
Helena Smith
Correspondent at The Guardian
Helena Smith is the Guardian's correspondent in Greece, Turkey and Cyprus
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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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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 |
theguardian.com | Kate Lamb |Amy Sedghi |Jane Clinton |Cecilia Nowell |Tom Ambrose |Peter Beaumont | +2 more
'Nobody knows what I'm going to do,' says Trump when asked about potential of US strikes on IranPresident Donald Trump has declined to answer reporters’ questions on whether the US is planning to strike Iran or its nuclear facilities. He said the Iranians had reached out but he felt “it’s very late to be talking … there’s a big difference between now and a week ago. Nobody knows what I’m going to do”.
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2 weeks ago |
theguardian.com | Jonathan Yerushalmy |Tom Bryant |Vicky Graham |Amy Sedghi |Hayden Vernon |Maya Yang | +9 more
Key eventsShow key events onlyPlease turn on JavaScript to use this featureAccording to Agence France-Presse (AFP), the UN security council emergency meeting on Friday over Israel’s strikes on Iran will take place at 7pm GMT (8pm in the UK, which is currently on BST). The newly appointed commander of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard, Mohammad Pakpour, threatened to open “the gates of hell” in retaliation for Israel’s attacks that killed his predecessor Hossein Salami.
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2 weeks ago |
theguardian.com | Helena Smith
A landmark court decision has dealt a blow to the far-right movement in Greece after MPs with the neo-fascist Spartans party were deprived of seats in parliament.
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