— 🇮🇷/🇬🇧 Strait of Hormuz | 19-07-2019

The IRGC-Navy surrounds the British-flagged 'STENA IMPERO' oil tanker, and Iranian special forces land on deck. They capture the crew and direct the captain to sail towards Bandar Abbas port.

The flag of the Islamic Republic is raised on the tanker, and Iranian forces perform their Fajr prayers on deck, playing the Adhan, the call to prayer, from the captured vessel.

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— 🇮🇶/🇺🇸 BREAKING: Reuters reports that the United States and Iraq have reached an agreement on the withdrawal of U.S. forces

The plan, pending final approval, aims for hundreds of troops to leave by September 2025, with the remainder departing by the end of 2026.

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— 🇺🇸/🇮🇱/🇵🇸/🇬🇧 NEW: CIA Director William Burns said that a 'more detailed proposal' for a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip and a deal for the release of hostages will be presented in the coming days

'We will offer this detailed proposal, I hope in the coming days, and then we'll see. It's a matter of political will,' Burns said at an event in London

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— 🇮🇱/🇵🇸 NEW: The International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague decided to halt legal proceedings against Ismail Haniyeh, the head of the Hamas political bureau, due to his assassination

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— 🇺🇸 NEW: A New York judge on Friday delayed former U.S. President Donald Trump's sentencing in his hush money criminal case until after the Nov. 5 election, writing that he wants to avoid the unwarranted perception of a political motive

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— 🇮🇷/🇷🇺 UPDATE: The Iranian delegation at the UN denied reports that Tehran sent hundreds of short-range ballistic missiles to Russia, despite Western countries' warnings, and confirmed that its stance on the war has not changed

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— 🇵🇸/🇮🇱 NEW: Al-Qassam Brigades: 'Exchanged in a deal, or killed by bombing?'

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— 🇾🇪 NEW: Yemen's Ansarullah announce that they shot down a MQ-9 'Reaper' drone yesterday, the eighth of its kind since October.

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— 🇮🇷 NEW: Iranian athlete Sadeq Beytsiah was stripped of his gold medal at the 2024 Paralympics for raising the flag of Imam Hussain, a 'religious and political gesture' according to the Olympics comittee

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If this was the LGBT flag, they would have given him an extra medal.

— 🇮🇱/🇯🇴 BREAKING: Three people were critically injured in a shooting incident near the King Hussein border crossing between Israel and Jordan, on the Israeli side

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— 🇮🇱/🇯🇴 UPDATE: Emergency services announce death of the three people who were injured in the Jordan border crossing attack

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— 🇮🇱/🇯🇴 UPDATE: The IDF spokesperson states that soldiers are inspecting the truck of the shooter, who fatally shot three people, fearing it is rigged with explosives

According to preliminary details, the shooter exited the truck and opened fire at forces securing the crossing. The security forces eliminated the shooter.

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— 🇮🇱/🇯🇴 UPDATE: IDF forces have surround the West Bank city of Jericho after the border crossing attack

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— 🇮🇱/🇯🇴 NEW: Jordan has closed the King Hussein bridge crossing, pending investigation of the incident

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— 🇮🇷/🇮🇱 NEW: Benjamin Netanyahu said that Israel was surrounded by a murderous ideology, led by Iran.

'They want to kill the last one of us,' he said at the start of the weekly cabinet meeting. 'They do not differentiate between Left and right-leaning, religious or secular, Jews or non-Jews.'

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— 🇮🇱/🇯🇴 NEW: The shooting at the King Hussein border crossing between Israel and Jordan was carried out by an 39 year old Jordanian man, Maher al-Jazzy

As per the current information, he drove his truck from Jordan into Israel and then opened fire upon the Israeli border guards, killing 3 of them, and getting martyred.

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— 🇺🇸/🇯🇵 NEW: A U.S. Marine in Okinawa, Japan, has been accused of sexually assaulting and injuring a woman in her 20s.

This case comes amid a string of recent incidents involving U.S. servicemen, including a U.S. Air Force member indicted in March for allegedly kidnapping and sexually assaulting a minor, and a U.S. Marine arrested in May on suspicion of attempted rape resulting in injury.

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