Iran War Live Updates: Iran Defies Trump’s Threats Over Strait of Hormuz Blockade
President Trump threatened to “wipe out” oil infrastructure on Kharg Island if Iranian forces continued to block the critical conduit for fuel. The U.S. Embassy in Baghdad was hit for the second time since the war started.
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UN chief Guterres says ‘no military solution, only diplomacy’ for Lebanon
Sources report Lebanon preparing delegation for talks with Israel, while Guterres drums up humanitarian support.
Trump urges other countries to deploy ships to help reopen strait of Hormuz
President calls on China, France, Japan and the UK to send vessels after US strikes Kharg Island oil facilitiesMiddle East crisis – live updatesDonald Trump has called on other countries to send ships to help reopen the strait of Hormuz, the critical chokepoint for global oil supplies which Iran has closed to almost all shipping in retaliation for the joint US-Israeli offensive launched two weeks ago.In the latest flurry of social media posts, Trump wrote on Saturday on Truth Social that “many countries, especially those who are affected by Iran’s attempted closure of the Hormuz Strait, will be sending War Ships, in conjunction with the United States of America, to keep the Strait open and safe.” Continue reading...
Protests erupt in Cuba as US restrictions spark food, energy shortages
Authorities say a local communist party office was lit on fire during rare antigovernment demonstration on the island.
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‘Israel targeting Iran’s security forces may aim to encourage uprising’
‘Israel targeting Iran’s security forces may aim to encourage uprising’ says director of the Iran Program at the MEI.
Jürgen Habermas, German philosopher and sociologist, dies aged 96
Habermas’ political consensus-building theory argued formation of public opinion vital for democracies to surviveThe influential German philosopher and sociologist Jürgen Habermas has died at the age of 96, his publisher has said.Habermas, a towering figure in the intellectual history of postwar Germany, is best known for his theory of political consensus-building. Widely considered one of most influential philosophers of the 20th century, he also helped to shape the discourse around European integration and the formation of the EU. Continue reading...
The Iranian moment: A leap into the unknown
In the past century, Iran has undergone two major transformations. A third seems to be on its way.
Lebanon’s Displaced Flee Israeli Strikes One Year Into War
Israeli calls for the evacuation of huge swaths of southern Lebanon have led 830,000 people, about 14 percent of Lebanon’s population, to flee.
Five arrested in Cuba after protest at local Communist party office
Rare action began peacefully but ‘degenerated into vandalism’ according to state-run newspaperFive people have been arrested in Cuba for acts of “vandalism” after a small group of protesters broke into a provincial office of the Cuban Communist party and set fire to computers and furniture.The incident, which also affected a pharmacy and another shop, took place in the town of Moron, a little more than 300 miles (500km) east of Havana. Continue reading...