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Trump plays up prospect of diplomatic end to Iran war
US president soothes markets but doubts on strategy and Tehran’s position persist
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US president soothes markets but doubts on strategy and Tehran’s position persist
Avaaz analyses the timeline of events to conclude that violations show Israel systematically kills first responders.
The world faces an energy crisis worse than both 1970s oil shocks combined if the Middle East war drags on, the head of the International Energy Agency warned on Monday, as Israel launched fresh strikes on Tehran and threatened weeks more fighting.
Netanyahu claimed Israel and the U.S. were well on their way to achieving their war goals.
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.
Iranian parliament speaker says ‘no negotiations’ were held with US, as Trump postpones strikes on power plants for five daysBritish prime minister Keir Starmer is set to chair an emergency meeting on the economic fallout from the war in Iran on Monday, with chancellor of the exchequer Rachel Reeves and Bank of England governor Andrew Bailey also attending, the UK government has said.Financial markets face another turbulent week after Iran said it would if Donald Trump followed through on his if it doesn’t fully open up the crucial strait of Hormuz.Topics expected to be covered are the economic impact of the crisis on families and businesses, energy security and the resilience of industry and supply chains alongside the international response.
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President of the United States, Donald Trump, says he is likely to hold phone talks with Iran today amid the ongoing crisis between the two countries. Trump made this known on Monday while fielding questions from reporters, claiming that Iran wants to make a deal. According to the president, his Middle East special envoy Steve […]
Reports emerging on social media suggest that multiple areas across Tehran were hit by widespread attacks, with residents describing hea ...
An Israeli official said the U.S. is holding direct contacts with the speaker of Iran's parliament, who denied the claim as 'fake news' designed to manipulate oil markets. Pakistan is taking the lead as mediator, and a meeting could take place in Islamabad this week, a source said
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How have the rich and powerful convinced so many voters that the reason they are struggling is the poor and powerless? The American historian talks about the weaponising of divisiveness‘I think I’ve had at least seven books that have been banned in the United States,” says Ibram X Kendi, in a tone that carries no bitterness but stops just short of pride. It’s proof, he says, that his works on racism, which extend from deep, scholarly histories to a biography of Malcolm X for children, are getting through to the right people – and annoying the right people. According to the writers’ advocacy group PEN America, his books have been by multiple US school districts during the tumultuous “anti-woke” backlash of the past five years. He’s not happy about that, but nor was he discouraged. “I understood that the major reason why people were singling me out and demonising me was because they did not want people reading my books,” he says. “And when the character assassinations did not work to the scale that they wanted them to, then they started banning my books, and the books of many others.”Kendi’s work is divisive almost by design. He has a way of framing his ideas in radically stark terms. In his 2016 breakthrough book Stamped from the Beginning, a history of racist ideas in the US, he argued that racist policies lead to racist ideas, not the other way round. His bestselling follow-up, 2019’s , introduced an equally contentious proposition: there was no such thing as “not racist”; you were either racist or anti-racist. There was no in-between: inaction or neutrality about racist issues was effectively complicity. By extension, he argued that all racial disparities in outcome for Black people were the result of racist policies – not just some, all.
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Iran has threatened to destroy energy sites across the Middle East after Donald Trump gave the regime 48 hours to reopen the Strait of Hormuz. Tehran said it would target energy and oil infrastructure, with Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, the Iranian parliament’s speaker, warning that oil prices would “rise for a long time” as a result.
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In the early hours of Monday, March 23, multiple cities across Iran came under air strikes carried out by the United States and Israel. ...
Behind the Numbers The Truth About Gaza's Death ListScroll downGaza's fatalities list is an explosive and controversial document. Critics claim the Hamas-run Gaza Health Ministry duplicates names, counts Hamas militants as civilians and inflates the number of women and minors.
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The region is on edge as Trump's deadline for Iran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz or face attacks on power plants nears.
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The nation’s most remote state relies on boats and planes to administer elections, and balloting is often at the mercy of extreme weather.
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A five-day ‘pause’ allows Gulf nations to find dwindling air defences, buys Iran’s decentralised military system respite and gives Trump the chance to reflect on how to get out of a quagmire Tehran prepared for him, writes world affairs editor Sam Kiley
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Trump faces a choice between a negotiated deal or declaring military damage a victory. A deal means engaging a regime he sought to topple, while claiming victory leaves it intact. Iran's regime, meanwhile, faces its own dilemmas too
Fatih Birol said world leaders were underestimating the impact the war in the Middle East would have on energy prices
Despite the supposed end of the fighting last year, casualties in the territory continue to rise, with volunteer ambulance driver Abed Elrahman Hamdouna joining the long list of those killed by Israeli forcesOf all their seven children, Abed Elrahman Hamdouna’s parents worried about him the most during the war in Gaza. Hamdouna was a volunteer ambulance driver in northern Gaza, “risking his life to help people who were injured”, says his father, Hosny Hamdouna. They knew about the which have claimed the lives of hundreds of healthcare workers.So when a ceasefire was reached in October 2025, they were cautiously relieved. But that relief turned to shock after Hamdouna, a 31-year-old father of two, was killed in a reported drone strike west of Gaza City two weeks ago, as he was on his way to a family Ramadan iftar, to break fast with his brothers.
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The President of the United States has issued a fresh deadline to Iran, demanding that it reopen the Strait of Hormuz. Failing that, he ...
IEA director, Mr Birol, said it was worse than the two consecutive oil crises in 1973 and 1979, in which the world lost about 10 million barrels of oil per day. The post appeared first on .
• IDF ordered to destroy all bridges over Litani River• Key Qasmiyeh bridge near Tyre damaged in strikes• Lebanese President Joseph Aoun condemns attacks, calling them a ‘prelude to a ground invasion’
Top Israeli general says war ‘not close’ to ending despite Trump’s claim he is considering ‘winding down’ offensive
Sultan al-Jaber’s comments come as Donald Trump says US has held talks with Tehran on ending the war
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Iran seems to have been waiting for this war for years. Its leadership is hydra-headed, programmed to replace itself. It has so far proven surprisingly capable of responding to attacks with speed and strategy despite its enemies' claims it has been decapitated.
The head of the International Energy Agency head says the global economy faces a “major, major threat” because of the Iran war
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