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KAZAN, Russia — Almost 700 miles east of Russia's war in Ukraine, the city of Kazan is a safe enough distance for President Vladimir Putin to try and reposition himself as an international ambassador. The countries gathering for the BRICS summit, where Gavrilov is helping to chaperone delegates, share a similar mix of apparently contradictory views. Russia and Iranian protocol teams huddled together in a Kazan hotel Sunday planning the arrival of Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian. Russian President Vladimir Putin and UAE President Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan sign a wall at newly opened education center in Moscow on Monday. While Ukraine is a “long, long way away, the modern ballistic missile can very easily come here,” Gavrilov said.

Persons: Vladimir Putin, Putin, Islam Gavrilov, Sergei Gavrilov, “, Gavrilov, ”, didn’t, —, it’s, Masoud Pezeshkian, Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Mikhail Metzel, Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Prince Mohammed bin Salman, Prince Faisal bin Farhan, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, they’ve, ” David Lubin, you’re, ” Gavrilov, Keir Simmons, Natasha Lebedeva, Freddie Clayton Organizations: NBC, NASA, Harvard University, The, Putin, United Arab, European Union, Kremlin, Wednesday, Saudi Arabia’s Crown, Chatham House, NBC News, Inside Locations: KAZAN, Russia, Ukraine, Kazan, Kremlin, United States, Moscow, America, U.S, — Brazil, India, China, South Africa, Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, United Arab Emirates, UAE, London, Russian, Yelabuga, Nizhnekamsk, “

TEL AVIV — Israeli officials are weighing an Egyptian proposal for a small-scale cease-fire deal with Hamas aimed at trying to build momentum for a larger agreement, an Israeli official told NBC News. Israel’s security cabinet has discussed the Egyptian proposal for a two-week truce in Gaza, said the official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity. The Egyptian proposal calls for the release of just six Israeli hostages in exchange, the official said. The Egyptian proposal was first reported by Axios. So the idea is to get the momentum going with a smaller deal,” the Israeli official said.

Persons: Antony Blinken, Yahya Sinwar, Hassan Mahmoud Rashad, Axios, It’s, —, Raf Sanchez, Chantal Da Silva Organizations: TEL AVIV —, NBC News, U.S Locations: TEL AVIV, Israel, Gaza, Lebanon, Beirut, U.S, Tel Aviv, London

The Israeli military expanded its offensive in Lebanon overnight, striking bank branches across the country to target Hezbollah‘s finances in an assault that sparked panic in Beirut, as Secretary of State Antony Blinken was heading to the Middle East to push for a diplomatic solution to the intensifying regional conflict. But it also comes as Israel prepares an attack against Iran itself. The U.S. and Israel have linked the bank to the Iran-backed militant and political group. An NBC News crew in Beirut heard the blasts ring out as Lebanese national media reported strikes on bank branches in the city's southern suburbs. Meanwhile, video shared on social media and geolocated by NBC News showed buildings on fire and collapsing after apparent air strikes.

Persons: Antony Blinken, Blinken, Lloyd Austin, Daniel Hagari, Hagari, Qard Al, Hassan Organizations: Defense, NBC News, Israel Defense Forces Locations: Lebanon, Beirut, U.S, Iran, Gaza, Israel, Lebanon's

☆ BRICS: The West wants Putin isolated. A major summit he’s hosting shows he’s far from alone
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-21 | by ( Simone Mccarthy | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +9 min

Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva was expected to join but canceled his trip after suffering an injury at home. “This BRICS summit is really a gift (for Putin),” said Alex Gabuev, director of the Carnegie Russia Eurasia Center in Berlin. Russian President Vladimir Putin, Chinese leader Xi Jinping, then-Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi pose as they arrive for the BRICS summit in Brasilia in November 2019. While BRICS is primarily geared toward economic collaboration, its meeting last year took place in the shadow of the war in Ukraine. The gathering in Kazan also gives Putin ample opportunity for one-on-one facetime with his fellow BRICS leaders and other friendly dignitaries in attendance.

