These are the top headlines from Arab News, the Middle East’s leading English-language daily, at 6pm GMT. - #Trump says #Iran downed Apache helicopter, #US must react - @IDF gets green signal to bomb #Beirut in response to any rocket fire from #Lebanon - Lebanon says 8 dead in

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#Saudi Foreign Minister Prince @FaisalbinFarhan congratulated his counterpart on the election of #Trinidad and Tobago as a non-permanent member of the United Nations Security Council for 2027-2028 during a call on Tuesday

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#Thailand’s former PM #ThaksinShinawatra is officially a free man, less than a week after receiving a royal pardon

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#WATCH: Images of Israeli soldiers deploying as #settlers and Palestinians gather on land in the Humsa area in #WestBank's Hebron, amid Palestinian accusations of land confiscation #Israel #Palestine

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#BREAKING: @realDonaldTrump on #Iran: .#US must, of necessity, respond to this attack on helicopter .Iranians shot down one of our highly sophisticated Apache helicopters while patrolling over the Strait of Hormuz

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#PopeLeo on Tuesday arrived in Barcelona for the second stop of a week-long tour of #Spain in which he has warned that escalating conflicts have pushed the world into a profound crisis

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#Lebanon’s health ministry said an #Israeli airstrike on Tyre killed at least eight people on Tuesday, with the Israeli military warning the entire city to evacuate shortly after the strike

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#Israeli authorities seized about 192 acres of #Palestinian private and municipal land in the occupied West Bank during May, for security, military and settlement purposes. Read more below

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Authorities in the #Syrian Arab Republic closed the final spillway gates at the #Euphrates Dam on Tuesday, after reopening them two weeks earlier to relieve pressure that had led to devastating floods in the country’s eastern region

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#WATCH: Plumes of smoke rise above Abbasiyeh neighborhood to Tyre after #Israel struck port city in southern #Lebanon #Hezbollah

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Hundreds of #migrants from #IraqiKurdistan making the journey to the UK last year were kidnapped in #Libya, tortured and threatened with forced organ removal

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#WATCH: Israeli #settlers burned vehicles during their attack on the village of Beit Imrin, northwest of the city of Nablus, after midnight last night #Israel #Palestine

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#Saudi Foreign Minister Prince @FaisalbinFarhan received a telephone call from his #Egyptian counterpart Badr Abdelatty on Tuesday

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The family of @HussamAbuSafiya have raised concerns about his health following his transfer to solitary confinement in Nafha Prison #Gaza

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#WATCH: Smoke billows over buildings in the southern Lebanese city of #Tyre after an Israeli airstrike. @IDF for the first time warned entire city to evacuate ahead of the strikes #Israel #Lebanon #Hezbollah

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#France on Tuesday banned #Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich from entering the country, slamming him for actively promoting the annexation of the West Bank and the “re-colonization” of #Gaza

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#BREAKING: US Energy Secretary Wright says ship traffic through Strait of #Hormuz is rising “very meaningfully”

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#SPOTLIGHT: #Iraq’s power crisis is no longer just seasonal; it’s the result of conflict, damaged infrastructure & dependence on #Iran’s gas. Read more here

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#BREAKING: Israeli army says troops kill gunman who entered Israel from #Lebanon

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The supervisor-general @KSRelief_EN, Dr. Abdullah Al-Rabeeah, met with Saudi Ambassador to #Sudan Zaid Al-Harbi in Riyadh

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Reports of abuse by Israeli tourists spark calls for crackdown on #Philippine island