Editorial: Israel’s brutal strikes on Lebanon’s capital Beirut require a strong rebuke from the White House if there is to be any chance of a peace deal in the Middle East
Liberal MP makes first public comments since Australia’s most decorated living soldier, whom he served alongside, was charged with war crimes The Liberal MP, Andrew Hastie, says Ben Roberts-Smith is entitled to the presumption of innocence but “none of us are above the law” in his first public comments since Australia’s most decorated living soldier was charged with war crimes.Hastie served alongside Roberts-Smith in Afghanistan and was among the 21 Special Air Service (SAS) who gave evidence in the defamation case he brought against the Nine newspapers.
The strikes came just hours after a two-week truce between the US and Iran was announced, which the Israeli prime minister insisted did not include Lebanon
Drug dealer who supplied dose that eventually led to Perry's death in 2023 pleaded guilty to five felony drug counts.
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.
Lebanon seeks a temporary ceasefire to allow broader talks with Israel, an official said; he says Lebanon needs U.S. as a mediator and guarantor of any agreement; Iran's President Pezeshkian says Israel's strikes on Lebanon render negotiations 'meaningless'
Stocks rise on hopes for truce after Israeli strikes on country have threatened to derail planned peace talks
Israel killed 107 people, permitted only 8 percent of medical evacuations, and admitted just 20 percent of trucks.
A hard-won pause between the US and Iran is already under strain, threatening to pull the region and the world into a far deeper crisis, chief international correspondent Bel Trew writes
Israel claims attacks on densely populated residential areas that killed more than 200 people were aimed at Hezbollah What was the point of that killed more than 200 people and drew widespread international condemnation?Prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other officials have claimed the largest strike against Hezbollah during the month-long war against Iran was carefully aimed at members of the armed group, but the attacks appeared to be as much a piece of violent spectacle to benefit Netanyahu as militarily useful.
Tehran said that Israel's continued attacks on Lebanon violated the agreement to pause fighting and it would be 'unreasonable' to discuss a permanent peace while they continued.
Beirut residents and officials say civilians were main casualties in operation that bombed 100-plus targets in 10 minutesIt took Israel only 10 minutes to carry out one of the worst mass-killings in Lebanon since the end of the country’s civil war in 1990.Omar Rakha heard the war planes but did not feel the explosions; it was only when he woke up face down on the street, bleeding, that he understood what had happened: the building next to his in the Barbour neighbourhood of central Beirut had been destroyed by two Israeli bombs. He then ran through the flaming wreckage to find his sister, screaming.
Russian children as young as three will start state-backed military-patriotic lessons later this year, the Kremlin has announced. The lessons, which will be known as “kind games”, are an extension of the “conversations about important things”, compulsory weekly lessons rolled out in 2022 for older students on “national unity, patriotism and traditional values”.
Ceasefire dispute escalates as US and Israel exclude Lebanon, raising fears of a broader regional conflict.
Medical coercion is alive and well in the US healthcare system – especially if you’re a Black patient giving birthA harrowing recent tells the stories of two Black women in who were forced to have cesarean sections despite clearly stating they didn’t want them – a reminder that medical coercion is alive and well in the American healthcare system.In the case of Cherise Doyley, the state had filed an emergency petition. The state and hospital wanted to force Doyley to undergo a C-section “in the interest of her unborn child”, ProPublica reported. Doyley, who worked as a birthing doula, had been clear that she didn’t want a C-section unless there was an emergency. At an hours-long online court hearing conducted from her hospital bedside – while she was in labor – a judge ruled she could continue to labor, but if there were an emergency, the hospital could operate whether she wanted it or not. Hours later, she woke up to find herself being wheeled into surgery – doctors said the baby’s heart rate had dropped for seven minutes overnight – and she gave birth via C-section.
The US-Israeli campaign has failed to achieve its goals. Iran has been badly hit, and the Gulf is paying the bill too.
Record attempts by Israeli settlers to smuggle sacrifices into Al-Aqsa Mosque mark unprecedented escalation since 1967.
Current time inTehran10:51 a.m. April 9Beirut/Tel Aviv10:21 a.m.
Even as the status of the Strait of Hormuz remained unclear and U.S. and Iranian officials issued dueling threats to resume attacks if the cease-fire fell apart, both countries had reason to hope it held together.
The Greek philosopher Heraclitus said 2,500 years ago, "You cannot step into the same river twice." He meant that reality is in constant flux: the water flows, and the person entering the river changes as well. Naturally, Heraclitus never encountered Israeli reality.
The Mediterranean nation is reeling after Israel struck more than 100 targets in 10 minutes, heightening fears that the tenuous cease-fire with Iran could unravel.
