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Iran’s Team Trains in Limbo for World Cup Overshadowed by War
ByTariq Panja May 30, 2026

The Iranian soccer players, still awaiting visas to the U.S., are practicing in Turkey and making backup plans.

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Senior Sri Lankan monk suspended over child sex abuse allegation
ByAl Jazeera – Breaking News, World News and Video from Al Jazeera May 30, 2026

Pallegama Hemarathana is accused of abusing an 11-year-old girl in a Buddhist temple in 2022.

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Rescuers free four more men from flooded Laos cave, two still missing
ByAl Jazeera – Breaking News, World News and Video from Al Jazeera May 30, 2026

Five of seven men who entered cave seeking gold are now out after being trapped for 10 days.

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Truck carrying Afghan returnees from Pakistan flips on highway, killing 18
ByAl Jazeera – Breaking News, World News and Video from Al Jazeera May 30, 2026

At least 10 children among the dead as a packed truck carrying families returning from Pakistan flips on major highway.

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Israeli soldiers reach Nabatieh, one of southern Lebanon’s biggest cities
ByAl Jazeera – Breaking News, World News and Video from Al Jazeera May 30, 2026

Israel’s military has advanced beyond Lebanon's Litani River for the first time since 2006.

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Violence against foreign-owned shops in South Africa
ByAl Jazeera – Breaking News, World News and Video from Al Jazeera May 30, 2026

Foreign workers in South Africa are again facing violence and protests by anti-immigrant groups.

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WHO chief visits Bunia, epicentre of the Ebola outbreak
ByAl Jazeera – Breaking News, World News and Video from Al Jazeera May 30, 2026

WHO Chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus is visiting Bunia in the DRC, the epicentre of the Ebola outbreak.

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The Iran war is dividing Muslims in the Philippines
ByAl Jazeera – Breaking News, World News and Video from Al Jazeera May 30, 2026

Divisive foreign political narratives are being wrongly cast as religious discourse within our Muslim communities.

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Cuba Calls Guantanamo Talks with U.S. General ‘Positive’
ByAl Jazeera – Breaking News, World News and Video from Al Jazeera May 30, 2026

Senior U.S. and Cuban military officials held a rare face-to-face meeting near Guantanamo Bay.

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As Trump Mulls Decision About Iran War Deal, a Restive Middle East Waits to Hear
ByAaron Boxerman May 30, 2026May 30, 2026

The president has wavered on whether to move ahead with an agreement with Iran to end the war. On Friday, he vowed to make a “final determination” soon.

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