By the end, the chaos and drama that has followed Iran off the field at this World Cup could not compare to that on it. Twice in the space of an extraordinary 24 hours, the Iranian players thought they had clinched a place in the tournament’s knockout stages for the first time in their history.
Erased Israeli Settlers' Brutal War on Palestinian Communities in the West BankScroll downCredit: Avishay Mohar, B'TselemHagar ShezafShare on FacebookShare on TwitterShare on WhatsAppThese images appear again and again – from the ground, from the air, and on maps: dozens of Palestinian communities wiped off the landscape, while illegal Israeli settler outposts continue to spread across the West Bank.Since October 7, 2023, this phenomenon has intensified significantly. Unlike the war in Gaza, there is no discussion in Israel about ending this parallel campaign of dispossession.
The National Design Studio, staffed by Doge veterans, installed visitor-tracking software on vital federal websitesAn opaque White House office staffed largely by veterans of Elon Musk’s “department of government efficiency” (Doge) has quietly rebuilt some of the federal government’s most sensitive websites – for passport applications, voter registration, prescription-drug pricing and children’s savings – in ways critics say appear to violate federal law.The (NDS) was established by a executive order last August, and is led by and staffed by Doge veterans.
Justices consider Trump's move to fire Fed and FTC officials
On the American right, there is an unbroken lineage of Watergate propaganda going back to the 70s from todayWhen spoke at the Richard M Nixon presidential library last week about his new on his journey from atheism to an allegedly devout Catholicism, he raised eyebrows by . “The idea that it [took] down a presidency is crazy,” he said. He said it was the “deep state that took down ”– not the 37th president’s implication in serious crimes.Commentators were shocked. Did the vice-president not know that the investigation proved Nixon directed a conspiracy to bribe the men who broke into the Democratic party headquarters to lie in court from a secret, illegal slush fund?
Doubled penalties will have little effect if platforms not held to account for the content they carry, observers sayGet our , or The government needs to switch into “enforcement mode” and take on tech giants over its social media ban after doubling fines, experts have warned.The federal government announced on Sunday it would introduce new legislation to for platforms that breach the social media ban, and give the eSafety commissioner, Julie Inman Grant, stronger information-gathering powers.
A raid on an animal rescue centre in California has uncovered a mass dog grave, with dozens shot dead and hundreds missing. Investigators uncovered the remains of 117 dogs, 21 dog skulls and hundreds of bones at Miranda’s Rescue Animal Sanctuary in Fortuna, southern California.
NTV and Daily Monitor say their offices in the capital are under "military siege".
The memorandum of understanding (MOU) signed last week, committed Iran to using its 'best efforts for the safe passage of commercial vessels with no charge for 60 days.'
An official says gunmen have killed at least 15 people in a farming community in northwestern Nigeria
Iran attacked Bahrain and Kuwait after US strikes, and threatened a ‘complete halt’ to talksWe will soon be closing this liveblog, but you’ll be able to stay up-to-date with our ongoing coverage of the Middle East Here is a summary of today’s events:Iran launched drone and missile attacks Sunday targeting and Kuwait in response to US airstrikes that hit the Islamic Republic, and threatened a “complete halt” in negotiations to end the war if Washington continues its attacks.US president Donald Trump accused Iran of violating the ceasefire agreement in a post of social media and said the US may be “forced to militarily complete the job”. Iran also accused the US of violating the ceasefire agreement.JD Vance continued to reiterate the administration’s triumphant line on the war with Iran hours before the latest round of strikes were exchanged. “America wins either way,” he said.Iran’s foreign minister Abbas Araghchi was in Baghdad for a meeting with his Iraqi counterpart. He called for a security framework to be established with the Gulf nations after it struck US bases in Kuwait and Bahrain in retaliation to US strikes.The Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps IRCG has said on state-run SNN TV that it will respond with more force if there are any more blow-for-blow attacks from the US.Countries including Jordan, the UAE and Italy all condemned Iran’s attacks.
Oxford University sparked outrage by accepting millions in donations from a family trust controlled by the late Max Mosley, the son of British fascist leader Sir Oswald Mosley.
The Phoenix Mercury's Alyssa Thomas couldn't play for her team on Saturday as she served her one-game suspension in the wake of the shocking incident.
NHS hospitals will still allow biological men who are transgender to use female-only wards and lavatories despite a Supreme Court ruling against the practice, The Telegraph can disclose. West London NHS Trust has instructed patients that they can use single-sex facilities based on their “legal gender”.
Israel is attacking West Bank agriculture in an attempt to drive Palestinian farmers off their land.
Jack and Sarah Hawkins have described their 'horror' at Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust (NUH).
President Trump and Iran’s Revolutionary Guards exchanged threats and U.S. allies in the Gulf said they had intercepted Iranian drones, as hostilities entered a fourth day.
Truce under pressure as Tehran counters US attacks by targeting military installations in Bahrain and Kuwait
Lebanon's President hopes U.S. will press Israel to withdraw from southern areas
Current time inTehran6:20 p.m. June 28LiveUpdated June 28, 2026, 10:27 a.m.
Putin's vast war chest was built off of the back of robbing the richest men in Russia, Sixsmith reveals the story of the men who took on the tyrant
Scotland Yard has identified more than 4,000 grooming gang cases that may need to be reinvestigated, The Telegraph can reveal. The Metropolitan Police has been carrying out a major audit of group-based sexual abuse in London dating back to 2010, amid concern victims have been denied justice.
