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First Thing: US-Iran ceasefire at risk after exchange of fire in strait of Hormuz

Project Freedom”?** The US plan to guide tankers through the strait of Hormuz was ditched just days after it was launched, apparently because [Saudi Arabia refused to let the US](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/may/07/trump-project-freedom-saudi-arabia-strait-of-hormuz)

Wednesday briefing: How Trump’s attempt to reopen to strait of Hormuz brought war closer again

freedom to operate independently of its country’s rulers. “Before the war, part of Iran’s defence doctrine was based on the expectation that their leadership would get decapitated. So, local commanders were given

May Day rallies sweep US, demanding reforms for working-class rights

freedom of association,” New York City Central Labor Council, AFL-CIO President Brendan Griffith said in a statement to Al Jazeera. Project 2025 is a conservative initiative that was laid out by the Heritage Foundation

Oil prices surge as violence flares in Strait of Hormuz

Project Freedom”, there have yet to be any signs of a substantial resumption of maritime traffic in the region. On Monday, the head of the International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) said that ships should

British universities paid security firm to ‘spy’ on pro-Palestine students

project within the University of Oxford’s security team by former Lieutenant-Colonel Jonathan Whiteley, who boasts a “23-year career running security, intelligence and counter-intelligence operations all over the world”, according

Iran warns US to stay out of Hormuz after Trump says US will ‘guide’ ships

Project Freedom” – at the request of countries whose vessels are stranded in the strait, whom he referred to as “neutral and innocent bystanders”. “For the good of Iran, the Middle East, and the United States

UAE comes under Iranian attacks for second consecutive day

Project Freedom”, to guide vessels through the Strait of Hormuz starting on Monday. About a fifth of global energy exports pass through the narrow waterway. In retaliation for joint US-Israeli strikes on Iran

Oil prices ease as US seeks reopening of the Hormuz Strait

operation](https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/clypekl71gdo) to guide ships through the key Strait of Hormuz trade route - a move that triggered an escalation in attacks in the region - to see if a deal could be made. Brent

Middle East crisis live: Lebanon hit by one of the heaviest days of Israeli bombing in weeks

operating with “large forces on ​the ‌ground” in order to take control of “strategic areas”. - **Meanwhile, the proposed peace agreement between Iran and the US seemed to remain on the table despite US bombings

Trump tells Iran to accept deal or face new wave of US bombing

Project Freedom” – just a day after it began came after requests from “mediator Pakistan and other countries”. He said “Great Progress has been made toward a Complete and Final Agreement” with Tehran. The US president

Iran's Revolutionary Guard says ships can now pass through the Strait of Hormuz

Project Freedom," in which the U.S. military guided merchant vessels through the strategic waterway. The Guard's navy command [said in a post on social media](https://x.com/niroo_daryayi/status/2051971602724577549) that it will no longer block

The UAE is attacked as U.S. says it helped 2 ships through the Strait of Hormuz

Project Freedom" in humanitarian terms, designed to aid stranded seafarers on hundreds of ships that have been stuck in the Persian Gulf since the war began. Crews have described to The Associated Press seeing drones

Boats, fire and an AI song - inside Arsenal's title win

project. "Trust the process," said Arteta in June 2020. In the fullness of time, he was right. [Arteta is the red arrow](/sport/football/articles/cp86pjdn300o) - the force of nature who has steered and shaped the team into

Labour and Lib Dem MPs demand ‘shameful’ Palantir NHS contract be scrapped

freedom of information act have revealed health bosses’ internal fears over “negative sentiment” about the system. Emails between officials in January discussed how they needed to “get on the front foot and put out some

Voters say they feel confused and misled on Virginia's redistricting vote

Project](https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/371779557/202532749349301403/full) and House Majority Forward, a nonprofit linked to Democratic U.S. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries. Virginians for Fair Maps, the group behind the no vote, has received $19 million across

Negotiations that enable Israel’s land-grabs

project. This is why one can see that, with the Partition Plan of 1947, despite claims that they “accepted” the Partition (though it was not for anyone to give away), Zionist attacks were not confined

Trump says the US will 'guide' stranded ships from the Strait of Hormuz

Project Freedom" would begin on Monday morning in the Middle East, Trump said, adding that his representatives are having discussions with Iran that could lead to something "very positive for all." U.S. Central Command said

Has the US accepted Iran’s demand to settle Hormuz first, nuclear later?

operations”. US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said the ceasefire “certainly holds”. ## Has Washington blinked? The central question is whether the US has, implicitly, accepted Iran’s core demand: end the war and settle the Strait

Palestinians use recycling as Israel's restrictions trigger a trash crisis

freedom.'" In a statement, the Israeli military told NPR that it "is advancing on a construction permit for a third landfill in Judea and Samaria," using the Biblical name for the land Israel captured from

Labour figures who wrote competing ‘manifestos’ join forces to warn against tribalism

freedoms. Mathew Lawrence, the director of Common Wealth, who authored the Manchesterism essay, and Mark McVitie, who wrote the Labour Growth Group’s An Honest Day, said Labour must reject the idea of “tribes” – such