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Can Gulf states and Iran negotiate the Strait of Hormuz without the U.S.?
Dania Thafer of the Gulf International Forum weighs in on previously scheduled talks between Iran and Gulf states. Shortly before this interview aired, Oman announced that the talks were postponed.
Article tone: Alarming
Gulf states postpone strait of Hormuz talks with Iran as Yemen conflict intensifiesImpasse comes amid growing Saudi anger with Tehran over Houthi advances and strikes on airbase and pipeline Oil prices rise after drone attacks shut down Saudi Arabia’s east-west pipeline Gulf states have postponed a critical meeting with Iran on the future of the strait of Hormuz owing to a lack of Arab consensus and growing Saudi Arabian anger with Tehran for helping the Houthis loosen Riyadh’s grip in Yemen. The stalemate over the vital waterway came as Houthi rebels launched a fresh barrage of missile and drone attacks on Saudi military targets.
Article tone: Alarming
Israeli minister threatens to strip Israeli film-makers of citizenship over Gaza documentary NAZAMiki Zohar accuses Oscar-winning directors Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor of ‘treason against the state’ ‘They know the house they are bombing is...
Article tone: Tragic
‘Shameful’: UK, Australia and Canada criticise Israel over Gaza aid convoy killings decisionJoint statement issued after IDF said it will not pursue criminal investigations into April 2024 strike that killed seven humanitarian workers Britain, Australia and Canada have called the decision of the Israeli military authorities not to open a criminal investigation into the April 2024 airstrikes that hit a convoy of aid vehicles in Gaza “shameful”. The strikes killed seven humanitarian workers from the US-based World Central Kitchen (WCK) organisation.
Tiananmen Square vigil organisers in Hong Kong found guilty of ‘inciting subversion’
UK Foreign Office condemns use of national security law to convict activists Lee Cheuk-yan and Chow Hang-tung Two Hong Kong activists who organised annual vigils marking China’s deadly Tiananmen crackdown in 1989 have been found guilty of “incitement to subversion” in one of the most high-profile cases in Hong Kong since Beijing imposed its national security law in 2020. Lee Cheuk-yan, 69, and Chow Hang-tung, 41, “incited other persons to organise, plan, commit or participate in acts by unlawful means with a view to subverting the state power”, a press summary handed out to reporters said.
Article tone: Alarming
Israeli settler attacks shift focus to West Bank areas under direct Palestinian ruleReport says violence is moving from Israeli-controlled areas to those earmarked for a future Palestinian state Violent Israeli settler attacks in...
Article tone: Tragic
‘An insult’: Zomi Frankcom’s family issues strongly-worded statement as Israel rejects criminal investigation into her killingPenny Wong calls in Israeli ambassador as PM expresses ‘outrage’ over IDF decision Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast The family of the slain Australian aid worker Zomi Frankcom has described a decision by the Israel Defense Forces not to open a criminal investigation into her death as deeply disappointing, and called on the government to push for the release of evidence, including audio from the drone strike. Israel’s decision prompted outrage from Australia on Thursday.
Article tone: Tragic
Zomi Frankcom: Penny Wong condemns ‘insulting’ decision to clear IDF over Gaza strikes that killed Australian aid workerIsraeli government decides not to pursue criminal proceedings over 2024 triple drone strike that killed Australian aid worker and six others Follow...
Article tone: Curious
Germany’s firewall was meant to hold the far right at bay. It may have done the reverseAn AfD win in next month’s state election in Saxony-Anhalt would shatter a decades-long political consensus and reverberate throughout the EU • Don’t get This Is Europe delivered to your inbox. Sign up here In just over two weeks’ time, Saxony-Anhalt – home to historic timber-framed houses, the dramatic Harz mountains and the birthplace of Martin Luther – will hold what could prove one of the most significant state elections in Germany’s postwar history.
Mourners to gather to remember former Chinese Premier Zhu Rongji
China bids farewell to former Premier Zhu Rongji, the pragmatic economic reformer who steered the nation into the WTO and transformed its state-dominated economy.
Article tone: Tragic
Israeli strikes on southern Lebanon kill 11 in worst toll since June truceRescue services search for survivors and bodies after airstrikes hit homes in Ansar and Deir al-Zahrani Eleven people have been killed, including three children, and 19 injured in two Israeli airstrikes on southern Lebanon, the worst toll since deals in June brought a lull in hostilities between Israel and Hezbollah. Israeli warplanes bombed a home on the outskirts of the village of Ansar, killing seven people and flattening the building early on Saturday morning.
