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Ronaldo says Al-Nassr chapter 'over'

Questions swirled over Cristiano Ronaldo's future in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday, hours after the superstar indicated he might be leaving Al Nassr in a social media post, just hours following the end of the Saudi Pro League season.

The 40-year-old Portuguese forward joined Al Nassr in 2022 from Manchester United and his contract with the Saudi club ends this summer.

A special transfer window runs from June 1-10 to allow the 32 clubs involved in the Club World Cup to sign players.

Al-Nassr are not at the Club World Cup unlike fellow Saudi side Al Hilal.

Ronaldo ended as the Saudi Pro League's top scorer this season on 24 goals

Filmmaker Panahi cheered on return to Iran after Cannes triumph

Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi was given a hero's welcome by supporters on his return to Tehran on Monday after winning the top prize at the Cannes film festival, footage posted on social media showed.

After being banned from leaving Iran for years, forced to make films underground and enduring spells in prison, Panahi attended the French festival in person and sensationally walked away with the Palme d'Or for his latest movie, "It Was Just an Accident".

Jafar Panahi issued a resounding call for freedom in Iran after winning the Palme d'Or

Filmmaker Panahi cheered on return to Iran after Cannes triumph

Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi was given a hero's welcome by supporters on his return to Tehran on Monday after winning the top prize at the Cannes film festival, footage posted on social media showed.

After being banned from leaving Iran for years, forced to make films underground and enduring spells in prison, Panahi attended the French festival in person and sensationally walked away with the Palme d'Or for his latest movie, "It Was Just an Accident".

Jafar Panahi issued a resounding call for freedom in Iran after winning the Palme d'Or

Iran rejects push to suspend uranium enrichment to reach US deal

Iran on Monday ruled out suspending uranium enrichment as part of any nuclear deal with the United States -- a key demand from Washington in successive rounds of talks between the foes.

The issue has come into focus in recent weeks, with Iran staunchly defending its right to enrich uranium as part of what it says is a civilian nuclear programme, while the United States wants it to stop.

US President Donald Trump described the latest round of talks in Rome as 'very, very good'

Scuffles, insults as Israelis celebrate Jerusalem Day under shadow of Gaza war

Crowds of Israelis streamed through Jerusalem's Old City, where some scuffled with residents and hurled insults at Palestinians, as annual celebrations of Israel's capture of east Jerusalem took place on Monday.

Jerusalem Day, as the celebrations are known, commemorates Israeli forces taking east Jerusalem during the 1967 Arab-Israeli war.

Israeli police tussle with a young man in the Old City during a march for Jerusalem Day on Monday

Israel strikes Gaza as PM vows to bring hostages home

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed Monday to bring back all hostages, "living and dead", as Gaza rescuers said Israeli strikes killed at least 52 people in the war-battered Palestinian enclave.

Netanyahu's remarks came amid confusion about the fate of a proposed 70-day ceasefire that was to see the release of 10 Israeli hostages alongside more Palestinian prisoners.

Dozens were killed in Gaza on Monday in Israeli air strikes, as mediators put forward a new ceasefire proposal

Trump calls Iran-US nuclear talks 'very, very good'

US President Donald Trump on Sunday described the latest negotiations between Washington and Tehran over Iran's nuclear program as "very, very good."

Speaking on the tarmac at Morristown airport before boarding Air Force One, Trump hailed "real progress, serious progress" following a fifth round of nuclear talks, which wrapped up in Rome on Friday.

The Oman-mediated talks, which began in April, are the highest-level contact between the countries since the United States quit a landmark 2015 nuclear accord during Trump's first term as US president.

Since returning to office, US President Donald Trump has revived his "maximum pressure" campaign on Iran

'Death is sometimes kinder': Relatives recount Gaza strike that devastated family

Alaa al-Najjar was tending to wounded children at a hospital in the southern Gaza Strip when the news came through: the home where her own 10 children were staying had been bombed in an Israeli air strike.

The paediatrician, with no means of transport, ran from the Nasser Hospital to the family house in the city of Khan Yunis, a relative told AFP, only to be met with every parent's worst nightmare.

"When she saw the charred bodies, she started screaming and crying," said Ali al-Najjar, the brother of Alaa's husband.

Smoke billows over destroyed buildings during an Israeli bombardment in Gaza on Friday

Spain hosts European, Arab nations to pressure Israel on Gaza

The international community should look at sanctions against Israel to stop the Gaza war, Spain's foreign minister said Sunday, as European and Arab nations gathered in Madrid to urge an end to its offensive.

Some of Israel's long-standing allies have added their voices to growing international pressure after it expanded military operations against Gaza's Hamas rulers, whose 2023 attack on Israel sparked the devastating conflict.

Spain is hosting 20 countries as well as international organisations with the aim of stopping the Israeli offensive in Gaza

Syria to help locate missing Americans: US envoy

Syria's new authorities have agreed to help the United States locate and return Americans who went missing in the war-ravaged country, a US envoy said on Sunday, in another sign of thawing bilateral ties.

The announcement came a day after the United States formally lifted sanctions on Syria, ending more than a decade of diplomatic freeze.

Relations have steadily improved since former president Bashar al-Assad was overthrown by an Islamist-led offensive in December.

A photograph released by the Turkish foreign ministry on May 24, 2025 shows US Syria envoy Tom Barrack shaking hands with Syria's jihadist-turned-interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa during a meeting in Istanbul