Donald Trump has been given more time for the war in Iran after Republicans in Congress allowed a key deadline to pass unchallenged. The 60-day war powers resolution was expected to be triggered on Friday, forcing the US president to seek congressional authorisation to continue 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.
The Global Sumud Flotilla denounced the interception as "piracy", while Israel's foreign ministry called the flotilla a "PR stunt".
Aung San Suu Kyi’s son says small reductions in jailed leader’s prison term are only designed to placate the international community
Donald Trump has called for the LIV rebels to be allowed to rejoin the PGA Tour after the Saudis announced they will stop funding the breakaway league. LIV will be funded until the end of this season and Trump National Golf Club Washington DC is hosting a $30m event next week, but that did not stop the US President from appealing for the rebels to be permitted to reappear on the US circuit.
Britons have the most mental health problems of any rich country, figures have revealed, as ministers battle a surge in benefit claims linked to conditions like anxiety and depression. Some 28pc of Britons have a mental disorder such as depression, anxiety or addiction, an analysis by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) found.
Police say Alfie Coleman appeared to be a normal teenager but was hiding a dark plan.
Musk said, ‘I was reassured by Sam Altman and others that OpenAI would continue as a nonprofit’
The effect of the Supreme Court’s ruling could be as little as one House seat in Louisiana in 2026, but pressure is building on Tennessee and South Carolina Republicans to act.
Rightwing justices in Louisiana v Callais led 6-3 vote to redraw congressional maps in blow to Voting Rights ActThe US supreme court on Wednesday, Louisiana v Callais, relating to how states under the key civil rights statute, the Voting Rights Act.By a margin of 6-3, the rightwing justices who control America’s top court to redraw congressional maps that gave African Americans the chance to elect their candidates of choice proportionate to their population size. The majority dismissed this as an “unconstitutional racial gerrymander”.
Jamie Varley, 37, denies murdering 13-month-old Preston Davey who he had adopted with his partner.
The expected flood of new congressional maps is likely to produce fewer competitive districts, fewer ways for voters to hold elected officials accountable and more polarized politics.
US prosecutors unsealed an indictment charging Ruben Rocha and nine others over alleged Sinaloa cartel links.
A special grand jury charged Orleans Parish Susan Hutson with 30 counts just days before she leaves office
Gulf nations have lost faith in Britain as a military partner, Sir Nick Hine, the former Sea Lord, has warned. Sir Nick, a retired vice admiral and the chief executive of Babcock Marine, said the withdrawal of the last UK minesweeper from Bahrain weeks before the start of the Iran war had strained relations with allies in the region.
The Trump administration is appealing a judge’s order as it tries to cut the number of vaccines recommended for every child in the United States
The breakaway competition’s future has been in doubt as the Saudi Public Investment Fund reconsiders its commercial strategy.
At world-first Santa Marta climate meeting, delegates say it was ‘euphoric’ to finally be focusing on concrete solutionsAfter a landmark climate meeting in Santa Marta, Colombia, where nearly 60 countries gathered to work out how to end the production and use of planet-heating fossil fuels, what have we learned?
Riots broke out in an Australian outback town on Thursday night as an Aboriginal community demanded a man arrested over the death of a five-year-old girl be forced to endure traditional “payback” rather than be taken into custody. Police used tear gas to disperse the crowd on Friday morning as hundreds of people tried to stop them from evacuating Jefferson Lewis, the man named as the prime suspect in the alleged abduction and murder of a child whose body was found in the Northern Territory desert.
The social media conglomerate Meta is raising the prospect of shutting down social media services in New Mexico in response to a push by state prosecutors for fundamental changes to platforms including Instagram to protect the mental health and safety of children
Amnesty International said about 1,500 people have been detained by the military for three months and that many of those who have died from disease and starvation have been children.
Dubai was the perfect command post for the Kinahan crime family. For 10 years, Christy Kinahan Sr, “The Dapper Don”, and his two sons, Daniel and Christy Jr, ran their £1bn cocaine empire from lavish flats on Palm Jumeirah, a man-made 1,380-acre archipelago built in the shape of a palm tree.
Chinese tech companies place large orders for the Shenzhen-based group’s latest range of AI processors
One of Elon Musk’s abiding fears is that A.I. could one day threaten humans. But the jurors deciding his suit against OpenAI probably won’t hear about it.
As the U.S. blockade and Iranian mines and drones halt shipping in the Strait of Hormuz, U.S. gas prices also reached a level not seen since just after Russia’s Ukraine invasion.
