In a Hollywood-style trailer the Houthis board the Magic Seas cargo ship before blowing it up

On Sunday, the UK Foreign Office advised against all travel to Israel. Now, travellers are looking at the map of the wider region with concern over whether it is safe to travel to Turkey.

The funeral was being held for 60 dead, including four women and four children.

The funeral was being held for 60 dead, including four women and four children.

President Donald Trump claimed he saved Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei from being killed and that he deserves a thank you.

It’s still unclear if Iran moved the uranium from the sites before the strikes.

President Donald Trump is capitalizing on being called ‘daddy’ by NATO’s secretary general.

I’m not putting aside bottles of water, wind up radios and loo roll. I’m mentally prepping – for the fact I might die. 

Hegseth and Trump’s approach to the media has been ‘reminiscent of a cult’.

Donald Trump’s administration has doubled down – no, quadrupled down – on his claims that the Fordow nuclear facility in Iran was ‘obliterated’ in the ‘culmination of 15 years of incredible work’.

Never has this US administration been more determined to counteract its own military assessment as defence secretary Pete Hegseth stooped as low as to berate journalists who reported on leaked intelligence from the Pentagon.

At a press conference this afternoon, Hegseth teamed up with general Dan Caine to persuade the public of the success of the US attacks on Iran – that was their only goal.

Both praised the pilot of the B-2 jets that unleashed bunker buster bombs on Iran and emphasized that the military operation went as planned before criticising the ‘great deal of irresponsible reporting’ all based on ‘biased leaks.’

Hegseth told reporters: ‘If you want to know what’s going on at Fordo, you better go there and get a big shovel.’

He went through a variety of intelligence information – from US sources as well as the Israelis – which concluded that the Iranian nuclear programme was set back years from the airstrikes.

‘You want to call it destroyed, you want to call it defeated, you want to call it obliterated, choose your words,’ he said.

Detailing thespecifics of the attack on Fordow, and how they penetrated into the nuclear site, Caine said that the bombers targeted the ventilation shafts.

He said: ‘All six weapons at each vent at Fordow went exactly where they were intended to go.’

Seemingly aware of the coming attack, He said Iran attempted to cover the ventilation shafts with concrete – but he claimed the US was aware of their dimensions.

The general said the caps were destroyed by the first strikes, leaving the shaft uncovered for the incoming bombs.

Caine went on: ‘The main shaft was uncovered for weapons two, three, four, five, and they were tasked to enter the main shaft, [and] moved down into the complex at greater than 1000ft per second and exploded in the mission space. 

‘Weapon number six was designed as a flex weapon to allow us to cover if one of the preceding jets, or one of the preceding weapons, did not work.’

Focusing on the actual weapons, he said they were planned, designed and delivered to ensure they achieved the effects in the mission space.

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If full-blown world conflict breaks out, there are a number of places across the globe which would probably be safe.

As the world reels from what Trump has dubbed the ’12-day war’ between Israel and Iran, we are faced with more questions than answers.

As the world reels from what Trump has dubbed the ’12-day war’ between Israel and Iran, we are faced with more questions than answers.

Donald Trump and Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu following a meeting in the White House (Picture: Reuters)

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Satellite picture provided by Maxar Technologies shows craters along the access roads that lead to the tunnel entrances on Iran’s Fordow Fuel Enrichment Plant (Picture: AFP via Getty)

The head of Mossad hailed Israel’s ‘historic’ suc…

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky praised US President Donald Trump for airstrikes on Iran’s nuclear sites.

Fear is overruling judgment again.

British Iranians reveal to Metro how efforts to recruit them are commonplace.

The boy had fled the conflict between Israel and Iran.

The president took to TruthSocial to reveal the truth.

‘Living Nostradamus’ predicts the UK will be ‘dragged into the conflict’ between Israel and Iran.

‘The quiet that follows an exchange of missiles should not be mistaken for peace. It is often the eye of the storm.’

The UK needs to ‘actively prepare’ for potential direct attacks on home soil, a major government security review warns.

Growing tensions in regions from the Middle East to the India-Pakistan and Ukraine-Russia borders require a ‘major cultural shift’ from the government, according to the National Security Strategy (NSS) published today.

It says: ‘Significant escalation in any of these theatres would have a profoundly negative impact on our energy security, the cost of living and our ability to grow our economy.’

Written by John Bew, a historian who served as chief Foreign Policy Advisor to several British Prime Ministers, the report sets out plans for facing the challenges posed by an increasingly unstable world.

At its heart is the decision announced by Sir Keir Starmer today, to further boost the UK’s spending on national security over the next ten years until it hits 5% of GDP.

His announcement came on the first full day of a Nato conference in the Netherlands, which focused on a renewed commitment to greater spending.

The PM described the move as a response to an ‘era of radical uncertainty’, saying: ‘This is an opportunity to deepen our commitment to Nato and drive greater investment in the nation’s wider security and resilience.’

That era of uncertainty is outlined in sobering detail in the strategy report.

It explains that some of the UK’s adversaries are ‘laying the foundations for future conflict’ by putting themselves in a position to ’cause major disruption to our energy and/or supply chains.’

The report says: ‘For the first time in many years, we have to actively prepare for the possibility of the UK homeland coming under direct threat, potentially in a wartime scenario.’

Additionally, it describes the potential challenges posed by the effects of climate change, including ‘potential ecosystem collapse’, ‘threats to human health’, and ‘competition for basic resources, including food and water’.

The UK may need to become more selfish in a world where there is a ‘more transactional approach on migration, defence, trade, energy, technology and raw materials’, the strategy adds.

It reads: ‘NSS 2025 therefore signals the need for a major cultural shift in government to help us navigate the new era in which we find ourselves.

‘We will need to be more unapologetic and systematic in pursuit of our national interests. These interests will be defined as the long-term security and social and economic wellbeing of the British people.’

The report was published shortly after a statement from Cabinet Office minister Pat McFadden in the House of Commons, where he said the government needed to ‘face the facts as they are’.

He said: ‘Nato’s member countries meet at a time when the security situation is more in flux than at any time in a generation.

‘A time when Ukraine is in its fourth year of resisting Russia’s invasion, a time when we in Europe are being asked to do more to secure our own defences, a time when security can no longer be thought of just as the traditional realms of air, sea and land, but also of technology, of cyber, of the strength of our democratic society.

‘And as we’ve seen in recent days, it’s been a time of renewed military action in the Middle East, with Israel and the United States acting to try to stop Iran developing a nuclear bomb.’

Questions remain about the funding of Starmer’s commitment to boost national security spending to 5% of GDP.

The government said that would be made up of 1.5% going towards general ‘resilience and security’ and 3.5% towards specific defence, an increase of 0.5% from a commitment the PM made in February.

Achieving that ambition could require heavy cuts to other areas of government spending, and Starmer today said his government would not need to increase taxes to fund it.

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‘We’re all very worried, my sister just called the embassy to find out what’s going on and why she wasn’t put on those planes.’

Some examples of the content that is circulating on TikTok right now (Picture: @apsonarmy/@meme_musicc)

Everything is content — even the existential fear of World War Three.

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