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Fact-check: Viral Indian defence ministry document about Operation Sindoor 2.0 is AI-generated

Multiple users on social media platform X since June 16, 2026, have been sharing an alleged classified Indian Ministry of Defence document claiming that India is preparing “Operation Sindoor 2.0” and considering fresh military action across the Line of Control (LoC) by exploiting protests in Azad Jammu and Kashmir. However, the document is AI-generated. Pakistan and India fought in a four-day conflict in May 2025. Indian fighter jets were shot down by the Pakistan Air Force on the night of May 6-7 in response to the Indian Air Force’s late-night missile strikes at six Pakistani sites, including Subhan Mosque in Bahawalpur’s Ahmedpur East, Bilal Mosque in Muzaffarabad, Abbas Mosque in Kotli, Umalkura Mosque in Muridke, the village of Kotki Lohara in Sialkot district, and Shakargarh. The hostilities prompted diplomatic engagement by regional and international actors, eventually leading to a ceasefire and a reduction in military activity. “Operation Sin...
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Israel FM says cutting contact with EU top diplomat over 'apartheid' remarks

Israel's foreign minister said on Thursday that he was severing all contact with the European Union's top diplomat, Kaja Kallas, over reported remarks in which she allegedly compared Israel to the apartheid regime that once ruled South Africa. Diplomatic relations between Israel and the EU have come under heavy strain since the Gaza conflict erupted in October 2023, as well as over violence by Israeli settlers towards Palestinians in the occupied West Bank. On Thursday, Gideon Saar accused EU foreign policy chief Kallas of "acting obsessively and with blatant unfairness" towards Israel. "Recently, it was published that during her visit to Mexico, she compared Israel to the racist apartheid regime that existed in South Africa," Saar wrote on X.   Ms. @kajakallas, the EU High Rep. for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, has for some time now been acting obsessively and with blatant unfairness toward the State of Israel. Recently, it was publi...
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Switzerland hails US-Iran peace plan, confirms Friday talks

Switzerland on Thursday welcomed the signing of the memorandum of understanding between the US and Iran, noting that the stakeholders and mediators are set to meet at the resort town of Burgenstock on Friday for initial negotiations. "Switzerland welcomes the signing of the Memorandum of Understanding between the United States and Iran yesterday by both countries at the highest level," the Foreign Ministry said in a statement. "The signing is an important step toward de-escalation in the region." "Currently, the plan remains for the United States and Iran, along with the mediators Pakistan and Qatar and other involved countries, to meet tomorrow at the Burgenstock for initial negotiations on the implementation of the agreement," it added. Read More: Trump says critics of his Iran deal are 'jealous, bad people, or stupid' Iran said early on Thursday that a 14-point MOU with the US aimed at ending the war had been formally finalised after th...
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Netanyahu, Israel's arch-survivor, set to face voter fury over Iran deal

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's hopes of clinging to power in an election this autumn have long been shaky, but the interim US deal with Iran has added yet another complication. US President Donald Trump has opted to end the wars in Iran and Lebanon long before Israel's goals were accomplished, and Netanyahu's boast in March that "we are changing the face of the Middle East" ‌looks increasingly empty. Already facing corruption allegations, domestic political controversies and criticism over security failings in the October 7, 2023 Hamas attack on Israel, he will now face voters' judgement of his handling of the wars and Israel's relationship with the United States, its most important ally. Netanyahu, 76, confirmed this week he intends to stand again in an election that must be called by October. Opinion polls put his right-wing coalition on course to lose but, in a parliamentary system he has dominated for long stretches since ​the...
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US-Iran deal can be 'game changer', says Canadian PM

Canada's Prime Minister Mark Carney on Wednesday said a US-Iran deal to end the Middle East war could be a "game changer" in the region and beyond. There is "a likelihood that this memorandum of understanding agreement could be a game changer", Carney told reporters on the third day of a G7 leaders' meeting in the French town of Evian. He pointed to encouraging discussions, which included US President Donald Trump, on Ukraine and Lebanon at the summit. The Canadian premier said he noted a US "change in tone with respect to Ukraine" as Kyiv seeks to end more than four years of conflict following Russia's invasion. This included "a more realistic -- in our view -- expectation of where this war was going to go, and the position against Russia, the tightening of sanctions against Russia, the ability to provide additional defensive support for Ukraine". The leaders of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Britain and the United ...
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Vast areas of coral reef could resist climate change: study

In the crystalline waters off Kenya's coast, coral reefs are thriving, evidence of a rare good news story in the battle to protect oceans from the ravages of climate change. A new study presented at the Our Ocean Conference in Mombasa on Tuesday finds that 166,000 square kilometres of the world's coral reefs, around a third of the total, are particularly "climate-resilient", meaning they have the potential to survive through major ocean warming events. The study by the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) and Macquarie University in Australia challenges the findings of the IPCC, the global authority on climate change, which has stated 70 to 90 per cent of coral reefs could die with global warming of 1.5 degrees above pre-industrial levels, and 99 per cent at 2°C. "Our models are showing a much more hopeful future for coral reefs. We predict that many climate-resilient reefs around the world will persist over time," Stacy Jupiter, executive director...
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Iran head coach says team was ordered to leave US just after World Cup opener

Iranian National Football Team manager Amir Ghalenoei called his squad the "most repressed team in the whole World Cup," saying they were ordered to leave Los Angeles for their training base in Mexico, shortly after their Monday night opening match against New Zealand. Ghalenoei said the team had expected to remain in the California metropolis overnight and carry out a recovery session the next day, but were instead told immediately after the final whistle that they must return. "We spent so much time in the air commuting, they didn't even give us time to recover," he said through an interpreter, according to US sports outlet ESPN. "After the game today, they said to us: 'You have to leave immediately.'" Read: Iran team arrive in US for World Cup opener as the two nations reach peace deal Ghalenoei did not say who had instructed the team to leave Monday night, although Iran captain Mehdi Taremi said FIFA President Gianni Infantino had ...
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