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Colin Gray faces up to 180 years in jail as his son, Colt, 16, awaits trial for Apalachee killings
Jorge Pederson, 30, had been on life support after weekend attack which left more than a dozen others woundedA Minnesota-based mixed martial arts (MMA) fighter has been named as the third victim to die in the recent at an Austin bar being investigated as a potential act of terrorism in retaliation for US airstrikes in Iran.The death of 30-year-old Jorge Pederson was announced by the Austin police department on Monday evening. Police NBC News that Pederson had been on life support after the attack, which left more than a dozen others wounded and ended with officers fatally shooting the gunman. contributed reporting
France is moving to tie its nuclear deterrent strategy more closely with European allies while keeping full control over any strike decision
Its attack on Israel in support of Iran has led to fresh mass displacements and Israeli bombing, to the fury of many Lebanese.
On the fourth day of the Iran war, military analyst Michael Clarke has answered your questions on the conflict. How does this end? How much danger is there for the region and beyond? Watch back for his insights below.
The latest advisory includes Egypt, Israel, Saudi Arabia and Qatar, according to a State Department official.
Al Jazeera investigation raises questions over deadliest single attack of war that killed 165 schoolgirls and staff.
Asylum-seekers preparing to cross Channel say Home Secretary’s asylum reforms will not deter them
The Military Religious Freedom Foundation, a non-profit civil rights watchdog, said it has received 110 complaints from troops since the war broke out on Saturday.
LIVE UPDATES: Follow the latest on the Iran war as fighting enters its fourth day. Donald Trump has warned the 'big wave' of airstrikes are yet to come as Israel and Iran continue to trade blows.
Wigdor LLP accuses billionaire of trying to ‘destroy those who seek to hold him to account for alleged sexual assault’A law firm that represented multiple women who accused former associate Leon Black of sexual misconduct alleged in a Manhattan civil suit on Monday that the powerful financier deployed “multiple frivolous and malicious lawsuits” as retaliation for representing these accusers.Wigdor LLP Black, who co-founded and formerly chaired Apollo Global Management, tried “to use his billions to buy his own form of justice” and “to weaponize the civil justice system to silence and destroy those who seek to hold him to account for alleged sexual assault”. Black has emphatically denied all wrongdoing.
Aidan Romain was just 14 when he joined the team at Harvard-Westlake School in Los Angeles in August 2022, and the abuse began at his first practice.
Trump appeared to dismiss Reza Pahlavi as an option and sketched a vision of Iran's government similar to Venezuela's.
The questions that aren’t making it into the battlefield dispatches The post first appeared on .
The rationale keeps changing – from Iran planning a preemptive strike to lobbying by IsraelIt took months for the Bush administration’s falsehoods about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq to come to light, after an invasion, regime change, an investigation, and then, finally, the truth. For the Trump administration’s warnings of an imminent threat from Iran, it took an afternoon.On Capitol Hill on Monday, that Iran was planning a preemptive strike by adding a key piece of information: Israel was planning to strike first.
Washington’s position suggests it may be paving the way for local opposition to advance
Strikes on Iranian leadership are putting Tehran under unprecedented military and diplomatic pressure Iran endured a day of unprecedented military and diplomatic pressure on Tuesday as US airstrikes pushed the death toll in the country above 800 and the offices of Assembly of Experts, the body due to select a replacement for the assassinated supreme leader Ali Khamenei, were bombed.It would be an extraordinary security lapse if it emerges that many of the 88 elderly clerics on the assembly had been in the building in Qom voting at the time. “There was another hit today on the new leadership, and it looks like that was pretty substantial,” Trump said at a White House event, although it was unclear what specifically he was talking about.
Highways choke with those fleeing as others shelter with nowhere left to run
Analysts say the joint US-Israeli strikes against Iran appear to breach the UN Charter's prohibition on aggression.
The killing of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei in joint U.S.-Israeli strikes has sparked anger across Shiite communities worldwide and is raising fears of wider unrest
China calls it unacceptable to ‘kill leader of sovereign state’, while South Africa questions ‘pre-emptive’ justificationThe US-Israeli war on Iran has been condemned as illegal across much of the global south, with China saying it was unacceptable to “blatantly kill the leader of a sovereign state”.Many countries objected that negotiations between the US and Iran over its nuclear programme and missile capability were not given a chance to succeed before Washington and Israel began bombing, and analysts often saw the war in terms of a colonial-style exercise of might.
Trump makes adversaries and reluctant partners central to his politics, pairing direct threats with transactional deals.
