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CNN
13 hours ago
- Politics
- CNN
Photos this week: June 12-19, 2025
Protesters spell out 'No King!' at San Francisco's Ocean Beach on Saturday, June 14. More than 2,000 protests took place across all 50 states through the No Kings movement, which organizers say seeks to reject 'authoritarianism, billionaire-first politics, and the militarization of our democracy.' The mobilization was a direct response to Saturday's military parade in Washington, DC, that celebrated the 250th anniversary of the US Army and coincided with President Donald Trump's 79th birthday. Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu/Getty Images Mount Lewotobi Laki Laki erupts in south-central Indonesia on Tuesday, June 17. The enormous ash cloud, more than 6 miles into the sky, disrupted or canceled dozens of flights to and from the tourist island of Bali. STR/AFP/Getty Images This aerial photo, taken on Saturday, June 14, shows sheep being relocated to higher grazing pastures near Bagnères-de-Bigorre, France. Ed Jones/AFP/Getty Images People attend the funeral of four members of the Khatib family, who were killed in an Iranian missile strike in Tamra, Israel, on Tuesday, June 17. Tamra, a small, tight-knit town in northern Israel, is inhabited by Palestinian citizens of Israel. Mahmoud Illean/AP Pervez, 5, swims with buffaloes cooling off in the Upper Chenab Canal during a heat wave in Gujranwala, Pakistan, on Sunday, June 15. Adrees Latif/Reuters World leaders pose for a group portrait at the G7 summit in Kananaskis, Alberta, on Monday, June 16. From left are European Council President António Costa, Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, French President Emmanuel Macron, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, US President Donald Trump, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen. Kenny Holston/The New York Times/Redux Thousands of firearms and small weapons, recovered during various security operations, are burned at the National Police Leadership Academy in the Ngong district near Nairobi, Kenya, on Friday, June 13. Thomas Mukoya/Reuters J.J. Spaun celebrates with his caddie, Mark Carens, after sinking a long putt to win the US Open in Oakmont, Pennsylvania, on Sunday, June 15. It is the first major title of his 11, washes her face on the banks of the Chenab River in Chiniot, Pakistan, on Tuesday, June 17. Adrees Latif/Reuters US President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump stand together at the end of a parade in Washington, DC, marking the 250th anniversary of the US Army on Saturday, June 14. The president, who also turned 79 on Saturday, had long pushed for the military parade, which was the largest that the nation's capital had seen in men in Tehran, Iran, debate the Iran-Israel conflict on Tuesday, June 17, while smoke rises in the background from a burning oil refinery that was struck by Israel. Farhad Babaei/laif/Redux
Sky News
3 days ago
- Politics
- Sky News
Family describe 'disbelief' after man's wife and two daughters killed in Iranian strike on Arab Israeli town
Why you can trust Sky News Cups of coffee are being carefully poured into small paper cups, each one served with a comforting embrace. Close by, huddled under an arched courtyard, women of all ages are sitting, grieving in their own way. Some are sobbing, others look dazed, others desperate. Their intermittent wails of grief puncture the silence. Yet there's a beautiful stillness about it all. We've arrived just at the moment Tamra, Israel, has come to a standstill. Everyone here is waiting for the bodies of four members of the Khatib family to return, killed when a ballistic missile from Iran hit their home on Saturday night. Manar Khatib was killed alongside two of her daughters - 20-year-old Shada, and 13-year-old Hala - and her sister-in-law, also called Manar. Layan Diab, 23, is a cousin of the girls. She's in disbelief. "It's a deep loss. It hurts my soul. We lost our entire family. Four people here. I can't fathom it. I don't understand. It's unbelievable," she says. And she's fearful of the coming days. "Every time we hear the sirens, people start to scream and remember," she says. Tamra is a tight-knit town. Most living here are Palestinian citizens of Israel. Videos circulating online showed Jewish Israelis celebrating as the missiles fell, singing: "May your village burn." It is a reminder of the bitter divides in this society, at war on multiple fronts. "No-one is protected. Not Arabs, not Israelis, not Jews, not Palestinians, not Israelis," Layan says with a desperate frustration in her voice. Just down the street is the girls' grieving father, Raja Khatib. A lawyer with a charming warmth, he starts to speak Italian, assuming we may be from Italy. He'd just returned from a holiday there with his wife and children in Ferrara. His eyes fill with tears as he says that if only he'd stayed a day longer, they would all be alive today. 'I feel terrible. I feel fire in my body… I hope that I will survive this moment. I've lost my family, but for what? A missile from Iran?" I ask if he sees an end to this conflict between Iran and Israel. He seems despairing. "Conflict with Iran, Lebanon, Gaza. We have a government who want[s] war. We want peace. We want to live." 3:08 Listening in supportively from the side is his middle daughter, 17-year-old Razan, who miraculously survived the blast. That evening, she'd been out to buy cookies with her sisters. When they returned, Razan and her older sister Shada played music and watched videos on their phones. When the alarms started to sound, they dismissed them at first. But after a loud boom, Razan was unsettled and started to make her way to one of the safe rooms, imploring Shada to do the same. But only Razan went. 0:24 "In one moment, everything went dark. I couldn't see anything. I asked Allah, please don't take my life," she describes with searing clarity. She could hear her father calling out for them all. But his cries were met with silence. Razan's family home is now a mound of rubble. When we arrive there, we find neighbours and friends clearing the rubble. Many are deeply traumatised. Hamad, who's sweeping debris outside the house opposite, tells me he saw body parts flung across the road and into a nearby garden, and there's blood on the walls. It is a deeply visceral and harrowing account of an attack that took everyone by surprise. This is a residential neighbourhood. It's thought the missile was bound for Haifa, more than an hour away and home to oil refineries. But this time, with this missile, it fell on civilians. And took with it, futures.
