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“We are committed to completing ⁠the ⁠elimination of the Iranian ⁠regime,” ‌Netanyahu said ​in ‌a statement released ‌by ​his office. “I ​have ​discussed this ​with Trump ⁠many times, including yesterday.”

Meanwhile, Iran’s foreign minister says the US started the war “without Iran doing anything wrong” and, eight months on, cannot find a way out. Donald Trump, for his part, claims the US will “soon finish the job” in Iran. Tehran says the US is to blame for “insecurity” in the Strait of Hormuz, while Iran’s president says his country is ready to settle regional issues through talks. Several US embassies in the Middle East have sent out identical security alerts to Americans, citing the threat of attack from Iran or from the Iran-backed Houthis.

US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth met Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during an unannounced visit to Israel on Monday to discuss Iran, three Israeli officials told news agency Reuters. The visit comes amid rising tensions over the Strait of Hormuz and intensified Houthi attacks on Saudi Arabia. It also comes ahead of Israel’s October 27 parliamentary election, with US President Donald Trump having endorsed Netanyahu.

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said he spoke ⁠with ​US President Donald Trump ​on ​Monday about the ⁠importance of eliminating ‌Iran's regime.

Police on Tuesday charged a driver with intentionally causing serious injury to an Australian federal lawmaker who is in critical condition after being struck by a car in an apparent escalation in political violence that has shocked the nation.

Helen Haines, a 65-year-old independent politician, was in hospital in critical but stable condition after being struck by a car outside her office in the city of Wangaratta, in Victoria, on Monday in what police alleged was a “targeted” incident.

Brendan Nugent, from nearby Tarrawingee, was charged with intentionally causing serious injury, dangerous driving causing serious injury and causing harm to a federal official, police said in a statement on Tuesday. (AP)

Paris returned to calm on Tuesday after its first quiet night since a weekend marred by France's worst rioting in years, as authorities imposed curfews in several cities in an effort to prevent another round of rioting and looting.

At least 2,400 people were arrested after rioters in cities across France on Saturday clashed with police, set cars on fire, stormed public buildings and engulfed a historic city hall in flames during nationwide protests against rising living costs and poor conditions in schools.

The death toll from a Houthi missile strike on a government military camp in southern Yemen rose to 73 people, all recruits, making it the deadliest strike since fighting in the country began escalating three months ago, a senior Yemeni government official said Tuesday.

Italy will approve new security measures on Tuesday targeting minors, politicians said, after days of unrest that have seen demonstrators clash with police, loot shops and vandalise property.

Under the crackdown, law enforcers will be allowed to detain people under the age of 18 at police stations for 12 hours, even if they have not committed ⁠a ​crime, provided there is evidence they pose a danger, Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini said.

Iran has deliberately prolonged talks with the US to try to weaken Donald Trump politically ahead of November's US midterm elections, senior officials say, while fears of renewed military action and deep distrust of Washington have reinforced Tehran's reluctance to strike a quick deal to end the war.

Three senior Iranian officials and an Iranian insider, speaking on condition of anonymity, said Tehran was convinced the US president was ready to resort to renewed attacks to try to break the stalemate in the eight-month-old war.

UK will deploy Royal Air Force fighter jets on defensive missions to help ⁠protect ​Saudi Arabia from escalating Houthi attacks, Bloomberg ​reported ​on Tuesday, citing ⁠British officials familiar with the ‌matter.

The situation in West Asia remains a matter of "deep concern", and India will support all efforts to promote peace through dialogue and diplomacy, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said on Tuesday during talks with the UAE's Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan, PTI reported.

"The situation in the Gulf remains a matter of deep concern. We will continue to work together and support all efforts to promote dialogue and diplomacy. We continue to support the free, safe, and unimpeded flow of trade, energy, and fertiliser. I would also like to thank you, and through you, the UAE leadership for ensuring the well-being of the Indian community in the UAE," Jaishankar said.

Pakistan army chief ⁠Field Marshal ​Asim ​Munir arrived ​in ⁠Tehran on ‌Tuesday with a delegation ⁠of ⁠Pakistani ⁠officials ‌to meet ​senior ‌Iranian officials, ‌Iran's ​semi-official ​Mehr ​news agency ​reported.