Persons: Vladimir Putin, –, Xi, India’s Narendra Modi, Iran’s Masoud, Cyril Ramaphosa, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, Putin –, Xi –, Putin, BRICS, Donald Trump, ”, Alex Gabuev, …, BRICS “, ” Gabuev, Xi Jinping, Jair Bolsonaro, Narendra Modi, Adriano Machado, Mahmoud Abbas, Israel –, Jonathan Fulton, Volodymyr Zelensky, Yevhen Titov, they’ll, Manoj Kewalramani Organizations: CNN, Carnegie Russia Eurasia Center, Indian, Reuters, International, Israel, Atlantic Council, United Nations General Assembly, US, New Development Bank, World Bank, International Monetary Fund, BRICS, Kremlin, Takshashila Locations: Ukraine, Moscow, Russian, Kazan, Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa, Egypt, United Arab Emirates, Ethiopia, Iran, Beijing, Tehran, United States, Berlin, Brasilia, Johannesburg, Israel, Gaza, Hezbollah, Lebanon, Abu Dhabi, “, Gabuev, BRICS, Kharkiv, Indian, Bangalore

Scores of people have been killed in Israeli strikes in northern Gaza this weekend, according to local officials, with the bloodshed in the enclave and continued attacks in Lebanon dimming hopes that the killing of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar might breathe new life into cease-fire talks that have been stalled for months. The Israeli security cabinet is expected to hold a meeting Sunday afternoon to discuss plans for a strike on Iran, an Israeli official told NBC News. In northern Gaza, the local health ministry on Sunday said at least 87 people were killed, with more than 40 others injured, in Israeli strikes on residential areas in Beit Lahia on Saturday. Videos and photos emerging out of northern Gaza showed devastating scenes. Israeli forces on Sunday continued operations in Gaza and in Lebanon, with the IDF saying troops remained active across the northern, southern and central ares of the Strip.

Persons: Yahya Sinwar, Benjamin Netanyahu’s, Israel, ”, Joe Biden, Gershon Baskin, they're, Izzat Al, Rishq, Israel's, Netanyahu Organizations: Israeli, NBC News, Israel Defense Forces, IDF, Civil Defense, Palestinian Health Ministry, Sunday Locations: Gaza, Lebanon, Caesarea, Tel Aviv, Israel, Iran, Lebanese, Beit Lahia, Hamas, Beit, Indonesian, Washington

The Israeli military said Thursday it is "checking the possibility" that Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar, accused of being the architect of the Oct. 7 terror attack, was among three militants killed in Gaza during its operations in the enclave. If Sinwar is indeed dead, his killing would be a major coup for Israel and its war in the Gaza Strip. A senior Israeli official told NBC News that troops identified Sinwar as probably being among three militants killed during a "heavy gun battle" in Gaza on Wednesday. Ali Jadallah / Anadolu Agency via Getty Images fileU.S. officials have been in close contact with Israeli officials throughout the morning on all of this, one of the U.S. officials said. They did not expand on how they were killed, but said they were investigating whether one of the three was Sinwar.

Persons: Yahya Sinwar, Sinwar, Ismail Haniyeh, Ali Jadallah, Shin Bet, “, Yoav Gallant, John Kirby, Frank Lowenstein, Barack Obama, Haniyeh, Masoud Pezeshkian, Israel Katz, Mohammed Al, Deif, Marwan Issa, Avichay Adraee, Basem Naim, Hamas ’, ” Sinwar, Gilad Shalit, Thomas Hand, Emily Hand Organizations: Hamas, Israeli, NBC News, Anadolu Agency, Getty, Israel Defense Forces, Israel Security Agency, IDF, National Security, NBC, Israeli Foreign, ISIS, Wall Street, European Council, Foreign Relations, Israel Locations: Gaza, Israel, Gaza City, U.S, Tehran, Iran

Facing increasing U.S. pressure to ramp up aid into Gaza and warning that Washington would be “watching,” as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu held an emergency meeting to discuss the matter on Wednesday. Ambassador to the United Nations issued a stern rebuke to Israel at a meeting of the U.N. Security Council. Palestinian children at a camp for the internally displaced in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza on Oct. 17, 2024. “Given the abject conditions and intolerable suffering in north Gaza, the fact that humanitarian access is nearly non-existent is unconscionable,” Msuya said. According to a version published by Axios on Tuesday, the letter suggested that the U.S. would restrict weapons sales if the Israeli government did not allow more humanitarian aid into Gaza.

