Oil prices have soared to nearly $110 per barrel amid Iranian reports that a facility in the world's largest natural gas field has been hit in an airstrike.
Israel said it had killed Khatib, whose death was confirmed by Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian on Wednesday.
How did the US justice system get it so wrong?On the evening of 29 December 2011, off‑duty Chicago police officer Clifton Lewis sat behind the counter of the M&M Quick Foods convenience store, working a second job as a security guard. He’d proposed to his girlfriend on Christmas Day and the extra income from M&M would help pay for the wedding.His fiance, Latrice Tucker, chafed at all his side jobs, which also included a security gig at Walmart. She had scheduled an appointment to tour a potential wedding venue that afternoon, but Lewis kissed her on the cheek and told her he was running late for work. They’d reschedule.
Cuban President, Miguel Díaz-Canel has warned that any attempt by the United States to take control of the island would be met with what he described as “unbreakable resistance,” in response to remarks by Donald Trump. Trump had earlier told reporters at the White House that he believed he would have the “honour of taking […]
LIVE UPDATES: Follow the Daily Mail's live coverage of the US-Israel war with Iran as the conflict enters its 19th day. Tehran has vowed revenge after the killing of security chief Ali Larijani.
European leaders have rejected direct involvement in U.S.-Israeli military operations against Iran, wary of getting sucked into an unpredictable conflict whose aims they do not fully understand and is unpopular with their own citizens
Israel has killed three top Iranian officials in one day; Iran insists assassinations will not destabilise its political structure; vows to strike energy infra in Gulf nations after its mega gas field at South Pars was hit
Israel gives military permission to strike Iranian leaders at will as Iran confirms death of Esmaeil Khatib.
Iran launched missiles equipped with cluster warheads targeting Tel Aviv overnight Tuesday, in what state media described as retaliation for Israel’s assassination of Iran’s security chief, Ali Larijani. Iranian state television reported the attack on Wednesday. The strikes hit residential neighborhoods near Tel Aviv, which also host key military facilities, killing two people and raising […]
Iran’s national security chief Ali Larijani and the commander of paramilitary force Basij, Gholamreza Soleimani, were assassinated in US-Israeli strikes on Tuesday.
Larijani was killed by an Israeli airstrike and is the most senior Iranian fatality since Ali Khamenei on first day of warIran’s supreme national security council has confirmed the death of its chief, Ali Larijani, after Israel said it had killed him in an airstrike.“The pure souls of the martyrs embraced the purified soul of God’s righteous servant, Martyr Dr Ali Larijani,” the council said on Tuesday evening, adding that his son and his bodyguards had died with him.
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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.
Chavez, the late iconic campaigner for farmworkers rights, has been posthumously accused of abusing girls as young as 12.
US presidents have long bypassed Congress's authority and dissenting lawmakers have often tried to fight back.
Broadcaster accused of propaganda and whitewashing atrocities committed by Sudanese militia
Qatar foreign ministry spokesman slams Israeli attack on Iran's offshore gasfield as 'dangerous, irresponsible step'.
The massive attack came as the US conflict with Iran continues unabated and President Trump zeroes in on the narrow strait that connects the Persian Gulf to the rest of the global economy.
Hundreds have been arrested as Iran cracks down on 'traitors' following killing of Larijani, Soleimani.
Guardian analysis of more than a million emails reveals financier’s deep and longstanding ties with the wealthy and powerfulThe release of the Epstein files has reverberated around the world, leading to at least nine resignations and investigations into high-profile figures, including the former UK ambassador to Washington, Peter Mandelson, and the ex-prince Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor.The deluge of information has made it hard to assess the extent of the connections but a Guardian data analysis reveals how frequent, deep and longstanding his ties were to a number of high-profile figures.
A red-flag alert has been issued by one genocide-prevention organisation. This is not the time for empty condemnations but sanctions and arms embargosAnyone following Israeli media discourse in recent days may be experiencing a severe case of deja vu. Alongside euphoric reactions to the US-Israeli pummelling of Iran (backed by ), politicians and prominent commentators are now clamouring for an escalation in Lebanon – hoping to see a repeat of the devastation Israel has wreaked in Gaza.Israeli airstrikes on Lebanon have already killed in the past two weeks, after Hezbollah resumed its rocket fire into northern Israel in support of Iran. The Israeli army has issued covering a vast area in the country’s south, from their homes. On Monday, it announced the launch of a , and officials have that they are preparing to mobilise hundreds of thousands of reservists “the Gaza model, but in Lebanon”.Ben Reiff is deputy editor at +972 magazine
A persistent, lung-searing rain of fire is currently cauterising the nerves of the Iranian landscape, exposing the jagged vulnerability of a nation under the reach of a rampaging superpower and the unrestrained fury of its regional spearhead. Above, the indifference of the sky; below, people caught in the crossfire of history.
House to consider amendment that would pardon women in England and Wales affected by prior ‘unjust’ lawsWomen who have been arrested, investigated and convicted under abortion legislation in England and Wales “must not be left behind” if the law is changed to prevent women being criminalised in future, campaigners have said.Last summer, the House of Commons voted to end the criminalisation of women who terminate their pregnancies outside the legal framework, through a new clause in the crime and policing bill.
