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The journalists were near the village of Sinjil north of Ramallah to cover the one-year anniversary of the killing of Saif Musallet, a Palestinian-American who was beaten to death by Jewish settlers, last July.

Within minutes of arriving at the location where Musallet was killed, Israeli settlers descended on the area. As the CNN team and other journalists tried to leave, a group of four settlers blocked the road with their car and tried to keep the vehicles from moving forward.

The four settlers were wielding wooden and metal rods and stones. One settler brandished a knife and tried to puncture the tires of CNN’s vehicle.

The settlers then began to jump on the vehicle behind CNN’s — carrying another group of journalists — and smashed the windshield of that vehicle. Another group of settlers tried to block a separate exit route before chasing the journalists towards the town of Sinjil.

The EU has been accused of dragging its feet over upholding international law, on the eve of a long-awaited debate about banning trade with illegal Israeli settlements.

EU foreign ministers meeting in Brussels on Monday will discuss a possible ban on imports from the settlements, against an ongoing humanitarian crisis in Gaza, where a UN inquiry found Israel to be committing a genocide, and surging state-backed violence in the occupied West Bank, which has killed at least 235 children.

But the 27 ministers are not expected to take decisions about trade amid persistent divisions about how to respond to Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, and his government.

For 14 years, Patnala Suresh served in the merchant navy. Most recently, he was working as chief engineer aboard the commercial oil tanker MT Settebello. To his sons, he was a man who braved storms and rough seas to keep global trade moving.

Suresh was among three Indian crew members killed when the US military struck the MT Settebello in the Gulf of Oman near the Strait of Hormuz on 10 June. American authorities later said the tanker had failed to comply with repeated instructions issued by US forces.

Bhargavi rejects that justification.

"My husband was not a soldier," she tells MEE. "They could have stopped or detained the ship if they wanted to. Why fire a missile at a vessel carrying civilians?"

Calling the strike unjustified, she said the United States should be held accountable for what she described as a violation of international law.

Economists are warning that a “super” El Niño weather cycle this year could cause a severe shock to global food prices lasting into 2028.

As the Iran war pushes up world food prices to the highest level in three years, economists said supply chains faced “two shocks at once” stoked by extreme weather linked to global heating.

Scientists have said the 2026-27 El Niño – which forms when changes in wind patterns allow warmer water to spread across the central and eastern equatorial Pacific – has a historically unprecedented chance of developing into a “very strong” event fuelling heatwaves, flooding and stormier weather.

A French court ordered the town hall of Vaulx-en-Velin, a suburb of Lyon, to remove a Palestinian flag flying from its facade, ruling that it breached the principle of neutrality in public services, Anadolu reports.

The Lyon administrative court, ruling in an emergency procedure brought by the Rhone prefect, ordered the flag to be removed without delay and imposed a fine of 100 euros ($117) for each day of non-compliance.

The Palestinian flag was raised on July 4 during a municipal event and displayed alongside the French and European flags.

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The United States launched a third round of strikes on Iran early Sunday, saying it had hit a total of 149 military targets across the country.

Iran responded by claiming attacks on US military infrastructure across several Gulf states. The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) also declared the Strait of Hormuz closed "until further notice" and warned that Tehran would not tolerate foreign interference in the strategic waterway.

Here are the latest developments:

• An IRGC missile strike on a Cyprus-flagged container ship off the coast of Oman triggered the latest round of US strikes. The Guard later claimed it had stopped a second vessel in the Strait of Hormuz.

• Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf said the "era of one-sided deals is over" and urged the US to "keep your word or pay the price".

Top officials at Ukroboronprom, Ukraine's state-owned defense conglomerate, violated the law by allowing weapons depots to be located in the Kyiv suburb of Vyshneve, President Volodymyr Zelensky said on July 11.

The announcement comes after Zelensky told journalists on July 9 that a criminal investigation had been launched into the massive explosions in Vyshneve during a recent Russian missile attack and that dismissals at Ukroboronprom would follow.

Vyshneve, a small town on the western outskirts of Kyiv, endured a night of terror on July 6 when it came under Russian drone and missile fire during a mass attack on the capital. An ammunition warehouse was hit, triggering secondary explosions. Seven people in Vyshneve were killed, while 29 others suffered injuries.