Ontario Premier Doug Ford called President Trump's criticism of Canada's firefighting and smoke mitigation efforts "absolutely unacceptable" after Trump blamed the cross-border smoke on alleged Canadian forest mismanagement and said on Friday he would add the "incalculable cost" of dealing with the pollution to existing tariffs on Canadian goods. Ford on Saturday suggested the dispute could be resolved if the U.S. removed tariffs on Canadian softwood lumber, saying tariff-free softwood exports w

Israeli Channel 13 reported President Trump told Gulf states involved in mediation that if a ceasefire is not secured this week, parties should prepare for a marked escalation. The warning followed Iran’s Sunday launch of four missiles toward Jordan and other parts of the Gulf and U.S. airstrikes inside Iran the same night. An Israeli senior military officer said that if missiles aimed at Jordan strike the southern Israeli city of Eilat, Israel would have to respond.

The Atomic Energy Organization of Iran said on the 19th the U.S. struck the construction site of the under‑construction Darhovin nuclear power plant at about 03:39 local time, condemning the action as a "terrorist attack" and saying it violated international law.