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US President Donald Trump on Tuesday launched a stinging criticism of Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, one of his main European allies, over her unwillingness to join the Iran war. “I’m shocked at her. I thought she had courage, but I was wrong,” he said in an interview with Italian daily Corriere della Sera. The interview was published the day after Meloni condemned as “unacceptable” Trump’s criticism of Pope Leo XIV, after the pontiff’s repeated calls for an end to the war in the Middle East. Trump told Corriere that it was she who was “unacceptable”, alleging she did not care if Iran had a nuclear weapon, adding that she did not want Italy to be involved in the war, which began with Israeli-US attacks on Iran, even though it gets much of its oil from the region. Meloni, Italy’s far-right leader since October 2022, has been one of Trump’s closest allies in Europe and often seeks to act as a mediator between diverging US and European views. Meloni’s allies and political opponents were swift to offer th...

Speaking at a Holocaust Remembrance Day memorial event, David Barnea said it was clear that Mossad's mission in Iran wouldn't end with the cease-fire

Iran conflict is already disrupting the hidden plumbing of global trade The market spent the first phase of the Iran conflict watching crude. That was the visible layer. Today, prices have fallen below $90 a barrel for the first time in a while and Bitcoin is soaring alongside. However, a consequential shift is still happening […] The post Oil prices fall but China trade and US inflation data weakens as Iran contagion spreads – in opportunity for Bitcoin appeared first on CryptoSlate.

The survey, conducted after the Iran cease-fire began, shows low approval of the government's war management – 38% among Jewish Israelis and 10% among Arabs – alongside a sharp divide on its impact: about half of Jews say security improved, while most Arabs say it worsened

According to a Haaretz investigation, at the start of the Iran war only 5 percent of missiles hit Israel. By war's last days, the number spiked to 27 percent. Four out of five were cluster missiles

On Andy Corriher’s farm in North Carolina, planting and preparations are underway for his corn and soybean crops — but fertiliser costs have surged on war in the Middle East, and orders he placed weeks ago have yet to arrive. The 47-year-old is among US farmers facing a double whammy of soaring fertiliser and diesel prices after US-Israeli strikes on Iran triggered Tehran’s blockage of the Strait of Hormuz, a critical waterway for such shipments. “This time of year is when the majority of fertiliser is put out in this country,” Corriher told AFP. “We got hit at the worst possible time, because we’re trying to buy fertiliser when it skyrockets and when the supply also gets cut.” Andy Corriher examines his wheat crop at his farm in China Grove, North Carolina, on April 10, 2026. — AFP The cost hikes strike at a major support base for US President Donald Trump, who won 78 per cent of the 2024 vote in farming-dependent counties, said news service Investigate Midwest. Trump blamed “price gouging from the fertilise...

Citing security concerns in Israel and the potential collapse of the cease-fire with Iran, the Hungarian airline announced it would push back its return to Tel Aviv until May 4

De VS en Iran overwegen een tweede ronde vredesonderhandelingen, voordat het staakt-het-vuren volgende week afloopt.

A broad hope for a US deal with Iran to end weeks of conflict has spurred investor confidence in riskier assets. Bitcoin has surged to its highest price in nearly a month, triggering hundreds of millions worth of liquidations as hopes of a deal between the Trump administration and Iran washed the crypto market with positive sentiment. The crypto market surged to a total value of $2.6 trillion, its highest level for a month, liquidating 177,000 traders of $530 million over the past 24 hours, according to CoinGlass. The majority of liquidations occurred in the past 12 hours, and 80% of them, or $425 million, were leveraged short positions in Bitcoin (BTC) and Ether (ETH).  Read more

Iran heeft volgens The New York Times aan Amerikaanse onderhandelaars voorgesteld om het kernprogramma voor vijf jaar stil te leggen. Twee bronnen aan Iraanse kant en een Amerikaanse bron zeggen tegen de krant dat daar op maandag een voorstel over is gedaan, dat door de Amerikanen zou zijn geweigerd. Volg alle ontwikkelingen in het Midden-Oosten in ons liveblog.