The president needs a quick win to avoid a quagmire – but he needs a long war to justify potential emergency powersDonald Trump has trapped himself in his war with Iran by announcing that his . That uncertain objective is linked to his most urgent objective at home. While pursuing regime change in Iran, he is desperately attempting to stop regime change through the midterm elections. He needs a swift victory in Iran to avoid a quagmire, but he needs a long war to attempt the assertion of unconstitutional emergency authority over the electoral process.Plunging into war followed Trump’s signature style: he negotiated in bad faith, turned to bombing when the sides were making “significant progress”, to Oman’s foreign minister, was heedless of international law, and shut out congressional consultation. He as his imperative Iranian “imminent threats”, which the Pentagon congressional staffers after Operation Epic Fury began was simply without basis in fact. There was no intelligence suggesting an “imminent threat”. Where’s the WMD?
Crossings have been shut since Saturday as the displaced population of Gaza remains dependent on humanitarian aid.
Exclusive: Jury was never told about inquiry into key prosecution witness Peter Hindmarsh, which looked into allegations including of harm to patientsA doctor who gave crucial expert evidence about insulin poisoning for the prosecution of the nurse Lucy Letby was under investigation by the medical regulator at the time due to serious concerns about his fitness to practise.The General Medical Council (GMC) opened an investigation into concerns about Prof Peter Hindmarsh, including that he had harmed patients, on the first day he gave evidence at Letby’s trial in late 2022.
SOME time ago, it was quite a bit of fun to trash Francis Fukuyama. Fukuyama, we all know, had declared the end of history: the Berlin Wall had fallen, Germany’s once-genocidal halves had united, and the West had grown dizzy with success. Perhaps, he wrote, “centuries of boredom at the end of history will serve to get history started once again”.
Foreign Affairs Assistant Minister Matt Thistlethwaite shared the message on Tuesday.
The president also said he was offering government-backed risk insurance for ships passing through the Gulf region
Mojtaba, 56, Ali Khamenei's second oldest son, has strong links to the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), and was reportedly chosen by Iran's Assembly of Experts.
Israeli military says the compound is aimed at developing ‘necessarily capabilities’ for nuclear weapons without providing evidenceUS secretary of state has claimed the US attacked Iran after learning that Israel was going to strike, which would have meant retaliation against US forces.“We knew that if we didn’t pre-emptively go after them before they launched those attacks, we would suffer higher casualties,” he told reportersThe Air Force is now attacking Tehran and Beirut simultaneouslyThe Air Force has now begun a wave of extensive strikes against the Iranian terror regime and the Hezbollah terror organization.
Religious freedom group says 200 troops sent complaints of superiors using extremist Christian rhetoric to justify war commanders have been invoking extremist Christian rhetoric about biblical “end times” to justify involvement in the Iran war to troops, according to complaints made to a watchdog group.The Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF) says it has received from service members across all branches of the armed forces, including the marines, air force, and space force.
Thom Tillis compared Kristi Noem’s tenure to the time she killed a 14-month-old dog and chalked it up to a leadership lesson. Alex Woodward provides a recap about her testimony before Congress in the wake of President Donald Trump’s deportation push
Donald Trump strongly denied that Israel pushed the US into war with Iran, saying that he actually 'may have forced' their hand, following fury from his MAGA base.
US president claims ‘they want to talk. I said: Too Late!’, while Rubio threatens the ‘hardest hits are yet to come’Israel and the US intensified their attacks on Iran on Tuesday, launching waves of strikes targeting command and control facilities, strategic state offices and missile launch sites, as Donald Trump said he had rejected what he claimed was an attempt by Tehran to restart negotiations.Iran retaliated with hundreds of missile and drone attacks against Israel and across the Gulf region, targeting US military bases, embassies and civilian infrastructure.
The war spread further on Monday, with Israel exchanging fire with Hezbollah militants in Lebanon, US jets being downed in Kuwait and Qatar taking out Iranian fighter planes.
Seven injured in Israel after Iranian missiles hit central Israel, says Israeli military; Indian Embassy in Tehran issues fresh advisory; Israeli military "unlikely" to deploy ground forces to Iran
'The American-Zionist criminals attacked the Assembly of Experts building in Qom,' south of Tehran, according to the Tasnim news agency.
