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CIA Director Burns Holds Talks in Israel, with Focus on Iran

CIA director William Burns held talks in Israel on Wednesday with Prime Minister Naftali Bennett. (Getty Images)
CIA director William Burns held talks in Israel on Wednesday with Prime Minister Naftali Bennett. (Getty Images)
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CIA Director Burns Holds Talks in Israel, with Focus on Iran

CIA director William Burns held talks in Israel on Wednesday with Prime Minister Naftali Bennett. (Getty Images)
CIA director William Burns held talks in Israel on Wednesday with Prime Minister Naftali Bennett. (Getty Images)

US Central Intelligence Agency director William Burns held talks in Israel on Wednesday with Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, with Iran high on their agenda, an Israeli statement said.

Regional tensions have risen over an attack on July 29 on an Israeli-managed tanker off the coast of Oman that Israel, the United States and Britain blamed on Tehran.

Iran has denied any involvement in the suspected drone strike in which two crew members - a Briton and a Romanian - were killed.

A statement issued by Bennett's office said the Israeli leader held talks with Burns in Tel Aviv, where "they discussed the situation in the Middle East, with emphasis on Iran, and possibilities for expanding and deepening regional cooperation".

Announcing Burns's visit, the statement said he met on Tuesday with David Barnea, the new head of Israel's Mossad intelligence agency, to discuss Iran's nuclear program "and other regional challenges".

Burns, who was sworn in as CIA director in March, was expected to meet Palestinian officials, including President Mahmoud Abbas, in the city of Ramallah in the occupied West Bank.

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WHO, ICRC, MSF Denounce Rise in Attacks on Health Services in Conflict Zones

Palestinians fetch drinking water in Al-Bureij Palestinian refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip (AFP)
Palestinians fetch drinking water in Al-Bureij Palestinian refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip (AFP)
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WHO, ICRC, MSF Denounce Rise in Attacks on Health Services in Conflict Zones

Palestinians fetch drinking water in Al-Bureij Palestinian refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip (AFP)
Palestinians fetch drinking water in Al-Bureij Palestinian refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip (AFP)

Three of the world’s top health agencies denounced on Sunday the international community’s failure to protect health care workers, hospitals and patients in conflict zones.

The World Health Organization, the International Committee of the Red Cross and Doctors Without Borders, in a joint statement, issued an “urgent call for action.”

Their statement was issued 10 years after the UN Security Council unanimously adopted Resolution 2286 condemning attacks on health care facilities, medical staff and patients, they noted.

“The situation is even worse” a decade on, AFP quoted them as saying.

“As violence affecting medical facilities, transport and personnel continues unabated, the harm this resolution sought to prevent has not diminished,” said the statement. “It has continued and, in many contexts, intensified.”

The three agencies said they were joining “others in the international community in issuing an urgent call for action.”

They added: “When health care is no longer safe, it is often the clearest warning sign that the rules and norms intended to limit the harm of war are breaking down.”

“When hospitals come under attack, we face not only a humanitarian crisis, but a crisis of humanity. States and all parties to armed conflict must comply with the rules protecting health care,” the agencies noted.

“We urge world leaders to act and show the needed political leadership to end this violence,” they concluded in the joint statement.

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Passenger Jet Clips Lamppost, Truck while Landing in New Jersey

FILE PHOTO: A view of Newark Liberty International Airport in Newark, New Jersey, US, March 23, 2026. REUTERS/Jeenah Moon/File Photo
FILE PHOTO: A view of Newark Liberty International Airport in Newark, New Jersey, US, March 23, 2026. REUTERS/Jeenah Moon/File Photo
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Passenger Jet Clips Lamppost, Truck while Landing in New Jersey

FILE PHOTO: A view of Newark Liberty International Airport in Newark, New Jersey, US, March 23, 2026. REUTERS/Jeenah Moon/File Photo
FILE PHOTO: A view of Newark Liberty International Airport in Newark, New Jersey, US, March 23, 2026. REUTERS/Jeenah Moon/File Photo

A United Airlines jet with 231 passengers and crew escaped a major disaster Sunday after one of its wheels clipped a lamppost and truck on a highway while on final approach to land in New Jersey.

Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) officials said the Boeing 767 landed safely at Newark Liberty International Airport after arriving from Venice, Italy, and the agency would investigate the incident.

A preliminary investigation from New Jersey State Police said "while a United Airlines Aircraft was approaching the runway, a landing tire and the underside of the plane collided with a pole and a tractor-trailer."

"The pole then struck a Jeep" that was also traveling the highway, state police said.

No injuries were reported on the plane, and the delivery truck driver was taken to the hospital with minor injuries and released, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey said in a statement.

United Airlines flight 169 was carrying 221 passengers and 10 crew members when the incident on a section of road near the airport runways occurred around 2 p.m. local time on Sunday.

The H&S Bakery truck "was unscathed" but "the wheel of the commercial plane crashed into the driver's window," according to Chuck Paterakis, a senior vice president for the company, who added "the truck driver suffered small cuts from the incident."

Paterakis also told TV broadcaster ABC everybody in the incident was very fortunate "because it could have been the opposite of what happened, and a little help from God went a long way tonight for everybody on the plane, and including the driver."

United Airlines said in a statement it plans to "conduct a rigorous flight safety investigation into the incident and our crew has been removed from service as part of this process."

Aircraft manufacturer Boeing did not immediately respond to AFP's request for comment.

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Shooting at Lake Near Oklahoma City Injures 10

Police block off near S. Air Depot boulevard in Edmond, Okla., after a campground shooting at Lake Arcadia, Saturday, May 3, 2026. (AP Photo/Alonzo Adams)
Police block off near S. Air Depot boulevard in Edmond, Okla., after a campground shooting at Lake Arcadia, Saturday, May 3, 2026. (AP Photo/Alonzo Adams)
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Shooting at Lake Near Oklahoma City Injures 10

Police block off near S. Air Depot boulevard in Edmond, Okla., after a campground shooting at Lake Arcadia, Saturday, May 3, 2026. (AP Photo/Alonzo Adams)
Police block off near S. Air Depot boulevard in Edmond, Okla., after a campground shooting at Lake Arcadia, Saturday, May 3, 2026. (AP Photo/Alonzo Adams)

The tally of injured from a shooting at a party at a lake near Oklahoma City is expected to rise beyond the 10 taken to hospital by rescuers, police ⁠said on Monday, as ⁠others among the victims make their own way to seek treatment.

No suspects were in custody ⁠following the shooting just after 9 p.m. at a party at Arcadia Lake, the police department in the city of Edmond, northeast of Oklahoma City, said in a statement on X. It ⁠gave ⁠no further immediate details.

The lake in eastern Edmond is popular for recreational activities such as fishing, camping, boating and picnics.

Edmond police spokesperson Emily Ward said victims were in “various conditions.”

“This is obviously a very terrifying situation and we understand the concern from the public and those involved and we are working extremely hard to find the suspects,” she said.

“We’re kind of all over the metro speaking with victims and witnesses,” Ward added.

While police did not provide details about the party, a flyer seen on social media after the shooting suggested that an event called Sunday Funday had been scheduled near the lake Sunday evening.