Sky News
3 days ago
- Politics
- Sky News
Family describe 'disbelief' after man's wife and two daughters killed in Iranian strike on Arab Israel town
Why you can trust Sky News Cups of coffee are being carefully poured into small paper cups, each one served with a comforting embrace. Close by, huddled under an arched courtyard, women of all ages are sitting, grieving in their own way. Some are sobbing, others look dazed, others desperate. Their intermittent wails of grief puncture the silence. Yet there's a beautiful stillness about it all. We've arrived just at the moment Tamra, Israel, has come to a standstill. Everyone here is waiting for the bodies of four members of the Khatib family to return, killed when a ballistic missile from Iran hit their home on Saturday night. Manar Khatib was killed alongside two of her daughters - 20-year-old Shada, and 13-year-old Hala - and her sister-in-law, also called Manar. Layan Diab, 23, is a cousin of the girls. She's in disbelief. "It's a deep loss. It hurts my soul. We lost our entire family. Four people here. I can't fathom it. I don't understand. It's unbelievable," she says. And she's fearful of the coming days. "Every time we hear the sirens, people start to scream and remember," she says. Tamra is a tight-knit town. Most living here are Palestinian citizens of Israel. Videos circulating online showed Jewish Israelis celebrating as the missiles fell, singing: "May your village burn." It is a reminder of the bitter divides in this society, at war on multiple fronts. "No-one is protected. Not Arabs, not Israelis, not Jews, not Palestinians, not Israelis," Layan says with a desperate frustration in her voice. Just down the street is the girls' grieving father, Raja Khatib. A lawyer with a charming warmth, he starts to speak Italian, assuming we may be from Italy. He'd just returned from a holiday there with his wife and children in Ferrara. His eyes fill with tears as he says that if only he'd stayed a day longer, they would all be alive today. 'I feel terrible. I feel fire in my body… I hope that I will survive this moment. I've lost my family, but for what? A missile from Iran?" I ask if he sees an end to this conflict between Iran and Israel. He seems despairing. "Conflict with Iran, Lebanon, Gaza. We have a government who want[s] war. We want peace. We want to live." 3:08 Listening in supportively from the side is his middle daughter, 17-year-old Razan, who miraculously survived the blast. That evening, she'd been out to buy cookies with her sisters. When they returned, Razan and her older sister Shada played music and watched videos on their phones. When the alarms started to sound, they dismissed them at first. But after a loud boom, Razan was unsettled and started to make her way to one of the safe rooms, imploring Shada to do the same. But only Razan went. 0:24 "In one moment, everything went dark. I couldn't see anything. I asked Allah, please don't take my life," she describes with searing clarity. She could hear her father calling out for them all. But his cries were met with silence. Razan's family home is now a mound of rubble. When we arrive there, we find neighbours and friends clearing the rubble. Many are deeply traumatised. Hamad, who's sweeping debris outside the house opposite, tells me he saw body parts flung across the road and into a nearby garden, and there's blood on the walls. It is a deeply visceral and harrowing account of an attack that took everyone by surprise. This is a residential neighbourhood. It's thought the missile was bound for Haifa, more than an hour away and home to oil refineries. But this time, with this missile, it fell on civilians. And took with it, futures.
