US stocks drop on latest Middle East fighting, tech earnings caution Wall Street stocks retreated Monday with early gains fading as the escalating US-Iran conflict lifted oil prices while markets awaited key earnings reports. Earlier Asian stock markets ended the day mostly lower under the weight of higher oil price, alongside lingering concerns that the AI sector may be overbought. Agence France-Presse
US-Iran strikes: latest developments US and Iranian strikes extended into Sunday, with Washington saying it was punishing Tehran for the deaths of two US servicemen in Jordan and Gulf states announcing responses to Iranian attacks. US strikes on Iran The US military command for the region, CENTCOM, said its latest round of strikes on Iran was partly to "punish" Iran for a Friday attack on a base in Jordan which killed two US soldiers and left another missing in action. Agence France-Presse
Palestinians say Israeli settlers torch mosque, factory Israeli settlers set fire overnight to a mosque in a village in the occupied West Bank, a Palestinian official said Sunday, as an AFP journalist saw the structure's entrance scorched and Hebrew graffiti sprayed on its walls. More than two dozen settlers, some masked, attacked the Al-Taqwa mosque in the village of Al-Tuwani during the night and set it on fire, Mohammed Rabie, head of the village council, told AFP. The settlers also set fire to two houses and a dairy factory, he said, adding the attackers spray-painted Hebrew graffiti on the walls of the mosque. Agence France-Presse
Iran hits out at Gulf neighbors as US presses on with strikes Washington and Tehran traded strikes on Monday as US deaths in the renewed fighting climbed to three and more ships came under attack in the strategic Strait of Hormuz. The UK Maritime Trade Operations agency said on Monday that a vessel was on fire in the strait, citing information from military authorities. Agence France-Presse
In a Lebanon museum, 'keys without homes' evoke destruction in south Tears streamed down south Lebanon resident Fatima Hajj Ali's face as she stared at a host of keys hanging like windchimes from the ceiling of a Beirut museum -- each one symbolising a home, like her own, destroyed by Israel. The exhibition "Hkeeli ya Jnoub", or "Tell me, O South", features pictures and videos preserving the memory of southern Lebanon at the capital's Beit Beirut museum. Agence France-Presse
International oil firms halt production in Iraq’s Kurdistan amid US-Iran escalation The move follows the deaths of two US service members in an Iranian attack on Jordan. Iraq
NY mayor says still mulling Netanyahu arrest during UN meet New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani is in talks over whether to try to arrest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during an upcoming UN summit, he said in an interview published Saturday -- prompting a sharp rebuke from Netanyahu's camp. "I believe that Prime Minister Netanyahu belongs in The Hague," Mamdani told The New York Times. Agence France-Presse
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