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Why Trump can’t get his story straight on Iran
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White House is scrambling to clarify its justifications for war to the president’s Maga base
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Rising oil and gas prices may hit increase of £300 a year for typical working-age households, says leading thinktankConflict in the Middle East could trigger an energy price shock that wipes out anticipated growth in living standards in the UK worth £300 for a typical working-age household over the coming year, a leading thinktank has warned.The Resolution Foundation said a “decent” one-off increase in average living standards this year and a bumper rise for lower-income households could be reversed by rising oil and gas prices .
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The president has said the U.S. could give military escorts to oil tankers in the region to ease the strain on global energy supplies
An American submarine sank the Iranian warship in the Indian Ocean today, killing at least 80 people, Hegseth confirmed during a press conference at the White House.
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LIVE UPDATES: Follow the latest on the US-Israel war with Iran as the conflict enters its fifth day as the Middle East faces further chaos with Gulf states embroiled in Iranian retaliatory attacks.
At least 83 people were killed in the torpedo attack; Iranian frigate was returning from a maritime exercise in Visakhapatnam
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Frigate goes down off Sri Lanka as Washington and Israel step up their offensive and promise to hit ‘deeper’ targets in IranA torpedo fired by a US submarine sank an Iranian warship off the south coast of Sri Lanka as the Trump administration followed through on its threats to destroy Tehran’s military and political leadership.At least 87 Iranian sailors were killed in the attack on the Iris Dena on Wednesday. The frigate was sailing in international waters as it returned from a naval exercise organised by India in the Bay of Bengal. The torpedo strike prompted questions from former US officials about whether Washington’s aim of eliminating all of Iran’s military breached international law.
Karoline Leavitt bats away question over bombing that reportedly killed 175 peopleGen Caine said today that the US will “now begin to expand inland, striking progressively deeper into Iranian territory”, after forces were able to establish air superiority.“The throttle is coming up,” Caine said, “as opposed to ramping down”.
When the war with Iran is over, Netanyahu will resume destroying Israeli's hopes for a future. He will seek to persuade us that Khamenei, in his death, bequeathed Netanyahu another term in office, or at least a pardon
Satellite images have revealed the full scale of devastation in Iran after five long days of bombardment - with some sites almost unrecognisable after the dust cleared.
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A three-day state funeral for Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei has been 'postponed' hours before it was due to begin, Iranian state media reports.
Pregnant women prisoners are being handcuffed to prison officers – often male – during intimate vaginal examinations and long, agonising births. Will this dehumanising treatment be stopped?The worst moment of Joanna’s labour was an internal examination. She was handcuffed with her legs splayed apart and a male prison officer at the foot of the hospital bed saw everything. She had prepared for the arrival of her first baby as carefully as she could. But she understood that birth can be unpredictable – and this was complicated by the fact that, during the latter part of her pregnancy, she was serving a jail sentence.Joanna was a model prisoner who followed the rules. She had been convicted for a non-violent drugs offence and was not deemed to be at high risk of escape, particularly not in the throes of an agonising labour. She hoped to use hypnobirthing, breathing and relaxation techniques to make the birth calmer and more comfortable. Thanks to information provided by the charity she knew it was her right not to be handcuffed during labour. She had highlighted the handcuffing points in the booklet.
AMERICA’S self-styled ‘peace president’ has unleashed a brutal war against a country that poses no direct threat to his own. The conflict marks Donald Trump’s second military venture in less than six months, cementing his place among America’s war presidents. The joint US-Israel aggression against Iran has come as no surprise. For weeks, Washington had been deploying massive naval fleets to the region even as it publicly engaged Tehran in nuclear negotiations. It marked the largest US military build-up in the Middle East since the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
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Major General Tomer Bar of the Israeli army hailed his troops in a statement released as the war in the Middle East entered its fifth day on Wednesday.
The Pentagon is investigating a strike on an Iranian girls’ school that killed at least 165, the US defence secretary said
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An official says more preparations are needed for the three-day ceremony in Tehran, where the supreme leader will lie in state.
