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Macron and Putin Discuss Iran and Ukraine in Rare Call
ByCatherine Porter and Anton Troianovski July 1, 2025July 1, 2025

It was the two leaders’ first call since 2022, and the Russian president’s first with any major European leader since last year.

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Macron and Putin Discuss Iran and Ukraine in Rare Call
ByCatherine Porter and Anton Troianovski July 1, 2025

It was the two leaders’ first call since 2022, and the Russian president’s first with any major European leader since last year.

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Life Is Beautiful review – poignantly upbeat journal of a Gazan exile stranded in Norway
ByPeter Bradshaw July 1, 2025

Mohamed Jabaly was marooned at a Norwegian film festival in 2014 after Israel closed Gaza’s border, and this is the record of what came nextHere is a tale from pre-7 October Gaza, on whose optimist energy subsequent events now cast a gloomy shadow. Alm…

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Nonprofits Lose Legal Bid to Halt U.K. Exports of Fighter Jet Parts to Israel
ByLizzie Dearden June 30, 2025July 2, 2025

A top court ruled Monday that the British government, rather than judges, should decide on the “acutely sensitive and political issue.”

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EU must have a stronger response over Gaza, says bloc’s former chief diplomat
ByLisa O'Carroll June 28, 2025

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 June 26, 2025

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 June 26, 2025

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 June 26, 2025

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 June 25, 2025

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 June 24, 2025

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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