Evacuation flights are set to rescue tens of thousands of travellers stranded in the Middle East even as some airlines resumed on Tuesday a limited number of scheduled flights.The situation remains dangerous in the region, with Qatar saying it had blocked Iranian attacks on its airport, one of the major hubs in the region.The US …
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Loud blasts rocked Tehran on Tuesday even as Iran hit industrial and diplomatic targets across the Middle East and threatened to open “the gates of hell” on the United States and Israel.The conflict, which started on Saturday with US-Israeli strikes on Iran, showed no sign of abating in its fourth day.Here are the latest developments:- …
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A man whose teenage son shot dead four people at a US high school was found guilty of murder and manslaughter on Tuesday in a rare case of a parent charged over a shooting carried out by their child.Colin Gray, 55, was convicted by a jury in Georgia of second-degree murder, involuntary manslaughter and other …
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US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) chief Kristi Noem came under withering criticism from Democratic lawmakers on Tuesday over the Trump administration’s sweeping immigration crackdown.”Under your leadership, the Homeland Security Department has been devoid of any moral compass or respect for the rule of law,” Senator Dick Durbin, a Democrat from Illinois, told Noem at …
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Americans cast the first ballots of the primary season on Tuesday, kicking off a midterm cycle that could redraw the political map in Washington — and shape how Donald Trump spends the remainder of his presidency.Texas anchors the opening slate, with voters in the second-largest state selecting their candidates in high-profile Senate primaries, offering an …
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President Donald Trump said the historical relationship between the United States and Britain is “not like it used to be”, amid a diplomatic bust-up over US-Israeli strikes on Iran.British Prime Minister Keir Starmer — who told parliament on Monday his government “does not believe in regime change from the skies” — has drawn Trump’s wrath …
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US President Donald Trump warned that his attack on Iran could run longer than a month, as Tehran retaliated to ongoing strikes by targeting US allies in the Gulf and drones hit the US embassy in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday. Shortly after the United States urged Americans to flee all Middle Eastern nations from Egypt eastward, …
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US President Donald Trump says he attacked Iran to eliminate a threat. How he sees the war ending is much less clear.After Saturday’s first strikes killed the supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Trump called on Iranians to rise up.But Trump soon said his war launched alongside Israel was not about regime change after all.In the …
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First Lady Melania Trump pressed the cause of children caught in conflict as she chaired a UN Security Council meeting Monday as the US-Israeli war against Iran raged.Ambassadors from all of the Security Council’s members, including Washington’s rivals Russia and China, lined up to meet with Trump, representing the US as it takes over the …
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The US Congress is scheduled to vote this week on motions seeking to curb President Donald Trump as he wages war against Iran, but the Republican majority will probably shield him.Trump has sought to expand executive power drastically since returning to the White House in 2025, overshadowing the legislature.So some lawmakers now want to reassert …
