Iran War Live Updates: Israel Strikes Tehran as Regional Diplomats Gather in Pakistan for Talks
Israel said it launched a wave of strikes targeting infrastructure in Tehran and other areas, and Iran retaliated. Officials from Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Turkey were meeting in Pakistan in hopes of finding a way to end the war.
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Middle East crisis live: US secretly plotting ground attack despite message of diplomacy, says Iran’s parliamentary speaker
Iranian state media publish message from Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf marking 30 days since the start of the warIran’s foreign minister, Abbas Araghchi, has condemned Israel’s killing of three journalists in Lebanon on Saturday.On his Telegram, Araghchi said the killings amounted to “targeted assassination” and “flagrant violation of international law”. He said they were a way of silencing “the voices of those who tell the truth”. Continue reading...
Pakistan hosts diplomatic discussions on ending war
Foreign ministers from Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Egypt will meet in Islamabad today in an attempt to come up with a plan to de-escalate the Iran war, after another group got involved in the expanding conflict: Yemen's Houthi rebels.
Keir Starmer says UK will ‘have to act’ to curb addictive features of social media
In his strongest intervention yet, PM says some features ‘shouldn’t be permitted’, while education secretary says things ‘are going to change’Keir Starmer has backed banning addictive social media features in his strongest intervention yet on curbs that could be placed on tech companies, saying the features “shouldn’t be permitted”.The prime minister said the government was “going to have to act” on the algorithms that hook young people and children to social media, such as scrolling or “streaks” that encourage daily usage of apps. Continue reading...
Modeling industry activist calls for inquiry into how agencies ‘facilitated Epstein’s abuse’
Sara Ziff, founder of Model Alliance, said business leaders need to be hauled before House oversight committeeA top modeling industry activist has called for business leaders to be hauled before lawmakers in Washington to investigate what role modeling agencies may have played in the Jeffrey Epstein sex trafficking scandal.Sara Ziff is founder of the Model Alliance, a non-profit advocacy group calling for fair treatment, labor rights and safe working conditions for fashion industry workers. Continue reading...
Dozens detained in Tel Aviv as anti-war protest turns violent
Police in Tel Aviv dispersed protesters opposing the US-Israeli war on Iran on Saturday. Up to 18 people were arrested.
Pentagon readies for weeks of US ground operations in Iran: Report
Uncertainty looms over Trump's approval of the Pentagon's plans for limited ground operations in Iran's strategic regions.
Exhausted Palestinians struggle to put lives back together as world’s gaze fixes on Iran
Five months after a ceasefire was announced in Gaza, airstrikes are still killing civilians, and the humanitarian situation remains direThere is little left that connects Palestinians in Gaza with their prewar existence. The contours of life have become darker and far more brutal, as if the population has been stripped of its past.“Drones never stop buzzing overhead, gunfire and shelling continue almost daily and naval boats fire towards fishermen,” said 56-year-old Ahmed Baroud, a father of five displaced in Deir al-Balah. Continue reading...
US-Israel war on Iran: What’s happening on day 30 of attacks?
Foreign ministers from Pakistan, Turkiye, Egypt and Saudi Arabia hold talks in Islamabad to end US-Israel war on Iran.