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Ministers understood to be considering ways to mitigate rising energy bills as oil prices surpass $100 a barrel Middle East crisis – live updates UK politics live – latest updates Keir Starmer has said that a long-term US-Iran war would affect the “lives and households of everybody”, as the head of the AA advised motorists against making “non-essential” journeys. On Monday, oil prices surged past $100 (£75) a barrel for the first time since 2022, which will feed through to higher costs at petrol stations, and consumers will also be hit if energy costs push up inflation. Continue reading...

Footage of attack on Minab compound adds to evidence indicating it was a US strike that killed scores of children Middle East crisis – live updates A video has shown a US Tomahawk missile hitting the Iranian naval base next to a primary school in Minab where more than 168 people, mostly children, were killed – adding to evidence that indicates the US was responsible for the school strike. The video, released by the Iranian news agency Mehr and geolocated to the site by the investigative collective Bellingcat, shows the missile hitting the Minab compound on the morning of 28 February, when US-Israeli strikes on Iran began. Continue reading...

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Dozens of British MPs and peers back call for UK apology over Balfour Declaration MEE staff on Mon, 03/09/2026 - 11:27 Arthur Balfour was foreign secretary in 1917 when he pledged British support for Jewish homeland in historic Palestine The Dome of the Rock shrine in the old city of Jerusalem, as seen from the Mount of Olives on 23 January 2026 (AFP/Ahmad Gharabli) Off Dozens of MPs and peers have signed a letter calling for a formal British apology over the Balfour Declaration in 1917, which paved the way for the creation of Israel in 1948 and the ethnic cleansing of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians during the Nakba. Liberal Democrat MP Layla Moran, Labour's Nadia Whittome and Green MP Carla Denyer are some of the 45 MPs and peers who have signed a letter so far, which also includes a condemnation of historic British abuses in Mandate-era Palestine between 1917 and 1948. "During its occupation of Palestine, Britain violated a series of international laws that were binding at the time," said Moran, adding: "The consequences of those actions have profoundly shaped the conflict we witness today, yet successive governments have refused to acknowledge this record or offer a formal apology." The move follows a petition to the government in September last year, delivered by Palestinian tycoon Munib al-Masri and written by the Britain Owes Palestine campaign, which called on the UK to issue an apology and provide reparations for its historic role in the dispossession of Palestinians. Masri, who is 91 years old, said: "I was a child when I was shot by British soldiers, and I still carry that memory - and shrapnel - in my body. But my story is just one among thousands." (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); The petition was drafted by legal experts Ben Emmerson and Danny Friedman, alongside three academics. It sets out evidence that Britain violated international law during the Mandate period, did not recognise the right to Arab self-determination and lacked proper legal authority for the Balfour Declaration and Mandate for Palestine. The petition also accuses the kingdom of committing war crimes, crimes against humanity and home demolitions. Organisers have given the government until September this year to respond and have said they will move for a judicial review if there is no response. 'Still not taught in schools' University of Nottingham academic Victor Kattan, who is the legal adviser to Britain Owes Palestine, said an apology would carry symbolic weight and monetary reparations were not the primary focus of those involved in the petition. (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); "The reference in the petition to meaningful reparations is not a claim for the payment of compensation. It does not demand any specific sums," he said. Arabic press review: British Palestinians to sue UK over Balfour Declaration Read More » "Acknowledging wrongdoing can take various forms. The petitioners have requested an official apology, but reparation could also take the form of investing in education - not just in Palestine, but also in Britain, where Britain’s history in this significant part of the globe is still not taught adequately in schools." Arthur Balfour, after whom the declaration was named, was foreign secretary when he gave British support for a Jewish homeland in historic Palestine. While the declaration promised that the rights of indigenous residents of the land would not be impinged upon, that did not stop the expulsion of roughly 750,000 Palestinians from their homes during the establishment of Israel. The survivors of the Nakba and their descendants still cannot return to their homes in what is today Israel. Britain ruled Palestine as part of a mandate following the defeat of the Ottoman Empire in the First World War until 1948, when it left the territory. Balfour News Post Date Override 0 Update Date Mon, 05/04/2020 - 21:19 Update Date Override 0