De Amerikaanse krijgsmacht blokkeert sinds maandagmiddag de Straat van Hormuz. Iran noemde de blokkade van de zeestraat een schending van het staakt-het-vuren en dreigde krachtig te reageren. Die reactie bleef in ieder geval de eerste uren na het ingaan van de blokkade uit.

MK Tzvika Foghel addressed the U.S. president on X in Hebrew: 'Donald, you've [turned out to be] a duck,' a remark he deleted several hours later. The post appeared shortly after the announcement of a two-week cease-fire between the United States and Iran

The offer reportedly included sanctions relief and was raised in Pakistan-based talks, but it remains unclear what limits, if any, would apply after the 20-year period. Iran instead proposed a shorter pause and rejected a U.S. demand to transfer its stockpile of highly enriched uranium abroad

According to a Haaretz investigation, while at the beginning of the war only 5 percent of missiles launched from Iran hit sites in Israel, the number was 27 percent for the last five days. Four out of five missiles that struck were cluster missiles

Even as the Finance Ministry says reserves can cover costs if fighting doesn't expand, the Defense Ministry pegs the Iran campaign higher and is expected to push for roughly $9B more, including for Lebanon operations

Bitcoin preserved $70,000 at the weekly close as markets began reacting to a breakdown in US-Iran negotiations and blockade of the Strait of Hormuz. Bitcoin (BTC) held $70,000 at the weekly close as markets reacted to a breakdown in US-Iran negotiations and escalating tensions around the Strait of Hormuz. A breakdown in US-Iran negotiations sends oil surging above $100 per barrel, with the Strait of Hormuz now blockaded. US PPI inflation data is due amid signs that the oil crisis is far from the only driver of price increases. Read more

Vance could never have struck a deal on what Iran and the U.S. have been unable to resolve for years. As the president sways between declaring victory and restarting the war, Netanyahu tries to ramp up Israel's public opinion for another round of fighting

Fallout from the Iran war will likely weigh on markets for much of 2026, dashing hopes of rate cuts until Q3 by the earliest, the Coin Bureau's Nic Puckrin said. Now almost a week old, the Bitcoin (BTC) recovery is “fragile” as the crypto market faces geopolitical and macroeconomic headwinds from the ongoing war in the Middle East, according to Nic Puckrin, a crypto market analyst and founder of the Coin Bureau media outlet. “Even if the war ends now, its repercussions will likely be the story of 2026, and certainly the dominant narrative for Q2. I don’t expect to see a rate cut until late Q3 or Q4, if at all,” Puckrin told Cointelegraph. He said that he sees:  If Bitcoin closes the week above $71,000, it could signal continued upside for BTC, with resistance forming around the $74,000 level, he said. At last look, it was trading at about $71,276, according to TradingView data. Read more

Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar urged the United States and Iran to remain committed to a ceasefire after both countries ended historic face-to-face talks without an agreement on Sunday. “It is imperative that the parties continue to uphold their commitment to the ceasefire,” Dar said in a press conference following the conclusion of the 21-hour marathon talks. Dar expressed Pakistan’s readiness to continue to play its role to “facilitate engagement and dialogue” between the US and Iran. He hoped that both sides would “continue with the positive spirit to achieve durable peace and prosperity for the entire region and beyond”. The foreign minister also thanked Iran and the US for following through on the ceasefire call by Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and accepting the invitation for the Islamabad Talks. Dar stated that he, along with Chief of Defence Forces and Chief of the Army Staff Field Marshal Asim Munir, “helped mediate several rounds of intense and constructive negotiations between...

'This whole thing about the prime minister coming in and dragging the president into this, it's for publicity purposes,' Leiter argued, after NYT reporters published an extensive report about Netanyahu's role in Trump's decision to go to war with Iran