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“Five big stories - UK | Andy Burnham said Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps were “almost certainly” behind threats to RAF Fairford, the firmest attribution of responsibility made so far by the UK after an incident late last month. - UK politics | A…”

“…fore recent developments, as two allies that faced the cold war and other conflicts in lockstep drifted apart on a number of fronts, including Russia’s war with Ukraine and Trump’s decision to attack Iran, signaling a geopolitical trend that he calls “fairly…”

“The Iran war, which he said he does not understand, and tariffs has pushed the diesel that powers his tractor to $6 a gallon, and that’s a problem.”

“Fetterman has drawn questions over his loyalty to the Democratic party after joining Republicans in opposing his party’s efforts to end the US war with Iran as well as to cut off military aid to Israel, which has been accused of committing genocide in Gaza.”

“Those cheers indicate that the audio was recorded during a campaign rally and at a time before he used his power as president to start a war with Iran that has left some supporters feeling betrayed.”

“Energy prices are still sky high as a result of the war in Iran.”

“Voters, so far, don’t seem to care about Piker – at least not more than the cost of gas, or the war in Iran, or healthcare, or artificial intelligence, or immigration, or corruption.”

“Poll numbers are tumbling to historic depths, driven by persistent inflation, rising fuel costs and an increasingly unpopular war in Iran.”

“By the president’s telling, his controversial war on Iran has been about to end since not long after he launched it in February.”

“He also said he was “working closely with the leaders of Russia and Ukraine” to end the disastrous war, defended his administration’s actions in Latin America – including the midnight raid to arrest former Venezuelan president Nicólas Maduro, defended his…”

“Her first campaign ad focused on the cost of childcare and groceries, and the prolonged drag of the Iran war.”

“From the conflict in Iran, which has claimed thousands of lives and disrupted billions more, to the series of ever worsening climate disasters, from wildfires in Europe to collapsing glaciers in Nepal, the world seems to be falling apart exactly when it needs…”

“…enabled a key line in Netanyahu’s address: in smearing anti-war Americans as “useful idiots” manipulated by Iran, the Israeli leader cited a statement from Avril Haines, the director of national intelligence, on July 9 that said Iran’s government was driving…”

“Iran was already one of the most repressive countries in the world when she left, and its horrors had only deepened since then: security forces gunned down thousands of other demonstrators this year, then Donald Trump’s administration launched the war there.”

“Just before completing their own terms in office, George W Bush launched the Iraq war “surge”, Bill Clinton got China into the World Trade Organization and Ronald Reagan helped end the cold war.”

“The Bank of England reported this summer that the spread between the riskiest and safest high-yielding debt has widened since the Iran war began, showing that investors are warier of holding risky debt.”

“With elections due next year in eight EU countries including France, Italy, Spain and Poland, leaders are scrambling to head off the potential fallout from what analysts have warned could be one of the continent’s biggest energy shocks in decades.”

“South Korea will not send military to support US war on Iran, defying Trump pressure South Korea’s president, Lee Jae Myung, has said he will not deploy the military to the Middle East in a way that could draw the country into conflict, resisting calls from…”

“South Korea’s president, Lee Jae Myung, has said he will not deploy the military to the Middle East in a way that could draw the country into conflict, resisting calls from Donald Trump to support his war in Iran.”

“As oil prices remained well over $100 (£74) a barrel, Qatar warned of a catastrophe if the Iran-backed Houthi militants won full control of the Bab al-Mandab strait, the narrow waterway at the bottom of the Red Sea dominating the key naval route to Asia.”

“Energy prices had been climbing in recent fears, amid disappointment over the lack of progress towards ending the US-Iran war.”

“…se Armed Services Committee, expressed outrage on Tuesday at a new estimate by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) that Donald Trump’s ongoing war against Iran cost American taxpayers approximately $38 billion in just the first five months, through 1…”

“In Texas, Governor Greg Abbott has spent much of the summer campaigning against what he calls the imposition of Islamic law, ordering a review of state grants to two major airports and referring both to federal regulators over privately funded wudu stations,…”

“Trump made the promise during a marathon speech at the Republican midterm convention in Dallas in which he assailed Democrats as “radical”, defended his unpopular war in Iran, and urged voters to “pretend that I’m on the ballot”.”

“Similarly inimical to life on Earth, in an avoidable, human-made way, is the rapid proliferation of nuclear weapons, including so-called “battlefield” or tactical nukes that are more likely to be used in war zones such as Ukraine or Iran.”

“Defending his commerce secretary, Trump says 18 Americans have died in Iran Donald Trump is doing his version of damage control after Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick erroneously claimed no Americans have died during the US war on Iran.”

“The three journalists were all employees of Stars and Stripes, which their court filing calls “the U.S. military’s independent news source since the Civil War with a long history of editorial independence, free from news management or censorship by military…”

“A new Reuters/Ipsos poll shows that public approval for the war with Iran has dropped to its lowest level since the conflict’s early days at the end of February.”