Israel blocked Jerusalem’s Catholic cardinal from marking Palm Sunday at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, sparking an international outcry that led Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to reverse the ban for ‌the remainder of Holy Week.

US President Donald Trump said the US and Iran have been meeting “directly and indirectly” and that Iran’s new leaders have been “very reasonable”, as more US troops arrived in the region and Tehran warned it will not accept humiliation.

Tens of thousands of protesters rallied in the northern US city of Minneapolis on Saturday as part of the national “No Kings” movement, months after it was wracked with protests due to federal immigration raids.

Massive protests against President Donald Trump kicked off on Saturday across the United States and beyond, as millions of people vent fury over what they see as his authoritarian bent and law-trampling governance.

The UN General Assembly has passed the resolution on transatlantic slavery despite opposition from the US and European countries.

At least 15 American soldiers have been wounded after Iran launched an attack on an airbase in Saudi Arabia, according to news reports, as the conflict started by Israel and the United States enters its second month.

Massive nationwide protests against US President Donald Trump are expected Saturday as millions of people vent fury over what they see as his authoritarian bent and other forms of cruel, law-trampling governance.

Iran’s response to a US peace proposal aimed ‌at ending the war in ⁠the Middle East is expected on Friday, according ⁠to a source briefed on the matter.

York officials unanimously stripped Sarah Ferguson of her “Freedom of the City” title over her ties to Jeffrey Epstein, marking another blow to her public image.

US paper currency will bear ‌President Donald Trump’s signature starting this summer, the first time a sitting president has signed American money, the Treasury Department said.

The US Senate passed legislation that would finance most of the Department of Homeland Security, but withhold funds from ICE and part of Customs and Border Protection, Senate ‌Democratic ⁠leader Chuck Schumer’s office said in a statement.

The debate among Iranian hardliners over whether Tehran should seek a nuclear bomb in defiance of an escalating US-Israeli attack is getting louder, more public and more insistent, sources in the country say.

US President Donald Trump said he would extend a pause on attacks against Iran’s energy plants into April and that talks with Iran were going “very well”, but an Iranian official said a US proposal for ending the war was “one-sided and unfair”.

US President Donald Trump denied being “desperate” to make a deal with Iran on Thursday, as he mixed threats with diplomacy in a push to wrap up his war in the Middle East.

Ousted Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro was back in a New York court on Thursday for his second appearance since his capture by US forces in an extraordinary nighttime raid.

Israel took Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi and Parliamentary Speaker Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf off its hit list after Pakistan requested that Washington not ‌target them, a Pakistani source with knowledge of the discussions told Reuters.

The US is making its offer of security guarantees for a peace deal in Ukraine conditional on Kyiv ceding all of the country’s eastern region of Donbas to Russia, President Volodymyr Zelensky told Reuters ‌in an interview.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is racing to pass a state budget and stave off early elections he would likely lose, with the war in Iran so far doing little to improve his standing in the polls.

US President Donald Trump is ready to “unleash hell” if Iran does not accept a deal to end the nearly four-week Middle East war, the White House warned, but a defiant Tehran said it did not intend to negotiate.

US President Donald Trump, who has blasted mail-in ballots as “cheating”, cast his vote by mail in a special election in Florida in which a Democrat won the district in the state legislature that includes the president’s ‌Mar-a-Lago resort.

British police said on Wednesday they had arrested two men over a London arson attack on four volunteer ambulances run by a Jewish organisation.