2026 • Apr 07
Democrats outraged at Trump’s Iran post: ‘A threat to commit a war crime’
President threatens in Truth Social post to annihilate Iran if government ignores deadline to reopen strait of Hormuz
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2026 • Apr 07
Antonia Romeo handed powerful mandate to deliver No 10’s priorities
PM’s most senior civil servant now has task of rewriting civil service code and ‘making it recognised for improved productivity’ Antonia Romeo, Keir Starmer’s most senior civil servant, has
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2026 • Apr 07
Starmer urged to limit US access to UK bases after ‘dangerous’ Trump threats
Lib Dems, Greens and some Labour MPs demand UK block US from using its airbases for Iran missions
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2026 • Apr 07
Maga movement splinters as Trump threatens to eradicate a ‘whole civilization’ if Iran doesn’t make deal – live
Tucker Carlson calls Trump strategy ‘vile on every level’ and Marjorie Taylor Greene joins Democrats’ calls to remove president using 25th amendment
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2026 • Apr 07
Retired military officers call Trump’s threats against Iran ‘likely war crimes’
Alarm among military observers after president says ‘whole civilization will die tonight’ if Iran ignores demands
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2026 • Apr 07
Republicans silent as Democrats call on US cabinet to oust Trump over Iran
Lawmakers call for use of 25th amendment after president brazenly threatens to commit war crimes in IranAs Donald Trump unleashe
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2026 • Apr 07
Donald Trump says ‘a whole civilisation will die’ if Iran ignores demands
Attacks on Iran increase and Israel tells Iranians to avoid train travel as deadline to reopen strait of Hormuz looms
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2026 • Apr 07
American journalist released a week after being kidnapped in Iraq
Freelancer Shelly Kittleson was reportedly held by Iran-backed militia which says she must now leave countryThe US journalist Shelly Kittleson,
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2026 • Apr 07
Iran calls on young people to form human chains around power plants as Trump deadline looms
President Masoud Pezeshkian says 14m people ‘declared their readiness to sacrifice their lives’ for defence of Iran
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2026 • Apr 07
UN chief decries ‘incendiary rhetoric’ after Trump ramps up threats against Iran as deal deadline looms – Middle East crisis live
UN chief warns that deliberate attacks on civilians amount to war crime; Trump once again implores Iran to make a deal to avert attack
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2026 • Apr 07
Viktor Orbán told Putin ‘I am at your service’ in October phone call
Transcript reportedly details Hungarian leader offering whatever assistance he can to his Russian counterpart
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2026 • Apr 07
Albanese brings forward Singapore trip and speaks with China in bid to shore up petrol shipments to Australia
Petrol prices have stopped falling, despite the federal government’s cut to the fuel excise last week
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2026 • Apr 07
Max Chandler-Mather says Greens can use ‘progressive populism’ to win voters deserting major parties for One Nation
The new head of the Greens Institute will organise thousands of volunteers for a major survey of economic and social life around AustraliaGet our
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2026 • Apr 07
Student claiming RMIT is ‘complicit in genocide’ in social media post faces misconduct action
Student accused of sharing a video of the university’s defence and aerospace research centre with the RMIT Students for Palestine Instagram account
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2026 • Apr 07
Australia news live: Albanese talks fuel crisis with Chinese premier; Ben Roberts-Smith to front court
Prime minister brings forward trip to Singapore in scramble for petrol supplies; former soldier charged with five war crime murders. Follow updates liveGet our
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2026 • Apr 07
First Nation asks court to block Alberta referendum on seceding from Canada
Sturgeon Lake Cree Nation has asked a court to halt the separatist push, arguing it would violate their treaty rightsA First Nation in Alberta has said that
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2026 • Apr 07
Stork warning: woman gives birth midair on Jamaica-to-New York flight
Baby was delivered during Caribbean Airlines flight from Kingston to the US; nationality of child to be determined
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2026 • Apr 07
Commonwealth leaders vow to keep seeking reparations after Reform UK plan to halt visas
Politicians warn party’s pledge to ‘punish’ countries seeking justice for slavery will harm and isolate BritainCommonwealth politicians say they will not back down from seeking reparations a
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2026 • Apr 07
‘We still deserve due process,’ says Cambodian man deported by US to Eswatini
Pheap Rom was one of 15 people sent to prison in African kingdom last year despite completing US sentencesA Cambodian man deported by the US said he would have accepted being sent to Cambodi
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2026 • Apr 07
Trump warns 'whole civilization will die tonight,' as Iranian official urges human chains around power plants
President Donald Trump warned that a "civilization will die tonight" as his threats of strikes on Iranian power plants and bridges loomed ahead of Tuesday's deadline.
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