Iranians fear harsher regime crackdown after war with US ends

Behind peaceful scenes, Iran's economy is in tatters, and people are fearful of a new government clampdown and angry about the destructive airstrikes.
Iranians striving to maintain a semblance of normal life after weeks of US and Israeli bombing and a deadly crackdown on protesters in January remain daunted by the future as damage from airstrikes and internet cuts take a toll.
With Iran and the US wrangling over a truce extension and a deal to end the conflict, shops, restaurants, and government offices have remained open. On s

Key Fed Official Says Interest Rate Hike Is Possible as Gas Prices Soar

A top official at the Federal Reserve has said that soaring gas prices present a new threat to the economy, warning of a possible interest rate hike if inflation remains persistently elevated.
Oil prices have surged since the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran began, sparking fears of renewed inflation and roiling the stock market, which dipped on Tuesday after President Donald Trump threatened that Iran's "whole civilization will die tonight" if Tehran doesn't accept his terms.
Cleveland Fed President Beth Hammack, a voting

Iran rejects ceasefire as Trump ramps up threats ahead of deadline

DUBAI/WASHINGTON, April 6 (Reuters) - Iran said on Monday it wanted a lasting end to the war with the U.S. and Israel, and pushed back against pressure to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, while U.S. President Donald Trump warned the country could be "taken out" if it did not meet his Tuesday night deadline to reach a deal.
Responding to a U.S. proposal through mediator Pakistan, Tehran rejected a ceasefire ‌and said a permanent end to the war was necessary, the official IRNA news agency reported.
The Iranian response consisted

Asia's migrant workers debate if Gulf jobs are worth deadly risk of Iran war

All Norma Tactacon can do is pray as the sirens blare.
The 49-year-old, who works in the Middle East as a domestic worker, is thousands of miles away from her home in the Philippines, where her husband and three children live.
Stuck in Qatar, which is caught in the crossfire of the US and Israel's war on Iran, her only hope is that she makes it home to her family.
"I get scared and nervous every time I see pictures and videos of missiles in the air," she tells the BBC. "I need to be alive to be there for my fami

Could gas prices get even higher in Tampa Bay? Experts say yes.

Gas pricesare high and it could get worse, experts say, which could also create a major drag onFlorida’s economy.
It all depends on what happens in the Strait of Hormuz, economists say, a narrow waterway between the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman through which about 20 million barrels of oil are carried each day — representing about a fifth of the world’s oil supply.
Since the U.S. and Israel launched strikes in Iran in late February, the country has blocked transportation through the strait, backing up thousands of vessel

Korean Air takes emergency action as fuel prices soar

Korean Air says it is moving into emergency management mode to buffer the impact of surging jet fuel costs as the global economy is rocked by the ongoing US-Israel war with Iran.
A spokesperson for the national flag carrier said on Tuesday that it will implement "internal cost-reduction measures" to manage its finances to ensure the firm's "stability amidst rising fuel prices and global economic uncertainty".
It is the latest Asian airline to announce measures to deal with the economic impact of the Iran war.
The cost of crude oil has

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Roubini Sees US More Likely to Escalate in Iran Than Back Down

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Bitcoin Rallies After Iran Strikes but Safe Haven Role Unproven

Bitcoin is beating gold during the Iran war, but its dependence on liquidity cycles keeps the safe haven narrative in question.
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Before the Iran war broke out, Bitcoin spent months trading sideways while gold rallied to record levels.
At the time, gold was seen as the go-to safe haven; inflation concerns remained persistent and geopolitical tensions continued to build, while Bitcoin
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Nearly a month after the US and Israel launched the first strik

Bitcoin Price Prediction: We Asked ChatGPT What Bitcoin Will Be Worth by 31 December 2026

Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) is trading around $73,500 after one of its roughest stretches since the 2022 crash. The cryptocurrency hit $126,000 in October 2025 and started 2026 above $90,000. Then lost a third of its value in the **** e of roughly three months after the U.S. and Israel struck Iran and risk **** ets sold off across the board.
We gave ChatGPT the full picture—current Bitcoin price, ETF flows, the Fed’s rate stance, oil prices, the halving, and the extreme fear reading—and asked one question:

