Tag: Guardian War
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📍 World (approximate area) ⚔️ Iran 📍 Tensions around US negotiations may reflect mistake of assassinating more pragmatic and experienced figures Middle East crisis – live updates Donald Trump has claimed that the infighting between moderates and hardliners in Iran’s leadership is so intense that Iranians have “no idea who their leader is”, but many…
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📍 Gaza (approximate area) ⚔️ Gaza 📍 Not using capital punishment ‘really a requirement’ for Council of Europe’s parliamentary assembly, says president Israel’s observer status at the Council of Europe’s parliamentary assembly could be suspended over the country’s new law mandating the death penalty for Palestinians convicted of some offences, the president of the body…
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📍 World (approximate area) ⚔️ Iran 📍 When Lebanon gets mentioned in the news, it’s often alongside Hezbollah. The group — designated by major western powers as a terrorist group — is variously characterised as a democratic political party in Lebanon’s parliament, as an organisation that provides social services and other times as a puppet…
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📍 Tehran ⚔️ Iran 💥 Members of Rafi’ Nia synagogue braved airstrikes to celebrate Passover hours before it was destroyed Middle East crisis – live updates On the evening of 6 April, Asef, 65, and other members of Tehran’s Jewish community braved the US-Israeli bombing campaign to celebrate an evening Passover service at the Rafi’…
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📍 World (approximate area) ⚔️ Iran 📍 Firm had to repatriate almost 12,000 guests and staff, including from two cruise ships in Abu Dhabi and Doha The Iran war has cost the travel company Tui €40m (£34.7m) so far, including repatriating almost 12,000 holidaymakers and staff, and forced it to cut its profit forecast for…
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📍 Gaza ⚔️ Gaza 📍 Residents waking to find line has moved overnight and they are now in free-fire zone as army takes more territory Middle East crisis – live updates Israeli forces have been moving an agreed truce line in Gaza westwards over the six months since the ceasefire, expanding their zone of control…
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📍 Tehran ⚔️ Iran 🪖 Iranian hardliners rallied late on Tuesday night with members of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards apparently bringing ballistic missiles to parade in Tehran. Donald Trump had earlier said he was extending the ceasefire with Iran at Pakistan’s request, while awaiting a ‘unified proposal’ from Tehran Middle East crisis live: latest news updates…
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📍 West Bank ⚔️ Gaza ⚔️ Local officials and witnesses say attackers shot at students first then at those who arrived to help Two Palestinians, including a 14-year-old schoolboy, have been killed in the occupied West Bank after Israeli settlers opened fire near a school amid mounting assaults on education in the territory, witnesses and…
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📍 World (approximate area) ⚔️ Iran 📍 Iran’s goal is to maintain chokehold on the global economy, even as some say it could run out of oil storage by Sunday Middle East crisis – live updates Donald Trump’s indefinite shelving of the plan to bomb Iran’s bridges and power stations on Tuesday night is being…
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📍 World (approximate area) ⚔️ Iran 🕊️ Iranian forces seize two ships in critical waterway as Washington and Tehran maintain separate blockades Middle East crisis – live updates Iranian forces have seized two ships in the strait of Hormuz as the US and Iran doubled down on imposing separate blockades of the shipping waterway. The…