Donald Trump has urged Britain send ships to the Strait of Hormuz. The US president called for a global flotilla to head to the Gulf and force open the crucial shipping lane, as concerns grow that rising oil prices could trigger a global recession.
The war is deeply unpopular, and the spike in oil prices will mean long-term high prices across the board for Americans is still high on the capture of . The easy abduction of the Venezuelan president didn’t just grant Trump of the nation’s oil and resources. It allowed him to throttle the government of Cuba by denying it access to energy, raising the tantalizing prospect that he might bring down a communist regime that has annoyed Washington since 1959.Trump is confident that his joint venture with Israel in Iran will do just as well. The barrage of Iranian missiles and drones aimed at Israel and Iran’s Arab neighbors has done nothing to change Trump’s mind that he can win, regardless of how he defines “winning”.
A visit to the US would be ‘problematic’ for the King in light of war with Iran, says Sir Peter Westmacott
Features woven into the fabric of platforms have been central to landmark social media harm case in US. How do they work?It was as “easy as ABC”, claimed the lawyer prosecuting a landmark social media harm case against Meta and Google which heard closing arguments this week. The defendants were guilty, said Mark Lanier, of “addicting the brains of children”. Not true, replied the tech companies. Meta insisted providing young people with a “safer, healthier experience has always been core to our work”.Features such as autoplay videos, infinite scrolling and constantly chirruping alerts woven into the fabric of online platforms were central to the six-week trial in Los Angeles, which has been compared to the cases against tobacco companies in the 1990s. But how do these features work and what are their consequences? Are they creating addicts rather than users or are they just giving consumers more of what they want?
One of most significant launch events in years from North Korea comes as rival South Korea holds a joint military exercise with the US
Deep underground, artisanal miners face a fight for survival when a police operation cuts off their only lifeline.
Expected cancellation of lucrative races highlights widening economic impact of the Middle East conflict
Jena-Lisa Jones was just 14 years old when Epstein sexually assaulted her at his Palm Beach mansion after she was hired as a masseuse.
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An Iran-backed militia took responsibility for an overnight attack on the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad. President Trump called on other nations to help escort oil tankers through the Strait of Hormuz.
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On the 15th day of the US-Israel war against Iran, strategic signalling between the warring sides intensified after American forces struck Kharg Island, Iran’s principal oil export hub, while Tehran and its regional allies increased pressure across multiple theatres stretching from the Gulf to Iraq and Lebanon.
Alexandria airport center would hold migrant families and children inside converted barracks before deportationThe Trump administration is poised to expand immigration detention operations at a inside a rural Louisiana airport, the Guardian has learned.The administration is seeking to establish a “first of its kind” short-term facility that would hold migrant families and unaccompanied children next to a runway that has become a central node for the White House’s mass deportation agenda.
Communities displaced and destroyed while death toll rises faster than during any previous war in LebanonFor Batoul Hamdan and her two children, seven-month-old Fatima and Jihad, three, Monday’s iftar, the evening meal that breaks the daily fast during Ramadan, was special.For a week, they had eaten to the sounds of bombs in their home in Arab Salim. Hamdan eventually decided to leave for Al-Nimiriya, the sleepy town where she had grown up. Surrounded by her parents and siblings in the family home, she hoped they could finally enjoy the festive mood of Ramadan.
Even the most prestigious celebrities have found themselves in floods of tears and questioning their abilities after being turned down a role in their career.
Israel’s prime minister wanted regime change in Iran. But President Trump seems prepared to settle for something less.
The team were branded ‘wartime traitors’ by Iranian state media after choosing to stay silent during their country’s national anthem. Maira Butt looks at how the players became a symbol of defiance against a brutal dictatorship
Tehran threatens to reduce US-linked oil facilities to 'pile of ashes' if oil structures on the island are attacked.
Iranian armed forces issued the warning after U.S. President Donald Trump said he may decide to “wipe out” Iran’s largest oil export hub on its Kharg Island
Trump administration is seeking to undermine settlement requiring immigration facilities to release detained children after 20 days
Royals, aristocrats and celebrities have gathered in a sea of furs, feathers and fascinators these past four days for what has been described as the racing world's equivalent of London Fashion Week.
President warns he would attack oil infrastructure if Tehran impeded more shipments through the Strait of Hormuz
Locals described the bored groups of men taking pictures of schoolgirls, blowing kisses at female staff in beauty salons and making teenagers cry by wolf-whistling at them.
The scandal plaguing a Donald Trump-established religious watchdog has deepened after a second member quit in protest and a top Republican demanded an investigation.
Palantir’s CEO says the platforms will have a vast effect on the electoral landscape … especially women. Is it a warning or a sales pitch?Don’t you just love AI? It has inundated the internet with slop, the concept of truth, and made it much easier to . And that’s just the beginning. As we look towards the future of our brave new world, AI might also disrupt all those pesky highly-educated female voters who keep casting a ballot for Democrats.To be clear: that assessment isn’t coming from me, a highly exhausted female who wishes the Democrats would work a little harder for people’s votes. Rather, it’s coming from one of the key architects of our glorious AI-driven economy: Alex Karp, the co-founder and CEO of tech firm Palantir.Arwa Mahdawi is a Guardian columnist
"U.S. citizens choosing to remain in Iraq are strongly encouraged to reconsider in light of the significant threat posed by Iran-aligned terrorist militia groups," the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad said
Authorities say a local communist party office was lit on fire during rare antigovernment demonstration on the island.
