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Jun 15, 2026 - World

Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's jobs may be at stake if they continue to oppose President Donald Trump's Iran deal, a senior White House official warned.The threat emerged in a report published Sunday by the right-leaning Israeli daily Israel Hayom, which detailed a bitter internal White House battle over the emerging memorandum of understanding with Tehran."The debate has been settled. Those who oppose it may pay a personal price," a senior US official told the outlet.According to the report, Vice President JD Vance, envoy Steve Witkoff, and Trump envoy Jared Kushner have driven the push for a deal, arguing the Iranian regime is unlikely to collapse soon and that Gulf states — particularly Qatar — have pressed hard for an agreement.Rubio and Hegseth argued the opposite: that Iran is buckling under economic pressure and Washington should tighten the screws, not ease them. The two men had been the public faces of that harder line — touting "Project Freedom," a plan to reopen the Strait of Hormuz by force, only for Trump to shelve it hours after they publicly praised it.Trump has since sided firmly with the deal camp. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent reportedly warned that lifting sanctions would be nearly impossible to reverse, but the Israel Hayom report said his objections changed the terms only slightly."This is an American game being managed with utter foolishness…Trump is acting badly and against the American interest, not only the Israeli one," Oded Ailam, a former senior Mossad official, told Israel Hayom.Sanctions on Iranian oil sales are expected to be lifted — at least in part — after the Strait of Hormuz fully reopens, according to the report.

Jun 15, 2026 - World

Outpouring of public grief for Lidia ‘Taty’ Almeida, leader of group of mothers that has marched every week since 1977The human rights activist Lidia “Taty” Almeida – who spent more than half a century searching for her son after he was forcibly disappeared by Argentina’s military junta – has died aged 95, prompting a public outpouring of grief.Almeida, 95, was the president of the Mothers of Plaza de Mayo, made up of women who have marched around the square outside Argentina’s presidential palace every Thursday since 1977, demanding the return of children who were disappeared during the country’s 1976-1983 dictatorship. Continue reading...

Jun 15, 2026 - World

President Donald Trump celebrated the tentative deal his administration reached with Iran Sunday to end the war, but according to one veteran journalist, the president’s troubles related to the conflict were far from over given the persistence of a key issue that risks reigniting the conflict.“Let the oil flow!” Trump broadly boasted Sunday after the tentative agreement was reached, adding that the Strait of Hormuz would be accessible to sea vessels immediately.As part of the tentative agreement, however, Iran has demanded that Israel halt its bombardment of Lebanon, which it’s currently occupying around 10% of. Israeli officials have instead announced they will not be withdrawing troops from Lebanon, likely ensuring continued attacks from Hezbollah, which Israel has vowed to respond to forcefully.“Ultimately, as those who announced the deal said, it’s only a ceasefire, good for 60 days while yet more talks take place,” journalist Martin Pengelly wrote in an analysis published in Zeteo Monday. “It’s not a nuclear agreement or a peace treaty. And new hardliners have emerged in Tehran, determined to make the U.S. suffer in response to this war of aggression. In other words, Trump made this mess; it’s still all over the floor, and he’s by no means free of it yet.”Israeli officials have been explicit in their threats to continue the bombardment of Lebanon, which since Israel’s most recent invasion of the country in March has killed more than 3,750 Lebanese, injured more than 11,600 and sparked a humanitarian crisis by displacing millions.“Trump's agreement does not bind us,” wrote Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, according to an automatic English translation from Hebrew. “Israel is not subject to the United States, and we are an independent and sovereign nation!”Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich warned that “for every shot fired toward our territory, ten buildings will fall” in the Lebanese city of Dahiyeh.And Iran has been explicit in its demand that Israel cease hostilities with its northern neighbor in its negotiations, leading Pengelly – who previously worked for Raw Story as an investigations editor – to conclude that the U.S.-Iran agreement was far from settled.“Five days until a promised deal signing in Switzerland, after Trump has attended the G7 summit in France, is plenty of time for Israel to intervene,” Pengelly wrote. “The Israelis were not directly party to the talks that produced the U.S-Iran deal. In Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, discontent is widely reported.”

Jun 15, 2026 - World

A Brazilian police investigator says that a 21-year-old woman who died in a rope jumping incident over the weekend was not attached to any safety equipment

Jun 15, 2026 - World

A Dutch court has convicted a Syrian man of crimes against humanity, sentencing him to 26 years in prison for torturing and raping opponents of former President Bashar Assad in 2013-14