6 h. ago American spends week in Iran after visiting 197 countries and one thing stuns him

Travel vlogger Drew Binsky has visited all 197 countries on Earth, but says he was moved by the welcome he received in Iran, and believes the country has an unfairly bad reputation

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22 h. ago Never here Keir! Starmer won't come to the Commons to field questions on Iran crisis and will miss PMQs AGAIN this week... after dodging grilling on grooming gangs

Keir Starmer is sending Foreign Secretary David Lammy to deliver a Commons statement on the burgeoning crisis in the Middle East this afternoon.

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28 h. ago EU foreign ministers meet to discuss Ukraine, Russia and worsening crisis in Middle East – Europe live

Foreign affairs council discusses Ukraine after another night of heavy Russian attacks as Volodymyr Zelenskyy visits UKGerman foreign minister Johann Wadephul said today’s meeting was kicking off “a crucial week for security in Europe and the world,” with talks to be continued at the Nato and the EU summits later this week.He says European negotiators told Iran last Friday in Geneva that “a real prerequisite for resolving the conflict is that Iran is willing to negotiate directly with the US.” Continue reading...

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50 h. ago Israel is playing an outsized role in a heated New York City mayoral race. Will it matter?

The race has turned into an Israel-Palestine proxy war of sorts, even as voters on both sides wish the focus remained on local issuesSpeaking from a Jerusalem bomb shelter last week as Iran and Israel exchanged fire, a New York state senator posted a video message to New York City voters: “There is a mayoral primary coming up this week where one of the candidates does not believe the Jewish state has a right to exist,” said Sam Sutton, the senator from Brooklyn. “We don’t want to be in a situation like this in America.”Sutton called on New Yorkers to elect a “great friend of the Jewish people”: Andrew Cuomo, New York’s former governor. Continue reading...

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50 h. ago Israel is playing an outsized role in New York City’s mayoral race. Will it matter?

The election has turned into an Israel-Palestine proxy war of sorts, even as voters on both sides wish the focus remained on local issuesSpeaking from a Jerusalem bomb shelter last week as Iran and Israel exchanged fire, a New York state senator posted a video message to New York City voters: “There is a mayoral primary coming up this week where one of the candidates does not believe the Jewish state has a right to exist,” said Sam Sutton, the senator from Brooklyn. “We don’t want to be in a situation like this in America.”Sutton called on New Yorkers to elect a “great friend of the Jewish people”: Andrew Cuomo, New York’s former governor. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago Israel warns of ‘prolonged war’ with Iran as conflict enters second week

Israeli military chief says ‘difficult days’ ahead as salvo of ballistic missiles trigger air raid sirens across countryIsrael-Iran conflict – live updatesIsrael’s military has warned of a “prolonged war” with Iran as the conflict entered its second week with no sign of stopping, as Israeli forces targeted Tehran and other areas while an Iranian missile attack wounded many people in the Mediterranean port city of Haifa.The Israeli military said its aircraft destroyed Iranian surface-to-air missiles in southern Iran, as well as killing a group of Iranian military commanders responsible for missile launches. According to the IDF, the strikes prevented the launch of missiles scheduled for later that evening. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago Iran's internet blackout leaves public in dark and creates an uneven picture of the war with Israel

As the war between Israel and Iran hits the one-week mark, Iranians have spent nearly half of the conflict in a near-communication blackout, unable to connect not only with the outside world but also with their neighbors and loved ones across the country

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4 d. ago Norway backs Nato’s 5% defence spending target despite Spain rejecting it as ‘unreasonable’ – Europe live

PM Jonas Gahr Støre declared Norway’s support for the 5% target proposed by Nato’s secretary general Mark RutteIn Berlin, meanwhile, a German government spokesperon said that Iran will probably be a topic of discussion at next week’s Nato summit in The Hague.“We do not comment on allies’ possible attack plans,” the spokesperson said, referring to US president Donald Trump saying he would decide within two weeks whether his country would join Israeli strikes. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago The Latest: Israeli airstrikes reach into Iranian city of Rasht

Israel and Iran exchanged strikes a week into their war Friday as new diplomatic efforts appeared to be underway

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4 d. ago Israel and Iran launch strikes a week into their war as new diplomatic effort takes shape

Israel and Iran have struck at one another again a week into their war as President Donald Trump weighs U.S. involvement and new diplomatic efforts appear to be taking place

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4 d. ago Israel’s attack has exposed Iran’s lack of firepower – but conflict could yet turn in Tehran’s favour

Iran has struggled to respond effectively after Israel killed many of its top military commandersIt is a week since Israel began its largest attack ever on Iran, and in conventional military terms it is clear that Tehran is under extreme pressure. Israel has been able to achieve superiority over Iran’s skies at extraordinary speed, within hours of launching its surprise assault. Its military claimed on Monday to have knocked out 120 Iranian air defence systems through a mixture of air and drone strikes, about a third of Tehran’s pre-war total.In response, Iran’s most effective weapon has been its stock of high-speed ballistic missiles, estimated at about 2,000 by Israel’s Defence Force (IDF) at the outset of hostilities last week. But the heavy targeting by Israel of launch sites in western Iran, in underground bases such as at Kermanshah – coupled with Israel’s grimly effective targeted killing of Iran’s top military commanders – have left Iran struggling to respond militarily and ...

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5 d. ago A Minnesota man's biking dream is cut short in Iran as he flees the Israel

A man from Minnesota was biking through Iran last week when Israel launched strikes on Iranian nuclear sites and the country’s military leaders, drawing Tehran’s swift response

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5 d. ago Trump says ‘nobody knows what I’m going to do’ about Iran as he warns ‘the next week will be big’

President is considering whether to allow U.S. forces to strike a key Iranian nuclear facility

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5 d. ago Is the 'Thursday surprise' going to be a nuclear attack? DAVID AVERRE breaks down five possible moves Israel may be planning for Tehran

Israel's ambassador to the US gave a cryptic statement this week, declaring there were 'surprises up our sleeves' for Iran. DAVID AVERRE breaks down Israel's possible plans for Tehran.

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6 d. ago US poised to join Iran war: America amasses armada of warships and fleets of fighter jets in the Middle East as Trump warns Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei 'we know where you're hiding'

At least 224 people have been killed in Iran since Israel began its bombing campaign last week in an attempt to stop the regime from producing a nuclear weapon.

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7 d. ago How Israel used spies, smuggled drones and AI to stun and hobble Iran

Israel stunned Iran last week with an intelligence and military operation years in the making that struck high-level targets with precision

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7 d. ago ‘She should be taking her mock exams’: Father’s desperate plea to bring home daughter, 15, stranded in Israel

Leslie Baker says his daughter, Bella, arrived in Haifa for a Jewish ceremony last week - but has since been left struck after the Israel-Iran conflict quickly escalated over the weekend

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3 w. ago China hails Keir Starmer's surrender of the Chagos Islands to leave PM facing furious demands to apologise for 'peddling lies' over his deal

After he signed the agreement to hand over sovereignty of the islands to Mauritius last week, Sir Keir Starmer claimed that Russia, China, Iran were opposed to the deal.

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3 w. ago Revealed: Surprising destination named as best place in the world to retire

According to a new report on retirement by International Living, a Central American country is officially the globe's best place to spend your golden years in.

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4 w. ago Democrats spending millions to learn how to speak to ‘American Men’ and win back the working class

Party leaders are holing up in luxury hotel rooms on a strategy codenamed SAM, or “Speaking with American Men: A Strategic Plan” to try and convince working-class to vote their way again, according to a report.

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