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causing the worst global energy crisis since the 1970s and risking a global recession. So what do we know about the talks and where they stand as of now? ## What has the US said
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei two days later. Over the next few days, Israel would displace more than 1.2 million people in Lebanon in a bombing campaign across the country. Israel has killed
crisis. The legislation [aims to encourage homebuilding](https://www.npr.org/2026/05/20/nx-s1-5827166/house-passes-housing-affordability-bill) and to ban corporate landlords from buying more than 350 houses. **Trump told reporters yesterday that it might take several days to decide whether
Crisis Group. “We have not seen him deploying significant military assets to any theatre and ending up not using it. He has often used the US military might if he has deployed
Iran and Lebanon – and caused global economic pain by pushing up energy prices. ## **Lead prosecutor withdraws from criminal case against James Comey**  The former FBI director James
Iran’s stockpile of highly enriched uranium (HEU), and the dismantling of Iranian nuclear facilities. - **What is the sticking point?** According to the Wall Street Journal, the Iranian counter-proposal suggested a shorter moratorium
Iran](https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/may/27/us-israel-war-on-iran-driving-historic-levels-of-global-hunger-un-says) has compounded other global disasters to drive record numbers of people into hunger at a time when funding to combat famine has fallen dramatically, the head of the UN World Food
crisis came along, it is now firmly under water and losing money in a big way," says Jonathan Hinkles, a former chief executive of the regional carrier Loganair and current CEO of Skybus. Fares have
water tanks were badly damaged in the drought-stricken south, [a war crime if intentional](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jun/11/strikes-water-facilities-iran-war-crime-experts). By Thursday afternoon however, the prospect of mass destruction had evaporated as quickly as it had materialised
crisis*** | Donald Trump has threatened that Iran will be “[blown off the face of the earth](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/may/04/trump-iran-threat-us-vessels)” if it attacks US vessels trying to reopen a route through the strait of Hormuz
waters”, including the downing of a US Apache attack helicopter over the Strait of Hormuz on Monday. Iran has denied deliberately targeting the helicopter and the US said it is investigating the incident. Despite hopes