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Iran threatens US ‘hideouts’ in UAE after Trump says military targets on Kharg Island ‘obliterated’

Oil loading operations reportedly suspended at key UAE port after intercepted drone sparks fire

A man rides a motorcycle on a road with plumes of black smoke in the distance

Fred Pleitgen and Claudia Otto stand in front of Tehran's Shahran oil depot with black smoke billowing behind.

Media
CNN’s Frederik Pleitgen on being the only western journalist in Iran: ‘It’s obviously a big responsibility’

Iranian women walk across posters depicting images the US president Donald Trump and Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Iran
‘You are all worse than each other’: anti-regime Iranians turn on Trump

A burnt-out tanker truck with a thick plume of black smoke rising behind it

The escalation trap
How the Iran war could become more costly and complex

Portrait of Trump split in half, with the top looking one direction and the bottom the other

Donald Trump
Trump wages war on Iran his own way: commander-in-chaos

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News

US

Anti-ICE protesters accused of being part of antifa found guilty of support for terrorism in Texas

Case was seen as major test of the first amendment and whether the US could use broad anti-terrorism statute to prosecute leftwing protesters

Sign for Prairieland Detention Center, a federal immigration detention facility in Texas

A nan in a steel grey suit standing behind a lectern with a US flag in the background

Federal Reserve
Judge blocks justice department from subpoenaing Fed chair Jerome Powell

Emotional woman suffering near a wall

Artificial intelligence
New study raises concerns about AI chatbots fueling delusional thinking

Three officers stand on a street next to a police car opposite a three-storey modern building

Netherlands
‘Deliberate attack’: explosion damages Jewish school in Amsterdam

Technology
Meta reportedly plans sweeping layoffs as AI costs increase

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Special report

US immigration

This doctor treated migrants’ severe injuries at the US-Mexico wall: ‘Political decisions made it as violent as possible’

Dr Brian Elmore witnessed a public health crisis unfold at the border near El Paso. He reflects on why it was like a ‘perverse Groundhog Day’

Collage of a person providing medical treatment to people with the border wall in the background

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In focus

AI

Invisible datacentres and capricious chips: is UK’s AI bubble about to burst?

Datacentre investment boom is one of the biggest infrastructure gambles of this era, and Britain may be uniquely exposed

Illustration of hands over a cracked crystal ball in which we can see a datacentre

Franck Allisio handing out campaign flyers at a market in Marseille

‘It would be an earthquake for France’
Is Marseille about to vote in the far right?

Yvette Cooper, shot at the Foreign Office, for Saturday magazine - pub date: March 14th.

Yvette Cooper
UK foreign secretary on Mandelson, Marco Rubio and war in Iran

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Features

Second world war

‘Negatives are photographic truths’: the collector who fled Russia with a haul of images

Ukrainian-Russian photojournalist Arthur Bondar has amassed huge collection of pictures from often unknown photographers

Walking wounded get their bandages changed and go back to their unit. Seelow Heights, Germany. April 1945 Photo: Valery Faminsky / Arthur Bondar private collection

2/20/26- Vancouver, B.C., Canada- Suzanne Simard, Renowned forestry scientist and conservationist who is best known for her research on forest ecology and plant intelligence. -Alana Paterson for The Guardian

Environment
‘My ideas are a little revolutionary’: ecologist Suzanne Simard on intelligent forests, the climate and her critics

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Opinion

smoke and fire rise after an airstrike

quote  Trump faces a ‘personal Vietnam’ in Iran
Sidney Blumenthal

quote  I had a ringside seat for the Iranian revolution. Foreign meddling didn’t work then either
Paul Taylor

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Sports

Aaron Judge and the United States are through to the last four of the World Baseball Classic.

World Baseball Classic
USA see off Canada to book semi-final with Dominican Republic

Formula One
Antonelli takes historic pole for Chinese GP after Russell’s sprint race win

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Culture

Charlotte Kaufman and Andrew Jarecki stand next to the poster for The Alabama Solution at the film's screening

Film
‘You cannot unsee it’: what happened next for this year’s Oscar nominees?

My cultural awakening
A 60s folk band helped me find my place as a person of colour in Britain

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Lifestyle

G2: The best advice my mother ever gave me - Simon

My mother’s best advice
Go in to bat for the ones you love

Well actually
‘I could barely think because it was so bad’: how pain changes us

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US news
Ex-CIA analyst David McCloskey on the Mossad’s intelligence inside Iran: ‘I was surprised’

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Analysis
Anthropic-Pentagon battle shows how big tech has reversed course on AI and war

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