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Iran announces official end to 10-year-old nuclear agreement
ByOliver Holmes October 18, 2025

Tehran terminates 2015 deal under which sanctions were lifted in return for curbs on country’s nuclear programmeAn international deal with Iran designed to keep the world safe from the spread of atomic weapons has officially ended, with Tehran announci…

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‘It’s like a nuclear bomb has hit’: shocked Palestinians return home to desolation
BySeham Tantesh in Gaza and Julian Borger October 18, 2025

Families are going back to Gaza City and surrounds to find their neighbourhoods obliterated, with many forced to camp in the ruinsWhen the Gaza ceasefire took effect a week ago, tens of thousands of Palestinians began to move from the sprawling camps i…

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‘We feel betrayed’: Israeli families still seeking return of deceased hostages
ByDaniel Boffey in Tel Aviv October 17, 2025

With the remains of 19 Hamas hostages still missing, loved ones feel their cycle of grief has yet to endWhen Tamir Adar left his wife and two children, Asaf, 7, and Neta, 3, in the secure room of their home on 7 October 2023 he told them: “Two minutes,…

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Gaza aid still critically scarce, say agencies, as Israel delays convoys
ByLorenzo Tondo in Jerusalem October 17, 2025

UN urges opening of all crossing points as fewer than half of intended trucks enter strip and WHO warns of ‘spiralling’ diseaseMiddle East crisis – live updatesAid remains critically scarce in Gaza one week into the ceasefire, humanitarian agencies hav…

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Palestine 36 director Annemarie Jacir: ‘We don’t want a state, we just want to live’
ByGeneva Abdul October 17, 2025

Fresh from a 20-minute ovation at Toronto, the film-maker’s historical drama reveals how Britain’s 1936 crackdown created the blueprint for the ongoing genocide in GazaIt is a black hole, the director and writer Annemarie Jacir tells me of the year 193…

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Infectious diseases in Gaza ‘spiralling out of control’, says WHO – as it happened
ByAmy Sedghi October 17, 2025October 17, 2025

UN official says: ‘Whether meningitis … diarrhoea, respiratory illnesses, we’re talking about a mammoth amount of work’. This live blog is closedGaza aid still critically scarce, say agenciesWe’ve got a bit more from the UN’s World Food Programme on th…

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Hamas’s aim to retain authority in Gaza involves keeping the guns
ByJason Burke International security correspondent October 17, 2025

With no law, order or any alternative administration under the ceasefire, the group is using violence to deter rivalsThroughout Israel’s two-year war in Gaza, aid officials working in the territory avoided naming Hamas in conversations they suspected m…

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Hamas’s aim to retain authority in Gaza involves keeping the guns
ByJason Burke International security correspondent October 17, 2025

With no law, order or any alternative administration under the ceasefire, the group is using violence to deter rivalsThroughout Israel’s two-year war in Gaza, aid officials working in the territory avoided naming Hamas in conversations they suspected m…

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Comedy in Riyadh is a sign of progress | Letter
ByGuardian staff October 16, 2025

Omid Djalili responds to criticism of his decision to perform at a comedy festival in Saudi ArabiaWhat the critics of the Riyadh comedy festival may have missed (Letters, 13 October) is the fact that performing comedy or any live event in Saudi Arabia …

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Comedy in Riyadh is a sign of progress | Letter
ByGuardian staff October 16, 2025

Omid Djalili responds to criticism of his decision to perform at a comedy festival in Saudi ArabiaWhat the critics of the Riyadh comedy festival may have missed (Letters, 13 October) is the fact that performing comedy or any live event in Saudi Arabia …

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