Persons: Benjamin Netanyahu, Linda Thomas, Greenfield, “, ”, Eyad Baba, Joyce Msuya, ” Msuya, State Anthony Blinken, Lloyd Austin, Yoav Gallant, Ron Dermer, Axios Organizations: NBC, United Nations, . Security, Washington, Getty, U.S, State, Israeli, Strategic Affairs, NBC News, Pentagon Locations: Gaza, Washington, U.S, Israel, ”, Deir al, AFP

In an interview with NBC News, Shaban's 17-year-old brother, Mohammed al-Dalu, described the Israeli attack that killed his mother and brother, saying he saw something fall on Shaban's leg, pinning him down. He tried to run into the tent to save his brother, but several men held him back. "No one let me see my brother Shaban," he said. His mother, Mohammed said, "she remained asleep. The site of the Israeli airstrike on the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital compound in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza, on Monday.

Persons: Alaa, Mohammed al, Shaban, Mohammed, GoFundMe, Ahmed al, he'd, Israel, Abdallah F.S, ”, Matthew Miller, “, ” Miller, Médecins Organizations: Aqsa Martyrs Hospital, NBC News, Al, “, Getty, International Court of Justice, United Nations, U.S, Department, Israel Defense Forces, IDF, NBC, AFP Locations: Al, Aqsa, Deir al, Al Jazeera, Israel, Gaza, Anadolu, Egypt

The Israeli military has launched a series of deadly strikes in the Gaza Strip over the past 24 hours, including on a flour distribution center, a school and a hospital where displaced Palestinians were sheltering. Video of a fire at a tent camp Sunday that started after Israeli forces launched an airstrike on Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in central Gaza's Deir al-Balah showed harrowing scenes. In multiple videos shared on social media and verified by NBC News, at least one person could be seen reaching their hands out from the flames as they were burned alive. Others could be seen racing from the fire, some carrying the injured, while others ran toward the blaze to help. At least four people were killed in the strike and its fiery aftermath, with dozens more injured, including women and children, local health officials said.

Organizations: Aqsa Martyrs Hospital, NBC News Locations: Gaza, Al, Aqsa, Gaza's Deir

☆ What Kate’s surprise visit says about her recovery
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-11 | by ( Lauren Said-Moorhouse | Max Foster | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

Editor’s Note: This is a version of CNN’s Royal News, a weekly dispatch bringing you the inside track on Britain’s royal family. London CNN —Catherine, Princess of Wales delighted royal-watchers this week with an unexpected appearance alongside her husband, Prince William. “I think that just shows a really caring side and is very, very touching for them.”William and Kate speak to members of the emergency services during a visit to Southport Community Centre in Southport, northwest England on Thursday. Danny Lawson/Getty ImagesIt was a big moment for the popular 42-year-old royal – her first public outing since wrapping up her chemotherapy treatment. And if all continues well, it could mean she takes on more in the new year and perhaps, even, starts traveling again.

Persons: London CNN — Catherine, Princess, Wales, Prince William, William, Kate, Bebe King, Elsie Dot Stancombe, Alice da Silva Aguiar, Taylor Swift, Phil Garrigan, ” William, Danny Lawson, King Charles, don’t Organizations: CNN’s Royal, London CNN, Merseyside Fire, Rescue Service, UK’s, Media, Southport Community Centre, Getty, CNN Locations: London, Southport, England, AFP, Windsor

"You have an opportunity to save Lebanon before it falls into the abyss of a long war that will lead to destruction and suffering like we see in Gaza," Netanyahu said in a video address Tuesday delivered in English. Israeli soldiers raise their national flag in Lebanon's southern border village of Maroun al-Ras. And Wednesday, a video, geolocated by NBC News, stoked outrage: Israeli soldiers raising the country's flag on the outskirts of a border village. Lebanese people who spoke to NBC News on Wednesday bristled at Netanyahu’s warning, with some also mocking the footage of Israeli soldiers planting the flag in the southern village of Maroun Al-Ras. Israel’s invasion of Lebanon amid its 1982 civil war resulted in a nearly two-decade occupation of the country’s south.

