Four die, dozens rescued in attempted Channel crossing from France to UK
Four people have died while attempting to board an inflatable dinghy off the northern coast of France, as another dangerous English Channel crossing has turned deadly. Authorities said the incident took place early on Thursday near Calais, when a group of migrants waded into the sea to reach a small
Gulf states, Hormuz uncertainty casts shadow over US-Iran ceasefire
The Gulf region breathed a collective sigh of relief late on Tuesday after Iran and the United States agreed on a two-week truce, pausing more than a month of increasingly violent attacks and inflammatory rhetoric. Hours earlier, US President Donald Trump threatened to wipe out an “entire civilisation” and Tehran
Global energy crisis is ‘the mother of all crises’: Turkish minister
Turkiye’s energy minister, Alparslan Bayraktar says the crisis in the Strait of Hormuz, due to the United States and Israel’s war on Iran, indicates the importance of diversifying energy routes and will force the world to move towards forming a new energy structure. Turkish Energy and Natural Resources Minister Alparslan
What is driving the Houthis’ decision-making on joining the Iran war
By Ahmed al-Shalafi: During the first month of the US-Israel war on Iran, the Houthis adopted a cautious approach, even though many expected them to move faster based on the nature of their close relationship with Tehran. This assessment is not wrong — the relationship is indeed strong — but
Here’s the news from Iran – Donald Trump is making America lose wars again
By Simon Tisdall: Donald Trump menaces the world. He’s global public enemy number one. He’s steadily losing the illegal war with Iran he started but cannot stop. His violence-addicted Israeli sidekick, Benjamin Netanyahu, is terrorising Lebanon. And ordinary people everywhere, their security threatened, face a huge economic bill for his reckless folly.
UK must build own nuclear missiles, say Lib Dems
Liberal Democrats leader Sir Ed Davey is calling on the government to start building a “fully independent British nuclear deterrent” to end the UK’s reliance on the US. The UK has operational control of its nuclear arsenal, including British-built warheads, but it depends on the US to supply and maintain
Trump urges UK and other nations to send warships to Strait of Hormuz
Donald Trump has urged the UK and other nations to send warships to the Strait of Hormuz to help secure the key shipping route out of the Middle East. The US president said he hoped China, France, Japan and South Korea would also send ships to the passage, where a
Former Labour minister Phil Woolas dies aged 66
A former Labour minister who was famously confronted by Joanna Lumley in a live TV showdown has died from brain cancer aged 66. Phil Woolas was MP for Oldham East and Saddleworth from 1997 until 2010 and held several ministerial posts under Sir Tony Blair and Gordon Brown. But his political career ended
Meet the director nominated for two Oscars for two different films
Being nominated for an Academy Award is a dream come true, the ultimate recognition in film that can open doors and bolster name recognition to further a successful career. But that dreamy feeling is doubled for American filmmaker Geeta Gandbhir. She is nominated twice – in two separate categories for
There may be no knockout blows from Mandelson files but it’s far from over:Chris Mason
This first digital document drop about Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer’s decision to appoint Lord Peter Mandelson as ambassador to Washington is interesting, but not explosive. There are noteworthy nuggets, as we set out here, and the revelations about his payoff will be, to many, enraging. They also reveal that the