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A search for Iran's president Ibrahim Raise was underway after his helicopter was forced into a hard landing in the country's mountainous northwest.

State media blamed the accident on bad weather.

Mr Raise and Hussein Amir Abdelahain, Iran's foreign minister, were returning from a state visit to Azerbaijan

when their helicopter split from a convoy of three. The other two aircraft landed safely in the city of debris.

Rescue teams appear to have struggled to reach the site of the crash amid heavy fog.

Jake Sullivan, America's National Security Advisor,

traveled to Israel to push once more for a ceasefire agreement.

He is expected to urge Israeli leaders to avoid a full-scale

attack on Gaza Southern city of Ruffer. The Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is also

facing pressure from his most powerful political rival, Benny Gantz, who threatened to pull out of

Missinetanyahahu's war cabinet soon if he did not deliver a post-war plan for Gaza. Ukraine's president, Volodemizelenski, warned that Russia could yet expand its assault

on Harkiv, a northeastern region where it launched a surprise attack on May 10th.

He suggested Russian forces had advanced up to 10 kilometers before being stopped.

He said that Ukraine had only around a quarter of the air defences it needed and asked Western Allies to increase supplies.

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