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Donald Trump announces 11th-hour Iran ceasefire
A woman in Tehran reacts to the ceasefire announcement |
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Benedict Smith US Reporter |
There were just minutes to spare before Donald Trump’s threat to wipe out Iranian civilisation when he accepted a ceasefire deal mediated by Pakistan.
Taking to Truth Social last night, Trump wrote: “Subject to the Islamic Republic of Iran agreeing to the COMPLETE, IMMEDIATE, and SAFE OPENING of the Strait of Hormuz, I agree to suspend the bombing and attack of Iran for a period of two weeks. This will be a double sided CEASEFIRE!”
Israel and Iran have both agreed to the truce, meaning that Tehran will reopen the strait immediately, as long as both countries halt their attacks. The ceasefire doesn’t cover Lebanon, Israel has clarified.
The US president hailed a new “Golden Age of the Middle East”, calling the truce a “big day for world peace”.
Markets rallied following the announcement, with oil prices plunging nearly 17 per cent and stocks surging.
Demonstrators in Tehran burn American and Israeli flags |
Although Tehran has agreed to reopen the strait, the agreement does little to address the reasons why the US went to war in the first place.
Crucially, Iran is still thought to retain its enriched uranium, and has not ruled out producing any more.
Trump started bombing Tehran seemingly with the intention of stopping the world being held hostage by a nuclear-armed “terrorist state”. However, it seems to be in the same position after almost six weeks of war.
Peace talks are going ahead on Friday, but the regime appears to have been left with a stronger hand than it had in the past.
Now it knows it can push up oil prices by choking off the flow of tankers through the Strait of Hormuz. If it chooses, it can tighten the screws on the US president again.
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Go deeper with our full coverage of the Iran war:
• How the 11th hour US-Iran ceasefire unfolded ➤
• Trump will never be able to wipe out Iranian civilisation ➤
• David Blair: Iran’s stubborn rulers defied Saddam Hussein. They won’t yield to Trump ➤
• Follow the latest here ➤ |
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In a breakthrough operation that will shape the future of warfare, Ukrainian forces used British drones to destroy a Russian-held bridge over the River Dnipro. Initially deemed impossible, the success of the two-month campaign marks the first known case of a drone-led operation being used to bring down a bridge in combat history.
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Kanye West has been banned from entering the UK and the festival he was due to headline, Wireless, has been cancelled |
Amid the furore about Kanye West being barred from Britain on account of his anti-Semitic outbursts, it’s worth remembering a sinister truth: in the rap world, hatred of Jews doesn’t start or end with him. Liam Kelly delves into a sulphurous history – and discovers some of the most shocking lyrics you’ll ever read.
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Charlotte Divine earned thousands on OnlyFans but says the lifestyle left her depressed |
I joined OnlyFans on my 18th birthday, writes Charlotte Divine. With 30,000 followers on TikTok and countless suggestive messages in my inbox, I saw the platform as a way to make money. Soon, I was earning thousands and falling for the glamorous lies spun by social media influencers. Beneath the false promise of empowerment is a far darker reality – one that is hidden from teenage girls until it’s too late. Continue reading ➤ |
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Do you live with a food bore? The kind of person who will drink only craft beer, or insists on buying Kalamata olives? As a medieval historian explains, we once understood these as types of gluttony, and the Seven Deadly Sins still have plenty to teach us about the problems of modern life. Continue reading ➤ |
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The Moon, and Earth, seen from the Orion craft on Monday. The crew of the Artemis II mission face a nail-biting re-entry to Earth this weekend |
Nasa’s astronauts may have journeyed deeper into space than any human has before, but their biggest test is yet to come. The crew face a nail-biting re-entry into Earth this weekend, which is even more tense because of ongoing problems with their capsule’s heat shield.
This is supposed to protect the spacecraft and crew as they make their way back through Earth’s atmosphere and temperatures of about 1,648C. However, during the Artemis I uncrewed mission, parts of the shield failed and for Artemis II Nasa has come up with a new trajectory. It has never been tried before. Continue reading ➤ |
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Freddie Mercury performing with Queen at the Forum in Los Angeles, 1977 |
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Ed Power |
Queen’s second album, which depicts the beautiful magical kingdom of Rhye ripped violently asunder in a destructive war, has long been one of rock’s greatest mysteries.
Freddie Mercury refused to explain any of it, dismissing his Tolkien-esque lyrics as “airy-fairy fantasies”. That hasn’t stopped fans trying to decipher its meaning through dozens of Reddit threads and YouTube videos. Their conclusion? Rhye was actually inspired by Mercury’s island childhood in Zanzibar, which his family fled after a revolution broke out when the singer was in his late teens.
For Freddie, stuck in suburban Middlesex, the island had come to symbolise a lost innocence and a place of refuge for “when reality got too much.” As Queen II is re-released this week, I examine how its bombastic style led to Bohemian Rhapsody.
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We’re all going on a summer holidayEvery weekday, Orlando Bird, our loyal reader correspondent, shares an off-piste topic that has brought out the best of your opinions and stories. Orlando writes...
Poor old static caravans. Decades of cheap jibes, and now this. A photograph was recently published of one standing forlornly near the grounds of Marsh Farm on the Sandringham Estate, the soon-to-be home of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor – something like the opposite of a celebrity endorsement. Cue a carnival of mockery.
In response, The Telegraph’s Sally Howard stepped up to defend this much-maligned form of accommodation. Many readers felt similarly protective. Martyn Ford wrote: “I have great memories of family holidays in a static van. We used to go to Ingoldmells or Sutton on Sea. The kids loved it. The smell of 100 cooked breakfasts wafting across the site of a morning made you hungry.”
Michael Houston recalled: “My two younger brothers and I had holidays in a caravan in Southend-on-Sea during the 1950s. It was a grubby-looking duck-egg blue, and was very small, with no running water. But they were great times for us kids from a tenement house on a bombed-out street in East London. Southend’s shingle beach was heaven.”
Another reader said: “We had a static caravan on a site in Middleton, West Sussex, during much of the 1980s. For us kids it was a constant adventure. We’d go off on our bikes for the whole weekend, making bases, going down to the beach and messing around. Brilliant memories. Unfortunately, the caravan was blown over and destroyed in the great storm of 1987.”
G Sanderson was less enthusiastic: “I have pictures of my brother and I standing in front of a caravan in Rye during the 1960s, dressed in plastic macs, with our shoulders hunched against the cold. Our mother fared no better, dressed in a thick woolly jumper, sitting in a deckchair grimacing rather than smiling. We never went back.” Happy memories of static caravans? Send them here, and the best of the bunch will feature in a future edition of From the Editor PM, for which you can sign up here.
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