Middle East crisis: US shuts Jerusalem embassy; no evacuation for Americans announced

The United States will shut its embassy in Jerusalem from Wednesday through Friday as the conflict between Israel and Iran intensifies, the State Department announced on Tuesday.“Given the security situation and in compliance with Israel Home Front Command guidance, the US Embassy in Jerusalem will be closed tomorrow (Wednesday, June 18) through Friday (June 20)….

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Trump abruptly leaves G-7 amid speculation US will bust Iranian bomb-making facility with bunker-buster | World News

TOI correspondent from Washington: US President Donald Trump abruptly left the G-7 summit in Calgary on Monday night and returned to Washington DC to attend to security-related issues in the middle east, scuppering among others a bilateral engagement with Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who arrived for the meeting even as Trump was winding down. In…

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