7 h. ago Households urged to move bird feeders immediately to one secure place

Garden-owners have been urged to move bird feeders as temperatures continue to soar across the UK - otherwise birds risk overheating in search of their next meal

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11 h. ago Trump’s strikes on Iran have failed to destroy its path to a bomb and may drag the U.S. into a quagmire, experts warn

Experts say the attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities did not destroy its stockpile of enriched uranium and may increase the political will to build a bomb.

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11 h. ago Where is Iran's missing 880lbs of uranium? Ayatollah may have moved enough to build nukes before Trump struck

Senior Trump administration officials conceded they do not know the fate of Iran's 880 pounds of near-bomb-grade uranium. 

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14 h. ago Search continues for 2 people still missing after 6 killed when boat capsized on Lake Tahoe

A search continues for two people still missing after six others were killed when a boat capsized on Lake Tahoe in California during a powerful weekend thunderstorm that whipped up high waves

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18 h. ago Inside Israel's Unit 8200: The team of teen tech whizzes who tracked down Iran's uranium enrichment sites

Israel Defense Forces Unit 8200 were the ones responsible in uncovering Iran's uranium enrichment site... but the staff isn't filled with seasoned soldiers but underpaid teenage tech whizzes.

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19 h. ago Nuclear watchdog makes 'unimaginable' prediction as Iran's uranium site hit again

Israel and the US have carried out airstrikes on nuclear sites in Iran where they claimed the Islamic regime have been working to enrich uranium to create a weapon of mass destruction

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29 h. ago Where is Iran’s uranium? Fate of strike hangs on 400kg stockpile

US and Israeli attacks hit key nuclear sites but questions remain over stash of enriched material

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29 h. ago Where is Iran’s uranium? Search continues for 400kg stockpile

US and Israeli attacks hit key nuclear sites but questions remain over stash of enriched material

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42 h. ago US attacks on Iran inflicted major destruction, Pentagon officials say

Defence secretary denies US is pursuing policy of regime change after strikes on Iranian nuclear sitesMiddle East crisis – latest updatesThe surprise overnight US attack on Iran inflicted major damage and destruction on three of its key nuclear sites, senior Pentagon officials said, as the US defence secretary denied that the Trump administration was pursuing a policy of regime change in the Middle East.In a press conference in Washington, Gen Dan Caine, the chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, detailed Operation Midnight Hammer, in which seven B-2 Spirit bombers flew 18 hours from the US to sites in Iran to drop 14 GBU-57 Massive Ordnance Penetrators in strikes that were said to have caused “extremely severe damage” to Iranian uranium enrichment facilities at Fordow, Natanz and Isfahan. Continue reading...

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49 h. ago What a difference a week makes: Trump falls into the Netanyahu trap

People were starting to laud the US president for his resistance to the Israeli PM’s pull, but what now?Middle East crisis – live updatesWhen he was elected, Donald Trump suggested he could hammer out a new relationship with Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister who was used to getting his way with the White House. But after just over 150 days in office, it appears Trump has fallen into the same trap as his predecessors – and launched the most consequential strike on Iran in generations.From early suggestions that the Trump administration would rein in Netanyahu’s military ambitions, it now appears that the Israeli PM has manoeuvred the US into striking Iranian uranium enrichment sites directly after a series of military attacks that Washington was unable to deter the Israeli PM from. And the US is now bracing for a retaliation that could easily bring it into a full-scale war. Continue reading...

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55 h. ago Donald Trump says US has attacked three Iranian nuclear sites and ‘totally obliterated’ them

The strikes hit uranium enrichment sites at Fordow, Natanz, and Isfahan, Trump saidUS strikes Iran – follow it liveExplainer: What is Iran’s Fordow nuclear site and why was a US strike needed?Donald Trump on Saturday said on national television that the US had bombed and destroyed three nuclear sites in Iran, directly joining Israel ’s effort to destroy the country’s nuclear program in a risky gambit to weaken a longtime foe amid Tehran’s threat of reprisals that could spark a wider regional conflict.“Our objective was the destruction of Iran’s nuclear enrichment capacity and a stop to the nuclear threat posed by the world’s number one state sponsor of terror,” Trump said in a speech from the White House. “Tonight, I can report to the world that the strikes were a spectacular military success. Iran’s key nuclear enrichment facilities have been completely and totally obliterated.” Continue reading...

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4 d. ago Arsenal transfer news: Mikel Arteta sees target 'agree deal' and Benjamin Sesko latest

Arsenal are continuing their search for a new striker and have been linked with a host of names - as one door closes another opens for Mikel Arteta

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4 d. ago Europeans will make ‘comprehensive’ offer to Tehran, Macron says

French president seeks deal in which Iran would cease uranium enrichment

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4 d. ago Iran's Arak heavy water reactor, hit by an Israeli airstrike, was part of Tehran's nuclear deal

Much of the focus on Iran’s nuclear program has been on Tehran’s enrichment of uranium

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5 d. ago Buried in a mountain and fortified against bombs: Inside Iran’s secret Fordow nuclear site out of Israel’s reach

When Barack Obama revealed the existence of Iran’s nuclear facility in 2009, he said its size and capacity were ‘inconsistent with a peaceful programme’

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7 d. ago Fake fundraising pages sprout after floods ravage West Virginia, leaving at least six dead, including a 3

Rescue crews continue to search for the missing

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7 d. ago Here’s what it means to enrich uranium – and why it raises concerns in Iran

Iran has enriched large quantities of uranium at its facilities

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9 d. ago Minnesota police search for suspect after Democratic lawmaker shot dead and another wounded

Governor Tim Walz condemns ‘politically motivated assassination’ as search continues for Vance Luther BoelterA prominent Democratic state lawmaker in Minnesota and her husband were killed and another Democratic state lawmaker and his wife were shot in the early hours of Saturday.State representative Melissa Hortman died, as has her husband, Mark, the state’s governor, Tim Walz, confirmed at a press conference on Saturday. Walz said the shooting “appears to be a politically motivated assassination”. Hortman was the top Democrat in the Minnesota house and the former speaker. The Democratic state senator John Hoffman and his wife, Yvette, were both shot multiple times and are out of surgery, and Walz said he was “cautiously optimistic” both will survive. Continue reading...

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1 week ago At least 270 people killed in Air India crash as search teams find more bodies

Search and recovery teams continue to search site of one of India’s worst aviation disasters for third day

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1 week ago Man arrested on suspicion of murder of Annie McCarrick released

A search of a house in Clondalkin in west Dublin is to continue over the weekend.

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