Drone strikes have hit the paramilitary's heavily armed checkpoints this week, Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said.
US president called on the UK, China, France and others to send ships to the Strait of Hormuz
Social media platform ‘promotes’ sexual abuse and self-harm among children, police report finds
Aston Villa manager has the track record and authority to transform the club but they seem to fear his old-school need for complete control
Wild new videos have emerged from the Outback town torn apart by kid gangs who worship rock and pop idols and who are now fighting with a common household item turned terrifying weapon.
Israel's attack, echoing similar carnage it wrought in Gaza, kills doctors, paramedics and nurses who were on duty.
US hits Iran’s Kharg island as it warns oil sites may be next if Tehran disrupts shipping through the Strait of Hormuz.
President Donald Trump says the U.S. destroyed military sites on an island vital to Iran’s oil network and warned that the island’s oil infrastructure could be next if Iran continues to interfere with the passage of ships through the Strait of Hormuz
For all the real political concerns about immigration, national identity and broken Britain that he shares with his followers, working class rapper Danny Bones himself does not exist.
In the past century, Iran has undergone two major transformations. A third seems to be on its way.
Paris said it would send 10 warships but London has declined to deploy an aircraft carrier to the Gulf
Removing Churchill from banknotes, curbing jury trials and unseating hereditary peers are all acts that chip away at our national identity
New satellite images show more than 20 dredgers at work in the South China Sea, picking up sand and mud from the seabed and bringing it onto the surface to lay a foundation for new construction.
Review from non-profit finds range of scenarios of firms simultaneously lobbying for and against Pfas regulationsSome top US lobbying firms are of the Pfas “forever chemicals” issue, raising serious conflict of interest questions and concerns that their activity is slowing states’ efforts to rein in the public health threat.The review of six states’ lobbying records conducted by the non-profit F-Minus found a range of scenarios in which firms lobbied both sides. Most common Pfas are linked to cancer. The lobbying firm Holland & Knight works for the American Chemistry Council, which represents the nation’s largest Pfas makers, and aggressively opposes most regulations. Simultaneously, Holland & Knight lobbies for the American Cancer Society.
Dr Brian Elmore witnessed a public health crisis unfold at the border near El Paso. He reflects on why it was like a ‘perverse Groundhog Day’In late spring 2024, Dr Brian Elmore was working out of a mobile clinic, providing medical treatment to migrants in Ciudad Juárez, just south of the US-Mexico border wall. One of his patients, a man with a fractured arm and a detached left chest from his sternum and clavicle, told Elmore that immigration officials broke his arm when he first got to town, and that fired by Texas national guardsmen had caused his chest injuries.The man somehow had managed to fashion a shoddily made splint for his arm, but his chest would require surgery. When an ambulance arrived, the criminal group that controlled the riverine area refused to let him leave. The Texas guardsmen looked on from the US side of the river. “It was heartbreaking,” Elmore said of the spectacle.
Recent attempts by Labour and the Greens to appeal to Muslim voters reflect a major demographic shift that goes beyond politics
Donald Trump celebrated as he claimed the US 'obliterated' Iran's Kharg Island, as Tehran furiously threatened revenge if he went after the island's oil infrastructure.
Russia is set to earn up to two-thirds more a month from its oil and gas revenue than it did in February, experts say, potentially wiping out months of losses in a matter of weeks. Stuti Mishra reports
Exclusive: Guardian investigation finds data from flagship medical research leaked dozens of timesConfidential health data has been exposed online on dozens of occasions, a Guardian investigation can reveal, raising questions about the safeguarding of patient records by one of the UK’s flagship medical research projects.UK Biobank, which holds the medical records of 500,000 British volunteers, is one of the world’s most comprehensive stores of health information and is credited with driving breakthroughs in cancer, dementia and diabetes research. But scientists approved to access Biobank’s sensitive data appear to have sometimes been cavalier about its security.
Datacentre investment boom is one of the biggest infrastructure gambles of this era, and Britain may be uniquely exposedStargate was to be the world’s biggest AI investment: a $500bn infrastructure to “secure American leadership in AI”. Never shy of hyperbole, its key backer, the ChatGPT-maker OpenAI, promised “massive economic benefit for the entire world” with facilities to help people “use AI to elevate humanity”.Now, OpenAI to be dropping out of a part of the deal – the expansion of a flagship datacentre stretching across a swathe of land in Abilene, Texas, which has become one of the most visible manifestations of a frenzy of investment in the chips and power plants required to build and run AI. There has been a breakdown in negotiations over project financing, as well as the timeline of when the expanded capacity might come online.
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State media has used accounts of military triumph, pro-regime cartoons as well as threats to contain domestic dissent
Exclusive: Lough Neagh, which supplies drinking water for 40% of NI, contains genes resistant to last-resort antibioticsGenes capable of creating antibiotic-resistant superbugs have been detected in the UK’s largest lake, which supplies drinking water to about 40% of Northern Ireland.Testing of water from Lough Neagh, which has a surface area 26 times bigger than Windermere, found genes resistant to a wide range of antibiotics, including carbapenems – drugs reserved for life-threatening infections when all other treatments have failed.