed by national law and European Union rules.

By Nate Raymond

June 11 (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court overturned on Thursday an obstruction conviction of a former Twitter employee accused of spying for Saudi Arabia, saying he was tried in the wrong state for knowingly falsifying a document to impede an FBI investigation.

The justices unanimously ruled that the U.S. Justice Department wrongly in 2022 secured Ahmad Abouammo's conviction in California from a jury in San Francisco, when his only interactions with FBI agents had been at his home in Seattle in Washington state.

June 11 (Reuters) - U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is "deeply concerned" by the continued escalation in the Middle East, including strikes by the United States on Iran and Iranian strikes on its neighbors, a U.N. spokesperson said in a statement on Thursday.

By Nazih Osseiran and Emilie Madi

June 11 (Reuters) - After a ceasefire was announced between Lebanese armed group Hezbollah and Israel in April, Darine Al Jouny Safadi thought the worst was behind her and returned home to the Christian quarter of southern Lebanon's port city of Tyre.

Around three weeks later, Safadi and her family were on the run again, fleeing Israeli bombardment for the second time in almost as many months, despite worries they'd never return.

The World Bank on Thursday lowered its global growth forecast to its lowest level since the pandemic, warning of the expanding economic impacts of the war in the Middle East on countries around the globe.

Worldwide growth is now forecast to drop to 2.5 percent in 2026, from 2.9 percent a year earlier, with headline inflation averaging four percent, the multilateral lender said in its Global Economic Prospects report.

WASHINGTON, June 11 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump said on Thursday he would like to take over Iran's oil infrastructure hub Kharg Island but he was not sure Americans have the appetite for a major escalation in the war.

"We are talking to them and all, but you know, look, my preference has always been - take Kharg Island ... my preference would be that. I don't know that America has the stomach for it," he said in an interview on Fox News.