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Israel kills three in attacks on Lebanon, issues more displacement orders

News Agency (NNA) reported, as the Israeli military issued new forced displacement orders for residents in the south. Israeli drone attacks targeting three vehicles on the Kafr Rumman-Jarmaq highway and the Jarmaq-Khardali road

US is being ‘humiliated’ by Iran’s leadership, says Friedrich Merz

News: “We have all the cards,” adding that if Tehran wanted to talk, “they can come to us, or they can call us”. Speaking to students in Marsberg, Merz suggested it was Trump’s team

Germany says US troop withdrawal 'foreseeable' as Nato seeks clarification

news agency, Pistorius also stressed that "the presence of American soldiers in Europe, and particularly in Germany, is in our interest and in the interest of the US". Meanwhile Nato spokeswoman Allison Hart said

Republicans call off vote on Iran war resolution that was on the verge of passing

news conference, Thursday, May 21, 2026, on Capitol Hill, in Washington. **Mariam Zuhaib/AP** Mariam Zuhaib/AP WASHINGTON — Republicans struggled Thursday to find the votes to dismiss legislation that would compel President Donald Trump to withdraw from

Trump calls Iran’s response to peace plan ‘totally unacceptable’ as ceasefire frays | First Thing

strikes were reported around the region and the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, said the war was “not over”. The semi-official Tasnim news agency, citing an informed source, said on Sunday night that Iran

Guardian Essential poll: Australians want higher tax on gas exports and extension of petrol excise cut

News Australia email](https://www.theguardian.com/email-newsletters?CMP=copyembed&CMP=emailbutton) The [latest Essential poll](https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/apr/28/pauline-hanson-one-nation-leadership-guardian-essential-poll-ntwnfb) of 1,067 voters last week found Australians were keen to see ambitious tax reform in next month’s federal budget

U.S.-Iran peace talks still in limbo after Iran seizes ships in the Strait of Hormuz

News on Wednesday that there was "no time pressure" either on the truce or setting a new date for talks. Iran dismissed Trump's extension as "meaningless" and said it would not return to negotiations

As the U.S.-Iran ceasefire deadline looms, here are the main sticking points

News](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-04-20/trump-says-iran-truce-extension-unlikely-hormuz-to-stay-blocked) on Monday that a renewal of the ceasefire was "highly unlikely." Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf, Iran's chief negotiator and parliament speaker, accused the United States late Monday of forcing Iran

With 3,000 containers stuck in Pakistan, Iran explores more land routes

military might. “[Iran’s] storage reservoirs would fill quickly, some estimates suggest within a few weeks, forcing production shut-ins,” finance and policy analyst Javed Hassan, an adviser to the Islamabad-based Centre for Research

'Decimate' means much more today than it did in ancient Rome

news lately, you might have noticed that a certain word has suddenly become a favorite of President Trump's: "decimate." He has used it a lot to describe U.S. military action against Iran. Take

US and Iran close to temporary truce, Pakistani officials claim

military fired on an Iranian-flagged oil tanker hours after Trump issued a fresh ultimatum to Tehran, telling it to accept a deal to end the war or face a new wave of US bombing

U.S. attempt to open Strait of Hormuz tests fragile Iran war ceasefire

US of ceasefire violation Iran has said the new U.S. effort is a violation of the fragile ceasefire that has held for more than three weeks. In a post on X Tuesday, Iran's powerful

Is Egypt threatening Israel through its military exercises on the border?

news. “How, after everything we’ve been through, does the [Israeli military] approve a foreign army operating with live fire right on the contact line?” “Gunfire noise is the perfect cover for smuggling or even

Another day, another pivot as Trump flails in an Iran trap of his own making

news agency, reported that the US, Iran and their Pakistani mediators were getting close to an agreement on a one-page “memorandum of understanding” to declare an end to the war and begin

SCOTUS weighs Temporary Protected Status cases. And, jury indicts James Comey again

news you need to start your day.* ### Today's top stories **The Department of Justice has secured a two-count indictment against former FBI Director James Comey.** The DOJ is accusing him of threatening President

SCOTUS temporarily restores mifepristone access. And, Indiana, Ohio vote in primaries

news agency on May 4, 2026, the Iran-flagged tugboat Basim sails near a ship anchored in the Strait of Hormuz off Bandar Abbas in southern Iran. **Amirhossein Khorgooei/ISNA/AFP via Getty Images** Amirhossein Khorgooei/ISNA/AFP

‘Unacceptable’: What’s Iran’s peace proposal that Trump has rejected?

strikes and a ground invasion. Iran wants the first stage of the negotiations to focus on ending hostilities, as well as ensuring “maritime security” in the Gulf and the Strait of Hormuz, before moving

European countries emerge as NATO leaders as U.S. role recedes

news conference at the White House on Feb. 27, 2025. **Carl Court/Getty Images** Carl Court/Getty Images In a statement to NPR last week, Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell said Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered the withdrawal

Middle East crisis live: Witkoff and Kushner head to Pakistan for Iran negotiations

strikes hit the villages of Deir al-Zahrani, Kfar Reman and al-Sama’iya, which are **north of where IDF forces are located in southern Lebanon.** On Thursday, [Donald Trump](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/donaldtrump) announced that

U.S. strikes Iran. And, immigration courts use new tactic to speed up deportations

news you need to start your day.* ### Today's top stories **The U.S. military announced that it launched attacks yesterday on Iranian boats and missile launch sites** in Southern Iran. U.S. Central Command Spokesman Capt