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Actor and filmmaker Maggie Gyllenhaal will preside over the main competition jury for the 83rd Venice International Film Festival later this year. Festival organisers announced the selection on Thursday. Gyllenhaal, who most recently directed The Bride!, brought her directorial debut The Lost Daughter to the festival in 2021. Maggie Gyllenhaal attends The Bride world premiere […]

The US military has seized another tanker associated with smuggling Iranian oil. The Defence Department said it seized the oil tanker Majestic X in the Indian Ocean. “We will continue global maritime enforcement to disrupt illicit networks and interdict vessels providing material support to Iran, wherever they operate,” the Defence Department said. Overnight, U.S. forces […]

Iran’s exiled crown prince Reza Pahlavi was splattered with red liquid as he left a building in Berlin. Mr Pahlavi had just departed a news briefing, during which he criticised the ceasefire between the Unites States and Iran, when the incident occurred outside Germany’s federal press conference building. He then waved to his supporters and […]

Two trains have collided in Denmark, prompting a massive emergency response for what police called a major accident. The collision occurred at around 6.30am local time about 40 kilometres (25 miles) north of Copenhagen. It was not immediately clear how many people were injured. Rescuers at the site where two trains collided between Hilleroed and […]

Iran fired on three ships in the Strait of Hormuz on Wednesday, underscoring the ongoing threat to global energy supplies and complicating efforts to bring the US and Iran together for talks to end the war. The attacks, which Iranian media said were carried out by Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard, came after President Donald Trump […]

A second ship has come under attack in the Strait of Hormuz, the British military said, just a short time after Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard opened fire on a container ship. The United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations centre (UKMTO) did not immediately identify who shot at the second ship. However, suspicion immediately fell on Iran, […]

Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard has opened fire on and damaged a container ship in the Strait of Hormuz as planned ceasefire talks in Pakistan failed to materialise. The United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) centre said the attack happened at around 7.55am local time in the strait and targeted a container ship. The UKMTO said […]

Donald Trump has extended the ceasefire with Iran following a request from Pakistan, which has been mediating in the conflict. However, the US president said the blockade of the country’s ports would remain in force. The move comes as the deadline loomed on the current fragile truce and proposed talks in Islamabad were put on […]

The ability of the Iranian regime to “take pressure and absorb pain” is often underestimated, according to a top UK diplomat, who has extensive experience of negotiating with Tehran. The current British ambassador to Washington, Christian Turner, made his comments ahead of possible talks in the Pakistani capital Islamabad between the US and Iran as […]

The United States and Iran have signalled they will hold a new round of ceasefire talks in Islamabad, two regional officials said. The officials’ comments come as neither the US nor Iran have publicly confirmed the timing of the talks, with Iranian state television denying any official was already in Pakistan’s capital. Pakistan-led mediators received […]