Sky News
3 days ago
- General
- Sky News
Israel-Iran live: Trump says G7 exit nothing to do with ceasefire - as Israel and Iran trade strikes
'I've lost my family, but for what?': Man's wife and two daughters killed in Iranian strike By Cordelia Lynch, Sky News correspondent in Israel Cups of coffee are being carefully poured into small paper cups, each one served with a comforting embrace. Close by, huddled under an arched courtyard, women of all ages are sitting, grieving in their own way. Some are sobbing, others look dazed, others desperate. Their intermittent wails of grief puncture the silence. Yet there's a beautiful stillness about it all. We've arrived just at the moment that the Israeli city of Tamra has come to a standstill. Everyone here is waiting for the bodies of four members of the Khatib family to return, killed when a ballistic missile from Iran hit their home on Saturday night. Manar Khatib was killed alongside two of her daughters - 20-year-old Shada, and 13-year-old Hala - and her sister-in-law, also called Manar. Layan Diab, 23, is a cousin of the girls. She's in disbelief. "It's a deep loss. It hurts my soul. We lost our entire family. Four people here. I can't fathom it. I don't understand. It's unbelievable," she says. And she's fearful of the coming days. "Every time we hear the sirens, people start to scream and remember," she says. Just down the street is the girls' grieving father, Raja Khatib. A lawyer with a charming warmth, he starts to speak Italian, assuming we may be from Italy. He'd just returned from a holiday there with his wife and children in Ferrara. His eyes fill with tears as he says that if only he'd stayed a day longer, they would all be alive today. 'I feel terrible. I feel fire in my body… I hope that I will survive this moment. I've lost my family, but for what? A missile from Iran?"
Sky News
4 days ago
- General
- Sky News
'I've lost my family, but for what?': Man's wife and two daughters killed in Iranian strike on Israel
Cups of coffee are being carefully poured into small paper cups, each one served with a comforting embrace. Close by, huddled under an arched courtyard, women of all ages are sitting, grieving in their own way. Some are sobbing, others look dazed, others desperate. Their intermittent wails of grief puncture the silence. Yet there's a beautiful stillness about it all. We've arrived just at the moment Tamra, Israel, has come to a standstill. Everyone here is waiting for the bodies of four members of the Khatib family to return, killed when a ballistic missile from Iran hit their home on Saturday night. Manar Khatib was killed alongside two of her daughters - 20-year-old Shada, and 13-year-old Hala - and her sister-in-law, also called Manar. Layan Diab, 23, is a cousin of the girls. She's in disbelief. "It's a deep loss. It hurts my soul. We lost our entire family. Four people here. I can't fathom it. I don't understand. It's unbelievable," she says. And she's fearful of the coming days. "Every time we hear the sirens, people start to scream and remember," she says. Just down the street is the girls' grieving father, Raja Khatib. A doctor with a charming warmth, he starts to speak Italian, assuming we may be from Italy. He'd just returned from a holiday there with his wife and children in Ferrara. His eyes fill with tears as he says that if only he'd stayed a day longer, they would all be alive today. 'I feel terrible. I feel fire in my body… I hope that I will survive this moment. I've lost my family, but for what? A missile from Iran?" I ask if he sees an end to this conflict between Iran and Israel. He seems despairing. "Conflict with Iran, Lebanon, Gaza. We have a government who want[s] war. We want peace. We want to live." 3:08 Listening in supportively from the side is his middle daughter, 17-year-old Razan, who miraculously survived the blast. That evening, she'd been out to buy cookies with her sisters. When they returned, Razan and her older sister Shada played music and watched videos on their phones. When the alarms started to sound, they dismissed them at first. But after a loud boom, Razan was unsettled and started to make her way to one of the safe rooms, imploring Shada to do the same. But only Razan went. 0:24 "In one moment, everything went dark. I couldn't see anything. I asked Allah, please don't take my life," she describes with searing clarity. She could hear her father calling out for them all. But his cries were met with silence. Razan's family home is now a mound of rubble. When we arrive there, we find neighbours and friends clearing the rubble. Many are deeply traumatised. Ammad, who's sweeping debris outside the house opposite, tells me he saw body parts flung across the road and into a nearby garden, and there's blood on the walls. It is a deeply visceral and harrowing account of an attack that took everyone by surprise. This is a residential neighbourhood. It's thought the missile was bound for Haifa, more than an hour away and home to oil refineries. But this time, with this missile, it fell on civilians. And took with it, futures.
