Tag: Guardian War
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📍 Iran (approximate area) ⚔️ Iran 📍 Iran Freedom Congress, which has met in London, aims to be a ‘pluralist movement’ supporting those inside country “It’s an exercise that is necessary and frankly has been missing for the past 47 years,” said Mehrdad Marty Youssefiani, a founding member of a new group seeking to act…
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📍 Iran (approximate area) ⚔️ Iran 🏥 Soaring oil prices and the blockade are preventing food, fuel and medicine being delivered to millions of people in desperate need, say NGOs The volatility of global oil prices caused by the US and Israel’s war on Iran is taking a toll on the most vulnerable people, by…
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📍 Sahel (approximate area) ⚔️ Sahel 📍 Pirates appear to be taking advantage of international naval strength being diverted to Middle East Three vessels have been hijacked off the coast of Somalia in the past week, raising fears of a resurgence in piracy around the Horn of Africa, and adding to the woes of the…
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📍 Lebanon (approximate area) ⚔️ Lebanon 🚀 Ceasefire frays further as Israel also carries out airstrikes and issues new displacement orders for south Lebanon Hezbollah launched several drones at Israeli soldiers in south Lebanon on Tuesday, while Israel issued new displacement orders for south Lebanon and carried out airstrikes, as the fraying ceasefire failed to…
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📍 Iran (approximate area) ⚔️ Iran 📍 Defection is damaging to Saudi Arabia’s prestige – and could strengthen the US hand in the region The United Arab Emirates’ decision to walk out of Opec is a political as much as business decision, and will reignite the simmering rows between the UAE and Saudi Arabia –…
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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…