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Middle East crisis live: Trump set to give prime-time address amid widening economic fallout from Iran war
NEWS | 02 April 2026
20.10 EDT Trump preparing to make first national address since launching Iran war a month agoDonald Trump is minutes away from delivering his first formal address from the White House since launching the war in the Middle East a month ago. Trump has continued to claim that the US has already won the war, and has refused to take responsibility for the economic fallout that has spread across the world. Donald Trump on the steps of the White House on Wednesday. Photograph: Shawn Thew/UPI/ShutterstockHe is expected to reiterate the 2-3 week timetable for concluding the operation, but crucially is not expected to announced an end to the war. Recent polling shows Trump’s overall approval rating slipping below 40%, with disapproval climbing above the mid-50s as voters sour on both the war and its economic fallout, while support for the Iran campaign itself polls even lower.

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Israel hits Iran with waves of attacks and says it killed top Hezbollah commander
NEWS | 02 April 2026
Israel unleashed two waves of attacks on Tehran and said it had killed a senior Hezbollah commander on Wednesday with little sign of the war easing up despite Donald Trump repeating a claim that Iran’s leadership was seeking a ceasefire. Iran’s president, Masoud Pezeshkian, has been in post since 2024, well before the start of the month-long war. Trump nonetheless persevered later on Wednesday with the assertion that there had been “full regime change” in Iran. Israel said 10 of its soldiers had been killed since 2 March when fighting broke out on the Lebanese front. Trump declared himself unconcerned by Iran’s enriched uranium stockpile, believed to be buried in deep shafts under Iranian mountains.

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Trump says he is ‘absolutely’ considering withdrawing US from Nato
NEWS | 02 April 2026
Donald Trump has said he is “absolutely” considering withdrawing the US from Nato, warning that the matter was “beyond reconsideration” after the refusal of US allies to join the US-Israeli war against Iran. He told Reuters news agency on Wednesday he was “absolutely without question” considering withdrawing, after telling the Telegraph the matter was “beyond reconsideration”, insisting he had never been “swayed by Nato”. He signalled that he would express his disgust for Nato in an address to the nation scheduled for Wednesday evening. 11:22 Trump lashes out at Nato: will Europe stand up to him? Some European allies have declared the US-Israeli attack to be illegal and several have withheld the overflight rights and use of bases on their territory.

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Can Trump pull the US out of Nato – and why is he considering it?
NEWS | 02 April 2026
Why is Trump considering withdrawal from the alliance? This is belied by the Nato support for the long war in Afghanistan. Trump appeared on a collision with the alliance as recently as January, when the Nato members went on alert over his threat to annex Greenland. Last June, Nato members agreed to raise their defence spending target to 5% of GDP by 2025. Does Trump have a point – is Nato a ‘paper tiger’?

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Oil price falls and markets rally after Trump says Iran war over in ‘two to three weeks’
NEWS | 02 April 2026
Oil prices tumbled and stock markets have rallied across the world after Donald Trump said the war in Iran would end in “two to three weeks”. Stock markets rallied in Asia, where economies are highly exposed to shortages of oil and gas coming out of the Gulf. Trump, talking about the war in Iran, said on Tuesday: “Now we’re finishing the job. We want to knock out everything they’ve got.”The comments triggered a relief rally in the US stock markets on Tuesday, with the S&P 500 rising by 2.9% at the start of trading and closing 0.72% higher. On Tuesday, the market had been anticipating 66 basis points of rate rises by Christmas, implying two rate rises.

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Britain to host 35 countries for strait of Hormuz talks, says Starmer
NEWS | 02 April 2026
The UK will convene 35 countries – excluding the US – to explore ways to reopen the strait of Hormuz, the vital shipping route for oil and gas that has been blocked by Iran. No 10 said it would be the first time the countries had convened to discuss a viable plan to reopen the strait. Photograph: Andrew Fosker/Seconds Left/ShutterstockThe meeting will convene the countries who signed a joint statement last month. It commits the countries to a “readiness to contribute to appropriate efforts to ensure safe passage through the strait”. “We will consider when Hormuz Strait is open, free, and clear.

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Nasa’s Artemis II rocket lifts off for historic moon mission
NEWS | 02 April 2026
Nasa’s moon rocket Artemis II launched on Wednesday evening, carrying astronauts to the moon for the first time in almost 54 years. Their 10-day test flight, which will not land on the moon, is a mission packed with milestones. View image in fullscreen Space enthusiasts watch the sunrise from a park in Titusville, Florida, several hours before the Artemis II launch. The Artemis II astronauts will have their health monitored at every stage, including a study of the effects of increased radiation and microgravity. It was intended to provide a human moon landing at the beginning of the decade, but is running years behind schedule and billions of dollars over budget.

