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4 days ago | 
msn.com | Kate Lamb |Lucy Campbell |Tom Ambrose |Jane Clinton |Daniel Lavelle |Helen Livingstone
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4 days ago | 
theguardian.com | Helen Livingstone |Daniel Lavelle |Jane Clinton |Tom Ambrose |Kate Lamb |Lucy Campbell | +15 more
President Trump claims a ceasefire between Israel and Iran has been agreed toIn a post on Truth Social, president Trump claims a 12-hr ceasefire between Israel and Iran has been reached. The ceasefire, he says, will begin in 6 hours.
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5 days ago | 
theguardian.com | Vicky Graham |Harry Taylor |Helen Davidson |Ben Smee |Jonathan Yerushalmy |Maya Yang | +14 more
Iran’s parliament has voted to shut down the vital Hormuz shipping channel in retaliation against Donald Trump’s attack on the country, prompting fears of a sharp spike in oil prices that could cause a global recession. A barrel of Brent crude was selling for about $77 on Friday, having risen by more than 10% since mid-June when Israel’s attack on Iranian nuclear sites prompted missile strikes from Tehran against Tel Aviv.
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1 week ago | 
theguardian.com | Helen Livingstone |Joe Coughlan |Tom Ambrose |Harry Taylor |Jason Burke |William Christou | +1 more
Gaza faces 'man-made drought', UNICEF claimsGaza is facing a man-made drought as its water systems collapse, the UN’s children agency has said. “Children will begin to die of thirst … Just 40% of drinking water production facilities remain functional,” Unicef spokesperson James Elder told reporters in Geneva, according to Reuters. It comes a day after Unicef said more than 5,000 children were diagnosed with malnutrition in the Gaza Strip in May.
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1 week ago | 
theguardian.com | Helen Livingstone |Harry Taylor |Joe Coughlan |Angelique Chrisafis
Gaza faces 'man-made drought', UNICEF claimsGaza is facing a man-made drought as its water systems collapse, the UN’s children agency has said. “Children will begin to die of thirst … Just 40% of drinking water production facilities remain functional,” Unicef spokesperson James Elder told reporters in Geneva, according to Reuters. It comes a day after Unicef said more than 5,000 children were diagnosed with malnutrition in the Gaza Strip in May.
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1 week ago | 
theguardian.com | Harry Taylor |Helen Livingstone |Angelique Chrisafis
Opening summaryHello and welcome to our live coverage of the Middle East. Foreign ministers from the UK, France and Germany are to meet their Iranian counterpart Abbas Araqchi in Geneva on Friday aiming to create a pathway back to diplomacy over its nuclear programme. The meeting comes a day after US President Donald Trump set a two-week deadline to decide whether the US will join Israel’s war on Iran to allow for negotiations to continue.
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1 week ago | 
msn.com | Helen Livingstone |Hayden Vernon |Maya Yang |Tom Ambrose |Joe Coughlan
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1 week ago | 
theguardian.com | Helen Livingstone |Tom Ambrose |Joe Coughlan |Maya Yang |Helena Smith |Julian Borger | +2 more
White House: Trump to make a decision on whether to attack Iran 'within two weeks'The White House said that Donald Trump will “make a decision on whether to attack Iran within two weeks”.
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1 week ago | 
msn.com | Maya Yang |Tom Ambrose |Joe Coughlan |Helen Livingstone
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1 week ago | 
theguardian.com | Joe Coughlan |Helen Livingstone |Julian Borger |Hugo Lowell |Rebecca Ratcliffe
Israel Katz says Iran's supreme leader 'can no longer be allowed to exist'Israel’s defence minister said on Thursday that Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei “can no longer be allowed to exist” after Soroka hospital in southern Israel was hit during an Iranian missile attack, Agence France-Presse (AFP) reports. Israel Katz told journalists in Holon near Tel Aviv: Khamenei openly declares that he wants Israel destroyed – he personally gives the order to fire on hospitals.
