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EU must have a stronger response over Gaza, says bloc’s former chief diplomat

ByLisa O'Carroll

Josep Borrell says Europe has a duty to intervene and ‘can no longer afford to linger at the margins’Middle East crisis – live updatesThe EU must come up with a more assertive response to the humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza and the violations of inter…

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Europe’s leaders have let us down on the Middle East | Letters

ByGuardian staff

Readers decry the timidity of European governments and their failure to criticise Israel’s and Donald Trump’s attacks on IranThank you, Nesrine Malik, for articulating so lucidly the righteous anger that so many of us feel for the way in which mos…

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Europe’s leaders have let us down on the Middle East | Letters

ByGuardian staff

Readers decry the timidity of European governments and their failure to criticise Israel’s and Donald Trump’s attacks on IranThank you, Nesrine Malik, for articulating so lucidly the righteous anger that so many of us feel for the way in which mos…

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Are we witnessing the death of international law?

ByLinda Kinstler

A growing number of scholars and lawyers are losing faith in the current system. Others say the law is not to blame, but the states that are supposed to uphold itIn late April, terrorists killed 26 civilians in the Indian town of Pahalgam, located in t…

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‘This ended the war’: Trump compares US strikes on Iran to Hiroshima – video

ByMiddle East and north Africa | The Guardian

Speaking alongside the Nato secretary general, Mark Rutte, Donald Trump compared the US strikes on Iran to the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, saying: ‘This was essentially the same thing: that ended that war; this ended the war.’ Trump’s comments c…

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Nato members willingly increasing defence spending amid rising threat from Russia, says Rutte

ByPjotr Sauer and Dan Sabbagh in The Hague

Exclusive: As alliance members arrive at The Hague summit, secretary general says Moscow capable of launching attack within three to five yearsMark Rutte, Nato’s secretary general, said it was “not a difficult thing” to get members to agree to raise de…

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Nato members willingly increasing defence spending amid rising threat from Russia, says Rutte

ByPjotr Sauer and Dan Sabbagh in The Hague

Exclusive: As alliance members arrive at The Hague summit, secretary general says Moscow capable of launching attack within three to five yearsMark Rutte, Nato’s secretary general, said it was “not a difficult thing” to get members to agree to raise de…

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EU may take action against Israel if conditions in Gaza do not improve

ByJennifer Rankin in Brussels

Bloc’s foreign affairs chief warns of a response unless action is taken to ‘stop the suffering’ in Gaza Strip The EU may take action to increase pressure on Israel unless there are “concrete” improvements for the inhabitants of Gaza, its foreign policy…

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Western leaders call for diplomacy, but they won’t stop this war – they refuse to even name its cause | Nesrine Malik

ByNesrine Malik

The political centre sees the US and Israel’s war on Iran as a crisis to be managed, while the gap between their detached rhetoric and bloody reality widensSince the war on Gaza started, the defining dynamic has been of unprecedented anger, panic and a…

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Iran says diplomacy with US only possible if Israeli aggression stops

ByPatrick Wintour Diplomatic editor

Foreign minister Abbas Araghchi says he supports more talks with European counterparts despite lack of progressIran’s foreign minister, Abbas Araghchi, has said that his country is ready for more diplomacy with the US only if Israel’s war on his countr…