After attacks on Iran's oil facilities, toxic black rain endangers the public

Clouds of toxic smoke unleashed into the atmosphere by U.S.-Israeli airstrikes on Iranian oil facilities made a dangerous return to Earth in the form of “black rain,” prompting international health officials to warn of serious risks to the public.
Residents in Tehran complained last week of burning eyes and difficulty breathing when the dark and oily precipitation fell near the Iranian capital after several fuel oil depots and a refinery were struck.
Plumes of dark smoke have also been seen across other parts of

UK 'discussing options' to help US secure Strait of Hormuz

President Donald Trump may have risen the stakes in the US and Israel's war in Iran, while millions of displaced Palestinians have been hit by a heavy sandstorm, ITV News' Mahatir Pasha and Sabah Choudhry report.
Trump has appealed to the UK and other nations including France, China and ****** an to send warships to the Strait – a vital passage for global shipments of oil and natural gases
US forces have struck targets on Iran's Kharg Island – a vital part of the country's oil infrastructure – with Donald Trump threatening to "wip

Israel says Iran war entering 'decisive phase'

Israel said the war against Iran was entering its "decisive phase" on Saturday, as explosions rocked cities across the Middle East, with strikes on the US embassy in Baghdad and a major Emirati energy facility.
Washington's embassy in Iraq was hit by a drone, security sources told AFP, the second time it has been targeted since February 28, when the United States and Israel attacked Iran and plunged the Gulf into a conflict that has sent shockwaves through the global economy.
Millions have been displaced by waves of drone, missile and aerial

Iran war: What is happening on day 15 of US-Israel attacks?

The United States-Israel war on Iran, now in its third week, continues to escalate after US forces struck military targets on Kharg Island, the critical hub through which most of Iran’s crude exports pass.
US President Donald Trump said Washington deliberately spared the island’s oil infrastructure but warned that it could be attacked if Iran interferes with shipping through the Strait of Hormuz.
Tehran, meanwhile, has warned that any attack on its energy facilities would trigger retaliation against regional oil infrastructure an

Epstein was invited to gatherings with a dozen members of Congress years after...

In January 2011, Jeffrey Epstein received an email inviting him to join a freshman congressman for breakfast at a luxury hotel in midtown Manhattan.
The billionaire pedophile was promised the chance to rub shoulders with Rep. Allen West, a “rising star” Florida Republican, whose district encompassed Epstein’s Palm Beach mansion.
“You will have the opportunity to explore his views on a variety of issues including spending, the national debt, taxes, education, the economy, Islam, Israel, among others,” the let

White House OKs huge arms package to Israel, including 30 Apache helicopters

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration has approved a massive new series of arms sales to Israel totaling $6.67 billion and to Saudi Arabia worth $9 billion.
The State Department announced the sales to America's allies in the Middle East late Friday as tensions rise in the region over the possibility of U.S. military strikes on Iran. They were made public after the department notified Congress of its approval of the sales earlier Friday.
The sales also come as President Donald Trump pushes ahead with his ceas

The method relies on a unique dental structure, past imaging, and existing dental records. It enables an initial determination within a short time, even under harsh conditions.
After the deceased hostage Ran Gvili's body was brought back to Israel on Monday, one of the fastest and most central tools in criminal identification came into focus: forensic dental identification. The method is among the most reliable when conditions at the scene do not allow for full visual or biometric identification.
In the case of Gvili, as in previous situations involving casualties and hostages, forensic dent

Iran's Revolutionary Guard commander warns the US his force has its 'finger on the trigger'

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The commander of Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard, which was key in putting down recent nationwide protests in a crackdown that left thousands dead, warned that his force is “more ready than ever, finger on the trigger,” as U.S. warships headed toward the Middle East.
Nournews, a news outlet close to Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, reported on its Telegram channel that the commander, Gen. Mohammad Pakpour, warned the United States and Israel “to av

Trump stirs talk of 'new world order' as leaders signal shifting global alliances

