77 m. ago Iran says Israel’s strikes on its nuclear facilities are a ‘declaration of war’ as Trump says ‘we knew everything’ – live

Israel launched overnight attack on Iran targeting nuclear sites after claiming Tehran was building nuclear warheads as US president says he knew about strikesFull report: Israel targets Iran’s nuclear facilitiesIsraeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has addressed the nation, saying the IDF had targted Iran’s leading nuclear scientists working on the Iranian bomb.He said that Iran’s main enrichment facility in Natanz had been targeted.This operation will continue for as many days as it takes We are at a decisive moment in Israel’s history. Continue reading...

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83 m. ago Netanyahu says his attack on Iran was to avert an existential threat. He may have made it worse | Jonathan Freedland

Israel has eliminated many of the brains behind Tehran’s nuclear programme. But don’t expect the regime to back downThis is a war 30 years in the making. Benjamin Netanyahu was talking about the threat of an Iranian nuclear bomb back in the 1990s and he has scarcely let up since. For decades he has believed that a nuclear Iran would represent the one truly existential threat to Israel and that military force is the only sure way to prevent it. Several times during the many years in which Netanyahu has sat in the prime minister’s chair, an all-out strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities has been weighed up, debated and planned for. In the early hours of this morning, it finally happened.Netanyahu will be pleased with the early results, including the elimination of key Iranian military commanders and nuclear scientists. But the ultimate consequences could look very different. By his actions, he may only have accelerated the very danger he has feared for so long.Jonathan Freedland is a Gua...

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3 h. ago Israel's nighttime attack on Iran mapped as six key nuclear targets confirmed

Israel has launched a widescale attack against Iran, killing top military commanders and nuclear scientists, with the country responding by launching 100 drones of their own and promising "bitter" revenge

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4 h. ago Israel warns Iran attacks could last up to TWO WEEKS after brutal airstrikes sees war explode in Middle East as Tehran vows 'painful' revenge: Live updates

Iran vowed to respond 'harshly' to Israel 's strikes on Tehran's nuclear facilities, which have taken out top Revolutionary Guard generals and nuclear scientists.

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4 h. ago The Iranian commanders and scientists killed in Israeli strikes

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4 h. ago Senior Government Minister hears young people’s aspirations for future as funding announced

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5 h. ago MindsEye review – a dystopian future that plays like it’s from 2012

PC, PlayStation 5, Xbox; Build a Robot Boy/IO InteractiveA lot of work and ambition have gone into this strange, sometimes likable cover-shooter throwbackThere’s a Sphere-alike in Redrock, MindsEye’s open-world version of Las Vegas. It’s pretty much a straight copy of the original: a huge soap bubble, half sunk into the desert floor, with its surface turned into a gigantic TV. Occasionally you’ll pull up near the Sphere while driving an electric vehicle made by Silva, the megacorp that controls this world. You’ll sometimes come to a stop just as an advert for an identical Silva EV plays out on the huge curved screen overhead. The doubling effect can be slightly vertigo-inducing.At these moments, I truly get what MindsEye is trying to do. You’re stuck in the ultimate company town, where oligarchs and other crooks run everything, and there’s no hope of escaping the ecosystem they’ve built. MindsEye gets this all across through a chance encounter, and in a way that’s both light of touc...

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5 h. ago We are Nobel laureates, scientists, writers and artists. The threat of fascism is back | Open letter

As in 1925, when Mussolini was in power, we must openly defy the brutal imposition of the fascist ideologyOn 1 May 1925, with Benito Mussolini already in power, a group of Italian intellectuals publicly denounced his fascist regime in an open letter. The signatories – scientists, philosophers, writers and artists – took a stand in support of the essential tenets of a free society: the rule of law, personal liberty and independent thinking, culture, art and science. Their open defiance against the brutal imposition of the fascist ideology – at great personal risk – proved that opposition was not only possible, but necessary. Today, 100 years later, the threat of fascism is back – and so we must summon that courage and defy it again.Fascism emerged in Italy a century ago, marking the advent of modern dictatorship. Within a few years, it spread across Europe and the world, taking different names but maintaining similar forms. Wherever it seized power, it undermined the separation of po...

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5 h. ago ‘A declaration of war’: Israel’s strike on Iran – Today in Focus Extra

The Guardian’s senior international correspondent Julian Borger reports from Jerusalem the morning after an unprecedented Israeli strike on Iran’s nuclear facilitiesIsrael has launched an unprecedented strike on Iran. Though in the last couple of years the two rivals in the region have traded a few tit-for-tat attacks, the world woke up on Friday to an extraordinary escalation.As the Guardian’s senior international correspondent Julian Borger reports from Jerusalem, this time Israel has attacked Iran’s nuclear facilities, as well as killing the head of the Revolutionary Guards, the army chief of staff, and six senior nuclear scientists. Continue reading...

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