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The country’s defence minister said the IDF will not withdraw from southern Lebanon and will not allow the ‘return of the population’Israel and Lebanon agree to renew ceasefire as Trump seeks to overcome barriers to Iran dealThe commander of the Quds Force, the foreign arm of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards (IRGC), said Hezbollah is demanding Israel retreat to positions it held before the start of the war, according to a statement carried by Iranian media.“Supporting the resistance in Lebanon is the duty of all of us, and removing Israel from the region is an attainable goal for Muslims,” Esmail Qaani was quoted as saying. Staff Sergeant Milovan Jovanović, a member of the Serbian Armed Forces who was serving with the United Nations peacekeeping mission in Lebanon, died this morning as a result of injuries sustained after a projectile impacted the United Nations base where peacekeeping personnel, including a part of the Serbian contingent, are stationed. Following the incident, Sergeant Jovanović received immediate medical assistance at the base hospital and was later transported by helicopter to the University Medical Centre in Beirut, where he passed away at approximately 4.00 a.m. local time. Continue reading...

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King Charles was reportedly nervous about hosting President Donald Trump for a state visit to the UK, according to a report from The i Paper on Thursday.Leaked emails and messages have revealed that the King was concerned for one main reason: the president's contentious meeting with Volodymyr Zelensky at the White House in February 2025, where Trump and Vice President JD Vance ridiculed the Ukrainian leader for not showing enough gratitude for support from America."The monarch’s private reservations over the visit left officials scrambling, fearful that a royal snub of President Trump could detonate into a full-blown diplomatic crisis," according to The i Paper. "Multiple senior Whitehall sources have told this newspaper that the King was reticent about hosting Trump at this time because of his treatment of Zelensky," The i Paper reported.A source told the outlet that the King was "jittery" about Trump's appearance. Another source said he "did not want to do it.""A flurry of emails and texts exchanged between Peter Mandelson, then US ambassador, and officials in March 2025 reveal a behind-the-scenes diplomatic scramble to alleviate Charles’s concerns over the visit," according to The i Paper. "In one message, the peer thanks the most senior civil servant in Foreign Office for his 'cool handling of the last 48 hours on the SV [State Visit],' and in another exchange five days later Mandelson discusses how he is awaiting an update following the weekly audience between the King and Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer."The incident has exposed the tough diplomatic situation over Ukraine and the fears that the United States could halt its support of Ukraine amid the ongoing war. The King's private worries over the visit were included in the Mandelson files, which contained redacted documents, hundreds of private WhatsApp messages and emails exchanged between current and former UK Cabinet ministers, senior civil servants and advisers, The i Paper reported."The messages which have been published indicate that officials and diplomats were working intensively behind the scenes to allay the King’s concerns, and suggest that Starmer was due to discuss them with Charles at their weekly audience," according to The i Paper. "The key email and text exchanges took place between March 14 and 19, 2025 – a period of intense diplomacy over the war in Ukraine and just weeks after Trump had an explosive row with the Ukrainian President on 28 February."

Group calls ceasefire a ‘roadmap to annihilate part of the Lebanese people’, throwing regional peace talks into doubtMiddle East crisis – live updatesHezbollah has rejected a US-brokered ceasefire plan agreed by the Lebanese and Israeli governments, throwing the future of a truce in Lebanon and regional peace negotiations into question.The group’s leader, Naim Qassem, called the ceasefire plan a “roadmap to annihilate part of the Lebanese people” in a statement delivered on Thursday. Continue reading...

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During a “Morning Joe” discussion on Donald Trump’s constantly evolving statements about bringing the Iran war to a close, MS NOW contributor Katty Kay suggested the president’s deep-seated obsession with former President Barack Obama could be the biggest roadblock.Speaking with co-host Willie Geist, Kay humorously claimed the president lives in fear of the “O word.”“The question is, are we any closer to getting some kind of a deal after all the fits and starts that we've had out of the White House?” she began. “It seems the two big issues that remain are whether the Iranians will have any kind of control of the Strait of Hormuz. And the even bigger issue is what's to be done about Iran's nuclear program.”“I mean, Willie, it still looks like we're at the status quo ante where before the shooting started, on February 28th, Iran had a nuclear program, and it didn't control the Strait of Hormuz,” she pointed out before adding, “And I think at the moment, that's the best that the administration can hope for.”“Donald Trump seems to be terrified of the ‘O word,’ the Obama word, anything being compared that he does to the JCPOA [Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action], which may be why there's a holdup,” she stated. “It looks like they had got fairly close, but then he got spooked by being criticized for being weak and that this looked too much like the Iran deal [from the Obama administration.” - YouTubeyoutu.be