Steve Rosenberg: Russia seeks diplomatic and economic gains from Iran war
President Putin pits himself as a potential mediator but that's not an easy sell, writes the BBC's Russia editor.
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Steve Rosenberg: Russia seeks diplomatic and economic gains from Iran war – BBC
- Steve Rosenberg: Russia seeks diplomatic and economic gains from Iran war BBC
- Opinion | Putin’s actions in Iran demand a U.S. response The Washington Post
- The Iran war puts Vladimir Putin in a tough spot The Economist
- Kremlin says Putin’s proposals to mediate Iran war are still on the table The Times of Israel
- Iran Needs Russia’s Help. Here’s Why It Might Not Get Much Bloomberg
Steve Rosenberg: Russia seeks diplomatic and economic gains from Iran war
President Putin pits himself as a potential mediator but that's not an easy sell, writes the BBC's Russia editor.
Noma loses major sponsors for Los Angeles events after reports of abuse
American Express and Blackbird cut ties with restaurant after René Redzepi accused of abusing his staff
After allegations emerged this week that René Redzepi had abused his staff at Noma, once considered the world’s best restaurant, sponsors on Tuesday announced they would end their support for the chef’s upcoming events in Los Angeles.
The New York Times reported that American Express and the hospitality company Blackbird have cut ties with Noma ahead of the Copenhagen restaurant’s four-month pop-up in LA, which was set to kick off this week.
Continue reading...US weighs sending forces into Iran to secure nuclear stockpile, reports say
Tehran has enough material to make at least 10 nuclear warheads but extracting it would be very risky, say experts
The Trump administration is reportedly considering the deployment of special forces into Iran to secure its stockpile of highly enriched uranium (HEU), which experts say could be used to make at least 10 nuclear warheads.
Preventing Iran from acquiring a bomb is one of Trump’s stated war aims, and the 440kg HEU stockpile represents the greatest nuclear threat as it could be turned into weapons-grade uranium relatively easily. The US secretary of state, Marco Rubio, has told Congress that “people are going to have to go and get it”.
Continue reading...Deluded U.S. Peace Envoy Says Trump Should Trust Putin on Iran – The Daily Beast
- Deluded U.S. Peace Envoy Says Trump Should Trust Putin on Iran The Daily Beast
- Russia told Trump it has not shared intelligence with Iran during war, Witkoff says CNBC
- US military The Guardian
- Hegseth warns Russia as signs point to Moscow sharing intel with Iran Fox News
- Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, March 6, 2026 Institute for the Study of War
Royal Navy’s HMS Dragon sails for eastern Mediterranean
Destroyer leaves Portsmouth a week after deployment was announced following drone attack on RAF base in Cyprus
The Royal Navy destroyer HMS Dragon departed Portsmouth on Tuesday afternoon for the eastern Mediterranean after six days of hasty preparation and a week after its deployment was announced by the prime minister.
The warship is expected to take between five and seven days to arrive off the coast of Cyprus, where it will be able to defend against drone and missile attacks from Iran or its proxies in Lebanon or Iraq.
Continue reading...Five stories you may have missed amid US-Israeli war on Iran
Here are some news stories you might not have seen amid the United States-Israel war on Iran.
Aramco warns of oil market ‘catastrophe’ unless strait of Hormuz reopens soon
Saudi Arabian state oil firm calls crisis by far the biggest the region has seen but firm can reroute 70% of exports and tap crude held in storage
Saudi Arabia’s state oil company has warned of “catastrophic consequences” for the world’s oil markets if the US-Israeli war with Iran continues to block shipping in the strait of Hormuz.
The world’s biggest oil exporter expects to be able to supply the market with about 70% of its usual crude output despite the stranglehold on the vital trade artery, but its chief executive warned that there would still be “drastic” consequences for the world economy if the disruption continues.
Continue reading...Rapper Lil’ Kim to headline Melbourne’s 2026 Rising festival
‘Trailblazer’ rapper returns to Australia for first time in 15 years, with body horror performer and dance biennale also on lineup
The pioneering female rapper Lil’ Kim, the vomit-inducing performance artist Florentina Holzinger, and the first ever Australian Dance Biennale are among the lineup for the 2026 Rising festival, which is staged around Melbourne each winter.
Lil’ Kim, who last played in Australia in 2011, will perform at Melbourne’s Festival Hall to celebrate her landmark multiplatinum records Hard Core – which turns 30 this year – and The Notorious KIM.
Continue reading...‘America has no narrative for victory’
Andreas Krieg says the US is lacking a clear narrative for what victory in the war with Iran looks like.
Met accused of insulting black people with shake-up of anti-racism strategy
Academic Shereen Daniels says plan by Mark Rowley to absorb police’s race policies into broader anti-discrimination programme is backward step
The Metropolitan police has been accused of insulting black people and mocking the pain it has caused them after revealing it wants to absorb its anti-racism strategy into a broader anti-discrimination scheme.
The Met said the scheme, also including gender and sexual orientation, will increase its chance of success in better serving groups it has failed in the past.
Continue reading...Former IRA bomber says Gerry Adams was senior figure in organisation
Former Sinn Féin leader being sued by three men injured in IRA bombings in 1976 and 1996
A convicted IRA bomber has told a court that Gerry Adams was a senior figure in the organisation despite the former Sinn Féin leader’s claims to the contrary.
Adams, 77, is being sued for symbolic “vindicatory” damages of £1 each by John Clark, Jonathan Ganesh and Barry Laycock, who were injured respectively in the 1973 Old Bailey bombing, and the London Docklands and Manchester bombings in 1996.
Continue reading...Trump names Erika Kirk to key advisory board of US Air Force Academy
Widow of murdered rightwing activist Charlie Kirk replaces husband on 16-member panel of military training facility
Donald Trump has appointed Erika Kirk, the widow of murdered rightwing activist Charlie Kirk, to a key advisory board of the US Air Force Academy.
The 37-year-old joins a number of other loyalists to the president on the 16-member panel of the academy’s board of visitors, which according to its website “inquires into the morale, discipline, curriculum, instruction, physical equipment, fiscal affairs, academic methods and other matters” of the Colorado Springs military training facility.
Continue reading...Russian attack kills four in Ukraine’s Sloviansk as both sides claim gains
Ukrainian and Russian officials have claimed battlefield successes in the more than four-year war.
War expands to central Beirut as Israeli strike kills Iranians in luxury hotel
Israel's military says it targeted Quds Force operatives after a return to war with Lebanon's Hezbollah movement, but Iran says they were diplomats.
Moment ‘Hezbollah missile’ strikes Israeli radar station
Israel has released video it says shows the moment a missile fired by Hezbollah struck a satellite and radar station.
White House denies US military escorted tanker in Hormuz after deleted post
Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt has walked back a deleted social media claim from Energy Secretary Chris Wright.
Iranians living in UK tell Starmer that war will only strengthen Tehran regime
Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe among more than 100 signatories to letter urging PM not to get drawn further into the conflict
Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe is among three of Iran’s former political prisoners and more than 100 Iranians living in the UK who have urged the British prime minister not to get drawn further into the Iran conflict.
They are all signatories in a letter to Keir Starmer saying the way the war is being conducted is strengthening the regime in Tehran.
Continue reading...Duterte’s drug war faces judgement at the ICC
Victims of the Philippines’ drug war finally see a path to justice in The Hague.