Donald Trump has announced that he will lift the US blockade of Iranian shipping in the Strait of Hormuz. It is understood to be the first step towards an eventual deal to end the war.
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.
Israel has been added to a UN blacklist of countries that commit sexual violence in warzones for the first time. A report by the office of Secretary General António Guterres said the UN had last year verified 31 cases of sexual violence perpetrated by Israeli forces against Palestinians from Gaza and the West Bank.
Exclusive: Some fear raising rate for people aged 18-20 will exacerbate unemployment while others point to lack of evidenceRising rates of youth unemployment have created a split at the top of government over how fast it should meet its promise to give young people the full minimum wage.Peter Kyle, the business secretary, is understood to believe now is not the time to give 18- to 20-year-olds the full minimum wage, which Labour promised to do in its manifesto.
Bass is going up against Hills star Spencer Pratt and councilwoman Nithya Raman, with Pratt gaining traction amongst disaffected Angelenos with his rogue campaign.
As Donald Trump looks for peace with Iran, Benjamin Netanyahu’s government escalates elsewhere – and Europe stands by“He’ll do whatever I want him to do,” said Donald Trump, with Benjamin Netanyahu over their illegal war on Iran. The US president said on Friday that he was making his final determination on – with Tehran. As chief ally, funder and arms supplier for Israel, the US can rein in its prime minister. But with his hands tied on Iran, Mr Netanyahu seems bent on rekindling war elsewhere. Israel’s brutal escalation in Lebanon may be an attempt to gain ground while it can, or perhaps to destabilise the Iran peace initiative. The prospects for Gaza are grimmer.As Mr Trump talks up a new peace deal in the Middle East, Mr Netanyahu is trashing Mr Trump’s last effort. Israel this week killed another Hamas military chief, but this war has failed in its stated aim of destroying the group, while visiting untold horror on civilians. Israeli forces have expanded far beyond the half of territory they agreed to hold, attack Palestinians in an undefined zone around their positions and carry out airstrikes deeper into Gaza. Yet Nickolay Mladenov, the top diplomat for the Trump-appointed Board of Peace, for the stalling of the purported ceasefire. Now Mr Netanyahu says he has ordered the military to . That would force more than 2 million Palestinians into less than a third of what was already overcrowded territory.
On the morning of May 19, Alba Rodriguez Espinosa, the 31-year-old daughter of Spain’s former Socialist prime minister, Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, opened the door of her office to a team of financial police. Everything went smoothly.
A Kenyan high court has temporarily blocked a plan for an American Ebola quarantine centre, hours before the facility had been due to open. The plan to set up an isolation centre so that United States nationals returning from Congo could quarantine in Kenya rather than in America was opposed by health groups who feared it could import the deadly virus.
It was in October last year, when two men were killed in a terrorist attack at a synagogue in Manchester, that Elaine (who has asked for her name to be changed) realised the awful truth about West Yorkshire Police. Even after the attempted mass murder of Jews, officers in Bradford prioritised the feelings of Muslims and censored any criticism of Islam.
Republic of Ireland’s match against Qatar on Thursday was disrupted when fans threw tennis balls onto the pitch
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A simple blood test that measures the hallmark proteins associated with Alzheimer’s could detect the disease decades before symptoms appear, a study suggests. The findings showed that Alzheimer’s may be present in midlife and already linked to cognitive differences, researchers said.
The campaign of repression against the Uyghurs has entered a new phase
For nearly a week, relatives of migrants at Delaney Hall have said that some detainees have been on a hunger strike at the New Jersey facility.
There are up to 9,000 locations which could be used to sneak people and goods into the country, according to Home Office intelligence estimates.
All Americans benefit from the outcome of this case. And yet the decision highlights just how much work still needs to be done.
The woman told Newry Crown Court she had thought the letter was an attempt by the former MP, 63, "to apologise for perhaps the abuse which had occurred".
The ruling also orders the arts institution to halt plans to close for two years starting in July.
A shadowy new partnership appears to have formed between two of the most powerful figures in Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). Yet in the West it has been almost entirely overlooked.
Making sense of the very large Wonder Valley project in Alberta and the even bigger Stratos plan in Utah The post first appeared on .
The Iran-US ceasefire seemed imperilled, if not over, on Wednesday, with US strikes in Iran followed by Iran shooting at ships in the Strait of Hormuz and a US base in Kuwait. However, talks between the two sides seem to be edging towards a deal, judging by Donald Trump’s latest remarks.
Alexandra Drew approached a shuttered pad thai shop along Liverpool’s Berry Street last July. The paint-chipped door beside the restaurant swung open, and a woman in scrubs ushered her inside and to the flat upstairs.
Deep in the Russian republic of Tatarstan, far from the front line and away from scrutiny, a factory complex has quietly become the engine of the most intensive drone war in history. The Alabuga Special Economic Zone has grown to the size of a small city, with dozens of new buildings, housing for tens of thousands of workers, and production lines running 24 hours a day.
Trump made the threat as he declared that ‘nobody’s going to control’ the Strait of Hormuz after the war
The expansion in control by Israel would contradict the terms of the ceasefire Israel and Hamas agreed to in October 2025.