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump gives. And he takes away.
Offended by Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney's increasingly ***** ertive posture toward the U.S., Trump revoked an invitation to join his Board of Peace. Many Western allies are suspicious of the organization, which is chaired by Trump and was initially formed to focus on maintaining the ceasefire in Israel's war with Hamas but has grown into something skeptics fear could rival the United Nations.
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Detailed measurements collected in metropolitan Tel Aviv, Israel, have revealed how the ebb and flow of traffic throughout the week affects the electric field generated by Earth's atmosphere.
Led by researchers from The Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Israel, the study used an electric field mill deployed in the city of Holon in 2024, matching its results with air quality data over a period of seven months. Only measurements from fair weather days were included to filter out interference from rain and storms.
A number of specific pollutants were tracked, including gases and particles from

Italian police arrest nine and seize €8 million in Hamas financing probe

Italian police arrested nine people accused of financing Hamas through charitable ******* ociations that investigators said raised at least €7.3 million for the Palestinian militant group.
Police and the Guardia di Finanza executed arrest warrants and seized more than €8 million in ******* ets in an operation coordinated by Genoa's District Anti-Mafia and Anti-Terrorism Directorate.
The investigation, which began before the 7 October 2023 Hamas-led attack on southern Israel, revealed what prosecutors described as a c

Iran’s president says his country is in a full-scale war with the West

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said Saturday his country is in a full-scale war with the U.S., Israel and Europe ahead of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ’s meeting Monday with U.S. President Donald Trump.
Pezeshkian said in an interview published on the website of the country’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Saturday that the war is worse than Iran's deadly war with Iraq in the 1980s.
“We are in a full-scale war with the U.S., Israel and Europe; they don’t want our country

Two major economies are tightening control over digital currencies just as the US pushes to cement its leadership in the stablecoin sector. Israel is accelerating its digital shekel plans while China continues to expand the digital yuan.
These moves signal a broader global shift toward sovereign digital money that could challenge the reach and influence of US dollar–based stablecoins.
Stablecoins have become a central pillar of the digital ***** et market, moving well beyond their early role as a trading convenience.
The sector now processes more than $2 trillion in monthly volume and holds

Scientists at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem attempted to break the impasse by bringing together findings from linguistics, psychology, genetics, neuroscience, and animal communication.
A study that could influence everything from child development research to the design of more natural-sounding AI argues that human language arose not from one evolutionary breakthrough but from the gradual convergence of biological capacities and cultural learning, according to Israeli scientists.
For centuries, scientists and philosophers have sought to explain how humans evolved the ability to speak, c

‘He Is Out of Control’: MAGA Demands Answers After Trump Ambassador Mike Huckabee Covertly Meets With Spy Who Sold American Secrets

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Prominent supporters of President Donald Trump demanded answers on Thursday after it was revealed that U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee had held a secret meeting in Jerusalem with Jonathan Pollard, a convicted spy who sold American secrets to Israel.
Reacting to news of the July rendezvous, which reportedly raised concerns at the CIA, former Fox News host Tucker Carlson said, “This is shocking behavior from a United States amba

Researchers led by a team from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Israel have just discovered a way to destroy harmful 'senescent' cells that accumulate with age and ramp up the kind of tissue damage and inflammation that slowly brings life to a grinding halt.
The team found that CD4 T immune cells transform into ****** assins of the damaging tissues when biological aging is detected in the body.
The new fighters, called CD4-Eomes (after the protein they produce), have been spotted before. However, this latest study highlights for the first time how closely they're linked to senescent cel

A 4,300-year-old silver goblet unearthed in occupied Palestine may bear the earliest known artistic depiction of the origin of the Universe, according to a new study.
The iconic Ain Samiya cup was found at an ancient grave site in the Judean Hill in 1970 and named after the Palestinian village in the Israeli-occupied West Bank near where it was found.
It was dated to the Intermediate Bronze Age of 2650–1950BC, when the region was populated by several nomadic communities.
The cup, three inches tall, bears artistic engravings of what appears to be a chimeric half-human, half-animal figure hol

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Yemen warns: No American or Israeli ships will be allowed to pass through the Red Sea.

Tensions rising in a critical global trade route.

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