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US president says Washington is closely monitoring protests in Iran and considering possible military intervention.United States President Donald Trump has said that Washington is considering “strong options” in response to the protests in Iran, including possible military intervention.“We’re looking at it very seriously. The military is looking at it, and we’re looking at some very strong options. We’ll make a determination,” he told reporters on board Air Force One late on Sunday.He said Iran’s leadership had called, seeking “to negotiate” after his threats of military action, and that a “meeting is being set up”.But he added that “we may have…
Israel claims its latest attacks on Lebanon were targeting alleged Hezbollah infrastructure.The Israeli army has carried out several attacks on southern Lebanon, killing one person, according to Lebanese authorities, with the military saying it targeted a Hezbollah fighter and infrastructure.The attacks on Sunday came days after the Lebanese military said it had completed disarming Hezbollah south of the Litani River, the first phase of a nationwide plan, though Israel has called those efforts insufficient.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemslist 1 of 3Israeli forces kill two in Lebanon, ahead of truce monitors meetinglist 2 of 3Everything you need to know about the…
Analysts say Musk’s move may give a small boost to some protesters, but matters little during internet blackouts.Amid intensifying protests in Iran, the world’s richest man has weighed in.On January 4, Elon Musk, the multi-billionaire owner of social media platform X, responded to a post by Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei that said “we will not give in to the enemy” by suggesting in Farsi that he was delusional.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemslist 1 of 3Iran’s Pezeshkian pledges economic overhaul amid spiralling protestslist 2 of 3Sudan announces government’s return to Khartoum from wartime capitallist 3 of 3Hunger strike…
Army-aligned government returns to the capital, which was quickly overrun by the RSF in the early days of war in 2023.Sudan’s Prime Minister Kamil Idris has announced the government’s return to Khartoum, after nearly three years of operating from its wartime capital of Port Sudan.In the early days of the civil war between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in April 2023, the army-aligned government fled the capital, which was quickly overrun by rival troops.Recommended Stories list of 4 itemslist 1 of 4Sudan’s el-Fasher now a “ghost town” after RSF takeoverlist 2 of 4Sudan…
President Pezeshkian strikes a conciliatory tone in an interview broadcast on state TV, but accuses the US and Israel of fuelling unrest that has killed dozens.President Masoud Pezeshkian has pledged to overhaul Iran’s struggling economy, saying his government is “ready to listen to its people” after two weeks of increasingly violent nationwide demonstrations.Pezeshkian adopted a conciliatory approach during an interview on state television on Sunday, saying his embattled administration was determined to resolve the country’s economic problems while accusing the United States and Israel of fomenting deadly unrest.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemslist 1 of 3Iran says over 100 officers…
South Africa is hosting the BRICS exercises, but two founding members are not participating amid tensions with the US.New Delhi, India – Joint naval drills involving several members of the BRICS bloc, including China, Russia and Iran, have kicked off near South Africa’s coast with South Africa describing the manoeuvres as a vital response to rising maritime tensions globally.The weeklong Will for Peace 2026 exercises, which started on Saturday, are being led by China in Simon’s Town, where the Indian Ocean meets the Atlantic Ocean. They will include drills on rescue and maritime strike operations and technical exchanges, China’s Ministry…
Former hunger strikers from Ireland, Palestine and Guantanamo Bay call on the UK government to take immediate action.To the government of the United Kingdom: We, the undersigned, write to you today as survivors of state violence.We are a collective of former hunger strikers from Palestine, Ireland and Guantánamo Bay. Hunger strikes end only when power intervenes, or when people die. We learned, through pain, permanent damage, and watching our comrades fall, how states behave when prisoners have no choice but to refuse the only right afforded to them: food.As such, we write in uncompromising solidarity with the hunger strikers held today…
Killing comes amid record Israeli violence and settlement expansion across the occupied West Bank.A Palestinian man has died from gunshot wounds after Israeli forces opened fire on his vehicle in Hebron, amid escalating violence against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank as Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza shows no signs of abating.Shaker Falah al-Jaabari, 58, succumbed to his injuries on Sunday morning after being shot the previous night in eastern Hebron, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemslist 1 of 3Israel says Nickolay Mladenov to direct Trump’s proposed Gaza ‘peace board’list 2 of 3‘We just…
Four babies have died from the cold since November, as power cuts disable incubators and families in flooded tents struggle to keep their children alive.In the bitter cold of a Gaza winter, two-month-old Mohammed Abu Harbid has become the latest victim of Israel’s genocidal war that has stripped Palestinians of shelter, warmth and survival.Zaher al-Wahidi, director of health information at the Ministry of Health, told media the infant died from severe hypothermia at al-Rantisi Children’s Hospital.His death brings the number of children who have frozen to death in the enclave since November 2025 to four, and 12 since the start…
Parliament speaker warns US against any attack after Trump threatens military strikes amid nationwide protests.Iran’s state media say dozens of members of the security forces have been killed during protests against an economic crisis, as the parliament speaker warns the United States and Israel of retaliatory strikes if Washington attacks the country.State television said on Sunday that 30 members of the police and security forces were killed in Isfahan province and six others in Kermanshah in western Iran in the latest riots.The semiofficial Tasnim news agency reported that 109 security personnel had been killed in the protests across the country.The…