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6/13/2025, 8:59:37 PM

ROME — An American man was arrested Friday afternoon in Greece in the killing of a baby girl whose body was found along with her dead mother last week in a park in central Rome, Italian authorities said. Italian prosecutors said that there was not enough evidence to charge the man, who was arrested on the Greek island of Skiathos, with killing the mother because the cause of her death had not been determined. Read more here: https://wapo.st/4l4WxNp

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6/13/2025, 7:20:08 PM

Breaking news: Iran said late Friday that its military retaliation against Israel had begun. State media reported hundreds of ballistic missiles were fired after the Israeli military launched a wave of strikes against Iranian nuclear and military sites. Read more: https://wapo.st/43G58Au

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6/14/2025, 1:29:30 AM

JERUSALEM — As the sun rose over Tehran on Friday, the startling scale of Israel’s surprise attack on Iran became evident: Israeli forces, supported by a covert Mossad operation months in the making, severely damaged the Iranian nuclear facility at Natanz, destroyed some of Iran’s ballistic missile arsenal and killed half a dozen senior Iranian military leaders and nuclear scientists in a flurry of 100 airstrikes. Read more here: https://wapo.st/3HEgr3E

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6/13/2025, 10:24:02 PM

President Donald Trump is set to realize on Saturday, as he turns 79, one of his long-standing ambitions: to host a major military parade in Washington. While the idea might be novel for many Americans, military parades are common spectacles in many parts of the world. Trump was so taken by France’s Bastille Day ceremonies in 2017 that he vowed to match or top them. “It was one of the greatest parades I’ve ever seen,” Trump told reporters of the French festivities. Read more here: https://wapo.st/45SVThI

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6/13/2025, 2:24:08 PM

Iran’s supreme leader on Friday vowed a “crushing response” to Israel’s overnight attacks that struck at some of the most critical members of Iran’s scientific and military establishment. The strikes killed four senior military officials and nuclear scientists in Tehran, and damaged a major nuclear facility and hit military installations across the country, with Israel’s military vowing to continue striking until it hits all its targets. Read more: https://wapo.st/43XgyP9

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6/14/2025, 12:03:07 AM

A Venezuelan activist seeking asylum in the United States after reportedly being tortured by the government of U.S. adversary Nicolás Maduro has been detained by U.S. immigration authorities weeks before his preliminary hearing. Gregory Sanabria Tarazona, who as a university student participated in 2014 demonstrations against Maduro, was severely beaten while he was held at El Helicoide, the notorious headquarters of Maduro’s intelligence service, the United Nations and Amnesty International reported. Read more here: https://wapo.st/4e8ukDu

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6/13/2025, 5:14:46 PM

Tehran on Friday confirmed the deaths of senior commanders and nuclear scientists after Israel’s attacks on targets across Iran. The country has not released an official death toll, but state media reports indicated wider civilian deaths. Here’s what we know about some key figures killed in the strikes: https://wapo.st/3FLJP7v

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6/13/2025, 1:09:03 PM

Only one person on board Air India Flight 171 survived — British national Viswash Kumar Ramesh, who could be seen limping past a crowd of shocked rescuers toward an ambulance shortly after the crash killed the other 241 people on board, and dozens of people on the ground in Ahmedabad. Ramesh, 40, has been described as the “miracle in seat 11A” in British media, and been visited at the hospital by several top Indian officials — including Prime Minister Narendra Modi. “I don’t know how I survived,” Ramesh said. Read more: https://wapo.st/44gAais

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6/12/2025, 10:29:16 AM

An Air India passenger jet bound for London crashed in the city of Ahmedabad on Thursday, according to the airline and Indian officials. In a statement, Natarajan Chandrasekaran, the chairman of Air India said that Flight AI171 from Ahmedabad to the United Kingdom was involved in a “tragic accident.” The Associated Press reported that there were 232 passengers and 12 crew members aboard, citing Faiz Ahmed Kidwai, the director general of India’s directorate of civil aviation. Read more: https://wapo.st/4427w3y

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6/13/2025, 12:52:20 AM

Israel launched a "preemptive strike" on Iran, said Israel's defense minister Israel Katz. Katz declared a “special emergency situation” in Israel in anticipation of a potential retaliatory attack. Trump administration officials had informed Israel that the United States would not militarily support potential attacks on Iran, according to two knowledgeable U.S. officials who, like others, spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the subject’s sensitivity, The Washington Post reported. Read more here: https://wapo.st/4452O55