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This Artemis moon mission is a truly unifying international project, one of the few we have left | Christopher Riley
NEWS | 02 April 2026
More than 50 years ago, the Apollo astronauts’ photographs of Earth seen from the moon had a jolting effect on a society distracted by division and conflict. Sixty-one countries have signed the Artemis accords, a set of global agreements committing to working peacefully together in space and on the moon. Photograph: Brendan McDermid/ReutersThe first Artemis astronauts will travel more than 4,000 miles beyond the moon before its gravity tugs them back. Unlike the first Apollo astronauts, who were not expecting this view, scrambling to suddenly document and marvel at it, the crew of Artemis II are planning to photograph it. It reads: “It is our earnest hope of mankind that while we gain the moon, we shall not lose the world.”

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Lunar prospectors: the businesses looking to mine the moon
NEWS | 02 April 2026
1969 Lunar soil samples containing Helium-3 are collected by Neil Armstrong and brought back to Earth on the Apollo 11 mission. 2027 Interlune plans a future mission called "Prospect Moon" to gather samples at a nearside, equatorial site. The only geologist to walk on the moon, as part of the last crewed US mission, 1972’s Apollo 17, Schmitt has advocated for lunar helium mining since the 1980s. Meyerson says there is space for businesses and scientists in the lunar age. China’s Chang’e-6 mission successfully brought back samples from the far side of the moon in 2024 that included Helium-3.

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SpaceX confidentially files to go public at $1.75tn, reports say
NEWS | 02 April 2026
SpaceX has confidentially filed for an initial public offering on the US stock market, according to reports from Bloomberg and the Wall Street Journal. Elon Musk’s company, which has become a dominant power in both space travel and satellite communications, could potentially seek a valuation upwards of $1.75tn. The IPO could take place as early as June, Bloomberg reported, in what is expected to be a banner year for high-value public offerings. SpaceX is the parent company of Musk’s own artificial intelligence company, xAI. The US space program is heavily dependent on the company, with Nasa utilizing SpaceX rockets for the majority of its launches.

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Magnitude 7.4 earthquake strikes in Indonesia, sparking tsunami alert
NEWS | 02 April 2026
A magnitude 7.4 earthquake has struck the Northern Molucca Sea region in Indonesia, the United States Geological Survey (USGS) said. The US tsunami warning system said tsunami waves were possible with 1,000km of the epicentre, along the coasts of Indonesia, the Philippines and Malaysia. It warned that tsunami waves reaching 0.3 metres to 1 metre (3.2ft) above the tide level were possible for some of the Indonesian coastline. Japan’s meteorological agency said “slight sea level changes” might occur along Japan’s coast but that no tsunami damage was expected. In 2022, a magnitude 5.6 earthquake killed at least 602 people in West Java’s Cianjur city, the deadliest one in Indonesia since a 2018 quake and tsunami in Sulawesi killed more than 4,300 people.

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Supreme court justices appear skeptical of move to end birthright citizenship as Trump attends arguments
NEWS | 02 April 2026
A majority of justices asked questions indicating skepticism about the government’s attempt to overturn birthright citizenship. If birthright citizenship is overturned, hundreds of thousands of children born annually would be blocked from US citizenship. “Unrestricted birthright citizenship contradicts the practice of the overwhelming majority of modern nations,” Sauer said in his opening statement. They pointed to other countries’ citizenship laws and exceptions to birthright citizenship, such as children born to foreign diplomats. Outside the court, hundreds demonstrated in favor of birthright citizenship and against the president’s order.

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Hundreds rally for birthright citizenship at supreme court: ‘We are an immigrant nation’
NEWS | 02 April 2026
About 250 demonstrators packed the steps of the supreme court on Wednesday, chanting in defense of birthright citizenship as Donald Trump himself watched from the public gallery in an unprecedented appearance. Trump issued the executive order targeting birthright citizenship on his first day in office in 2025, directing a reinterpretation of the constitution that runs counter to 158 years of precedent. He warned that overturning birthright citizenship would strip millions of children of healthcare, protection from deportation and the basic promise of justice. “There will be nothing supreme about ending birthright citizenship,” he said. “Unfortunately, our supreme court has kind of been bought and paid for by the super rich,” she said.

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Swedish PM offers deal that could see far-right allowed into government
NEWS | 02 April 2026
The Swedish prime minister, Ulf Kristersson, has said that he will allow the far-right Sweden Democrats (SD) into government for the first time – and give its members key ministerial posts – if his coalition wins the next general election. Despite becoming Sweden’s second biggest political party after the Social Democrats in the last election, SD currently plays only a supporting role in the minority-run coalition. Nooshi Dadgostar, leader of the Left party, said the prospect of the Sweden Democrats in government with the Moderates was “disgusting” and urged political leaders to “think again”. Mass immigration to Sweden, the party claims, has “changed Sweden for the worse” and resulted in “many societal problems”. In a recent documentary, Åkesson claimed that to be Muslim and to be Swedish was “a contradiction”.