98 m. ago Trump meets with Carney as G7 summit begins amid trade tensions and Iran

Trump begins trip by meeting Canadian prime minister; conflict in Middle East likely to dominate agenda at meeting in Canada’s Rocky MountainsA federal judge is set to consider on Monday whether to extend an order blocking President Donald Trump’s plan to bar foreign nationals from entering the United States to study at Harvard University.US District Judge Allison Burroughs during a hearing in Boston will weigh whether to issue an injunction barring Trump’s administration from implementing his latest bid to curtail Harvard’s ability to host international students while the university’s lawsuit challenging the restrictions plays out. Continue reading...

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3 h. ago Keir Starmer to meet Donald Trump TODAY amid crisis talks over Middle East conflict

Keir Starmer also urged Brits in Israel to register their presence in the country as he issued a warning of the risks of the conflict between Iran and Israel escalating

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4 h. ago Blitz on Iran: Israel has 'full aerial superiority' over Tehran and has destroyed a third of its missile force as US aircraft carrier steams towards Middle East

Iranian missiles rained down on Israel in the early hours of Monday, damaging the US Embassy as Tehran called for its allies to support its fight against Israel.

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5 h. ago UK warns the situation in Middle East ‘has potential to deteriorate further’

The crisis is likely to dominate talks between leaders including Sir Keir Starmer and Donald Trump at the G7 summit.

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5 h. ago Israel declares it has 'full aerial superiority' over Tehran as US aircraft carrier steams towards Middle East after Trump issued warning to Iran

Iran is looking to form an 'Islamic Army' with several other countries in the Middle East as it continues to wage war with Israel.

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8 h. ago US aircraft carrier steams towards Middle East after Trump issued threat to Tehran

Iran is looking to form an 'Islamic Army' with several other countries in the Middle East as it continues to wage war with Israel.

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47 h. ago UK moving jets to Middle East as Israel warns more severe strikes coming

Sir Keir Starmer confirmed Britain was moving military assets to the region as Iran warned UK bases would be targeted if it helped defend Israel

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48 h. ago World looks on in horror as Israel and Iran bombard each other with strikes

Sir Keir Starmer confirmed Britain was moving military assets to the region as Iran warned UK bases would be targeted if it helped defend Israel

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3 d. ago Trump scrambles to claim credit for Israel’s Iran attack he publicly opposed

Discordant US response as president says he was fully aware of plans for what Marco Rubio called a ‘unilateral action’ Middle East crisis – live updatesDonald Trump is walking a tightrope as he claims that he was fully aware of Israel’s plans to launch massive airstrikes against Iran while continuing to distance the US from those strikes and deny Washington took any active role in the preparations.The White House’s messaging has shifted quickly from Marco Rubio’s arms-length description of the Israeli attack as a “unilateral action”, to Trump claiming on Friday morning that he was fully in the loop on the operation and that it came at the end of a 60-day ultimatum he had given Iran to “make a deal” on its nuclear programme. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago Trump warns Iran ‘make nuclear deal or face slaughter’ as fears of all

Benjamin Netanyahu hails ‘decisive moment in Israel’s history’, as world leaders urge restraint

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3 d. ago Iran’s nuclear facilities may be bombed by Israel. That would be bad for the US – but not Trump’s friends

Israel may bomb Iran. Putin and Netanyahu will gain but that suits Trump, says world affairs editor Sam Kiley

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4 d. ago Iran’s nuclear programme may get bombed by Israel. That would be bad for America

Israel may bomb Iran. Only Putin and Netanyahu will gain but that suits Trump, says Sam Kiley, world affairs editor

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4 d. ago Trump partially evacuating Iraq embassy amid rising tensions with Iran

US partially evacuating Iraq embassy and withdrawing military dependents from across region

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5 d. ago Greta Thunberg denounces Gaza ‘war crimes’ after being deported from Israel

‘We did nothing wrong’ says campaigner after being flown to Paris where she accused Israel of war crimes against starving Palestinians

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7 d. ago Zelensky claims Trump diverted 20,000 missiles promised to Ukraine to the Middle East

President Volodymyr Zelensky said the missiles had been meant to counter Moscow’s Shahed drones

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1 week ago Trump names nominees to take over commands in the Middle East and Africa

President Donald Trump is nominating Vice Adm. Brad Cooper to take over as the top U.S. military commander in the Middle East

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2 w. ago Hamas pledges to free Israeli hostages in prisoner exchange as it seeks amendments to US ceasefire proposal

In a dramatic development, the terror group submitted its counterproposal to a framework drawn up by Steve Witkoff, President Donald Trump's special envoy to the Middle East.

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2 w. ago Hamas says US ceasefire plan accepted by Israel does not meet demands to end war in Gaza

Draft reportedly includes release of 28 hostages in first week, a 60-day ceasefire and aid for Gaza as soon as deal signed offIsrael has agreed to a US ceasefire proposal for Gaza, the White House has said, and Hamas said it was reviewing the plan although its terms did not meet the group’s demands.As a US-backed system for distributing food in the shattered territory expanded, Israeli media reported that prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu had told the families of hostages held in Gaza that Israel had accepted a deal presented by US President Donald Trump’s Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Gaza ceasefire talks: What we know as Trump team shares ‘good feeling’ about ending conflict

Israel and Hamas have given differing messages on the state of US-brokered negotiations

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3 w. ago Nineteen months of carnage: How Gaza was reduced to rubble and starvation as the world watched

Gaza is on the brink of famine after a three-month blockade on supplies, the UN warns. Chief international correspondent Bel Trew looks at how the Palestinians got to this point

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