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  • Friday, 18 April, 2025
    Houthi movement
    US says Chinese company is helping Houthis target American warships

    Satellite group linked to People’s Liberation Army has supplied images to Iran-backed group in Yemen, say officials

    1 hour ago
    Yemen’s Houthi forces ride a vehicle next to a large screen broadcasting an attack of Yemen’s Houthis targeted a US battleship in the Red Sea
  • Thursday, 17 April, 2025
    Middle Eastern politics & society
    Saudi defence minister visits Iran ahead of US talks

    Prince Khalid bin Salman is highest-ranking royal to hold meetings in Tehran in decades

    Iran’s Armed Forces Chief of Staff Major General Mohammed Bagheri and Saudi Arabia’s Defence Minister Prince Khalid bin Salman in Tehran
  • Thursday, 17 April, 2025
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    Iran’s nuclear talks could reshape the Middle East

    Trump has warned of potential military action if talks fail

  • Wednesday, 16 April, 2025
    Israel-Hamas war
    Israel insists on keeping troops in Gaza buffer zones after any peace

    Defence minister Israel Katz says military ‘is not evacuating areas that have been cleared and seized’

    North Gaza
  • Wednesday, 16 April, 2025
    US foreign policy
    US places sanctions on Chinese refinery over Iran oil purchases

    Trump administration accuses Shandong Shengxing Chemical of buying crude as it increases pressure on Beijing and Tehran

    A gas flare on an oil production platform is seen alongside an Iranian flag
  • Wednesday, 16 April, 2025
    Israel-Hamas war
    Members of UK’s largest Jewish body condemn Israel’s offensive in Gaza

    Letter underscores concern in Jewish community over Netanyahu government’s violence against Palestinians

    A pregnant woman is rescued from her home after an Israeli army attack in Gaza
  • Tuesday, 15 April, 2025
    Israel-Hamas war
    Thousands of Israeli military reservists call for deal with Hamas

    Prime minister’s decision to resume ferocious offensive in Gaza provokes growing backlash from troops

    Protesters hold up signs with photos of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and hostages being held in the Gaza Strip at a demonstration in Tel Aviv, Israel on March 29 2025
  • Tuesday, 15 April, 2025
    US-Iran tensions
    US envoy calls for Iran to ‘eliminate’ nuclear programme

    Steve Witkoff’s comments come after he signalled Washington might accept limited uranium enrichment by Tehran

    Steve Witkoff, left, and Iranian foreign minister Abbas Araghchi, right
  • Tuesday, 15 April, 2025
    News in-depthMiddle East war
    ‘This is what victory looks like’: inside Israel’s aggressive new security plan

    Shaken by October 7, the country is seizing territory and flattening villages to build buffer zones while routinely striking neighbours

    Israeli soldiers and maps
  • Monday, 14 April, 2025
    The FT ViewThe editorial board
    The narrow window for a nuclear deal with Iran

    Trump team should accept that both Washington and Tehran need to make compromises

    Young women walk past a dove of peace mural in Tehran
  • Monday, 14 April, 2025
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    EU to give €1.6bn to Palestine amid Israel’s expanded Gaza offensive Premium content

    Also in this newsletter: should the EU introduce an ‘Amazon tax’?

    European Commissioner responsible for the Mediterranean, Dubravka Suica
  • Monday, 14 April, 2025
    KKR & Co LP
    KKR names US ex-general Petraeus chair of Mideast business

    CIA veteran to help spearhead private equity group’s expansion in oil-rich region

    David Petraeus speaks into a microphone
  • Sunday, 13 April, 2025
    Israel-Hamas war
    Israel bombs Gaza hospital as military expands offensive

    Al Ahli medical facility hit in strike was one of the few hospitals still operating in Gaza City

    A Palestinian medical worker surveys a destroyed building
  • Sunday, 13 April, 2025
    Lebanon
    How Hizbollah moved into the rubble business in Beirut

    Government deal linked to Shia militant movement shows its continued influence after devastating war with Israel

    The moped rider is holding the green and yellow flag in the air. It features the Hizbollah logo
  • Saturday, 12 April, 2025
    News in-depthUS-Iran tensions
    US and Iran agree to follow-up talks over nuclear crisis

    Steve Witkoff and Abbas Araghchi met briefly after indirect negotiations in Oman

    US Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff and Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi
  • Saturday, 12 April, 2025
    Mahmoud Khalil
    Judge rules Mahmoud Khalil can be deported for campus protests

    Columbia University graduate student at centre of Trump case over pro-Palestinian activism is expected to appeal

    Signs in support of detained graduate student Mahmoud Khalil,
  • Thursday, 10 April, 2025
    EU trade
    EU agrees to start trade talks with UAE after Trump tariff war

    Gulf state pushes for free trade agreement with bloc

    European Union flags flutter outside the European Commission headquarters in Brussels, Belgium
  • Thursday, 10 April, 2025
    Syrian crisis
    Israel and Turkey begin talks to avoid conflict in Syria

    Meeting aims to prevent ‘undesirable incidents’ as both countries expand military presence inside Arab state

    Turkish troops oversee the return of Syrian refugees
  • Wednesday, 9 April, 2025
    United Arab Emirates
    UK and EU urged to intervene in case of dissident extradited to UAE

    Rights groups warn of ‘transnational repression’ after Abdulrahman al-Qaradawi allegedly held in solitary confinement

  • Tuesday, 8 April, 2025
    US-Iran tensions
    Trump announces ‘very high level’ talks with Iran

    US president hints at deal on Tehran’s nuclear weapons programme after meeting Netanyahu

    Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Donald Trump
  • Monday, 7 April, 2025
    Middle East war
    Israel widens air strikes against neighbours in escalating campaign

    Bombing in Lebanon and Syria come alongside renewed military offensive in Gaza

    A man walks next to rubble after an Israeli air strike targeted an apartment building in the southern port city of Sidon, Lebanon
  • Sunday, 6 April, 2025
    Israel-Hamas war
    Video contradicts Israel’s version of killing of paramedics in Gaza

    Military admits initial account of incident was inaccurate after Palestine Red Crescent releases footage of ‘massacre’

    Palestinians mourn medics, who came under Israeli fire while on a rescue mission, after their bodies were recovered, according to the Red Crescent, at Nasser hospital in Khan Younis
  • Sunday, 6 April, 2025
    UK foreign policy
    Israel blocks two UK MPs from entering country

    British foreign secretary says treatment of Yuan Yang and Abtisam Mohamed is ‘unacceptable and counter-productive’

    Portrait photos of Labour MPs Abtisam Mohamed, left, and Yuan Yang
  • Thursday, 3 April, 2025
    Hungary
    Hungary to leave ICC as Netanyahu meets Orbán in Budapest

    Israeli PM visits European nation that is defying EU partners and Nato allies over international justice

    Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and his Israeli counterpart Benjamin Netanyahu review a military honour guard in Budapest on Thursday
  • Wednesday, 2 April, 2025
    FT live news
    ‘Liberation day’ as it happened: US hits major trading partners with steep ‘reciprocal’ tariffs; Stocks tumble as Trump takes world to brink of full-blown trade war

    President reveals plans to impose 10% universal levies and higher duties on major partners

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