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Weather tracker: Unseasonal storms hit parts of Pakistan and India
Karachi particularly badly affected with 18 people killed, more than 50mm of rain and winds gusting up to 60mp…
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Trump mocks Japan about Pearl Harbor in response to question about Iran war
US president was meeting with Japanese PM when he said: ‘Who knows better about surprise than Japan?’Middle Ea…
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Looking for leverage: China keeps close eye on US politics after summit delay
Beijing seeks to decipher effect of Iran war on US midterms and best way to apply pressure when Trump meets Xi…
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Trump’s threats to Nato reveal glaring absence of any strategy on Iran
White House seems to have failed to anticipate that Tehran would fight back by trying to impose costs on the w…
- Asia Pacific, China, Donald Trump, Strait of Hormuz, US foreign policy, US news, US-Israel war on Iran, World news
Trump asks China if visit to Beijing can be delayed a month due to Iran war
US president had earlier hinted trip could be put on hold if President Xi does not help unblock the strait of …
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‘We cannot replace USAID, but we can do big things’: conservation plots a future without American money
The Trump administration’s cuts to biodiversity funding have imperiled species, habitats and the people who de…
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Trump steps up pressure on European allies to help protect strait of Hormuz
US president says it is ‘only appropriate’ for Europe to help, and warns failure to do so would be ‘very bad’ …
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The kill line v Chinamaxxing: a window into how China and the US see each other
In China, one social media trend hangs on the idea that a life in the US is always one step from disaster, whi…
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Three merchant ships struck as tensions rise in Hormuz strait amid Iran war
Crew of Thai-registered bulk carrier forced to flee fire, as US says it has destroyed 16 Iranian mine-laying v…
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‘If I go home, we don’t have enough money’: the low-paid Filipino workers caught up in the war on Iran
Filipino carer Mary Ann De Vera was the first victim of the war in Israel, while thousands of others remain in…
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China’s foreign minister says Iran war ‘should never have happened’
Wang Yi cautioned against a return to the ‘law of the jungle’ but stopped short of criticising Trump directly …
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US grants waiver to allow India to buy Russian oil amid Iran war
‘Stopgap measure’ designed to keep oil flowing into global market as Middle East crisis disrupts crude shipmen…
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Israel launches huge strikes against south Beirut after mass evacuation order
Residents fled Lebanese capital in panic before assaults on claimed Hezbollah targets while Tehran continues t…
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Iran war briefing: Israeli military tells hundreds of thousands to leave Beirut
Evacuation order covers all of Beirut’s southern suburbs; Azerbaijani president orders armed forces to be at ‘…
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Airstrikes hit Iran-Iraq border as US and Israeli plan to mobilise Kurds gathers pace
Experts say backing Iran’s ethnic communities could ‘open up a hornet’s nest’ and increase risk of chaotic civ…