Syrian transitional parliament holds first session Syria's transitional parliament began its first session on Sunday, state television reported, tasked with drafting the country's new constitution and laying the groundwork for democracy after decades of authoritarian rule. The session began on Sunday with 206 members, excluding those from Druze-majority Sweida province in the south and one member who died between being named and the parliament convening. Agence France-Presse
US senator and Trump ally Lindsey Graham dies aged 71 Republican Senator Lindsey Graham, an influential ally of President Donald Trump and advocate of hawkish US foreign policy, has died unexpectedly aged 71, his office said. - Foreign policy hawk - Graham's death comes as the weeks-long hospitalization of former Republican Senate leader Mitch McConnell rattles the party. Agence France-Presse
US-Iran strikes: latest developments US military strikes on Iranian targets entered a second day on Monday in a surge of renewed fighting over the status of the Strait of Hormuz that is endangering a fragile interim agreement and sending oil prices spiking. Oil prices jump as US hits Iran Oil prices opened sharply higher in Tokyo on Monday after the United States launched a wave of attacks on Iran and as Tehran announced it would close the Strait of Hormuz. Agence France-Presse
'Our land, our sky:' West Bank Palestinians fly kites in defiance of Israeli settlers As brightly coloured kites climb above Burin, a Palestinian village in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, children race across a sun-baked hillside, watching their creations soar into the sky. Kites in the black, white, green and red of the Palestinian flag soar overhead, joined by another in the colours of Egypt, flown in tribute to the Egyptian national football team. Agence France-Presse
US hits Iran as Gulf states targeted in flareup over Hormuz The United States struck Iran Monday for a second day running, drawing Tehran's reprisals against US allies in the Gulf as the foes battle over the status of the strategic Strait of Hormuz. Iran's Revolutionary Guards said they had struck US military targets and bases in Jordan, Bahrain and Kuwait, state media reported on Monday. Agence France-Presse
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