Persons: Benjamin Netanyahu, Netanyahu, Israel's, Scott Peterson, ” Netanyahu, Gerges, “, ” Yossi Mekelberg, Mekelberg, ”, Hisham Karameh, ” “, ” Karameh, Matthew Miller Organizations: Israeli, United Nations, Getty, Israel, . Security, London School of Economics, NBC News, Chatham House’s, North Africa, Health Ministry, AFP, State Department Locations: Israel, Gaza, Lebanon, Beirut, Iran, East, Maroun, Maroun Al, ” “ Israel, “, Dahieh

☆ Elon Musk’s X cleared to resume service in Brazil after it obeys court orders
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-09 | by ( Story Reuters | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

Brazil’s Supreme Court cleared X to resume service in the country Tuesday, after the social media platform reversed course and started complying with court rulings that billionaire owner Elon Musk had previously vowed to resist. Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes, who had been locked in a months-long feud with Musk, gave X the green light to resume operations in Latin America’s largest country effective immediately. In the decision, Moraes said X had met all the necessary requirements to start operating again in the country. Moraes, in his Tuesday decision, ruled that Brazil’s telecommunications regulator Anatel must work to allow X to come back online within 24 hours. A new X representative, lawyer Rachel de Oliveira Conceicao, was tapped in late September, when X also said it had started to block accounts ordered by the court.

Persons: Elon Musk, Alexandre de Moraes, Musk, Moraes, X, ”, ” Juscelino Filho, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, “, Rachel de Oliveira Conceicao Organizations: Twitter, Global Affairs, Supreme, Meta Locations: Brazil’s, Brazil, Australia, United Kingdom

Playing on a local team at the municipal stadium in Khan Younis, southern Gaza, he envisioned a future “like Ronaldo.” He was 13. He stays indoors watching a constant stream of “Captain Majid,” a cartoon series about a young soccer player with dreams of playing in the World Cup. Osama Muhammad Abu Mustafa in Khan Younis in southern Gaza in September. NBC NewsOsama is one of hundreds of thousands of children whose lives have been shattered during Israel’s yearlong military offensive in Gaza, which has brought on a humanitarian catastrophe. Young people are especially vulnerable to disease and other health ailments ripping through Gaza.

Persons: Osama Muhammad Abu Mustafa, Khan Younis, Ronaldo, ”, “, ” Osama, Osama, Captain Majid, Israel’s, government’s Organizations: NBC News, NBC Locations: Khan, Gaza, Israel

☆ Brazil votes in local elections with eyes on 2026 presidential showdown
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-06 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

Traffic outside the Central Bank of Brazil headquarters in Brasilia, Brazil, on Monday, June 17, 2024. Marçal, an anti-establishment political novice who has surged in the polls with his vitriolic attacks on adversaries, ran a social media campaign with little funding and no TV time. Polls showed that candidates linked to Lula are facing trouble as the president's popularity has slipped in his third non-consecutive term. On the right, candidates associated with hard-right former President Jair Bolsonaro have fared better, even though he was banned from seeking elected office until 2030 for his unfounded attacks on Brazil's voting system. "The anti-establishment views of the right have become the trend," said political risk expert Creomar de Souza.

Persons: Ricardo Nunes, Pablo Marçal, Guilherme Boulos, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, pollster Datafolha, Lula, Jair Bolsonaro, Creomar de Souza, Andre Cesar, Bolsonaro, Nunes, Marçal Organizations: Central Bank of, Workers Party, Lula's Workers Party, Sao Locations: Central Bank of Brazil, Brasilia, Brazil, Sao Paulo, Brazil's

ZOUK MOSBEH, Lebanon — When night falls, it's no longer sleep but the humming threat of an Israeli strike that descends on the Lebanese capital. Israel's overnight attacks, which reached the heart of Beirut in the early hours of Thursday, mean that few in the city and beyond are getting any rest. The strike on central Beirut's Bachoura neighborhood was the deepest Israel has attacked into the capital. A man walks amid the rubble of a building leveled in an overnight Israeli airstrike that targeted the neighborhood of Moawwad in Beirut's southern suburbs Thursday. AFP - Getty ImagesA man stares at a building still smoldering Thursday after it was leveled in an overnight Israeli airstrike that targeted the neighborhood of Moawwad in Beirut's southern suburbs.