The GOP-friendly map approved by state lawmakers now goes to Republican governor who is expected to sign itLouisiana Republicans approved a new congressional map on Friday which would eliminate a majority-Black congressional district that was at the center of a gutting section 2 of the Voting Rights Act.The new map reconfigures the state’s sixth congressional district, now represented by Cleo Fields, a Black Democrat. Lawmakers drew the district in 2024 after a court found the map lawmakers enacted after the 2020 census diluted the influence of Black voters and violated section 2 of the Voting Rights Act. The new map will probably give Republicans control of five of Louisiana’s six congressional seats (the previous map had a 4-2 Republican-Democrat split). The bill now goes to Louisiana’s Republican governor, Jeff Landry, who is expected to sign it.
Organisation cites abuse by security forces, including rape of male detaineesThe UN has added Israel and Russia to a blacklist for sexual violence in conflict, citing abuse by security forces including rape of male detainees. .The UN verified sexual abuse of 31 Palestinian men, women and children from the Gaza Strip and the occupied West Bank between 2023 and 2025. Israeli attacks included repeated gang-rapes and the use of sexual violence as a form of torture, the report said.
The footage appears to show the serviceman hanging upside down in a forest while a commander repeatedly slaps him across the face.
A new generation of American Jews romanticizes the Bund—the socialist movement that promised Jews they could survive in exile without Zionism. Current events prove their convictions are a myth.
Benjamin Netanyahu has ordered Israeli forces to seize 70 per cent of Gaza, defying the terms of the US-brokered ceasefire that has governed the conflict since October. Israel already controls an estimated 64 per cent of the territory – itself a violation of the ceasefire agreement, which set a border known as the Yellow Line, giving Israel control of roughly 53 per cent.
A digital register of land ownership in the West Bank is seen as an escalation of Israel's occupation.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has directed the Israeli military to expand its control of the Gaza Strip to 70 percent of the territory, according to remarks aired by Israeli media. Speaking in footage broadcast by Israeli Channel 12 on Thursday, Netanyahu said Israeli forces currently control about 60 percent of Gaza and have been […]
Exclusive: Three years on from the devastating attacks in Nottingham by Valdo Calocane, a public inquiry is examining the failings that may have prevented that fateful day. The triple killer’s mother and brother tell Rebecca Thomas how they are urging politicians to look at the ‘systemic failings’ in mental health care – warning that the ‘decimation’ of funding for services is destroying lives
Three teenage boys have been spared jail and “fined” just £26 despite raping girls as young as 14 in three separate cases, it has emerged. The three – all involved in cases in the North East in the past year – were given youth rehabilitation orders, the same punishment as that handed out to the three rapists in the Fordingbridge case whose sentences have now been referred to the Court of Appeal as “unduly lenient”.
Being added to the list does not automatically carry specific punitive measures such as sanctions, although public naming and shaming can cause significant reputational damage for the states involved
Jewish residents say they feel increasingly targeted by antisemitic or anti-Israel violence. For some, Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s efforts to distance the city from Israel is adding to the unease.
Three Swiss lawyers placed under formal investigation over disappearance of Nicolas Puech’s shares in the luxury group
Refugee charities say the numbers revealed in Freedom of Information data are ‘shocking’Lone children were held at UK-run detention centres in France on nearly 300 occasions last year, according to documents released under the Freedom of Information Act.Data obtained by the Guardian shows they are part of about 900 instances when unaccompanied minors have been detained at British short-term facilities near Calais and Dunkirk over the last four years.
Download our app President Donald Trump says he is headed to the Situation Room to make a final determination on a deal to end the war with Iran. Trump laid out his red lines in a new Truth Social post, writing, “Iran must agree that they will never have a Nuclear Weapon or Bomb.
Bernard-Henri Lévy reflects on Jean-Claude Grumberg’s haunting play about antisemitism, memory, and political hysteria—and why its warnings now feel aimed squarely at the United States.
The Lawrence Bishnoi gang was designated a terrorist entity by Canada in 2025
Wendy Hernandez Reyes denies she “abandoned” her son, as ICE claimed. In an extraordinary act, she was allowed to return to the U.S. for his burial.
The babies were part of a vaccine trial for a respiratory virus in the 1960s and died shortly after. Their families said they had been unaware of the trial until recently.
Controversy has broken out in Germany over the trial of five pro-Palestinian activists, who are charged with belonging to a criminal organisation and destroying about €1m (£870,000) worth of property at the site of an Israel-based defence firm in Germany's Ulm. The case of the so-called Ulm 5 has sparked a debate in Germany - a long-standing supporter of Israel - about how to deal with pro-Palestinian protesters, and could set a precedent for the future.
Protests continue outside Delaney Hall as hunger strike over conditions inside enters a second week
Ethics experts say Trump’s recent investments in and public praise for the tech company create the appearance of a conflict of interest.
Staying ahead of China requires pioneering technology — and stopping Chinese AI from conquering the world.
Child trafficking and baby-selling gangs are on the prowl in Andhra Pradesh, taking advantage of destitute families, who are willing to sell their babies due to poverty. Rajulapudi Srinivas reports about child trafficking gangs having widespread network in States like Gujarat, Maharashtra, Delhi, and Telangana
European Union says sanctioned individuals and groups have violated the rights of Palestinians.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israeli ground forces had crossed Lebanon’s Litani River, as military officials from the two countries were set to meet for U.S.-brokered talks.