📍 Ukraine (approximate area) ⚔️ Ukraine 📍 Sources say country wants US to end its blockade as part of proposal but has not addressed its nuclear programme German chancellor Friedrich Merz said on Monday he does not see what exit strategy the United States has in the Iran war, warning “an entire nation is being…
📍 Gaza ⚔️ Gaza ⚔️ Engineer and two drivers killed in recent weeks as scarcity of clean water fuels spread of preventable diseases Israeli forces in Gaza killed a water engineer and two drivers who transported water to displaced families over four days in mid-April, exacerbating severe shortages of clean water that are fuelling the…
📍 Gaza (approximate area) ⚔️ Gaza ⚔️ Families say ‘Ulm 5’ have been detained under extreme prison conditions since arrest last September Five pro-Palestinian activists are due to appear in court over an attack on an Israeli arms company in Germany, in proceedings their families say could become a “show trial”. The Berlin-based activists, who…
📍 World (approximate area) ⚔️ Iran 📍 In Tehran, the Guardian spoke to people about how war is transforming their feelings toward the regime and their country’s future Behzad has a master’s degree in the humanities and lives with his partner in a rented flat in central Tehran. He says he didn’t take part in…
📍 World (approximate area) ⚔️ Israel 📍 Rightwing Naftali Bennett and centrist Yair Lapid announce new party before Knesset vote expected later this year Two of Benjamin Netanyahu’s most formidable political rivals say they are joining forces in an attempt to oust the Israeli prime minister’s coalition government in the election expected later this year.…
📍 World (approximate area) ⚔️ Lebanon 🕊️ The Israeli government and Hezbollah have traded blame over breaches to the truce, which is set to run for several more weeks Lebanon’s health ministry said Israeli strikes on the country’s south killed 14 people on Sunday, the deadliest day since a ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah came…
📍 World (approximate area) ⚔️ Iran 🕊️ Deepening sense of deadlock despite regional diplomacy as Washington and Tehran show no signs of compromise Hopes of a breakthrough in negotiations between Iran and the US faded further on Sunday, amid a deepening sense of deadlock in the nearly two-month-long conflict despite intense regional diplomatic activity. Washington…
📍 World (approximate area) ⚔️ Iran 📍 US defense secretary’s openly Christian nationalist church continues to have growing influence in the White House On 17 April, at a briefing on the Iran war, secretary of defense Pete Hegseth told reporters he had been “sitting in church with my family” the previous Sunday while the minister…
📍 World (approximate area) ⚔️ Iran 📍 If lawless aggression by ‘might is right’ nuclear-armed powers spreads unchecked, what other option do middle-ranking countries have? With every bomb dropped, ship seized and blood-curdling threat of annihilation, Donald Trump increases Iran’s incentive to reject his “grand bargain” peace deal and sprint instead to acquire nuclear weapons…
📍 World (approximate area) ⚔️ Iran 🕊️ Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner were to travel to Islamabad to attempt to revive ceasefire negotiations Donald Trump said he has told US envoys not to go to Pakistan for more talks with Iran, shortly after Tehran’s top diplomat left Islamabad late on Saturday. Trump added to Fox…