Tag: Guardian War
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📍 World (approximate area) ⚔️ Iran 📍 US president has accused organisation of ‘ripping off the rest of the world’ by inflating oil prices Business live – latest updates The United Arab Emirates has quit the Opec oil cartel in a heavy blow to the group and its de facto leader, Saudi Arabia, amid the…
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📍 Ukraine (approximate area) ⚔️ Ukraine 📍 Billionaire Alexei Mordashov’s vessel, Nord, reportedly able to cross blockaded strait with US and Iranian approval A superyacht owned by the Russian billionaire Alexei Mordashov was able to transit the blockaded strait of Hormuz after undergoing maintenance in Dubai because neither Iran nor the US objected, a source…
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📍 World (approximate area) ⚔️ Lebanon 📍 Rejection letters for those applying to enter Australia while they wait for their partner visas read like ‘cut-and-paste’ refusals, migration agents say Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Every night Maram cries for her father. “‘Dad, Dad, Dad’, all the time she is…
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📍 Gaza (approximate area) ⚔️ Gaza 📍 Government appeal against high court ruling could have implications for right to protest and lead to other groups being proscribed The home secretary, Shabana Mahmood, will have her appeal against the high court ruling that the ban on Palestine Action was unlawful heard in the court of appeal…
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📍 Gaza (approximate area) ⚔️ Gaza 📍 The female-created YouTube sketch series Smatouha Minni (You Heard It From Me) uses satire to confront misogynistic attitudes In Beirut’s Gemmayzeh neighbourhood a rented flat has been transformed into a film set: bright studio lights in a cosy living room. At its centre is Maria Elayan – though…
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📍 World (approximate area) ⚔️ Iran 📍 Climate group calls for urgent windfall tax on excess fossil fuel profits, as delegates tell Colombia conference their nations are suffering The Middle East oil and gas crunch will impose as much as a trillion dollars of additional costs on the global economy while petroleum companies rake in…
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📍 Sudan (approximate area) ⚔️ Sudan 🪖 The RSF leadership, accused of committing genocide, used UAE as a ‘safe haven’ for family members and their wealth, records show A network linked to the leadership of a militia accused of genocide has amassed a vast property portfolio in Dubai as part of a sprawling “paramilitary-industrial complex”…
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📍 World (approximate area) ⚔️ Lebanon 📍 Claim by environment minister opens new report into profound ecological damage allegedly done by IDF forces Lebanon’s minister for the environment has accused Israel’s military of committing “an act of ecocide” in the foreword to a report detailing the harm done to the country’s natural resources during the…
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📍 World (approximate area) ⚔️ Iran ⚔️ Tehran’s UN envoy says ‘full respect’ of Iran’s rights also key for lasting regional stability US is being ‘humiliated’ by Iran’s leadership, says Friedrich Merz The US treasury secretary, Scott Bessent, has said Iran’s oil industry is starting to shut production down because of the American blockade of…
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📍 World (approximate area) ⚔️ Iran 📍 I suspect the main reason they avoid criticizing Israel is that they believe that would be antisemitic. But this is both dangerous and wrong In an extraordinary article published on 7 April, the New York Times described how Donald Trump decided to go to war with Iran. It…