Videos and images filtering out of Iran on public Telegram channels appear to record extensive strikes across the country; with smoke hovering over buildings, the noise of car horns honking, conversation, and occasional cheering, and fires and jets tearing across the sky

A person briefed on the military plans says Saturday’s operation was planned by the U.S. and Israel for months and closely coordinated. The person says the attacks are expected to continue for several days.

conflicting reports on this

Quite clearly the US-Israeli attacks are in breach of the prohibition of the use of force. There are two exceptions: a UNSC resolution (which we do not have) and self-defence /1

Needless to say, POTUS's airing of grievances on social media against Iran does not provide a predicate for using military force under either US or international law. A lawless, unnecessary war of choice—waged on the whims of one man.

Iranian sources said the supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was not in Tehran but in a safe undisclosed location. No assassination of any official was confirmed, despite rumours that the president, Masud Pezeshkhian, had been targeted.

Just hours before the attacks began, senior officials from Arab states and European allies were saying that the White House was still not telling them what the objective of the strikes would be. President Trump left no doubt in his video that it is regime change.”

🚨 Donald Trump after launching war on Iran: The lives of American heroes may be lost, and we may have casualties. That often happens in war.

You can just say things.

RFK Jr. suggests Americans can more easily afford groceries if they start eating liver instead of beef: "Most of the cheap cuts of meat are very inexpensive. ... You can buy liver or the cheap cuts."

OpenAI fired an employee for insider trading on prediction markets. from @knibbs.bsky.social

I can’t stop thinking about this.

Pégard led the Château de Versailles for 13 years and has served as Macron’s culture advisor since 2024. She has also worked as a political journalist—rising to editor of the political magazine Le Point—and a speechwriter for the former French president Nicolas Sarkozy.

The Conference of Catholic Bishops is... not playing around in this brief. www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/25...

You can have no idea where this sentence is going as.ft.com/r/4860d9c4-7...

"The Milei bubble has plenty of room left to run. But if you are invested in Argentina, you are no longer surfing a wave. You are following a can that is being kicked down the road, hoping to enjoy the boom while it exists, but exiting before it hits the messy end."

For the first time in Gallup history — More Americans sympathize with Palestinians in the “Middle East Situation” than with Israelis. 41% Palestinians (+8) 36% Israelis (-10) Democrats: Palestinians +48 Independents: Palestinians +11 Ages 18-34: Palestinians +30 Ages 35-54: Palestinians +18

My apologies for being late to it, but I just saw the photo (hours after reading the headlines from the meeting) and find it mindblowingly incredible.

The entire Democratic strategy debate — "moderate" or move left? fight or compromise? — is based on a misreading of data. Voters don't think Dems are too progressive; they think Dems are weak. The actual math on what to do about this isn't even close! New: www.gelliottmorris.com/p/new-poll-d...

Overturning years of precedent, immigration authorities have arrested or questioned dozens of refugees in Minnesota, attorneys and advocates say, with more detentions likely to come nationwide.

Cristiano Ronaldo buys 25 per cent stake in Saudi-owned Spanish side Almeria

“When we saw the social media post we took action – we have spoken to Norman Lebrecht and we will no longer be working with him at BBC Radio 3,” said Jackson.

“The world absolutely does not need another Converge record,” says Jacob Bannon, the band’s lead vocalist and primary songwriter. “But, I think as people, the four of us needed a Converge record as a place to put our energies and frustrations, and work those things out artistically.”

“Playing safe will be the end of us. If we are conservative in style, in content, in process, we might balance the books today but we will kill the future of theatre and betray Jennie Lee."

So that's a Green win in Gorton & Denton, with 40.6%. Reform second on 28.7%. Labour third on 25.4%. Not even particularly close.

Green GAIN Gorton and Denton from Labour.

Great news, everyone!!!

Team Trump is celebrating the capture of Warner Bros. and CNN tonight >>

as in Putin’s Russia, the goal is not to convince people that a lie is the truth; it’s to make it impossible to tell them apart

i’ve never hated anyone this much

People say that Labour hasn’t delivered, but after just 18 months, Gorton and Denton have joined the new elite.

Pakistan carried out airstrikes in Kabul and two other Afghan provinces early Friday, Afghanistan’s government spokesperson said, hours after Afghanistan launched a cross-border attack on Pakistan in the latest escalation of violence between the neighboring countries

Mette Frederiksen, who has been in office since 2019, is required by Danish law to call an election by 31 October. Setting a date with eight months to go appears to be an attempt to ride improved poll ratings after disastrous local elections in November

Melania Trump is set to lead a session of the United Nations security council on Monday, coinciding with the US assuming the body’s rotating monthly presidency, the White House announced.

Entre as preocupações está o facto de a agência passar a ter três administradores "nomeados diretamente pelo Governo", bem como a criação de um conselho consultivo de 13 membros com apenas dois representantes dos trabalhadores e a determinação de que a DI pode ser ouvida com regularidade na AR

Ah yes. We’ve been expecting you. The latest kick in the nuts for all the racist & racist-adjacent ‘mainstream’ UK journalists who mocked the notion that Trump’s administration was far-right & fascistic. Don’t expect any apologies, though. It’s Brexit 2.0.

Good. Long overdue

HAVANA (AP) — Cuba’s government said Wednesday that its soldiers killed four people aboard a speed boat registered in Florida that opened fire on officers in Cuban waters.

AIs can’t stop recommending nuclear strikes in war game simulations Leading AIs from OpenAI, Anthropic and Google opted to use nuclear weapons in simulated war games in 95 per cent of cases www.newscientist.com/article/2516...

"uma Câmara não dá 'notícias', muito menos em primeira mão. Uma Câmara emite comunicados, quando muito emite 'informações'. Chamar a isto 'notícias' é desvalorizar o trabalho de quem as vem fazendo a tempo inteiro ao longo dos anos, em troca de um mísero ordenado"

Dr. Means has repeatedly railed against the conventional medical system. She dropped out of her medical residency. She is skeptical of some vaccines and has repeated the debunked claim that they could be linked to autism. She has spoken out against bans on raw milk

Experts warn that MPs from the two main parties have been trying to outdo each other over how tough they appear on asylum and immigration since the rise of Nigel Farage’s Reform UK.

Los menores también están acusados de un delito contra la intimidad y de revelación de secretos, ya que grabaron y difundieron las imágenes de la agresión sexual

Diviseur en chef devant le Congrès, Donald Trump dessine une Amérique qui n’en finirait pas de « gagner »

democrats should internalize that this is what their colleagues think of them and act accordingly

When Donald Trump falsely claimed tonight that Democrats only win when they cheat, he betrayed the anti-democratic contempt for the notion of political opposition at the core of his project www.vox.com/politics/480...

It’s both funny and cosmically correct that the U.S. men’s hockey chodes will have to sit through 2+ hours of rambling from their addled little king while the U.S. Women’s team gets to skip the speech and party with Flavor Flav in Vegas

The interesting part of this report isn’t that Biden’s Gaza policy hurt Harris (obviously it did despite all the relentless spinning to the contrary), it’s the resistance to releasing it (which would require dealing with the implications). www.axios.com/2026/02/22/d...