Mortgage approvals surged in March as buyers scrambled to beat an impending rise in interest rates caused by the Iran war. The number of mortgage approvals rose from 62,700 in February to 63,500 in March, well above the six-month average of 63,200, according to the Bank of England.
In less than a week, one sprawling, historic city could be largely under the control of sectarian Muslim politicians.
Pakistan said that it was actively engaged with the U.S. and Iran to end the war in West Asia
Former Minnesota fraud investigator Jay Swanson claimed that he was 'harassed and bullied' by officials after her reported Somali related childcare fraud.
The son of two diplomats has died by suicide amid an investigation into his parents' connections to Jeffrey Epstein.
Iran's Supreme Leader claimed a new chapter for the Gulf and Strait of Hormuz has been taking shape without America.
The elusive artist unveiled new sculpture in central London earlier this week
Last year ex-president Jair Bolsonaro was sentenced to 27 years in jail for plotting a coup after losing an election.
The magical thinking continues. Donald Trump’s blockade of Iranian shipping has zero chance of forcing the military-clerical regime to capitulate before the pain becomes intolerable for the world economy and ultimately for America too.
President Donald Trump said even though the US has ‘already won’, he wants to win by a ‘bigger margin’
Gov. Jeff Landry (R) issued an order pausing next month’s primaries until lawmakers can approve a new map, which could help the GOP gain one or two seats in the state this fall.
At least nine people, including two children, were killed in Israeli strikes in southern Lebanon on Thursday, the health ministry said, as violence continues despite a ceasefire now in its second week. The strikes - which Israel said were targeting Hezbollah infrastructure - also wounded 23 people, among them eight children and seven women, the ministry said.
Jon Rahm and Bryson DeChambeau are two of the the biggest names on the LIV tour As it headed for the LIV exit door, the Saudi Arabian Public Investment Fund claimed that it "forever changed the game of golf". And there can be little argument that PIF's £3.8bn investment over nearly five years turned the pro game upside down.
A rare blue antelope hunted to extinction within 33 years of it being first scientifically recorded is to be brought back from the dead. The bluebuck, which had a prized silvery-slate blue coat and distinctive horns, disappeared from Africa in 1800, and just five preserved specimens remain in museums.
Iran’s supreme leader has said American forces around the Persian Gulf belong at the “bottom of its waters”. Mojtaba Khamenei, who is yet to appear in public since assuming leadership, issued a written statement marking Persian Gulf Day, his first major policy pronouncement on the waterway crisis.
Players are considering only competing in the ‘open’ category, which allows people of any sex or gender to playWhen USA Rugby (USAR) in February to ban trans women from competing, many players and fans were outraged. Within days, 300 people from around the country were on a call to discuss next steps. Dozens of teams posted messages on their social media accounts announcing their intention not to play without their teammates. A was even started to support affected players who wanted to pursue legal action.The trans-exclusionary policy hit especially hard in a sport that’s one of the queerest and most gender-inclusive, where the guiding principle is “every body is a rugby body”, said Cameron Michels, a PhD student whose research focuses on queer and trans players’ experiences in women’s rugby.
But it leaves Gazans in misery
Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei is reported to be severely injured and passing on messages through top security officials
A Russian commander who led troops during the Bucha massacre in 2022 was said to be the blast’s intended targetAn explosion killed an army officer in a closed-off military town in Russia’s far east this week, in what appeared to be an attempt to target a more senior commander known as the “Butcher of Bucha”.Three sources familiar with the incident said the bomb detonated at about 9am on Tuesday in a residential block in Knyaze-Volkonskoye-1, the home of Maj Gen Azatbek Omurbekov, who commanded Russian troops .
The Trump administration is turning diplomacy into an asset to be leveraged.
A mysterious woman in a Boston cafe asked Mike Green a single question: 'What is the meaning of life?' Within weeks he was recruited to join a secret group that has long been accused of being a cult.
According to the report, on the morning of Thursday, April 30, Naser Bakrzadeh, Karim Yaghoubpour, and Mehrab Abdollahzadeh, all sentenc ...
A neo-Nazi, who planned a mass shooting, was arrested by armed police in a Morrisons car park after being caught by MI5 in an undercover sting. Alfie Coleman, 21, from Great Notley, Essex, harboured an extreme Right-wing ideology and was planning to use a gun in a terrorist attack, a court heard.
The UK has the lowest deficit - when imported fuel is subtracted from the amount made at home - of any major economy in the continent, according to research by Allianz.
Syria was once a battleground, enduring 14 years of civil war