Iranian drones hit US embassy in Riyadh as Israel bombs Tehran and sends troops into southern LebanonIran continued its bombardment the Gulf and Israel on Tuesday in retaliation for further Israeli-US airstrikes, as Donald Trump said it was too late for dialogue with Tehran.“Their air defense, Air Force, Navy and Leadership is gone. They want to talk. I said ‘Too Late!’,” the US president wrote on his Truth Social platform, rejecting what he claimed was an attempt by Tehran to restart negotiations. He said the US was prepared “to go far longer” than a four to five-week war against Iran.
The CIA shared location intel with Israel that moved the timing of the strikes forward according to US media reports.
Iran has warned that the 'gates of Hell will open more and more' on the US and Israel as it vows to unleash more attacks.
Dressed up in the language of strength, Hegseth’s speech lurched between teenage fantasy and outright gaslighting —while signalling something far more chilling in practice, reports Holly Baxter
Israel gained access to almost all the city's cameras, which are used extensively by Iran to spy on regime opponents and its own population, and tracked the movements of bodyguards.
Trump urged Iranians to rise up and topple Islamic leadership after US launched ‘major combat operations’
Donald Trump vows revenge after attack on American mission in Riyadh
The Israeli army says it is striking Hezbollah targets as its raids cause mass displacement in Lebanon.
US secretary of state Marco Rubio says Saturday’s strikes on Iran were a pre-emptive action; Benjamin Netanyahu says it will not be ‘an endless war’The United States attacked Iran after learning that ally Israel was going to strike, which would have meant retaliation against US forces, secretary of state . “We knew that if we didn’t pre-emptively go after them before they launched those attacks, we would suffer higher casualties,” Rubio told reporters. The justification for the attack differs from justifications given by Donald Trump and defence secretary Pete Hegseth.Rubio also said the “hardest hits” are yet to come from the US military. “The next phase will be even more punishing on Iran than it is right now,” he told reporters.Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the war against Iran may take “some time” but it will not take years. He told Fox News: “I said it could be quick and decisive. It may take some time, but it’s not going to take years. It’s not an endless war.”Trump signalled that US strikes on Iran could go much longer than originally predicted. He initially projected the war to last four to five weeks, but , and has since sought to justify a broad, open-ended conflict. The president laid out what he said were four key objectives for hitting Iran: “First, we’re destroying Iran’s missile capabilities … Second, we’re annihilating their navy... Third, we’re ensuring that the world’s number-one sponsor of terror can never obtain a nuclear weapon. Finally we are ensuring the Iranian regime can’t continue to arm, fund and direct terrorist armies outside of their borders.”The US embassy in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia was hit by a drone strike, causing a fire to break out.The state department has , including Saudi Arabia and the UAE, amid the worsening conflict. Mora Namdar, the state department’s assistant secretary for consular affairs, said US citizens should leave using available commercial transportation “due to safety risks”. The US has not organised its own evacuation flights.There was confusion over the status of navigation in the strait of Hormuz after a general in Iran’s Revolutionary Guards threatened to “burn any ship” seeking to navigate the waterway, a vital route for oil and gas shipments. However, US Central Command said the strait was not closed, according to Fox News.The Israeli military said it began a new wave of strikes on Tehran early on Tuesday. This came shortly after the military issued an evacuation warning for Tehran residents, especially those located near the headquarters of Iran’s state broadcaster IRIB.Israel’s military said in the early hours of Tuesday that it was working to intercept a new wave of missiles launched from Iran, warning residents in multiple locations to seek shelter.The Iranian Red Crescent Society said that at least 555 people had been killed across Iran. However, in its latest update, the Norway-based human rights group Hengaw said the death toll on day three had , including 200 civilians and 1,300 members of the Iranian forces.White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt has said that “49 of the most senior Iranian regime leaders” have been killed in the US-Israeli strikes on Iran, declaring that “killing terrorists is good for America”. That number includes supreme leader Ali Khamenei.The number of has risen to six, the US military said on Monday.The US military said that it has struck over 1,250 targets in Iran since operations started on Saturday.UK prime minister Keir Starmer said that his government does not “believe in regime change from the skies” as he set out to parliament why Britain will not join its closest military partner in offensive action against Iran – suggesting that to do so would be unlawful.
Iran hit the U.S. Embassy in Saudi Arabia’s capital with a drone strike as it kept striking targets around the region, while the United States and Israel pounded Iran with airstrikes in what U.S. President Donald Trump suggested was just the start of a relentless campaign that could last more than a month
After learning that Israel would strike Iran , posing an 'imminent threat' to US soldiers in the region due to retaliatory strikes, the US chose to 'act preemptively,' Secretary of State Marco Rubio said.
A Greens candidate for Western Sydney has blasted those supporting military action in the Middle East in an expletive-ridden statement.