Two tankers were set ablaze and brought to ⁠a ​halt south of the Strait ​of ​Hormuz after hitting ⁠Iranian mines, the ‌Revolutionary Guards' Navy said in a statement shared ⁠by ⁠state media on ⁠Tuesday, ‌without saying ​when the ‌tankers were hit.

The ‌statement ​also ​said ​a US drone ​was downed ⁠by Iran on Monday night.

US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth discussed Iran with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during an unannounced visit to Israel on Monday, three Israeli officials said, as tensions flare between the US and Iran.

The officials did not provide further details about ⁠the meeting, ​first reported by Axios. The Pentagon declined to comment. The Israeli prime minister's office did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth discussed Iran with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during an unannounced visit to Israel on Monday, three Israeli officials told Reuters, amid rising tensions between Washington and Tehran. The Pentagon declined to comment, while Netanyahu’s office did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Israel’s Army Radio reported that the meeting took place at an air force base in the country’s southern desert.

The visit comes amid tensions over the Strait of Hormuz and intensified Houthi attacks on Saudi Arabia. It also follows US President Donald Trump’s endorsement of Netanyahu ahead of Israel’s October 27 parliamentary election. US and Israeli forces launched joint strikes against Iran in late February, triggering a wider regional war. Both Trump and Netanyahu have said they do not intend to attack Iran before their respective upcoming elections.

South Korea said Tuesday it would withdraw some staff from its embassy in Kyiv, citing Ukraine’s “lack of constructive steps” to address a diplomatic dispute over the transfer of two North Korean prisoners of war, as well as safety concerns amid intensifying Russian attacks. Seoul did not specify how many staff members would leave or when, but said its charge d’affaires and essential personnel would remain in Kyiv.

Oil prices rose on Tuesday, with Brent crude trading at USD 110.07 a barrel, near a five-month high, as Houthi claims of attacks on Saudi energy and other infrastructure and reports of vessel attacks in the Gulf heightened concerns over regional stability. US West Texas Intermediate crude futures for November delivery rose 0.36% to USD 104.03 a barrel, while the more-active December contract gained 0.26% to USD 98.80.

The Houthis claimed attacks on targets including an Aramco site in Yanbu, the Shaybah oilfield and airports in Riyadh and Abha, though Saudi authorities had not confirmed the claims and Reuters could not independently verify them. At least 18 vessels were reportedly attacked over two weeks, according to shiptracker Kpler. Meanwhile, a Reuters poll indicated US crude and fuel inventories likely fell last week, adding to the factors supporting prices.

Yemen’s Saudi-backed coalition spokesperson Turki al-Maliki says forces have destroyed 127 Houthi weapons depots and missile launch platforms.

He also released a video of the coalition targeting what he says are Houthi smuggling boats and shipments.

Field Marshal Asim Munir is due to visit Tehran today, according to Iranian media.

Munir’s visit comes a day after Russia’s FM Sergey Lavrov visited the Iranian capital and held talks with his Iranian counterpart as well as the president.

US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth shared photos on Tuesday from a visit to US Central Command, praising the troops and describing their mission as historic.

“As always, it was an honor to visit our warfighters in CENTCOM today,” he wrote. “The best of our country, on a historic mission. Godspeed,” he wrote on X.

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said Monday that Iran and Russia were working more closely than at any point in their history after talks with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in Tehran.

“Never in our history have Iran and Russia worked as closely as now,” Araghchi wrote in a post on X.

He said the talks covered Europe, West Asia, Lebanon, Palestine, Ukraine and Yemen, as well as expanding economic and nuclear cooperation.

Hosted FM Lavrov for timely talks in Tehran. We covered everything from Europe to West Asia, including Lebanon, Palestine, Ukraine and Yemen. Also focused on expansion of economic and nuclear cooperation. Never in our history have Iran and Russia worked as closely as now. https://t.co/aGjhD1gAF3

Oil prices fell on Tuesday as markets weighed an executive order from US President Donald Trump that waived some sanctions and tariffs tied to Russian energy exports, while attacks on Saudi Arabia and Yemen kept fears of Middle East supply disruptions in view.