The high-precision strike came as Pete Hegseth said the military is ramping up its bombing campaign on Iran, declaring America is 'just getting started.'
With global energy prices already on the rise over the expanding war, Iran's Revolutionary Guards said it has "complete control" of the Strait of Hormuz
The passengers and crews are unable to leave the ships, which have become floating hotels, after escalating hostilities raised fears over safety in the Strait of Hormuz.
Rapidly escalating war enters fifth day and spreads as far as Indian Ocean with sinking of Iranian vessel off Sri LankaIsrael has carried out a wave of airstrikes on Iranian security targets and Hezbollah in Beirut as Tehran threatened the “complete destruction of the region’s military and economic infrastructure” as the rapidly escalating war entered its fifth day and reached as far as the Indian Ocean off Sri Lanka.The Israeli military said it had hit buildings in Iran belonging to the Basij, the volunteer police arm of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), and buildings belonging to internal security forces.Police stations and IRGC headquarters in the Kurdish regions of north-western Iran were also razed by strikes, Kurdish media reported.
Nearly 150 reported missing and 32 people from the 180-crew frigate Iris DenaLebanese state media said that four people were killed and six more were wounded in an Israeli strike on a building in Baalbek in eastern Lebanon on Wednesday.“The initial toll is four killed and six wounded, and work is underway to rescue families from under the rubble,” Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency said.
A joint U.S.-Israel attack on Iran and the killing of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei have plunged West Asia into a fast‑spreading war, with Tehran and its allies launching retaliatory strikes across Israel, the Gulf and U.S. bases.
Israel has continued strikes across Iran and Lebanon as Donald Trump warns action could continue for weeks
The Prime Minister’s moral cowardice over Iran puts Britain to shame
Deadly strikes continued to rain down on Iran as day broke on Wednesday, as the US and Israel's joint operation against the country stretched into a fifth straight day.
Israel's Defence Minister Israel Katz threatened on Wednesday to assassinate any Iranian leader picked to succeed supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who was killed in US-Israeli strikes on Tehran.
A suspected Iranian drone struck the CIA station in Riyadh on Monday, just two days after the spy agency pinpointed Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's location in the strike that killed him.
Hezbollah says it carried out an attack targeting an Israeli military base near its northern city of Safed.
With global energy prices on the rise, U.S. President Donald Trump said the U.S. Navy was ready to escort oil tankers through the Strait of Hormuz, the vital chokepoint into the Gulf that Iran has threatened to seal off
PARIS: Mourners gathered in the Iranian city of Minab in the southern Iranian province of Hormozgan on Tuesday for funeral of 165 school children who were killed in an alleged US-Israeli air strike on a school. The attack left nearly 100 others, including teachers and other school staff members, injured.
• Iran says building housing Assembly of Experts, tasked with electing new supreme leader, was ‘not in use’ • Death toll rises to 787 after Tehran rocked by intense bombing; Tel Aviv hit by retaliatory salvos • Khamenei to be laid to rest in Mashhad • Trump shatters Pehlavi’s ambitions, says ‘someone from within’ should take over Iran • Rubio reveals US invasion triggered by fear of imminent Israeli attack • US president contradicts secretary of state, says he may have ‘forced Israel’s hand’ • US lawmakers outraged after Washington empties embassies, orders citizens to flee Middle East without any official help • Gulf states continue to reel from attacks
Tens of thousands have fled their homes in Lebanon's south as Israel issues forced evacuation order for entire area.
Deploying the world’s most powerful military seems to exert an almost erotic fascination for Donald TrumpThis was originally published in This Week in Trumpland; It was a claim uttered repeatedly on the 2024 campaign trail: “I’m the only president in 72 years that didn’t start a war,” Donald Trump .Fact checkers cried foul and pointed out that , president from 1977 to 1981, did not start any wars either. But Trump won the election anyway.