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House of Lords has ‘signed its own death warrant’ by stalling assisted dying bill, says MP

Kim Leadbeater joins protest against delaying of bill to allow assisted dying in the UK and says people are ‘extremely angry’The House of Lords “signed its own death warrant” over its stalling of the UK assisted dying bill, MP Kim Leadbeater said on Friday as she joined more than a dozen terminally ill and bereaved people in protest outside parliament.Marking the second anniversary of the death at Dignitas of , 53, Leadbeater, the MP for Spen Valley whose private members teminally ill adults (end of life) bill for England and Wales looks set to run out of time, said many MPs, who had already voted by a majority to pass the bill, were “angry and upset” by , which will probably see the bill fall without a vote.

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HaaretzCelebrity lifeIslamic World

Erased Israeli Settlers' Brutal War on Palestinian Communities in the West Bank

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.

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The GuardianWar & Conflict

UK allows US to use British bases for strikes protecting strait of Hormuz; US officials say more troops heading to Middle East – live

UK says decision is to support ‘collective self-defence’ but military will not be directly involved in strikes; officials reportedly say more US troops will be heading to the GulfKuwait’s state oil firm KPC said its Mina Al-Ahmadi refinery was hit by multiple drone attacks early on Friday, causing a fire in some units, with no initial casualties reported, the state news agency said.Firefighters responded immediately, with several units shut down as a precaution to ensure workers’ safety.

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The TelegraphAI

China’s secret weapon for smuggling AI chips might be hairdryers

The founder of an $18bn (£13.5bn) technology company has been arrested by the FBI and charged with smuggling billions of dollars of AI microchips to China, after investigators caught conspirators using a hairdryer to remove tracking labels. The US Department of Justice said it had charged 71-year-old Yih-Shyan Liaw, one of the co-founders of semiconductor company Supermicro, as well as two other men, with violating export control laws.

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The GuardianScandalEastern Europe

Hungary officials ‘gave Ukrainian forced injection’ after raid on bank vehicles

Kyiv sources say they think injection contained relaxant meant to make people more talkative in interrogationsHungarian security operatives administered a “forced injection” to one of the Ukrainians detained earlier this month during carrying gold bars and tens of millions of dollars and euros in cash, sources have told the Guardian.Hungary’s TEK anti-terrorism police detained seven Ukrainians from the state savings bank, Oschadbank, on 5 March. They were accompanying a convoy of two armoured cars from Vienna to Ukraine, as it transited Hungary in what Kyiv claims was a regular transfer of state funds. Hungarian officials have claimed it was money for the “Ukrainian war mafia”, without giving details.

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DawnWar & Conflict

Iran’s escalation dominance

THE ongoing hostilities in the Israel-US war on Iran — with Tehran raining missiles and drones on the Zionist apartheid state and Washington’s interests in the region in retaliation for attacks on Iran’s military sites and infrastructure, including energy assets, and the mass murder of its leaders and schoolgirls — is one side of the equation. The other side consists of the fog generated by disinformation, claims, denials and spin.

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The GuardianWar & Conflict

Strike on Iran gasfield exposes US-Israel rift as Trump claims he did not know

US president says he told Netanyahu ‘don’t do that’ as he distances himself from attack that has angered Gulf alliesThe US-Israeli war against Iran has exposed further divisions between the two countries after and prompted Donald Trump to say he knew nothing in advance about the attack – a claim that Israeli officials disputed.Speaking in the Oval Office on Thursday, Trump said he had spoken to Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu following the strikes on Iran’s South Pars gas field – part of a reserve shared with Qatar – and had told the Israeli prime minister to refrain from further attacks that could escalate a regional war on energy infrastructure.

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The GuardianWar & ConflictFrance

French IS member convicted of genocide for atrocities against Yazidis

Sabri Essid also found guilty of crimes against humanity after harrowing evidence from women enslaved by jihadistA French member of Islamic State has been convicted of for atrocities committed against Yazidis in a historic judgment that highlighted the atrocities committed by jihadists.The Paris criminal court found Sabri Essid, who was tried in his absence, directly participated in an organised system of killing, raping and enslaving members of the Iraqi ethnic and religious minority who are descended from some of the region’s most ancient roots.

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The GuardianWar & ConflictIslamic World

‘Not our war’: Gulf states weigh up options as existential threat from Iran conflict grows

Arab states have so far only responded defensively, but there is growing fear the Middle East war is entering a new, even more dangerous frontierThe boom reverberated so loudly over Dubai marina that the windows of the surrounding skyscrapers and exclusive hotels gave a loud, disconcerting rattle.“That sounded close, do you think a missile has hit something?” said a young man to his friend as they sipped coffees. Moments earlier, all mobile phones in the vicinity had sounded off with a shrill alarm, the new normal for those living in the Gulf, warning of missile and drone strikes in the area. Customers barely looked up.

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The GuardianWar & Conflict

Behind the bombast, Trump will be worried: when he tries to stop the war on Iran, will anyone listen? | Simon Tisdall

Though the president wields great power, the conflict in the Middle East is spiralling in unforeseen ways that he may not be able to controlWhat a pity Benjamin Netanyahu remains at large after an for alleged war crimes committed in Gaza was issued in 2024. Had he been detained, as he certainly should have been, the peoples of Iran, Lebanon, the Gulf – and Israel itself – might have been spared much present-day pain and suffering.The Israeli prime minister’s lifelong, passionate obsession with eradicating the real and imagined threats posed by Iran a key factor in prompting Donald Trump’s abrupt, unprovoked plunge into all-out war. Netanyahu should be in jail, not committing more crimes while the powerful but ego-driven US president negligently looks on.Simon Tisdall is a Guardian foreign affairs commentator

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The GuardianWar & Conflict

Trump decries Nato allies as ‘cowards’ as strait of Hormuz impasse goes on

Comments come amid reports US is preparing to send three more warships and thousands more troops to Middle EastDonald Trump has called Nato allies “cowards” for not wanting to “help open” the strait of Hormuz, with the US reportedly preparing to send three more warships and thousands more troops to the Middle East amid fears about the economic damage being caused by the war on Iran.The US is reportedly considering plans to occupy or blockade Iran’s strategically crucial Kharg Island to pressure Tehran to reopen .

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