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IRGC’s Intelligence Warns Iranians Against Cooperation with Mossad

In Tehran’s Palestine Square the far mural on the tall building displays slogans on a map pointing at Israeli cities that read in Hebrew: “All targets are within reach, we choose” (top) and in Farsi: “All the targets are available, we will choose” on December 4, 2024. Atta Kenare/AFP via Getty Images 
In Tehran’s Palestine Square the far mural on the tall building displays slogans on a map pointing at Israeli cities that read in Hebrew: “All targets are within reach, we choose” (top) and in Farsi: “All the targets are available, we will choose” on December 4, 2024. Atta Kenare/AFP via Getty Images 
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IRGC’s Intelligence Warns Iranians Against Cooperation with Mossad

In Tehran’s Palestine Square the far mural on the tall building displays slogans on a map pointing at Israeli cities that read in Hebrew: “All targets are within reach, we choose” (top) and in Farsi: “All the targets are available, we will choose” on December 4, 2024. Atta Kenare/AFP via Getty Images 
In Tehran’s Palestine Square the far mural on the tall building displays slogans on a map pointing at Israeli cities that read in Hebrew: “All targets are within reach, we choose” (top) and in Farsi: “All the targets are available, we will choose” on December 4, 2024. Atta Kenare/AFP via Getty Images 

Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) intelligence organization issued on Saturday a warning that cooperation with the Mossad or the Zionist entity will result in the maximum legal punishment.

“Any form of intelligence cooperation with the Mossad is considered a criminal offense,” said an IRGC statement broadcast on the country’s state television.

It also warned from “any interaction or exchange of information with official or unofficial individuals affiliated with the Zionist regime, as well as any cultural, media, or propaganda activity, or assistance that supports, promotes, or legitimizes the Zionist regime”.

The Revolutionary Guards said these actions are considered crimes under articles 6, 7, 8, and 10 of the “Law on Combating Hostile Actions of the Zionist Regime.”

The intelligence also noted that any perpetrators will face “the maximum punishment.”

On Saturday, Iranian media reports said five individuals were arrested in Yazd, a central city in Iran, for allegedly filming and collaborating with Israel.

Tensions between Iran and Israel escalated on Friday amid several waves of airstrikes against each other, after the latter launched its biggest-ever air offensive in a bid to prevent its longtime foe from developing a nuclear weapon.

In a related development, Iran’s security authorities arrested on Saturday several individuals allegedly tied to Israel.

According to a brief statement carried by Tasnim, 14 suspects were arrested in Hormozgan, southeastern Iran.

Officials claimed that the suspects contributed to public unrest through social media activity.

They said the detainees face charges including “supporting and promoting the activities of the Zionist entity, spreading rumors, disturbing public opinion via social media, and carrying out propaganda activities against the regime.”

 

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Russia Pounds Ukraine in Heaviest Wartime Drone Attack Over 2 Days

Rescuers work at the site of an apartment building damaged during Russian missile and drone strikes, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Kyiv, Ukraine May 14, 2026. REUTERS/Valentyn Ogirenko
Rescuers work at the site of an apartment building damaged during Russian missile and drone strikes, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Kyiv, Ukraine May 14, 2026. REUTERS/Valentyn Ogirenko
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Russia Pounds Ukraine in Heaviest Wartime Drone Attack Over 2 Days

Rescuers work at the site of an apartment building damaged during Russian missile and drone strikes, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Kyiv, Ukraine May 14, 2026. REUTERS/Valentyn Ogirenko
Rescuers work at the site of an apartment building damaged during Russian missile and drone strikes, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Kyiv, Ukraine May 14, 2026. REUTERS/Valentyn Ogirenko

Russia carried out its largest aerial attack over a two-day period since the start of its war in Ukraine, pounding the capital Kyiv and other cities with hundreds of drones, Ukrainian officials said on Thursday.

Russia had launched 1,567 drones since the start of Wednesday, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said. At least 15 civilians have been killed over the two days, officials said.

He said Moscow had launched more than 670 attack drones and 56 missiles overnight, and air defense units shot down 41 of the missiles and 652 drones, the air force said.

"These are definitely not the actions of those who believe the war is coming to an end," Reuters quoted Zelenskiy as saying.