Persons: ZOUK, it's, Hala Kobaissi, Beirut's Salim Salam, —, people's, Emilie Madi, ” Hiam Khoury, Israel ramped, Marwan Naamani, Abdel Salam Abdallah, ”, Rayan Youness, “ They’re, Youness, Dr, Tania Baban, ” Baban, Matthew Savill, shouldn’t, Savill, Mahdi Ghuloom, Khoury Organizations: Residents, NBC News, Reuters, Israel, Getty, AFP, Royal United Services Institute, Israel Defense Forces, Le Beck Locations: ZOUK MOSBEH, Lebanon, Beirut, Israel, Bachoura, Beirut's Bachoura, Hadath, Dahieh, Sidon, Khiam, Illinois, Moawwad, Beirut's, AFP, United States, Iran

ZOUK MOSBEH, Lebanon — Israeli airstrikes and its burgeoning ground invasion have forced dozens of Lebanese Christians to take shelter in a monastery close to the border with Israel. Milad Louis, head of the municipality of Ain Ebel, a largely Christian town, said Israeli airstrikes forced the community to evacuate in just 45 minutes. Lebanese military personnel direct civilians Tuesday in the town of Rmeish along the border with Israel. Some 70 villagers were given shelter in the nearby monastery and school, with residents also opening up their homes to 30 fleeing the violence nearby, according to monastery officials. Lebanese civilians in the town of Rmeish along the border with Israel on Tuesday.

Persons: ZOUK, Milad Louis, ”, Israel, Louis, —, Jihan Kaisi Organizations: NBC News, Maronite, NBC, Union of Relief, Development Associations Locations: ZOUK MOSBEH, Lebanon, Israel, Ain, Ain Ebel, U.S, Rmeish, Ein, “, Lebanon's, Beirut, Lebanese

Hanging over all of this for Charbel — as well as the relatively small contingent of Israeli critics of the escalation with Hezbollah — is the fear that history will repeat itself. Israeli invasions in both 1982 and 2006 became more expansive and deadly than how they had been initially framed. 'Strategic failure'Israel’s ground operation was met with a new wave of international concern and condemnation. But the Biden administration remains concerned the mission could expand, the administration official said. Thousands of Israeli troops and tanks crossed the border, culminating in a deadly siege of the Lebanese capital, Beirut.

Persons: —, Michael A, Horowitz, Israel, Biden Organizations: Le Beck, NBC News, London School of Economics, National Security, Palestine Liberation Organization, Lebanese Christian Locations: States, Washington, Israel, Lebanon, Cairo, Beirut, Sabra

Meanwhile in southern Lebanon, an Israeli official told NBC News that Israeli forces had begun launching small special forces operations ahead of a potential ground offensive. People gather outside an apartment building hit by an Israeli strike in Beirut's Cola district on Monday. Thousands of families in southern Lebanon have also been displaced from their homes over the past year due to the cross-border attacks. Families rest on Beirut's corniche after fleeing the Israeli airstrikes in Beirut's southern suburb, Lebanon, on Monday. 'No safe place'Kaisi, the executive director of URDA, said humanitarian workers were "shocked" by the strike in Cola.

Persons: Israel, Kaisi, Fadel Itani, Hassan Nasrallah, Najib Mikati, Beirut's, Hassan Ammar, Fatima, I'm, Nayef Fouani, URDA, Charlotte Gardiner, Israel’s, ” Organizations: Union of Relief, Development Association, NBC News, Popular Front, Liberation, Residents, Getty, Israel, Hezbollah, Lebanon's, NBC, IDF Locations: BEIRUT, Lebanon, Beirut, Israel, Palestinian, Palestine, Lebanese, Washington, Beirut's Cola, AFP, Iran, Gaza, Beirut's, Cola, Saida, Sidon

