'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
Iran supreme leader vows revenge for father's killing Iran's supreme leader on Saturday vowed revenge for the US-Israeli killing of his father and predecessor, hours after President Donald Trump threatened severe reprisals in the event of any attempt on his own life. Both sides dialled up the rhetoric after exchanges of fire this week rocked an interim agreement aimed at ending the Middle East war, which broke out in late February with massive US-Israeli strikes that killed former supreme leader Ali Khamenei. Agence France-Presse
Analysis Why Iran is making infrastructure next front in Mideast conflict Tehran appears to be codifying a pattern that emerged during the recent conflict, increasingly floating attacks on economic infrastructure as an integral part of the conflict's equation. By A correspondent in Tehran In Tehran, reporting on politics
Iran hits back at Trump after insists truce over Iran insisted on Saturday it had "kept its word" on a ceasefire with the United States, after President Donald Trump insisted the truce was over but that he had agreed to further negotiations with the Islamic republic. It came a day after the president agreed to further negotiations with Iran, even as he repeated his assertion that the ceasefire was over, just weeks after Washington and Tehran signed a memorandum of understanding pushing for peace. Agence France-Presse
Mojtaba Khamenei absence signals shifting role for Iran leader The absence of Iran's supreme leader Mojtaba Khamenei from the funeral ceremonies of Ali Khamenei raised questions about his health and fear of assassination, as well as indicating he may perform a quite different function as number one compared with his all-powerful father. "The balance of power between the office of the supreme leader and the IRGC has shifted," he told AFP. Brodsky described Mojtaba Khamenei as a "weaker leader" than his father but noted it took Ali Khamenei "years to consolidate his authority" after being named in 1989. Agence France-Presse
Polish nationalists protest Jewish pogrom commemoration Poland's Jewish community, political leaders and ordinary citizens on Friday commemorated a massacre of hundreds of Jews killed by their Polish neighbours 85 years ago, as far-right activists protested nearby. Among the organisers of the protest was the far-right Confederation of the Polish Crown party whose leader is Grzegorz Braun. Agence France-Presse