"It's important that partners do not remain silent about this strike. And it is equally important to continue supporting the protection of our ⁠skies."

A curtain blows out of a broken window of a damaged residential building, following Russian drone and missile strikes in Kyiv on May 14, 2026. (Photo by Roman PILIPEY / AFP)

At least nine ⁠people, including a 12-year-old girl, were killed in Kyiv. Six people were killed in a daytime attack focused on western Ukraine on Wednesday, officials said.

Russia began its full-scale invasion in February 2022. The war, which has killed hundreds of thousands and ravaged swathes of Ukraine, has continued despite a US-backed peace push although Moscow's battlefield advances have stalled this year.

There was no immediate comment from Moscow on Thursday's attacks.

Kyiv was the main target of the overnight strikes, Zelenskiy said, adding that there was damage across 20 locations in the city and also in the ⁠Kyiv region.

About 40 people including two children were wounded, officials said.

Apartment interiors are seen in a damaged residential house following Russian missile attack in Kyiv, Ukraine, Thursday, May 14, 2026. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko announced a day of mourning in the capital on Friday.

Dozens of emergency workers were cutting through concrete at the site of a Russian drone strike on a nine-story residential building where an entire section had been destroyed.

Zelenskiy said that nearly 20 people were still missing as rescuers cleared the debris.

More than 1,500 rescue workers have been deployed across Ukraine to deal with the aftermath of the strikes, including nearly 600 ⁠in Kyiv.

Zelenskiy said that ⁠overall 180 facilities had been damaged in Ukraine, including more than 50 residential buildings.

He said a UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs vehicle had come under fire from drones during a humanitarian mission in the southern city of Kherson.

Twenty-eight people including three children were wounded in Ukraine's second-largest city, Kharkiv, where civilian infrastructure was targeted, regional governor Oleh Syniehubov said.

Ukraine's energy ministry said electricity supplies in 11 regions had been disrupted, and the strikes also targeted port infrastructure in the southern Odesa region and railways, officials said.

Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha said the attack - while US President Donald Trump is visiting China - showed Russia wanted to continue fighting despite Washington's peace push, and that pressure was needed on Moscow to end the war.

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France Allows Asymptomatic Passengers off New Cruise Ship Struck by Stomach Bug Outbreak

File photo of a cruise ship operated by Ambassador Cruise Line. © John MacDougall, AFP
File photo of a cruise ship operated by Ambassador Cruise Line. © John MacDougall, AFP
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France Allows Asymptomatic Passengers off New Cruise Ship Struck by Stomach Bug Outbreak

File photo of a cruise ship operated by Ambassador Cruise Line. © John MacDougall, AFP
File photo of a cruise ship operated by Ambassador Cruise Line. © John MacDougall, AFP

Passengers unaffected by an illness outbreak on a British cruise ship have been allowed off the ship in the French port city of Bordeaux, while authorities confirmed the cause of the outbreak is norovirus, a nasty stomach bug that spreads easily.

French authorities had initially ordered over 1,700 passengers and crew on The Ambition cruise ship to remain on board, but then decided late Wednesday to let those unaffected disembark. One passenger was spotted raising his arms in triumph while leaving the vessel.

It was not immediately clear how many left the ship, but the British operator of the ship said Thursday that passengers are able to disembark “with all scheduled shore excursions operating as planned today.” As of Thursday morning, 60 passengers and four crew members were experiencing gastrointestinal illness, according to Ambassador Cruise Line.

French authorities said there is no link to a deadly hantavirus outbreak on a Dutch vessel that has put European health authorities on alert in recent weeks.

The Ambition was midway through a 14-night cruise from Belfast and Liverpool, with scheduled stops in northern Spain and along France’s Atlantic coast. It reached Bordeaux on Tuesday evening.

The boat will remain in Bordeaux overnight before continuing its journey on a revised itinerary from Friday to avoid bad weather.

“This will allow the ship to avoid forecast unsettled weather conditions in the Bay of Biscay this evening which would be less than ideal for guests and crew recovering from gastrointestinal illness while also providing valuable additional time for crew who have worked exceptionally hard in challenging circumstances over recent days,” Ambassador Cruise Line said.

Samples analyzed at Bordeaux University Hospital confirmed an outbreak of norovirus. Local authorities said at this stage no serious cases have been reported and that sick passengers were cared for onboard by the ship’s medical team.