Negotiators had reached agreement on key issues despite Trump team’s idiosyncratic approach. Two days later, war beganIn the many bizarre exchanges that occurred in the run-up to the US-Israeli attack on Iran, perhaps the most unexpected was an invitation by Donald Trump’s special envoy Steve Witkoff for the Iranian foreign minister, Abbas Araghchi, to join him and Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, for a visit to the USS Abraham Lincoln carrier strike group.The idea that Araghchi would leave talks in Oman about the future of Iran’s nuclear programme to tour a ship sent to the Gulf in an effort to dislodge his government seemed idiosyncratic at best.
Israeli attacks have targeted the command centers of Iran’s repressive, internal security forces in hopes that Iranians will overthrow their rulers. Some see that as wishful thinking.
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Hundreds of civilians killed at drug rehabilitation centre in Kabul hit by Pakistani air strikes
Last Friday, a police officer accompanied by soldiers went to the Palestinian village of Kafr Dhaba in the West Bank. There, in violation of the law, he confiscated an ancient stone because it had a decoration that he thought resembled a menorah.
Indictment and arrest of Prince Group founder Chen Zhi has sparked questions about scam industry’s alleged ties to political elite, and integrity of government crackdownA giant golden clam shell, illuminated by lurid neon lights and filled with playing cards and red dice, once glowed nightly on the facade of Sihanoukville’s Jin Bei casino. Today, the casino’s gaudy signage is covered by sheets, and its doorway blocked by a Chinese sign that reads “under renovation”.The casino in the Cambodian resort city was once emblazoned with the name Jin Bei, a company US prosecutors have accused of running scam compounds on behalf Prince Group, which an alleged was one of Asia’s largest transnational criminal organisations.
The killing, which Iran confirmed, could embolden Iranian hard-liners, as the U.S.-Israeli bombing campaign continues.
Declassified CIA files reveal a secret program that a former US president was certain would help him 'control the world.'
Pipeline, closed since 2015 after huge oil spill, reopens after president cites need to boost US supply amid war on IranOil has begun to flow from a controversial California pipeline system for the first time in an more than decade following a order, despite state officials decrying the move.Sable Offshore Corporation, the Houston-based owner of the coastal pipelines, that offshore oil was now flowing through its Santa Ynez unit and Santa Ynez pipeline system, which runs through several California counties.
IRGC issues “urgent evacuation” orders for people living near oil and gas infra in Saudi Arabia, Qatar, UAE which have become “legitimate targets for Iranian retaliation”; Israel kills Iran’s Intelligence Minister
The US president pledged to ‘finish off what’s left of the Iranian terror state’
Iran’s Minister of Intelligence, Esmaeil Khatib, has reportedly been killed in a targeted strike in Tehran, according to a statement released by the Israel Defense Forces, IDF, on its official X platform. Khatib, regarded as a central figure within Iran’s intelligence structure, was said to have played a significant role during the 2022–2023 Mahsa Amini […]
There are no known casualties so far from the strike near downtown, as Israel said it targeted a building affiliated with Hezbollah.
As the war continues, not everyone in Donald Trump's administration is content - a senior counterterrorism official has quit his role in protest. Meanwhile, Iran has vowed revenge after a security chief was killed. Follow the latest.
Iranian army chief Amir Hatami threatened to launch a ‘decisive and regrettable’ retaliation for the killingThe head of the International Maritime Organisation (IMO) has said that naval escorts through the strait of Hormuz will not “100% guarantee” the safety of ships attempting to transit the waterway, the Financial Times reported on Tuesday.Military assistance was “not a long-term or sustainable solution” to opening up the strait, Arsenio Dominguez told the newspaper.We are collateral damage of a conflict when the root causes have nothing to do with shipping.Remaining in the area of the specified buildings exposes you to danger
The deaths of two top Iranian officials were announced on Tuesday, while President Trump once again lashed out at NATO allies who refused to aid the U.S. war effort against Iran.
So far discussions of the SAVE America Act are falling short of the “talking filibuster” conservatives are demanding.
DYSTOPIAN fantasies are a time-honoured cinematic genre — and among comedies that deserve to be taken seriously, Stanley Kubrick’s Dr Strangelove stands out at as a masterpiece that still resonates six decades later. It won no Oscars. One Battle After Another picked up six statuettes on Sunday.
Why has it taken two months? Is this the end of the matter? How much damage has been done to AFCON's reputation? What about the bettors? Sky Sports News answers the key questions after Morocco were crowned AFCON winners and Senegal stripped of their title
New reports emerged late last week that Duwaji helped illustrate a book edited by the virulent anti-Semitie Susan Abulhawa, who has described Jews as 'vampires' and 'supremacist demons.'
Strike on Iran’s South Pars gas field was approved by Trump administration says report; Esmail Khatib confirmed killedIran is still exporting millions of barrels of oil, with about 90 ships, including oil tankers, having crossed the strait of Hormuz since the beginning of the war with Iran, according to maritime and trade data platforms reports.This is despite Iran saying it had closed the vital waterway to vessels from the US and its allies.
Qatar's Foreign Ministry Spokesman called Israel's strike on the field, the largest of its kind, 'dangerous and irresponsible,' adding that it poses a 'threat to global energy security,' The price of Brent crude, considered an international oil benchmark, rose 5 percent
The top official was assassinated in Israeli airstrikes on Monday night, which also killed his son and body guards in a hideout apartment on the outskirts of the capital.
World Health Organization officials are monitoring the consequences of joint US-Israeli stikes on Iranian atomic sites.
South Pars provides most of Iran’s domestic gas and is critical to its electricity generation
Former Afghan soldier who worked with American military in Afghanistan died just 24 hours after being arrested by immigration agents in Texas