Mariam Sabbah, 10, to get specialist care in Britain instead of US, after Trump halted visitor visas for Palestinians A Palestinian child who lost her arm during Israel’s bombardment of Gaza arrived in the UK for specialist treatment on Tuesday, amid ongoing pressure on the British government to step up ...
Month: April 2026
Explainer: What is in Iran’s 10-point ceasefire plan and will the US agree to it?Explainer: What is in Iran’s 10-point ceasefire plan and will the US agree to it?
Two-week ceasefire comes after Trump spoke to Pakistan’s leaders, with China also believed to be exerting influence over Tehran Middle East crisis – live updates US and Iran agree to provisional ceasefire with Tehran saying it will reopen strait of Hormuz The US and Iran agreed to a two-week ceasefire ...
Iran ceasefire deal a partial win for Trump – but at a high costIran ceasefire deal a partial win for Trump – but at a high cost
The path to the two-week ceasefire with Iran may have fundamentally altered the way the rest of the world views the US. ...
Indian business delegation visits China in sign of bilateral thawIndian business delegation visits China in sign of bilateral thaw
An Indian business delegation visited China for the first time in more than five years, the latest sign of the Asian nations’ cautious rapprochement. The trip last week focused on EV charging and battery storage, CNBC reported, as the Iran war accelerates a global pivot in favor of green tech, ...
US AI firms team up in bid to counter Chinese ‘distillation’US AI firms team up in bid to counter Chinese ‘distillation’
AI rivals in the US are teaming up in an effort to stop Chinese competitors from extracting capabilities from their models. OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google are sharing information to detect so-called adversarial distillation attempts, Bloomberg reported. Such techniques involve a “teacher” AI model training a newer “student” model — the ...
More airlines cut flights, raise costsMore airlines cut flights, raise costs
More airlines are cutting flights and raising costs as jet fuel prices surge because of the Iran war. Air India and Air New Zealand announced reduced schedules, while Delta on Tuesday became the latest US carrier to hike fees for checked bags. Some Asian airlines, which have been worst hit, ...
Global hedge funds respond to war shocksGlobal hedge funds respond to war shocks
Global hedge funds, pressured by the conflict in Iran, are shaking up their trading strategies. Investment managers on the whole posted their worst monthly drawdowns in four years last month. They’re now shorting European equities at record levels, betting that the continent will be hit hard by the war’s economic ...
US targets pillars of Iran economyUS targets pillars of Iran economy
Donald Trump’s grave threat against Iran shows how the US and Israeli campaign has expanded to target the cornerstones of Tehran’s economy. Widespread attacks on Tuesday hit Iran’s railroads, bridges, and its energy hub, a sign the US and Israel aim to “impoverish Iran as a country and break the ...
Oil slides after Trump agrees to conditional two-week Iran ceasefireOil slides after Trump agrees to conditional two-week Iran ceasefire
Trump announced the deal not long before a deadline for a Tuesday evening ultimatum for Iran was reached. ...
‘For leftist Jews, the Bund is a model’: the radical history behind one of Europe’s biggest socialist movements‘For leftist Jews, the Bund is a model’: the radical history behind one of Europe’s biggest socialist movements
A new book by Molly Crabapple documents the rise and fall of a revolutionary Jewish party that fought against Zionism and for ‘solidarity across difference’ There is perhaps no more vivid illustration of the moral nadir Israel has reached than the Knesset’s passage, two days before Passover, of a death ...