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Reeves steps up criticism of Trump’s Iran war, branding it a ‘mistake’

shipping was damaging the living standards of families and businesses in the UK and the US. “We need to reopen that strait of Hormuz, to get down energy prices and to strengthen and stabilise

Australia news live: Albanese and Sultan of Brunei pledge energy cooperation; antisemitism royal commission to hold first public hearings in May

restrictions on Australia”. > double quotation markWhat Australia has done is to not only speak about today about existing supplies coming, we spoke about additional supplies as well. On reports today that Australia

Lyse Doucet: Under fragile ceasefire, Iranians wonder if US deal can be done

shipping lane. On Wednesday more details emerged about what transpired behind closed doors over 21 hours, when a US delegation headed by Vice-President JD Vance met face-to-face in Islamabad with a large

Iranian FM Araghchi to visit Pakistan as talks with US set to resume

ships and fire at a third. By the middle of the week, it was uncertain whether the second round of US-Iran talks would happen. That dynamic changed on Friday morning. ## Flurry of calls Araghchi

Trump’s May 1 deadline: Can he continue war on Iran after that?

restrict a US president’s authority to involve the country in armed conflict overseas. Under the resolution, the president must inform Congress within 48 hours of initiating military action and may sustain deployments for only

Strait of Hormuz blockade and other major naval sieges in modern times

Strait of [Hormuz](/news/2026/4/24/trumps-may-1-deadline-can-he-continue-war-on-iran-after-that), a narrow waterway once carrying roughly a fifth of the world’s oil and gas, remains effectively closed after the United States and Iran imposed competing [blockades](/news/2026/4/14/how-much-will-us-hormuz-blockade-hurt-iran-and-does-tehran-have-an-escape). Naval blockades

Cloud over US-Iran talks: What are the key sticking points?

shipping,” Geist Pinfold noted, calling this “completely different to the demands of the US on paper but also the demands of the US’s regional allies like the Gulf states and Israel, … who would regard

Push to bring US and Iran together for peace talks as ceasefire deadline looms

Ship-tracking data showed the vessel in the Indian Ocean between Sri Lanka and Indonesia around the time when it was intercepted. ![Preparations in Islamabad for expected second round of US-Iran talks.](https://i.guim.co.uk

'Bit of pain' worth long-term security from Iran, Bessent tells BBC

shipping route effectively closed and peace talks between the US and Iran failed. The IMF said: "Once again, the global economy is threatened with being thrown off course - this time by the outbreak

Thursday briefing: ​Why the US president is losing support from crucial allies

strait of Hormuz as the US and Iran doubled down on imposing separate blockades of the shipping waterway. 3. ***West Bank*** | Two Palestinians, including a [14-year-old schoolboy](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/22/palestinian-boy-14-among-two-killed-in-settler-attack-west-bank-school), were killed

What was the Iran nuclear deal Trump dumped in search of ‘better’ terms?

shipping sector, banking system and other key industries. The goal was to force Iran back to the negotiating table to agree to a new deal, which also included a discussion about Tehran’s missile capabilities

The threat to summer holidays looming from jet fuel shortages

Strait of Hormuz having been blocked for the past eight weeks, however, those supplies have not been available, prompting a scramble for fuel produced elsewhere. This has pushed up prices dramatically. In late February, before

Why are anti-war protests in the West muted on Iran?

Hormuz soon after the war started, except for ships belonging to countries that negotiated separate deals. On Monday the US began a naval blockade of all Iran-linked ships trying to pass through the strait

Trump's Truth Social lays bare narrow obsessions of an extremely online president

Ships, some of them relatively large and important"). Mid-afternoon, he posted a string of Trump-friendly news coverage, including a [*New York Post* article from September 2024](https://nypost.com/2024/09/19/us-news/lady-gagas-father-joe-germanotta-endorses-trump-in-2024-race/) about how [Lady Gaga