Two men were charged on Monday with “terrorist” offences for throwing a nail bomb near a weekend protest, after which the pair told police they were aligned with the militant Islamic State (IS) group, charging documents showed.
Iran’s new supreme leader has been shaped by decades-long ties with the powerful and hardline Revolutionary Guards
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London Museum Docklands used a multicoloured cloth to conceal the 19th century painting of Beeston Long which represented Caribbean countries.
Shamali, who worked for Qatar Radio, killed in an Israeli air strike on central Gaza's Nuseirat refugee camp.
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Varvara Voronchikhina wins women’s super-G standingRussian anthem has not been heard at Games since 2014The Russian national anthem has been played at the Paralympics for the first time since 2014 as the skier Varvara Voronchikhina claimed gold in the women’s super-G standing.A tearful Voronchikhina received her medal on Monday afternoon, and the Russian flag was raised, after a dominant performance on the slopes of the Tofane Alpine Skiing Centre. A watching crowd of international fans responded only with polite applause, but Voronchikhina’s success has already been celebrated by Russia’s sports minister.
Download our app Mojtaba Khamenei has been appointed as Iran's new Supreme Leader, following the assassination of his father, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, by an Israeli airstrike. Hours after his appointment, Mojtaba Khamenei signed a message on a missile aimed at Israel, which was then posted on state media.
The veteran GOP senator appears to suggest that the war on Iran was launched to gain control over its oil supplies.
Appeasing the White House at all costs indulges little but a sentimental notion of a US-Australia relationship that no longer existsAs the on Iran spreads its treacherous dangers virus-like across the globe, Australia, despite its limp rhetoric of non-involvement, risks increasing ensnarement in a hyper-macho Trump folly with no apparent endgame.Call it US-Australia Alliance management. Call it an obsequious maintenance at all costs of the reckless submarine security pact. Or call it what it more closely resembles – appeasement of a belligerent US administration hell-bent on reiterating its global domination at any cost. Regardless, Australia’s passive refusal to challenge the US and Israel on everything from the illegality of the murderous bombing of Iran to the war’s opaque objectives, draws us closer to the danger daily.
By supporting US strikes on Iran, Australia could become a target, experts warn.
The son of slain Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei will be charged with leading Iran through biggest crisis in its history.
The child, named Joseph, is severely disabled and is currently unable to access the specialized healthcare and education he needs
Instead of securing an early ceasefire, Iran has prolonged the conflict by attacking its Gulf neighbours
Mercedes’ flying start lives up to promise, but new regulations receive scathing reviewsThe pre-season favourites had done their level best to play down their expected advantage in the buildup to the Australian Grand Prix, but it was impossible to hide. A dominant one-two by the best part of a second for was followed by a similarly assured .
Iran’s national soccer team finishes Women's Asian Cup group stage and now faces return to a country embroiled in war
• Najafabad ‘double-tap’ airstrike kills 19 civilians seeking municipal services, emergency workers• Bombing of Qeshm Island desalination plant cuts off fresh water to 30 villages
Mojtaba Khamenei’s supporters take to streets of Tehran on the same day Iran attacks targets in Israel and Gulf statesUS and Israeli warplanes launched new waves of strikes on targets across Iran on Monday, as large crowds took to the streets in Tehran in a defiant show of support for .The conflict, now in its second week, continued to escalate, with fresh Iranian missile and drone attacks targeting Israel, US bases across the Middle East and energy infrastructure in the Gulf.
Turkey, Qatar and UAE intercept missiles from Iran; Israeli military announces strikes against infrastructure across Iran and a Hezbollah-linked groupDonald Trump has said a decision on when to end the war with Iran will be a “mutual” one he’ll make together with Benjamin Netanyahu, the .It said Trump also claimed in a brief telephone interview on Sunday that Iran would have destroyed if he and Netanyahu had not been around. The US president said:Iran was going to destroy Israel and everything else around it … We’ve worked together. We’ve destroyed a country that wanted to destroy Israel.I think it’s mutual … a little bit. We’ve been talking. I’ll make a decision at the right time, but everything’s going to be taken into account.
Air defences in the eastern Mediterranean shot down the second weapon to infiltrate in the last week
Deputy Health Minister Ali Jafarian tells Al Jazeera air attacks damage dozens of healthcare facilities.
THE US-Israeli assault on Iran has sparked a regional conflict which has plunged the Middle East into chaos. The widening war has engulfed the entire region and has global consequences. Israel has also launched attacks in Lebanon. Washington’s war of choice has exposed Gulf states to retaliatory attacks by Iran, which have inflicted widespread damage. If President Donald Trump thought military action against Iran would be a quick win leading to regime collapse that hasn’t happened — as if governments can be toppled from the air. His administration certainly did not expect Iran’s fierce response and its painful blows to GCC countries.