Israel announced on Saturday that its forces have killed Hassan Nasrallah, the powerful leader of the Lebanese militant and political group, Hezbollah, in what would mark a major escalation amid mounting hostilities at its northern border with Lebanon. An Iranian woman hold a poster of Hezbollah Hassan Nasrallah, with text in Arabic reading: "At your service Nasrallah" during an anti-Israeli rally in Tehran, Iran, on Friday. Vahid Salemi / APEarlier on Friday, a Hezbollah spokesman had said Nasrallah, who was seldom seen in public, was not in one of the buildings struck by Israeli forces and was "fine." Hezbollah has vowed to continue its campaign against Israel until it ends its nearly yearlong offensive in Gaza. “Israel no longer seems to fear clashing head-on with Iran,” Hussain said, adding, “Israel will not fear entering a larger operation."

Persons: Israel, Hassan Nasrallah, Nasrallah, “ Hassan Nasrallah, Vahid, Bashar al, Assad, Amal, Sayyed Abbas Musawi, Ed Husain, Israel ”, “, ” Hussain, Najib Mikati, Benjamin Netanyahu, Netanyahu, Hussain, Husain, Biden Organizations: Lebanese, Israel Defense Forces, Hezbollah, NBC, Amal, Associated Press, Party, United, Council, Foreign Relations, Friday, NBC News, Hariri International, Lebanese Health Ministry, Reuters, Hamas, U.S . Locations: Lebanon, Iran, Beirut, Iranian, Tehran, Israel, Syria, Gaza, Karantina, Najaf, Iraq, Islam, Beqaa, U.S, United Nations, “ Israel, Dahieh, New York, Washington

Tens of thousands of people fled southern Lebanon on Tuesday as Israel intensified an aerial assault that inflicted the country's deadliest day since war nearly two decades ago, while Hezbollah launched a new barrage of cross-border fire. Nearly 500 people were killed in Lebanon on Monday, according to local health officials, marking the deadliest Israeli bombardment of the country since Israel's 34-day war with Hezbollah in 2006. Mahmoud Zayyat / AFP - Getty ImagesThe Israeli military had issued warnings for residents in southern and eastern Lebanon to evacuate certain areas, spurring thousands of people to flee their homes. Scenes of families fleeing southern Lebanon and of fiery explosions filling the skyline fueled global fears of an all-out regional conflict. However, in a briefing Monday, an Israeli military official said a halt in fire from Hezbollah would not be enough to end Israel’s strikes on Lebanon.

Persons: Fadel Itani, Mahmoud Zayyat, Josep Borrell, ”, EFE, Israel Organizations: Hezbollah, Getty Images, Getty, European Union, Reuters, Vehicles, Ibrahim Amro, Israel Defense Forces, Northern Arrows Locations: Lebanon, Israel, Iran, Beirut, AFP, Sidon, Monday, European, Ghazieh, Damour, Lebanese, Ibrahim, Gaza

NBC News takes a look at the hostages who remain in Hamas captivity. Other hostages have been found dead, including the six who were killed by Hamas last month. Hamas also holds two hostages, one taken in 2014 and the other in 2015, as well as the bodies of two slain Israeli soldiers. And after the recent killing of the six hostages in Gaza, Hamas said that hostage guards had been operating under new orders. Judith Weinstein, 70, and Gadi Haggai, 73Married couple Judith Weinstein and Gadi Haggai, both American citizens, were initially believed to have been taken hostage by Hamas, but their statuses were unclear.

Persons: Lee Siegel, Keith Siegel, Aviva Siegel, Lee, —, Noa Argamani, — Alon Shamriz, Yotam Haim, Samer Talalka —, Hersh Goldberg, — Nik Beizer, Ron Sherman, Elia Toledano, Siegel, Omri Miran, Miran, Keith, Chen, Nir Oz, Jonathan Dekel, Abu Ubaida, Al, Edan Alexander, “, ”, Yael Alexander, Omer Neutra, NBC's, Hersh, Neutra’s, Orna Neutra, Itay Chen, Ruby, Hagit Chen, Judith Weinstein, Gadi Haggai, Joe Biden Organizations: Aviva, NBC, Israel Defense Forces, Sunday, Hamas, Brigades Locations: Israel, Gaza, American, shrouds, New Jersey

