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Top Stories Iran's foreign minister said the war with America
would not fully come to an end until Israel withdraws its troops from southern Lebanon.
Iran's armed forces warned Israel of a hard response if attacks continued, according to state media.
Earlier Donald Trump said Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel's prime minister, should be more responsible.
Iran and America are due to formalize their peace deal on Friday.
SpaceX became the world's fifth most valuable company, passing Amazon
and briefly Microsoft during its third day of trading since its record initial public offering.
Shares in the rocketry and artificial intelligence firm closed 4.8 percent higher on Tuesday.
Meanwhile, SpaceX agreed to buy any sphere,
which makes Cursor, a popular tool for writing code using AI, for $60 billion.
Vladimir Zelensky, Ukraine's president, met Mr Trump at the G7 summit in France.
The American president later said that Russia should make a deal, noting that both sides had many casualties in the war.