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Former Mexican governor charged in case of 43 students who vanished in 2014Ángel Aguirre indicted in case that rocked Mexico and became symbol of its brutal cartel violence The former governor of Guerrero state in Mexico...
Article tone: Tragic
Trump demands Iran pay compensation for decades of US soldier deathsUS president’s statement is latest sign that negotations to end war and reopen strait of Hormuz have stalled Donald Trump has said he will demand...
Police use teargas on young Indians as government jobs protest escalates
Demonstrators accuse authorities of failing to tackle irregularities in exams for sought-after civil service jobs Thousands of angry young job-seekers clashed with police in Jharkhand, one of India’s poorest states, on Monday as a weeks-long protest over alleged irregularities in recruitment drives for coveted government jobs escalated into a march on the state legislature. Police fired water cannon and teargas and swung batons as they tried to stop flag-waving demonstrators from clambering over barricades and surging towards the assembly in Ranchi, the state capital.
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Iran says a deal with Oman to reopen the strait of Hormuz is close to being finalised – as it happenedThis live blog is now closed. Understanding reached on coordinates for shipping route through Hormuz, Iran says Donald Trump’s Board of Peace, which was set up in January to oversee the reconstruction of Gaza , has finally issued its first construction contract in the devastated territory: a project to build a rudimentary 150-person military outpost to house Moroccan troops, a source familiar with the matter told the Guardian.
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Talks between Iran and Gulf states to discuss Strait of Hormuz postponed
Iranian officials say a meeting with Gulf states to discuss the Strait of Hormuz has been postponed, dealing a blow to efforts to reopen the strait.
Article tone: Tense
Rubio signals shift to working with allies to fight drug trade as latest boat strike kills threeRubio visits Ecuador and welcomes cooperation after campaign of unilateral strikes on alleged ‘narco-terrorists’ The US secretary of state, Marco...
Hong Kong's Tiananmen activists guilty in national security trial
Three activists were accused of inciting others to subvert state power under the China-introduced law.
Mark Zuckerberg buys 440-acre Strancally castle estate in Ireland
Meta chief executive paid roughly €20m for gothic-style mansion built in 1830 and its surroundings It stretches the definition of pied-à-terre but...
Article tone: Tense
Indian student leader ends hunger strike after 16 daysDevendra Nath Mahto was part of a larger protest which began weeks ago, demanding exam reforms in Jharkhand state.
Article tone: Alarming
Destroyed crops, riverbed cyclists and a ‘Rock of Starvation’: how drought has devastated the DanubeThe Guardian travelled 100 miles along the EU’s longest river, where some residents are struggling to secure drinking water For centuries, the rock was seen as a warning. When it began to emerge from the Danube, beneath Gellért Hill in Budapest, it meant the river had fallen so low that floating mills could no longer operate, crops were probably failing, and hunger would almost certainly follow.
U.S. missionary who was kidnapped in Niger is released
Kevin Rideout "is in good health in the care of US officials," SIM International said in a statement, adding he would soon be reunited with his family.
Japan PM says Putin's visit to disputed islands 'absolutely unacceptable'
It was the first time the Russian leader had visited the Kuril islands, according to state media.
Article tone: Analytical
India fuels worldwide jump in planned coal productionRise in new mine proposals, mainly in states of Odisha and Jharkhand, comes despite plateau in global demand Enough new coalmining projects were proposed last year to increase global supplies by 2. 5bn tonnes a year, an increase of 11% from the year before, even as demand for coal plateaus, according to a new report.
High-profile Indian journalist jailed for 10 years for raping colleague
Tarun Tejpal, ex-editor of Tehelka magazine, was initially acquitted in 2021 in case that drew nationwide attention An Indian court has sentenced a high-profile former editor of an investigative news magazine to 10 years in prison after convicting him of raping a junior colleague, overturning his acquittal in a case that drew nationwide attention. Tarun Tejpal, 63, the founder and former editor of Tehelka magazine, was accused of raping a journalist in the lift of a five-star hotel in the western coastal state of Goa during an event in November 2013.
