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The US president wanted an easy win, but the conflict is spiralling following Israel’s attack on a gas field and Iranian retaliation across the regionShortly after the US and Israel began their , with the US president still preening himself over the kidnapping of Venezuela’s Nicolás Maduro the previous month, a state department official that Donald Trump had a new foreign policy credo: “Decapitate and delegate”. It was a reversal of Colin Powell’s invocation of the “Pottery Barn rule” ahead of the invasion of Iraq: you break it, you own it.Gen Powell, then secretary of state, was warning that wars can escalate beyond expectation and are harder to exit than enter. It remains unclear what precisely the Trump administration expected from this conflict – perhaps not least to the White House itself – but it is certain that the president was not paying heed when people described the likely consequences.Do you have an opinion on the issues raised in this article? If you would like to submit a response of up to 300 words by email to be considered for publication in our section, please .
Legislators propose designating 31 March as Farmworkers Day in light of allegations against late labor leader legislative leaders are moving to rename Cesar Chavez Day as Farmworkers Day in light of sexual abuse allegations against the late labor leader.California was the first state to designate Chavez’s birthday, 31 March, as a day to honor the civil rights leader nearly 30 years ago. In 2000, the state legislature passed a bill to make it an official paid day off for state employees and require the state to start teaching students about his legacy and his involvement in the labor movement in California.
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Missile strike on Ras Laffan plant threatens sharp price rises and even blackouts in the UK
Five-day truce has been brokered by Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Qatar
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Israel's strike on South Pars and Iran's attack on Ras Laffan escalate energy crisis, deepen regional tensions.
New Mexico prosecutors allege Meta prioritized profit, even as child abuse surged on Instagram and Facebook is facing a reckoning over its child safety practices as a trial surfaces fresh allegations that the company prioritized profit incentives and engagement over protecting children.The landmark trial in has now completed its fifth week, with the state attorney general resting the case on 5 March. Proceedings are expected to continue for another week as Meta presents its defense before the jury begins deliberations.
Current time inBeirut/Tel Aviv9:15 a.m. March 19Tehran10:45 a.m.
RECAP: Have a read through the Daily Mail's coverage of the US-Israel war with Iran as the conflict entered its 19th day and Tehran vowed revenge after the killing of security chief Ali Larijani.
Death confirmed of Esmail Khatib, the third senior Iranian figure killed in 24 hours, as Israel also launches intense airstrikes on LebanonIsrael struck Iran’s giant South Pars gasfield on Wednesday, marking a of the war, hours after Israeli forces killed the regime’s intelligence minister and launched some of the most intense airstrikes in Beirut for decades.The attack on the Pars site in the Persian Gulf, which Iran shares with Qatar and constitutes the world’s largest natural gasfield, prompted Tehran to that their energy infrastructure could be targeted “within hours”, and triggered furious rebukes from Qatar and other nations in the region.
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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.
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In March 2023, Elisha Yered – a settler leader, former spokesperson for MK Limor Son Har-Melech, and someone previously suspected of killing a 19-year-old Palestinian (though never indicted) – posted on X that Huwara should be "wiped out, today." In another post around the same time, he wrote, "The Defense Minister should wake up and start acting. If necessary, he should wipe out not only Huwara but also the nearby villages." A complaint filed against him on suspicion of incitement to genocide, violence, and terror was closed.
Foreign minister claims Israel convinced Donald Trump to make ‘grave miscalculation’ of waging war on IranOman’s foreign minister has claimed the US has “lost control of its own foreign policy” and accused Israel of persuading Donald Trump’s administration to go to war with Iran – a conflict he described as a “catastrophe” and a “grave miscalculation”.Writing , Badr Albusaidi, the Omani minister who mediated the latest nuclear talks between Iran and the US, offered an unusually damning assessment of events leading up to the and the war it has triggered across the Middle East.
The victims are the first Palestinians in the Israeli-occupied West Bank to be killed as a result of the Middle East war.
Just two of the seven squad members who originally decided not to return to Iran from the Asian World Cup are still in Sydney.
Early this month, hours after the news broke that an Israeli strike had killed Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, a video appeared on Instagram purportedly showing massive crowds in Tehran in a spontaneous act of resistance. Tens of thousands of people were seen chanting "Bibi Joon, Bibi Joon," using the nickname of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and a Persian term of endearment.
Sky News has used satellite imagery, verified footage, eyewitness reporting and data to track Israel's campaign in Lebanon and the use of tactics that some human rights experts believe could be illegal.
Those executed were allegedly involved in the killing of two law enforcement personnel.
