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Apr 7, 2026 - World

President Masoud Pezeshkian says 14m people ‘declared their readiness to sacrifice their lives’ for defence of IranMiddle East crisis – live updatesIranians officials called on young people to form human chains around the country’s power plants and people in Tehran stocked up on basic provisions, as the clock ticked down on Donald Trump’s deadline for Iran to open the strait of Hormuz or face massive strikes on civilian infrastructure.Iranian media showed people gathering outside electricity stations, waving Iranian flags and holding up banners, including at the country’s largest power plant, near Tehran, and in Tabriz in the north-west. In Dezful in the south-west, people gathered on a bridge said to be 1,700 years old. Continue reading...

Apr 7, 2026 - World

Watchdog finds allegations against City of Sanctuary UK were misleading after complaint from Tory MPA refugee charity subjected to vicious social media attacks over a migrant welcome project in schools has been cleared of wrongdoing after watchdogs found allegations it encouraged pupils to send Valentine’s Day cards to asylum seekers were misleading and false.City of Sanctuary UK came under fire last year after rumours spread online that under its schools programme, children were being “forced” to write heart-shaped welcome cards to adult migrants, including cards addressed to “my fiance”. Continue reading...

Apr 7, 2026 - World

London gallery to undergo biggest transformation in its 200-year history, with Kengo Kuma’s design called ‘exemplary’The National Gallery has announced that its largest and most significant transformation in its 200-year history will be designed by the Japanese architect behind Tokyo’s Olympic stadium.The new wing will be designed by Kengo Kuma as part of Project Domani, the gallery’s expansion into art from the 20th and 21st centuries. Its completion will make the National Gallery the only museum in the world that exclusively displays paintings where visitors will be able to view the entire history of painting in the western tradition. Continue reading...

Apr 7, 2026 - World

Vice President JD Vance has taken multiple hits from President Donald Trump — and might not realize that the joke is at his expense, an analyst suggested. Dana Milbank, a NOTUS columnist, described in a New York Times opinion guest column published Tuesday how Trump has continued to embarrass Vance as the MAGA coalition has cracked."At a closed-door Easter luncheon at the White House, President Trump decided to entertain the crowd by humiliating his understudy," Milbank wrote, revealing the interaction between the two men amid the ongoing negotiations with Iran. Trump asked Vance how the talks were going. "It’s going good, sir," Vance told Trump, as the president cut off Vance mid-response while he was sitting in the audience. "Do you see it happening?" Trump asked, referring to "a successful end of the war," Milbank wrote. "Uh," Vance said. "We’re going to brief it to you."That's when Trump threw Vance under the bus, saying "So, if it doesn’t happen, I’m blaming JD Vance." The group was laughing as Trump added, "If it does happen, I’m taking full credit."Vance's political ambitions have put him in this position, Milbank explained. "Over and over in recent years, Mr. Vance struck devil’s bargains, first to gain a Senate seat and then to become Mr. Trump’s No. 2," Milbank wrote. "He embraced the anti-immigrant stances he once called 'reprehensible' and other dark elements of the MAGA movement in hopes of positioning himself as its next leader."But Vance's fate could be similar to other close Trump allies, despite his hope for a 2028 presidential run. "What once might have been a cruise to the 2028 Republican presidential nomination now looks more like a run through the Strait of Hormuz," Milbank wrote. "Mr. Vance is experiencing a version of the pain experienced by other ambitious Republicans who embraced Mr. Trump only to see themselves used and (eventually) discarded by him."And while MAGA fractures further, Vance has been forced into a tough position defending the president's moves. "The ethnonationalist right to which Mr. Vance tethered himself now appears to be faltering at home and abroad," Milbank added. "The Iran war has exposed a rift in the MAGA movement, alienating those who believed Mr. Trump’s 'I’m not going to start a war' promise — and then watched the 'America first' president bomb Yemen, Somalia, Syria, Nigeria, Iraq and Venezuela while threatening Cuba and Greenland."

Apr 7, 2026 - World

President threatens in Truth Social post to annihilate Iran if government ignores deadline to reopen strait of HormuzUS politics live – latest updatesSign up for the Breaking News US newsletter emailDonald Trump on Tuesday morning threatened to completely annihilate the entirety of Iranian civilization should their government ignore his 8pm ET deadline to reopen the strait of Hormuz.The president’s own words, posted publicly and tied to a specific deadline and set of demands, provide unusually direct evidence of intent to violate international law, and were being met with shock and dismay by Democrats. Continue reading...