Brent crude futures fell 49 cents, ⁠or ​0.45%, to $109.06 a barrel by 0010 GMT. The US West Texas Intermediate crude (WTI) contract for November delivery, set to expire on Tuesday, eased 0.33% to $103.32. The more-active December contract was down 46 cents, or 0.47%, at $98.08.

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio will travel to India on Tuesday, days after President Donald Trump delayed tariffs on US imports from the world's largest democracy as the two countries seek to finalize a trade deal.

During the two-day visit to Mumbai and Jamnagar in western India, Rubio is slated to meet government and business leaders, including Foreign Minister S. ⁠Jaishankar ​and billionaire Mukesh Ambani, chairman of Reliance Industries, which operates the world's largest refining complex at Jamnagar.

Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps has claimed it intercepted and destroyed a US MQ-9 drone over the Strait of Hormuz early on Tuesday, according to state broadcaster IRIB.

The statement said an advanced air defence system operated by the IRGC’s aerospace force, under Iran’s integrated air defence network, downed the drone.

Vice President JD Vance declined Monday to endorse Israeli President Benjamin Netanyahu for reelection a day after President Donald Trump endorsed the embattled Israeli leader.“The president has the most influential endorsement in American or international political history,” Vance said during an interview with journalist Mark Halperin.“I endorse American candidates, and that’s where I’m focused on the midterms,” Vance said, while traveling Monday to campaign for Republican Senate nominee Michael Whatley of North Carolina.

President Donald Trump said Monday the United States was in a position to leave the Iran war now, described the country’s military and leadership as devastated, and added that Tehran would not obtain a nuclear weapon.

“Somebody said you could leave right now. It’s true. We could leave right now. They’re not going to have a nuclear weapon,” Trump said at a campaign rally in Kansas.

Trump said Iran had no navy or air force left and that its radar and air defenses had been destroyed. He also said 229 Iranian fighter jets were “scattered all over the runways.”

“I don’t know who the hell to negotiate with,” he said. “Their first level of leaders gone. Their second level of leaders gone. Their third level of leaders half gone.”

A shooting in a neighborhood near a mosque in Ohio’s capital city left one person dead Monday but was not connected to the house of worship or those who were inside, police said.

Federal and local authorities descended on the area as the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives said in a post on X that agents were responding to a report of a shooting at the mosque, northeast of downtown Columbus.

Iran called on the UN Security Council to hold an emergency meeting over what it described as US and Israeli threats of further attacks on the country and its critical infrastructure, state-run IRNA reported Monday.

Iran’s ambassador to the UN, Gholamhossein Darzi, cited reports about potential US use of the GBU-43/B Massive Ordnance Air Blast bomb, known as the “Mother of All Bombs,” against Iran, as well as Israeli threats to strike the country’s energy infrastructure.

“The Security Council cannot remain silent in the face of explicit threats of renewed aggression and the destruction of critical civilian infrastructure,” Darzi wrote in a letter to the UN secretary-general and Security Council president.

US President Donald Trump said Europe was not there to help when Washington sought assistance on Iran and warned the United States could leave unless the continent changes course, in a post on Truth Social Monday.

“We stand with Europe, despite its flaws, its weaknesses and, hopefully, its temporary loss of direction. But if they don’t soon find their way, we will have no choice but to leave,” Trump wrote.

“When we asked for help in Iran (Help which we didn’t need, but was done more in the form of a test), they weren’t there to help, something which I can never forget,” he added.

Trump also criticized immigration and political leaders in Europe, particularly France, and called on European countries to close their borders and expel people he said hated their countries.

The car that struck an independent Australian lawmaker outside her office had performed a U-turn before hitting her, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said on Tuesday, describing the incident as clearly intentional.

Helen Haines underwent surgery overnight and remained in critical condition after she was struck by a white Toyota Land Cruiser in Wangaratta, around three hours' drive northeast of Melbourne, on Monday.