These words are being written on Weizmann Street, named after the country's first president. I've just come from a visit to Ichilov Hospital, which is operating in an underground parking area that's been converted into a field hospital.
The administration is bucking decades of decorum by depicting the Iran war as a violent video game.
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
Foreign minister issues warning after Israeli attack on South Pars gasfield, as Qatar reels from retaliatory strikeIran said on Thursday it would show “zero restraint” if its energy infrastructure was targeted again, as Qatar revealed that almost one-fifth of its liquefied natural gas export capacity had been knocked out in an Iranian strike, in an attack likely to have a years-long impact.The warning, delivered by the Iranian foreign minister, Abbas Araghchi, follow – which it shares with Qatar – which triggered Iranian retaliatory strikes on Qatar’s Ras Laffan gas complex and other Gulf neighbours, sending stock markets tumbling globally and triggering .
Esmail Khatib’s death came within 24 hours of Israeli strikes taking out Iran’s security chief and the head of its feared paramilitary force.
The co-founder of the United Farm Workers talked about her relationship with Cesar Chavez, and the night he raped her.
President says there are a ‘lot of reasons’ for extra funding without going into details about those reasonsAnswering a reporter’s question on Iran’s missile capabilities, considering the country has managed to strike numerous states in the Gulf, Gen Dan Caine, the chair of the joint chiefs of staff, said Tehran retains “some capability” to attack American assets.“They came into this fight with a lot of weapons.,” he said, adding that the US continues to be “as aggressive and assertive” in striking Iran.
US defense secretary suggests Thursday will be ‘largest strike package yet … death and destruction from above’ The US defense secretary, , said on Thursday there is no “timeframe” for ending the US war against Iran and did not deny reports that the Pentagon could seek an extra $200bn in taxpayer funding.The military began three weeks ago and continues to widen. Donald Trump to “massively blow up” the world’s biggest gasfield after Israeli strikes on the Iranian site prompted Tehran to escalate strikes on oil and gas facilities around the Persian Gulf.
The Iran war enters day 20 as Israeli and Iranian attacks hit energy infrastructure across region.
Senegal is tightening its crackdown on gay people, and activists say fear is spreading
A day of strikes on energy facilities and testimony in Washington to members of Congress.
‘We had no intelligence to indicate’ Iran was working on developing a nuclear bomb, Kent told Tucker Carlson
Peers’ decision welcomed as ‘landmark moment’ after attempt to strike out amendment is defeatedWomen who have been convicted, and in some cases jailed, over illegal abortions are set to be pardoned after a historic vote in the House of Lords.Last June, the House of Commons voted to end the criminalisation of women who terminate their pregnancies outside of the legal framework, while keeping the existing framework in place. Doctors and others who act outside of the law could still face the threat of prosecution.
Top Gun star Val Kilmer, who was one of the best-paid actors in the 1990s, will play a priest in the forthcoming movie As Deep As The Grave, alongside a Harry Potter actor.
Escalating attacks on key oil and gas facilities in the Persian Gulf have increased the risk of an extended bout of higher prices for everything from gasoline and electricity to computer chips and food
Current time inBeirut/Tel Aviv8:00 p.m. March 19Tehran9:30 p.m.
Iran’s strike on the crown jewel of Qatar’s energy industry risks jeopardising the viability of entire Gulf states
Copenhagen flew explosives and blood supplies to Arctic in a situation that officials compared to Nazi invasion of 1940
Current time inBeirut/Tel Aviv6:33 p.m. March 19Tehran8:03 p.m.
The Israeli bombing of the South Pars gas field has chilling parallels to Russia’s bombing of Ukrainian infrastructure, that has been condemned as a possible war crime. World affairs editor Sam Kiley writes that such a strategy will cause needless pain and do nothing to bring the regime to its knees
Strikes on South Pars and Ras Laffan are first time fossil fuel energy production facilities have been hit. Why is it significant?The strikes on so-called upstream gas production facilities by both sides of the Middle East war mark a significant escalation and could have long-term consequences.It is the first time facilities connected to the production of fossil fuel energy have been hit, rather than sites associated more generally with the oil and gas industry.
This latest crisis should prompt fresh thinking about how to rely less on other nations for energy, says Octopus founder Greg Jackson. But the answer isn’t just the North Sea: oil and gas aren’t the only way to keep the lights on. If other governments are taking alternatives seriously, why isn’t Britain? Chris Blackhurst reports
Beijing's muted response shows that when core interests are at stake, even close partners are expendable.