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Zelensky says allies asked him to scale back attacks on Russian energy
Volodymyr Zelensky has said Ukraine’s allies have urged him to scale back attacks on Russia’s energy infrastructure amid the ongoing global fuel crisis – but that they would only end if Russia stopped targeting Ukraine’s first. The Ukrainian president told journalists in a WhatsApp voice message that, by launching attacks on Russia’s energy system, Ukraine was only responding in kind.…
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Ben Carson points to Gen Z church revival as young Americans push back on secular culture
As America gets set to celebrate the nation’s 250th birthday this July, Dr. Ben Carson is on a mission to share how faith and religious principles are central to our founding and identity. Carson, a former secretary of Housing and Urban Development as well as a retired neurosurgeon, said schools are failing to teach accurate history lessons about America —…
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Spain closes airspace to US planes involved in Iran war, defence minister says
Spain has closed its airspace to U.S. planes involved in attacks on Iran, a step beyond its previous denial of use of jointly-operated military bases, Defence Minister Margarita Robles said on Monday. “We don’t authorize either the use of military bases or the use of airspace for actions related to the war in Iran,” she told reporters in Madrid. Spanish…
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Russia expels British diplomat over spying allegations
Russia has ordered a British diplomat to leave the country over allegations of spying, the latest in a series of expulsions of embassy staff from both sides. The Federal Security Service (FSB) claims the man provided false information when applying to enter the country, as well as trying to obtain sensitive information during informal economic meetings, according to state media…
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Iran threatens to ‘rain fire’ on US troops as possible ground war looms
In a message marking 30 days since the start of the Iran war, a senior Iranian official is spelling out what many ordinary people across the tense Gulf, and beyond, privately fear will be Washington’s next move. “The enemy signals negotiation in public, while in secret it plots a ground attack,” reads the statement from Iranian Parliament Speaker, Mohammad Bagher…
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Pope Leo says God rejects prayers of leaders who wage wars
Pope Leo said on Sunday that God rejects the prayers of leaders who start wars and have “hands full of blood”, in unusually forceful remarks as the Iran war entered its second month. Addressing tens of thousands in St. Peter’s Square on Palm Sunday, the celebration that opens the holy week leading up to Easter for the world’s 1.4 billion…
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Shops and restaurants in Egypt told to close early as energy crisis deepens
Shops, restaurants and cafes in Egypt have been told to close early as part of a raft of temporary measures to combat soaring energy prices caused by the Iran war. Retail and dining premises will have to close by 21:00 (19:00 GMT) each night for the next month, beginning on Saturday. The “exceptional measures” introduced by the Egyptian government also…
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Israeli airstrike kills three Lebanese journalists, Israel says it targeted one
Israeli forces killed three Lebanese journalists in southern Lebanon on Saturday in an airstrike that Israel’s military said had targeted one of them. Lebanese television news channel Al Manar said its reporter Ali Shaib and reporter Fatima Ftouni, from Lebanese pan-Arab broadcaster Al Mayadeen, were killed when their vehicle was hit. Lebanon’s information minister, Paul Morcis, later said Ftouni’s brother,…
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‘No Kings’ protests: Large crowds attend nationwide rallies against the Trump administration
“No Kings” demonstrations are taking place from coast to coast, with huge marches lining the streets in some cities while crowds gather elsewhere to sing, dance and listen to speeches. Attendees are rallying against President Donald Trump’s policies, the higher cost of living and the war with Iran. More than 3,100 rallies are planned in major US cities, suburbs and…
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Iran has a new demand to end the war – and it could bring in billions
When an Iranian official this week laid out a list of demands to end the war started by the United States and Israel, he added an item that hadn’t been on Tehran’s list before: recognition of Iran’s sovereignty over the Strait of Hormuz. The narrow waterway through which a fifth of the world’s oil and liquefied natural gas (LNG) ordinarily…
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