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which tracks outbreaks on voyages that call on US and foreign ports, recorded 23 gastrointestinal outbreaks on cruise ships last year. Most were caused by norovirus, including a new strain.

Ambassador Cruise Line, a British operator catering to passengers over 50, was founded in 2021.

The operator said a 92-year-old male passenger died on Sunday but did not report any symptoms consistent with gastrointestinal illness.

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US Jury Awards $49.5 Mn Damages to Boeing 737 MAX Victim's Family

(FILES) A boy looks as forensic investigators comb the ground for DNA evidence near a pile of twisted airplane debris at the crash site of an Ethiopian airways operated Boeing 737 MAX aircraft on March 16, 2019 at Hama Quntushele village near Bishoftu in Oromia region. (Photo by TONY KARUMBA / AFP)
(FILES) A boy looks as forensic investigators comb the ground for DNA evidence near a pile of twisted airplane debris at the crash site of an Ethiopian airways operated Boeing 737 MAX aircraft on March 16, 2019 at Hama Quntushele village near Bishoftu in Oromia region. (Photo by TONY KARUMBA / AFP)
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US Jury Awards $49.5 Mn Damages to Boeing 737 MAX Victim's Family

(FILES) A boy looks as forensic investigators comb the ground for DNA evidence near a pile of twisted airplane debris at the crash site of an Ethiopian airways operated Boeing 737 MAX aircraft on March 16, 2019 at Hama Quntushele village near Bishoftu in Oromia region. (Photo by TONY KARUMBA / AFP)
(FILES) A boy looks as forensic investigators comb the ground for DNA evidence near a pile of twisted airplane debris at the crash site of an Ethiopian airways operated Boeing 737 MAX aircraft on March 16, 2019 at Hama Quntushele village near Bishoftu in Oromia region. (Photo by TONY KARUMBA / AFP)

A US jury awarded $49.5 million in damages on Wednesday to the family of a 24-year-old American who perished in a 2019 Boeing 737 MAX crash.

The suit was brought by relatives of Samya Stumo, who died in the March 2019 Ethiopian Airlines crash which claimed a total of 157 lives.

The Chicago jury, which deliberated from around two hours, found that "the total amount of damages suffered by Plaintiff is $49.5 million", according to documents.

Nearly all of the civil lawsuits around the crash had been settled out of court, AFP reported. In Stumo's case, however, her family had been unable to reach an agreement with Boeing ahead of the trial, which began on Monday.

"We are deeply sorry to all who lost loved ones on Lion Air Flight 610 and Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302," Boeing said in a statement.

"While we have resolved nearly all of these claims through settlements, families are entitled to pursue their claims through the court process, and we respect their right to do so."

Stumo was killed en route to Kenya for her first assignment with ThinkWell, a public health NGO that aimed to increase access to health care in Africa and Asia.

But the plane went down shortly after taking off from Addis Ababa, killing everyone aboard. The Ethiopian crash followed a Lion Air crash about four and a half months earlier in Indonesia.

The two crashes claimed 346 lives in total.

Boeing acknowledged that anti-stall software was implicated in both accidents.

Stumo's family and their lawyer Shanin Specter did not immediately reply to a request for comment from AFP.

Specter told the Chicago federal civil court that Boeing was "negligent", the aircraft was "unsafe" and that "Boeing caused this crash and these deaths."

The trial featured testimony from Stumo's relatives, including father Michael Stumo, who said the disaster still haunts the family.

"It feels like since she's been gone, we don't have permission to be happy," Michael Stumo testified. "Sometimes you catch yourself being happy, and you correct yourself, like you shouldn't be."

Speaking ahead of the verdict, the aviation giant's attorney, Dan Webb, expressed the company's sorrow at the crash.

He said that Boeing's "only disagreement" with the Stumo family was "on the exact amount of compensation."

A US judge dropped criminal charges against Boeing in 2025 over the deadly crashes as part of an agreement between the company and prosecutors.

In November, a Chicago jury awarded a widower of one of the MAX victims $28.45 million. A second trial, in January, was halted after an out-of-court settlement was reached after the second day.

The next trial is scheduled for August 3 and focuses on the death of Michael Ryan of Ireland.