EU says oil and gas stocks sufficient despite Israeli-US war The European Commission says EU countries have enough oil and gas reserves despite supply disruptions linked to the war in the Middle East. Speaking in Brussels on Monday, Commission spokesperson Anna-Kaisa Itkonen said the bloc was more concerned about rising energy prices than shortages. "We are far less concerned about the security of supply than we are of the high energy prices," Itkonen told reporters. She said EU member states currently hold oil reserves equivalent to about 90 days of consumption and that authorities had not identified any emergency situation. Itkonen also confirmed that G7 countries were expected to discuss the potential release of strategic oil reserves during talks later on Monday.

March 9 (Reuters) - Kuwait held a military funeral on Monday for two interior ministry officials it said were killed "while performing their duty". The state - which hosts U.S. military installations and has come under Iranian drone and missile fire during Tehran's war with Israel and the U.S. - said the two men died early on Sunday, but did not go into further details. Kuwait's army separately said areas near the international airport were hit on Sunday and its forces had intercepted missiles and drones.

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Turkish man in London Quran burning case was apparently convicted of wife’s killing Ragip Soylu on Fri, 03/06/2026 - 12:44 Hamit Coskun, hailed in UK as a free speech champion, was jailed in Turkey for strangling his wife, according to court documents Hamit Coskun, pictured during an interview on GB News in June 2025 following his conviction which was overturned on appeal (YouTube) Off A Turkish man hailed as a champion of free speech in the UK after being cleared of criminal charges over the burning of a copy of the Quran outside his country’s London embassy was previously convicted of killing his wife, according to court documents seen by Middle East Eye. Hamit Coskun, 51, was sentenced to 16 years in prison by an Istanbul court in 2007 after being found guilty of aggravated homicide over the death of Vesia Coskun in September 2002, according to the Turkish court documents. Coskun, who is half Kurdish and half Armenian, was released in 2009, having spent nearly seven years in prison following his arrest in 2002. Although the documents seen by MEE appear to confirm the conviction, Coskun has vehemently denied any involvement, saying his wife died of asthma in a different year and the documents must be forged or refer to someone else. Lawyers representing Coskun told MEE he denied he had been investigated, arrested, charged or imprisoned over her death, and said he had been in prison in Turkey for many years on charges “arising from his anti-regime politics”. (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); They said he had “no realistic access to material from his former life in Turkey”. While there is a well-documented issue with politically motivated prosecutions in Turkey, these are usually brought under blasphemy or terrorism laws. A lawyer who reviewed the case file at Istanbul’s Bakirkoy criminal court confirmed the contested documents seen by MEE were the same as those held in the court archive. MEE has confirmed that Coskun's date of birth in the Turkish documents is the same as in British court records. MEE has also identified a Turkish newspaper report about the case dated 26 September 2002, the same day Coskun was arrested. (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); Coskun applied for asylum in the UK in 2022. In February 2025 he was arrested after burning a copy of the Quran in front of the Turkish embassy in London. He was charged and convicted on 2 June 2025 with religiously aggravated disorderly behaviour. The conviction was overturned on appeal in October, and last month the High Court dismissed the Crown Prosecution Service’s bid to challenge Coskun’s acquittal. The CPS told MEE it would not appeal. Writing in the Daily Telegraph following the judgment, Coskun said the High Court had “struck back against the Islamification of Britain”. “I am now free to resume my campaign against the rising tide of Islamification, both in Britain and Europe – and that may include burning copies of the Koran again,” he wrote. Confirmation of Coskun’s acquittal was celebrated by free speech campaign groups, who funded his appeal, and prominent supporters including Robert Jenrick, a former Conservative minister, now with the anti-immigration Reform Party, and leading Conservative MPs Chris Phelp and Nick Timothy, who denounced his prosecution as an attempt to introduce a “blasphemy law” in the UK. (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); Jenrick, who was pictured leaving court with Coskun following his successful appeal in October, wrote on X: “The right ruling. I stood by Hamit Coskun because, while I don’t agree with burning the Quran, doing so should never be a crime.” Stephen Evans, the head of the National Secular Society, which co-funded Coskun’s legal case with the Free Speech Union, said the judgment was “an important victory for free expression”. There is no suggestion that any of those who supported Coskun or welcomed his acquittal in the UK were aware of any previous conviction in Turkey. Strangled to death According to the court documents, Coskun stood trial in Istanbul’s Bakirkoy criminal court where he was accused of strangling Vesia Coskun on 25 September 2002. Coskun is alleged to have killed her “by placing his hands on her throat” in a fight at a house in Istanbul’s Ikitelli district before turning himself in at a police station. The couple had been married since 1993. Coskun confessed to the killing and expressed remorse, according to the indictment against him. Coskun was held in prison pending his trial, but was hospitalised a number of times, which delayed trial proceedings, according to the case files reviewed for MEE. In December 2007 he was sentenced to 16 years in prison, including time already spent in custody. The indictment against him initially alleged that he was having a relationship with another woman, who was also accused of involvement in the killing. But both Coskun and the woman later retracted their statements and the woman was cleared of all charges. Coskun was released from Kocaeli Prison on parole conditions on 2 July 2009. In January 2010, Turkey’s Court of Cassation overturned his conviction due to procedural issues with the trial. But he was convicted again in May 2011 in a retrial following a complaint brought by Vesia Coskun’s sister. That judgment was upheld by the Court of Cassation in November 2011. Coskun was not required to serve any further prison time and his parole conditions expired in May 2019. Writing in the Telegraph, Coskun said he had been arrested and tortured in Turkey after joining a left-wing pro-democracy party in the 1990s and had been released from prison in 2002. But he said he had been detained again after resuming his political activities in opposition to Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s ruling Justice and Development Party. The case files reviewed for MEE indicate that Coskun was separately convicted and sentenced to five years in prison by Izmir criminal court over his alleged membership of an illegal armed group, although the documents do not include the date of the conviction. In a letter sent in response to MEE’s request for comment, Coskun’s lawyers said he had spent many years in prison in Turkey on “charges arising from his anti-regime politics” and was a “target of state and religious authorities”. They stated he said he had never seen the documents referred to by MEE and believed they may have been forged by politically motivated actors: “His wife died of natural causes. There was no police investigation into it, at least that he knows of. He was never arrested for her murder or charged for it. He was never put on trial for it or jailed for it.” Inside Turkey News Post Date Override 0 Update Date Mon, 05/04/2020 - 21:19 Update Date Override 0