Iran's Parliamentary Speaker is claiming that the US has breached the ceasefire agreement even as Donald Trump says the truce is in effect.
Lebanese president says ceasefire must be in place before any talks; US president reportedly claims Iran’s leaders ‘talk much differently’ in private meetings The UK foreign minister, Yvette Cooper, has said Lebanon must be included in any ceasefire agreement. In other remarks now being reported by Reuters, Cooper added that shipping through the strait of Hormuz must be toll-free.Amid ceasefire talks, to safely pass through the strait. Donald Trump on Wednesday suggested the US and Iran could collect tolls in a joint venture, while the White House said the priority was reopening the strait without limitations.And my principles and values made sure that our decisions were that we wouldn’t get involved in the action without a lawful basis, without a viable, thought-through plan.”
Mahboubeh Shabani, a 33-year-old resident of Mashhad, was arrested on the evening of February 2 by agents of the Mashhad Intelligence De ...
The world was relieved on Wednesday when Pakistan mounted an overnight diplomatic push to secure a temporary ceasefire and bring Washington and Tehran into direct negotiations. Things, however, were different for Lebanon.
Lebanon bears the brunt and US-Iran truce at risk as Israel claims killing of a close aide to Hezbollah's leader.
President Donald Trump threatened to strike Iran 'bigger, and better and stronger' if peace talks were to fall through.
Israel welcomed a ceasefire between Iran and the US – but it said the agreement ‘does not include Lebanon’, a statement confirmed by the White House
The Committee to Protect Journalists urged journalist killings to be investigated as potential war crimes, as an Al Jazeera correspondent was killed in a targeted strike in Gaza City, and two Lebanese journalists were killed in a wave of Israeli strikes across the country
'All hell' descended on the sleepy home county village of Alford last Thursday, when travellers transformed a rural field into a 17 plot 'gated community'.
Download our app More than a dozen immigration judges reported to The New York Times feeling pressured by the Trump administration to increase deportations and faced threats of disciplinary action or job loss if they didn’t comply. Over 100 immigration judges were fired or forced out during the Trump administration and subsequently replaced by Department of Homeland Security prosecutors and military lawyers.
Taiwan’s control of leading-edge silicon chips lies on a geostrategic faultline
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But China is paying little attention
This is Antelope Reef, China’s new military outpost in the South China Sea In December 2025, satellite images showed a submerged coral reef, with only a small Chinese outpost visible on the south-eastern side. By February 2026, China had transformed the obscure reef into a strategic military hub covering almost the whole island.
Jerusalem sees major gaps ahead of U.S.–Iran talks in Islamabad but believes Tehran wants to end the war, as Israel signals it will continue strikes on Hezbollah in Lebanon
The UN General Assembly’s landmark resolution is likely to be stymied by a world divided on how to right past wrongs. The post appeared first on .
The court is the first since at least the ’50s to reject claims in a majority of cases involving women and minorities, an analysis conducted for The Post shows.
Iran’s military may have been mangled in the US-Israeli war but the reputation of the United States has been mauled, perhaps irreparably, writes world affairs editor Sam Kiley
Dubai-based Orico described by French court as ‘subsidiary’ of a group that is majority owned by foundation with close ties to Islamic regime
Tehran aims now not only to remove Trump's threat that the Iranian 'civilization will die' and to settle passage in the strait, but also to draw out a new map of regional control in a security agreement under which it preserves the status of a regional power
Locals have reported a surge in so-called 'mushroom homes,' compact, multi-level vacation properties that often sit empty for much of the year.
Donald Trump's peace deal with Iran was hanging by a thread on Wednesday night as Tehran halted tanker traffic in the Strait of Hormuz.
Megyn Kelly hit out at President Donald Trump for agreeing to a two-week ceasefire deal with Iranian officials on her show Wednesday.
Donald Trump has furiously attacked America's NATO allies for 'turning their backs' on the US and denied that the Strait of Hormuz is closed.
Even as America and Iran pause, the war reveals how exposed the Gulf has become
The question of Benjamin Netanyahu's influence on Donald Trump's decision to confront Iran has become a focus of debate in the United States and will no doubt occupy historians in the years ahead. The prime minister has long envisioned neutralizing the Iranian threat with American support and it is reasonable to assume that he sought to steer the U.S.
Celebration and scepticism coexist in Tehran as ceasefire offers reprieve despite doubts about its durability.
Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Thursday he had ordered his ministers to begin direct talks with Lebanon, pushing for Hezbollah’s disarmament amid mounting concern that its ongoing strikes could cause the fragile US-Iran truce to unravel.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced that his country was ready for direct negotiations amid international calls for Israel to stop its strikes in Lebanon.