• Capital plunges into darkness; residents warned of chemical burns, acrid fumes• Lebanon terrorised as Israeli strike targets Beirut hotel• Israel, Trump vow to pursue, kill any successor to Khamenei• Iran unleashes missiles on Gulf neighbours; Pezeshkian says they were ‘forced to respond’• Arab League condemns ‘reckless’ Iranian attacks as diplomacy falters• Bahrain blames Tehran for attack on water plant
Mojtaba Khamenei, excluded from a list of three senior clerics his father reportedly identified last year, was on Sunday announced as the Ayatollah's successor.
This liveblog is closed. Follow the latest coverage on The Israeli military said it launched a wave of strikes “across Iran” on Sunday, targeting military sites.A military statement said it had “initiated a wave of strikes targeting the Iranian terror regime military infrastructure across Iran”.
Iranian protesters marching through the heart of London chanted 'Trump and Bibi, thank you, thank you' as they danced in celebration at the death of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
Kelly Neumann, 46, posted a tribute to her grandfather, who fought for Germany in World War II, on Veterans Day. But the Daily Mail has since uncovered troubling details.
Israel has hit Iran's fuel infrastructure for the first time in nine days as it launched a fresh wave of devastating strikes.
Current time inTehran9:56 p.m. March 9LiveUpdated March 9, 2026, 2:24 p.m.
Iran has faced continuous bombardments from the US and Israel since the war broke out, with explosions leaving behind a 'river of fire' across its capital Tehran.
Kowtowing to US foreign policy in Iraq and Afghanistan had disastrous consequences. Why are leaders making the same mistake all over again?Here is the sort of analysis you’re being served up by our esteemed commentariat. Keir Starmer’s positioning on the Iran war, we are told, reveals a prime minister with no political compass. True, but talk about burying the lede. The story here is not Starmer’s lack of political acumen. is not a policy question on which reasonable people might disagree, like raising a tax here or spending a bit more money there. This is a grave crime.Yet all the pressure on Starmer seems to arrive from one direction. He “should have backed America from the very beginning”, declares Tony Blair, apparently eager for a successor to emulate his own record of dragging Britain into US-led catastrophes . Donald Trump’s Nigel Farage, Kemi Badenoch and the make much the same complaint.Owen Jones is a Guardian columnist
By bus, taxi and even private jet, worried Brits are still joining the exodus from Dubai and other Middle Eastern hotspots as the relentless Iranian drone and missile strikes show no sign of abating.
Last Week Tonight host examined the devastating impact of the demise of USAID, the primary federal agency for foreign aidOn the latest Last Week Tonight, examined the ’s gutting of , the international aid agency once described as “the world’s single largest humanitarian donor”. Donald Trump, naturally, called it “a scam” where there was “very little being put to good use”.“Set aside the irony of Donald Trump, of Trump University, accusing anything of being a fraud,” said Oliver. “You can’t just call something a scam because you don’t like it. I want to call low-rise jeans a scam. I feel like Peppa Pig is a fraud. I believe that radical lunatics run Jamba Juice. But even I acknowledge that my feelings don’t make any of those thoughts true.”
The IRGC says its forces are ready to 'fully obey and sacrifice for the divine commands' after new supreme leader named.
Exclusive: Rented datacentres and ‘supercomputer’ site that’s still a scaffolding yard raise questions for Starmer’s push to ‘mainline AI into veins of economy’A multibillion-pound drive to “mainline AI into the veins” of the British economy is riddled with “phantom investments” and shaky accounting, a Guardian investigation has found.Since 2024, successive Conservative and Labour governments have proclaimed massive deals to build new datacentres, create thousands of jobs and construct a supercomputer.
The US military has reportedly launched multiple planes which can survive a nuclear war as the crisis in the Middle East escalates.
Expanding regional conflict shifts global attention as Gaza faces border closures, inflation and 'ceasefire' violations.
The 10th day of the war began with a development that may shape the trajectory of the conflict more than any exchange on the battlefield. Early on Monday, Iran’s Assembly of Experts selected Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei as the country’s new supreme leader. The transition that happened without any disruption signalled both institutional continuity and a consolidation of authority at a time when Iran remains under sustained military pressure.
As the war with Iran enters its 10th day, the Strait of Hormuz is drying up the world’s commodities
The appointment of Mojtaba Khamenei has dashed the US president’s hope of picking Iran’s new leader
Experts have warned that if desalination plants stay in the cross-hairs of warring nations, entire cities may have to be evacuated.
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The company’s clash with the Pentagon is a fight over the future of American privacyThe US military wants to use its state-of-the-art AI tools to supercharge surveillance against Americans, making it easier than ever to monitor our movements, our search history, and our private associations. That’s one of the major takeaways from a dramatic dispute between the Department of Defense and some of the leading AI companies in America. What this clash highlights most of all, however, is just how easily AI surveillance systems can be turned against the people in this country, and the urgent need for Congress to intervene.Last week, the Pentagon and Donald Trump announced that the government would , asserting that the safety guardrails proposed by the company – no mass domestic surveillance or fully autonomous weapons – were unacceptable. The Trump administration went even further, claiming that these positions render Anthropic a “”, and prohibited anyone doing business with the US military from conducting commercial activity with Anthropic in their military work.