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‘A coin flip’: on the campaign trail as Brazil’s far right edges back to power
Neck-and-neck with Lula in polls, Flávio Bolsonaro fires up his base in the bellwether state of Minas Gerais – starting at the scene of his father’s stabbing A giant banner of Brazil’s incarcerated former president Jair Bolsonaro fluttered in the morning breeze as his eldest son, Flávio, touched down at an airfield on the fringe of a city that will soon help decide the future of one of the biggest democracies on earth. “Brazil is rudderless.
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Industry leaders call for AI development to slow down to ensure safety, Trump to campaign for GOP candidates ahead of midterms, Iranian officials say a meeting with the Gulf States has been postponed.
Article tone: Alarming
Labour stalling on Jackdaw and Rosebank because ‘heart’s not really in it’, says Badenoch – as it happenedThis blog is now closed. See all our UK politics coverage here After Emily Thornberry’s call for the government to ban goods from the occupied West Bank (see post at 11:05 ), Peter Beaumont and Quique Kierszenbaum report on how Israeli settler attacks in areas designated for a future Palestinian state and currently under direct Palestinian control have almost doubled since 2025.
Article tone: Hopeful
US deports 20 people to Liberia, the first of 1,200 migrants under Trump dealAgreement is among largest third-country deportations driven by Trump administration’s immigration crackdown Twenty deportees from the United States arrived in Liberia on Thursday, as part of a new agreement that will see the west African country receive as many as 1,200 people under the Trump administration ’s immigration crackdown. The group arrived at the Roberts international airport outside the capital, Monrovia.
Article tone: Tragic
NSW police commissioner says ‘I unreservedly apologise’ for miscommunication over 18-year-old bushwalker Lily Hooper’s death – as it happenedThis blog is now closed Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast ‘Outrageous’: Greens leader says sending Israeli ambassador home should be on the table Greens leader Larissa Waters says strong words are not enough, and the government should sanction the state of Israel after its defence force decided not to pursue a criminal investigation into the killing of World Central Kitchen aid workers including Australian Zomi Frankom . It is absolutely outrageous that after two years of investigating, the Israeli authorities have cleared themselves of any wrongdoing … The Australian government needs to do more than just issue some strongly worded statements.
Article tone: Tense
Is the US actually too chicken to take on China for trade?A weak yuan guarantees Beijing massive trade surplus even as the White House tries tamp down on Chinese imports Since China offered a truce in the trade war last October following its threat to deprive the United States of rare-earth magnets, the Trump administration has been happy to stop escalating. After all, imports from China have been falling, down by 40% in the year to June, compared with the same period in 2024.
Article tone: Alarming
Chalmers rejects Hanson’s call for more super access saying One Nation ‘wants to destroy’ scheme – as it happenedThis blog is now closed Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast Anthony Albanese has just been speaking alongside the New South Wales premier, Chris Minns , about the state’s gun buyback scheme agreed in response to the Bondi terror attack. The prime minister said: Australians are quite rightly proud of our gun laws but the fact is there are more guns in Australia today than there were at the time of dealing with the Port Arthur gun buyback that occurred under the Howard government.
Article tone: Curious
Monday briefing: How the new phase of confrontation at al-Aqsa signals a challenge to the status quoIn today’s newsletter: Jerusalem’s most volatile site has again become a flashpoint, with Arab states and former Israeli officials sounding the alarm over Benjamin Netanyahu’s complicity Good morning. In late July, Itamar Ben-Gvir, West Bank settler and far-right extremist minister of security in Benjamin Netanyahu’s government, joined a group of more than 2,000 Jewish extremists to storm al-Aqsa mosque compound, Jerusalem’s most sensitive holy site.
Article tone: Alarming
Leipzig drone bomb was found near Ukrainian plane carrying ammunition, say policeGermany investigating whether foreign state involved as minister says ‘ripped’ detonator stopped device going off Europe live – latest updates A...
Article tone: Hopeful
‘Morocco feels emboldened’: Trump’s influence in spotlight after Ceuta disasterWashington-Rabat ties under scrutiny as questions swirl over what led to deadly influx into tiny Spanish territory The cosy relationship between Washington and Rabat has long been flaunted by both sides, from Morocco’s announcement this year that it would be the first African state to join Donald Trump’s Board of Peace to the congratulatory message recently sent by Trump to mark King Mohammed VI’s 27 years in power. The latest example landed this week.
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