"It's clear that there was a deliberate act here. This wasn't an accident, someone just skidding ⁠off the ​road," Albanese told ABC News.

Saudi Arabia says it has executed a man and a woman from Bangladesh over “indecent acts” inside a mosque in Mecca. Bangladesh said that it hadn't been informed of the executions beforehand.

Meanwhile, Israeli police have arrested 10 suspects in a wave of settler violence that targeted a US journalist and European diplomats in the occupied West Bank, and Iran-backed Houthi rebels announced attacks in Yemen and across Saudi Arabia. Here's the latest news from the Middle East on Monday.

International Maritime Organization (IMO) Secretary-General Arsenio Dominguez says about 6,000 sailors remain trapped in the Strait of Hormuz since the US-Israel war on Iran began.

“Too many vessels have been attacked, particularly in recent days. Seafarers have continued to perish in these attacks,” he told Fox News Digital. “The message is not to transit the Strait of Hormuz.”

Dominguez said an increase in vessels using fraudulent registration and false flags to move cargo is contributing to the escalation. He accused “irresponsible shipowners” of risking crews’ lives to continue trading.

Yemen’s Houthis said they had carried out several attacks targeting energy facilities, airports and military sites in Saudi Arabia, including an Aramco facility in Yanbu, Reuters reported.

They said they had attacked the Shaybah oilfield, King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh and Abha Airport, according to a statement by the group.

There was no immediate comment or confirmation from Saudi authorities regarding the reported attacks.

Iran’s High Council for Human Rights says recent US sanctions pose serious risks to people’s access to healthcare services.

The government-run council, which operates under Iran’s judiciary, said the impact of economic restrictions will go beyond patients and vulnerable groups.

“The humanitarian consequences of these restrictions are not limited to the importation of finished medicines,” a statement carried by state-run IRIB said.

14 people were killed and 7 others injured following the collapse of an illegal gold mine in southwestern Colombia, local authorities said on ⁠Monday.

The ​accident took place in the rural Chambero sector of the Santa Barbara de ​Iscuande municipality, ​located in the ⁠province of Nariño.

Search and rescue operations have concluded, ‌Nariño Governor Luis Alfonso Escobar said.

The governor called on the national government, the National Mining Agency, and the Ministry of Mines and ⁠Energy to accelerate ⁠the formalization process for illegal and small-scale miners ⁠to ‌improve working conditions ​and safety standards.

In ‌August, 13 people died in a similar mining ‌accident ​in the town ​of ​Policarpa, also in Nariño.

US Defense Secretary Pete ⁠Hegseth ​met with ​Israeli ​Prime Minister ⁠Benjamin Netanyahu ‌during an unannounced visit ⁠to ⁠Israel ⁠on ‌Monday, ​Axios ‌reported, citing two ‌sources ​with ​knowledge.

More than 45% of flight departures from Saudi Arabian airports have been cancelled since October 8, according to data from aviation analytics company Cirium, Reuters reported.

Brigadier-General Hossein Mohebbi, spokesman for Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), has threatened communication cables passing through the Strait of Hormuz.

“Seven major undersea cables pass through the Strait of Hormuz, and all of the world’s internet and commercial data depend on them,” Fars news agency quoted Mohebbi as saying.

Trump told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday that he expected him to win a "tremendous" election victory next week, with the Israeli leader suggesting they may again attack Iran together.

A day after Trump publicly endorsed Netanyahu in the close-fought October 27 election, the Israeli premier put out a video of the two right-wing leaders lavishing praise on each other by telephone.

"I think you're going to have a tremendous victory, actually," Trump can be heard saying, with Netanyahu putting his mobile on speakerphone.

"You're the man I want by my side, Bibi," Trump said, using Netanyahu's nickname.

"Donald, we have a job to finish," Netanyahu said. "We'll finish it together. We'll finish it, and no one else will do it."

Pakistan's army chief, General Asim Munir, is due to arrive in Tehran, Iran's semi-official Tasnim news agency reported. Reuters said there was no Pakistani confirmation of the visit.

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