Israel-Iran conflict: List of key events, June 15, 2025
Here are the key events on day three of the Israel-Iran conflict.
Analysis: What options does Iran have in its conflict against Israel?
Even as it conducts its own attacks on Israel, Iran is weighing up its military and diplomatic choices.
Macron Takes Message From EU to Greenland – Newser
- Macron Takes Message From EU to Greenland Newser
- Macron visits Greenland in show of European unity and signal to Trump BBC
- French president touches down in Greenland, in solidarity with territory eyed by Trump CNN
- Macron criticises Trump’s threats to take over Greenland during visit The Guardian
- Macron Offers to Aid in Greenland’s Security Amid Trump Threats Bloomberg
‘Labour has made me feel like a scrounger’: disabled people urge welfare cuts rethink
People who rely on personal independence payments tell how cuts will affect them as chancellor rules out U-turn
Ministers are facing a backlash over planned disability welfare changes, but Rachel Reeves on Thursday resisted calls to abandon the cuts.
After ruling out a U-turn, pressure is building on the UK chancellor to tweak qualification rules to protect many disabled people from being stripped of their benefits. On Thursday, she said the government was “reviewing the criteria”, but ministers are yet to release details.
Continue reading...Israel and Iran broaden strikes during third day of escalating war
Trump calls for end to conflict and warns Tehran against striking US targets in the region
Israel and Iran have broadened their strikes against each other on the third day of an escalating war that has killed and injured hundreds of people, as Donald Trump called for an end to the conflict and warned Tehran against striking US targets in the region.
G7 leaders flying to Canada for a summit that starts on Monday are likely to try to use their time with the US president to urge him to keep the US out of the conflict and use his influence with Israel to broker a ceasefire.
Continue reading...Thousands attend ‘red line’ protest in The Hague against Israel’s Gaza war
According to Oxfam, nearly 150,000 people in the Netherlands called for the government to do more against the war.
Trump’s changing opinion on military parades costs
We compare and contrast US President Donald Trump cancelling a proposed military parade in 2018 for being too costly wit
UK ‘woefully’ unprepared for Chinese and Russian undersea cable sabotage, says report
CSRI finds China and Russia may be coordinating ‘grey zone’ tactics against vulnerable western infrastructure
China and Russia are stepping up sabotage operations targeting undersea cables and the UK is unprepared to meet the mounting threat, according to new analysis.
A report by the China Strategic Risks Institute (CSRI) analysed 12 incidents in which national authorities had investigated alleged undersea cable sabotage between January 2021 and April 2025. Of the 10 cases in which a suspect vessel was identified, eight were directly linked to China or Russia through flag-state registration or company ownership.
Continue reading...Bombardment, strikes, deaths in third day of fierce Israel-Iran conflict
The intensifying conflict has heightened fears of a protracted all-out war and widespread instability in the region.
Manhunt continues for suspect in shootings of Minnesota lawmakers
Gunman believed to have left Minneapolis region after killing one legislator and wounding another
The hunt for the man suspected of shooting two Minnesota lawmakers and their spouses while impersonating a police officer, killing one legislator and her husband, continued on Sunday more than 24 hours after the killings.
Vance Boelter, 57, now on the FBI’s most wanted list, is believed to have left the Minneapolis region after allegedly gunning down Democratic state representative Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark, at their home, according to CNN. Boelter is also suspected of shooting Democratic state senator John Hoffman and his wife, Yvette, at their residence, gravely injuring them; a relative posted on Facebook that they were out of surgery and recovering.
Continue reading...Manhunt in Minnesota lawmaker attacks widens to nearby state
Police broaden their search for the 57-year-old man to nearby South Dakota as a $50,000 reward is issued.
Israeli air attack on Mashhad airport in Iran
Israel attacked Mashhad Hashemi Nejad airport in eastern Iran, claiming it targeted an Iranian refuelling plane.
Russia returns bodies of 1,200 more Ukrainians as part of POW swap
The exchange stems from the Istanbul talks deal, but Russia claims Ukraine is not upholding its part of the agreement.
Will Russia, Turkiye and China provide support to Iran in its conflict?
Moscow, Ankara and Beijing have condemned Israel's attacks on Iran.
Macron visits Greenland in solidarity amid Trump designs on Arctic island
The French president says his US counterpart's Greenland takeover threats are not something allies do.
Macron criticises Trump’s threats to take over Greenland during visit
French president is first foreign head of state to visit Arctic territory since US president made comments
Emmanuel Macron has criticised Donald Trump’s threats to take over Greenland as he became the first foreign head of state to visit the vast, mineral-rich Arctic territory since the US president began making explicit threats to annex it.
“I don’t think that’s what allies do,” Macron said as he arrived in the Danish autonomous territory for a highly symbolic visit aimed at conveying “France’s and the EU’s solidarity” with Greenland on his way to a summit of G7 leaders in Canada.
Continue reading...Protesters against overtourism take to the streets of southern Europe – Reuters
- Protesters against overtourism take to the streets of southern Europe Reuters
- Spaniards turn water pistols on visitors in Barcelona and Mallorca to protest mass tourism AP News
- Anti-Tourism Protests in Italy, Portugal and Spain Draw Attention to Quality of Life Issues The New York Times
- Spain housing crisis: Locals blame tourists and speculators DW
- Can Europe beat the overtourism crisis? BBC
Campaigners mount coordinated protests across Europe against ‘touristification’
Protesters take to streets in a dozen cities to march against an industry they say is wrecking communities
Campaigners in at least a dozen tourist hotspots across southern Europe have taken to the streets to protest against “touristification”.
It is the most widespread joint action to date against what they see as the steady reshaping of their cities to meet the needs of tourists rather than people who live and work there.
Continue reading...At least 8 dead in shooting near Israeli and US-supported aid sites in Gaza – NPR
- At least 8 dead in shooting near Israeli and US-supported aid sites in Gaza NPR
- Israel kills 59 Palestinians in Gaza, many while trying to get aid Al Jazeera
- Israeli military kills 41 people in Gaza, medics say Reuters
- Israeli strikes on Gaza kill at least 20 as war rages on after the opening of a new front with Iran AP News
- Fifteen killed by Israeli fire near Gaza aid site, hospitals say BBC
Netanyahu visits site of Iranian missile strike in Israel
Benjamin Netanyahu visited the site of the Iranian missile strike that targeted a residential block in Bat Yam, Israel.