In a sweltering Westminster basement at the peak of last week’s heatwave, Hugh Grant, looking relaxed in shorts and loafers, was in an optimistic mood. “As we switch leadership of the Labour Party, switch prime ministers, there’s a chance finally to get something done,” the actor and press regulation campaigner told a gathering of like-minded activists.
A fundraising platform designed to help fans support struggling artists and performers is being exploited by far-Right activists, The Telegraph can reveal. The Buy Me A Coffee platform has been used to raise thousands by white supremacists and campaigners who have thrown their support behind Restore Britain.
Zohran Mamdani found the perfect backdrop when he announced the start of his crusade against “the richest of the rich”. New York City’s first socialist Mayor took to the streets of Manhattan in mid-April to announce a new tax on luxury homes.
Undoing HistoryAs the World Watched Gaza, Settlers Charged Ahead in the West Bank. A Clash Is ImminentScroll down18 settlements and 8 army bases cut deep inside Palestinian areas.
Fifa president Gianni Infantino has attended 24 matches in just over two weeks all across North America at this summer's World Cup, clocking up thousands of air miles. The tournament is spread over three countries - the US, Canada and Mexico - with 16 host cities, and there are more matches than ever as the group stage has been expanded.
Iran and the US trade attacks over navigation through the Strait of Hormuz, which has emerged as a major sticking point.
When Jamie Varley and John McGowan-Fazakerley splashed out on a five bedroom home, affluent new neighbours initially welcomed them with open arms.
Very few North Koreans know about her, as her origin could threaten the regime’s legitimacy.
Hezbollah has condemned a US-brokered agreement to end the war in Lebanon, declaring the deal “null and void”. The Trump administration finalised an agreement on Friday stipulating that Israel would withdraw from some parts of southern Lebanon, alongside there being a process to disarm Hezbollah, the Iran-backed terror group.
The strike comes a day after Israel and the Lebanese government signed a US-brokered framework agreement.
Markets in Iran react poorly after two nights of military confrontations over transit through the critical strait.
The Israelis taken hostage by Hamas gunmen from the Nova music festival massacre on October 7, 2023, have revealed the scale of the horror they endured at the hands of their captors.
US strikes come after ships struck by drones in Strait of Hormuz
John Swinney 's government could face a massive legal bill after it scrapped a £2 billion hospital plan just half an hour before parliament closed for the summer.
Breakaway faction of Pakistani Taliban claims responsibility for attack in Karachi
First, Russia sent in the tanks. Then came the shelling.
Tehran attacks Bahrain and Kuwait amid efforts to open strait of Hormuz without Iran’s direct oversightA new round of escalating strikes between Iran and the US has continued, further undermining the fragile interim peace agreement between the two countries, and prompting Donald Trump to threaten violence that would ensure Iran “will no longer exist”.On Sunday, Tehran launched drone and missile attacks against Bahrain and Kuwait on sites in southern Iran and threatened a “complete halt” to negotiations to end the war. Trump said that a moment might come soon when he abandoned talks and the US would “militarily finish the job”.
The main pillars of the founding narrative have fallen on hard times. Today, its meaning is up for grabsWriting during the carnage of the first world war, the iconoclast intellectual Randolph Bourne described the American revolutionary inheritance as a squalid marriage between the town capitalist and plantation patriarch. Glittering generalities of freedom and democracy, Bourne observed, were indelibly marked by their long captivity to the money counters and owners of human chattel.In the land lorded over by the likes of , leader of one of the most indecently corrupt, violently inept administrations in the country’s history, the 250th anniversary of the American Declaration of Independence would seem to affirm this judgment. Our moment, defined by the mobilization of market frenzy, machineries of war, deportation deliriums and nativist passions, echoes Bourne’s; it is a time of social fracture, moral failure and hegemonic collapse, with cynical reason ascendant.
The battle for el-Obeid exposes the foreign arms and polarised narratives stalling peace in Sudan’s grinding war.
US-Iran deal under strain as Kuwait and Bahrain condemn Iranian attacks in response to US strikes.
She and her family were among the 6,417 Yazidi women and children abducted by ISIS and forced into sexual slavery or labour.
An interim deal between the U.S. and Iran to end the war called for the Strait, which once saw a fifth of the world's oil and natural gas pass through it, to see transits resume
Andy Burnham made his intentions on housing abundantly clear in the run-up to becoming mayor of Greater Manchester in 2017. No longer would a local taxpayer housing fund support “large companies which should have used their own finance”, nor would it prioritise “city centre and luxury schemes”.
While laws in Canada currently do not allow euthanasia for anyone under 18, a 2023 parliamentary committee recommended amending the code to include 'mature minors.'
The war the U.S. and Israel launched has come to a fragile pause with a preliminary agreement between Washington and Tehran, but it has already diminished America’s presence in the region, prompting Gulf countries to seek a new modus vivendi with Tehran, while Israel, isolated and angry, is clinging on to its Lebanon card
Ryan Pepper has been assaulted, threatened and psychologically abused in a UAE detention facility after being seized at Dubai Airport on November 3, 2025, according to his family.
Iran says it has launched retaliatory attacks at US infrastructure in Kuwait and Bahrain after the US said it hit multiple targets across Iran.
Wildfire activity intensified across the western United States over the weekend, with strong winds and dry conditions fueling flames and forcing evacuations in many spots