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The meeting appeared carefully choreographed to avoid open disagreements – apart from a brief awkward moment when Trump made a joke about Pearl Harbor
President Donald Trump spoke with U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer by phone on Sunday, a conversation that touched on Iran‘s chokehold of the Strait of Hormuz. According to a statement from Starmer’s office, the two discussed the Iran war and the “importance of reopening the Strait of Hormuz to end the disruption to global shipping.” […]
Mothers in a displacement camp in southern Somalia struggle to keep their children alive as drought and aid disruptions deepen hunger, a crisis that now also has a link to the far-away Iran war
Vladimir Putin has made a concerted effort to re-engineer the relationship between the army, the state and Russian society since the 2000s
A federal district court on Tuesday paused Louisiana’s lawsuit against the Food and Drug Administration’s liberalization of dispensing rules for the abortion pill mifepristone until the agency is able to complete a safety review, intensifying the conflict between anti-abortion Republicans and the Trump administration. Judge David Joseph of the Western District of Louisiana, who was […]
Alarm among military observers after president says ‘whole civilization will die tonight’ if Iran ignores demands
Massive storm tracking a path to Queensland coast, which intensified offshore Thursday morning to category five, fuelled by warm waters in Coral Sea
An appellate court has ruled that Iowa can fully enforce a law restricting instruction on gender identity and sexual orientation in schools up to sixth grade
LONDON, April 1 (Reuters) - Prime Minister Keir Starmer said on Wednesday that the global instability caused by the war in Iran means Britain should align more closely with the European Union on security and economy, following criticism from U.S. President Donald Trump. At a press conference aimed at easing public concern over rising energy costs, Starmer said the impact of the war would "define us for a generation" and could be similar to the rise in energy prices in the 1970s
The IRGC will likely resist any invasion of Iranian territory with tenacity