Coping with the psychological impact of war in Iran  CBS News

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Turkey says Nato defences intercepted missile in its airspace Turkey says Nato air and missile defence systems intercepted a ballistic missile that entered its airspace from Iran, according to a statement from the Turkish defence ministry on Monday. Officials said defence elements stationed in the eastern Mediterranean neutralised the missile before it could cause damage. Fragments of the projectile fell in empty fields in the southeastern province of Gaziantep, but authorities reported no casualties or injuries. Ankara said it remained committed to maintaining stable relations with neighbouring countries while warning it would act decisively against any threat. “Turkey attaches great importance to good neighborly relations and regional stability. However, we once again emphasize that all necessary steps will be taken resolutely and without hesitation against any threat directed at our territory and airspace," it said. “We remind everyone that heeding Turkey's warnings in this regard is in everyone's interest.”

From their hideouts in the Iraqi mountains near Iran, leftist Kurdish rebels say they are ready to fight the Islamic republic, but hope for an uprising before they intervene, with or without US support. After saying that he would be "all for" a Kurdish offensive on Iran, US President Donald Trump appeared to backtrack Saturday, saying he did not want such an attack. Senior commander Roken Nerada of the Party of Free Life of Kurdistan (PJAK) told AFP: "If there is an attack on the Kurdish people... then with every means... we are ready to resist as we always have."

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Iran says it shot down three drones over Bushehr and Tehran Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps  (IRGC)says its forces have downed three drones in separate incidents across the country. According to the IRGC, two of the drones were intercepted over Bushehr province in southern Iran, while a third was brought down over the capital, Tehran.