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Tehran warns of regional conflict if US attacks Iran

DUBAI, Feb 1 (Reuters) - Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said that if the U.S. attacked Iran it would become a regional conflict, state media reported on Sunday, amid heightened tensions between Washington and Tehran. The U.S. has built up its naval presence in the

The 13 Best Movies of the 2026 Sundance Film Festival

The Sundance Film Festival’s last edition in Park City offered a bittersweet chance to take stock of how much the independent film world has changed. There are ways that it can now feel diminished, as the streaming world absorbs some of its energy — in ways both positive

A hidden bat virus is infecting humans

Researchers in Bangladesh have identified a bat-borne virus, Pteropine orthoreovirus, in patients who were initially suspected of having Nipah virus but tested negative. All had recently consumed raw date-palm sap, a known pathway for bat-related infections. Genetic analysis