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UK political leaders call for Israeli restraint after Iran attack
Congratulating the RAF personnel who were involved in the US-led mission to help Israel down the barrage of missiles fired from Iran, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak told MPs earlier that the UK’s aim was to prevent further destabilisation in the Middle East. And he also urged an end to the conflict in Gaza, calling on…
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Israel’s defence against unprecedented Iran attack explained
How did Israel manage to fend off Iran’s unprecedented attack so comprehensively?
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‘We humiliated Iran and there is no need for us to continue’, says former Israeli prime minister
We spoke to Ehud Olmert, the former prime minister of Israel.
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Iran-Israel attack: Day 3 latest as leaders urge restraint
Israel’s war cabinet has been meeting again today as it debates how to respond to Iran’s unprecedented missile barrage on Saturday night. Will the government here heed President Biden’s advice to ‘take the win’ following the successful downing of the majority of the 300 missiles that Iran fired towards it Speaking this evening to soldiers…
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Biden reiterates ‘rock solid support’ for Israel
G7 leaders warning that Iran risks provoking an uncontrollable regional escalation,
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‘If the Israeli regime wants to continue, Iran will have the excuse to hit it harder and harder’, says University of Tehran professor
We spoke to Seyed Mohammad Marandi, a professor at the University of Tehran, who was previously an adviser to Iran’s nuclear negotiations team.
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Israel and Iran: the decades of hostility
Tensions between the two countries have been growing for years.
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‘Iran is the source of everything bad in this region’, says IDF
We’re joined from Tel Aviv by Lieutenant Colonel Peter Lerner, who’s a spokesman for the Israel Defence Forces.
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Israel vows to ‘exact a price’ as Iran launches first ever direct attack
It’s the first time Iran has launched a direct attack on Israel, though drones and missiles were also fired from Iraq, Syria and Yemen.
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FactCheck: why has Iran just fired drones and missiles at Israel and does it make a wider war more likely?
Why are Iran and Israel so hostile to one another, and what could last night’s events mean for the prospects of a wider war in the Middle East?
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Inside the world of America’s Black cowboys
Cowboys are among the most iconic figures of America’s old west. What’s less well known is that, in their heyday, an estimated one in four of them were Black.
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‘We have been living in a warm war between Israel and Iran for decades’, says Professor of Iranian History
Ali Ansari is a professor of Iranian History and founding director of the Institute for Iranian Studies at St Andrews University.
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Britain’s prisons have been ‘wrecked by ideological vandalism’, says former prison governor Ian Acheson
The state of Britain’s prisons is under renewed scrutiny as report after report describes more and more jails as overcrowded, filthy places, rife with vermin and violence.
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Israel braces for Iran attack as Revolutionary Guard storm ship
President Biden is cutting short his weekend and returning to Washington to consult his national security team about events in the Middle East.
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Six killed as man goes on ‘rampage’ with knife in Sydney shopping centre
It began as a quiet afternoon of shopping. It ended with six people dead, plus the attacker.