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Monday that Iran does not seek a wider war in the Middle East and that such a conflict would have no winners. Pezeshkian’s remarks come as U.S. officials fear the prospect of an all-out war between Israel and Hezbollah, the Lebanese militant group backed by Iran. The Iranian president also slammed the United States and other Western countries for what he called double standards as they criticized Iran over human rights but ignored Israel’s “atrocities” in Gaza. President Barack Obama, standing with Vice President Joe Biden, in the East Room of the White House in response to the Iran Nuclear Deal, on July 14, 2015. The full extent of Iran’s nuclear capabilities remain unclear, though the country has maintained that its nuclear program is for civilian, not military, purposes.

Persons: Masoud Pezeshkian, ” Pezeshkian, Pezeshkian, Israel, ”, Pezeshkian’s, Israel’s, “ Let’s, “, Abbas Araghchi, Donald Trump, Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Andrew Harnik, Washington, Iran’s, Araghchi Organizations: Hezbollah, Lebanon’s Health Ministry, Iranian, White, Iran Nuclear, Department, AP, IAEA, International Atomic Energy Agency Locations: Iran, New York, Tehran, Israel, Lebanese, United States, Gaza, Red, U.S, Russia, Ukraine

Lebanese health officials warned the public to avoid using handheld communication devices on Tuesday after powerful Iran-backed militant and political group Hezbollah said pagers had exploded throughout the country. “The ministry requests all citizens who own wireless communication devices to stay away from them until the truth of what is happening is revealed,” the National News Agency quoted the health ministry as saying. Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati office said ministers were informed of “security incidents” occurring in a number of regions across the country. It was unclear whether the incidents were part of a coordinated attack, which would represent a significant security breach for Hezbollah. News agency Reuters reported that dozens of Hezbollah members were seriously wounded in Lebanon’s south and in the southern suburbs of the country’s capital Beirut.

Persons: pagers, Najib Mikati, Benjamin Netanyahu’s, “ Organizations: Health Emergency, Center of Lebanon’s Ministry of Public Health, National News Agency, Lebanese, Israel, U.S, Reuters Locations: Iran, Lebanese, Lebanon, Lebanon’s, country’s, Beirut, Dahiyeh, Israel’s, “ Israel, Gaza

Israel has a new war goal, adding to mounting signs that the conflict could soon expand to the country's north as it warned the U.S. that “military action” would likely be the only way to addressing mounting hostilities with Iran-backed militant group Hezbollah. "Israel will continue to act to implement this objective," the prime minister's office said. Noam Galai / Getty Images fileIt added that the defense minister and a number of other senior Israel Defense Forces officials "presented the IDF's operations against Hezbollah forces" to Hochstein. The U.S. and others have voiced fears that an expanded military operation from its ally could spark a broader regional war. But the prime minister’s office told NBC News in a statement on Monday that reports of any negotiations with Sa’ar were “not correct.”

Persons: Benjamin Netanyahu's, Amos Hochstein, Joe Biden, Yoav Gallant, Gallant, Noam Galai, swirled, Netanyahu, Gideon Sa’ar, Sa’ar, ” Organizations: U.S, Hezbollah, Israeli, Israel Defense Forces, New, NBC News Locations: Israel, Iran, Israel's, Lebanon, Gaza, U.S

MAINZ, Germany — Police are investigating after an explosion rocked central Cologne in western Germany on Monday. The explosion took place in the entrance way of the Vanity nightclub in the Hohenzollernring area, known as a main entertainment district of Cologne, at around 5.50 a.m. local time, a police spokesman told NBC News. Several glass windows apparently burst in the explosion “and could have likely harmed more people, if the explosion had occurred at a later time,” the spokesman said. Local authorities said in a post on X on Monday that a "major" police operation was underway as they urged residents to avoid the Hohenzollernring area. Police told NBC News that the area is under CCTV surveillance and that the footage will be part of the ongoing investigation.

Persons: Andy Eckardt, Chantal Da Silva Organizations: Germany — Police, NBC News, Police Locations: MAINZ, Germany, Cologne, Mainz, London

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