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Trump ‘surprised’ Iran has targeted Gulf countries and claims US ‘decimated’ Kharg Island

US president said he did not want to make a deal with Iran yet, while claiming that he might hit Kharg Island again ‘just for fun’
​A man stands in a damaged residence in the Khani Abad neighbourhood of Tehran, Iran.
Black smoke billowing from a chimney in an oil refinery complex.
Full report
Iran threatens to escalate war after Trump says ‘many countries’ will send warships to strait of Hormuz
Donald Trump in the East Room of the White House in Washington DC on 2 March 2026.
Kharg Island
Trump says US may strike Iran’s oil export hub ‘just for fun’
Destroyed healthcare center in Burj Qalaouiyah, Lebanon after an Israeli strike
Lebanon
Israeli strike kills 12 healthcare workers in southern Lebanon
Players of the Iranian women’s football team
Australia
Three more Iranian women’s football squad members return home after being granted asylum
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News

Politics

Reform UK government would replace top civil servants with those ‘more likely to implement party’s priorities’

Exclusive: Senior party figures conclude outsiders or existing senior staff deemed more suitable should take over from current permanent secretaries
Reform UK leader Nigel Farage with newly announced shadow cabinet members in London
Ed Davey waves while speaking into a microphone on a stage
Nuclear weapons
UK needs nuclear deterrent independent from US, Ed Davey to say
Forensic investigators inspecting a half-open window
UK news
Murder arrest after 18-day-old baby falls from central London property
John Alford outside St Albans magistrates court
UK news
London’s Burning actor John Alford, 54, dies in prison
First Minister John Swinney addressing the SNP Campaign Conference in Edinburgh.
UK politics
UK faces ‘seismic moment’ as nationalists target election wins, says John Swinney
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Special report

‘My dear son’: the Ukrainian soldier who came back from the dead

In 2023, Nazar Daletskyi’s apparent remains were buried in his home village. Three years later, he spoke to his mother, Nataliia, on the phone
Hands hold a phone displaying a photo of Nazar Daletskyi and another man behind him
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In focus

Media

‘No one saw this coming’: will the surprise Telegraph winner change the paper’s direction?

Daily Mail owner could take long-term hit after being gazumped at the 11th hour by Germany’s Axel Springer
A copy of the Daily Telegraph seen next to the home page of German media group Axel Springer on a laptop.
A woman walks past a burning house amid a Russian attack in the town of Brovary in Ukraine’s Kyiv region on Saturday.
Ukraine war briefing
Six people killed as Russia unleashes missile and drone attacks, officials say
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Features

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