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How Trump went from threatening Iran’s annihilation to reaching a truce within a day
4+ hour, 7+ min ago (789+ words) Trump is set to meet at the White House on Wednesday with NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte. The emerging ceasefire and plan to reopen the strait are expected to be at the center of talks. As the deadline neared, Democratic lawmakers…...
Top Trump aides told him PM’s prewar regime change forecast was ‘farcical’ — report
4+ hour, 35+ min ago (912+ words) Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made a high-stakes pitch this February in the White House Situation Room for the US to launch a war against Iran together with Israel, selling US President Donald Trump on a range of predictions regarding how…...
Trump says he believes China got Iran to come to the negotiating table
4+ hour, 45+ min ago (401+ words) US President Donald Trump said Tuesday he believed China had persuaded Iran to negotiate, after he announced a two-week halt in the bombing of Iran in return for its reopening of the Strait of Hormuz. "I hear yes. Yes they…...
Historian Simon Schama: With parts of London ‘no-go zones,’ Jews have lost basic civil rights
5+ hour, 14+ min ago (1488+ words) Robert Philpot is a writer and journalist. He is the former editor of Progress magazine and the author of "Margaret Thatcher: The Honorary Jew." But, notes the acclaimed historian, that's not the experience of Jewish children in Britain today. Instead,…...
Trump: US to ‘suspend bombing’ of Iran for 2 weeks while talks held on ‘longterm peace’ deal
7+ hour, 15+ min ago (1163+ words) US President Donald Trump on Tuesday announced that he was pushing off a major bombing campaign in Iran for two weeks and that Washington agreed to a two-week ceasefire with Iran, which continued to attack Israel early Wednesday morning as…...
US Jewish groups denounce Trump’s threat that a ‘whole civilization will die’ in Iran
11+ hour, 35+ min ago (585+ words) A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again," wrote Trump in a post on Truth Social. I don't want that to happen, but it probably will. However, now that we have Complete and Total Regime Change,…...
Trump: US to ‘suspend bombing’ of Iran for 2 weeks as talks held on ‘longterm peace’ deal
11+ hour, 58+ min ago (486+ words) The Times of Israel is liveblogging Wednesday's events as they unfold. Israel is part of the two-week ceasefire that US President Donald Trump declared and will halt strikes on Iran as diplomatic negotiations are held, two White House officials tell…...
US journalist in Iraq freed one week after kidnapping by Kataeb Hezbollah
15+ hour, 12+ min ago (575+ words) The powerful Iran-backed Iraqi militia Kataeb Hezbollah said in a statement earlier in the day that it had decided to free Kittleson, who was abducted on March 31. The group said its decision came "in appreciation of the patriotic stances of…...
US judge rejects bid by Swiss Bank UBS to limit its liability for Nazi-linked crimes
15+ hour, 5+ min ago (222+ words) NEW YORK (Reuters) " A US judge on Tuesday rejected UBS's bid to clarify a $1.25 billion settlement from 1999 of Holocaust-related litigation against Swiss banks by shielding it from claims based on new revelations about Nazi-linked accounts. US District Judge Edward Korman…...
French couple allowed to leave Iran after more than three years in detention
15+ hour, 46+ min ago (362+ words) Two French nationals, who spent more than three years in an Iranian prison on espionage charges, headed home from the war-stricken country on Tuesday, President Emmanuel Macron said. Cecile Kohler, 41, and Jacques Paris, 72, had been under house arrest at the…...