US president signals ‘full, large-scale assault’ on Iran but declares hours later he is holding off on a fresh attack

Mediator Pakistan says both sides ‘keep changing their goalposts’ and ‘we don’t have much time’

Further strikes by Israel against Hizbullah hit southern Lebanon despite extension of US-brokered ceasefire

Officials advised developing world could face ‘significant food shortages and price increases’ before year’s end

Europeans waiting and seeing how crisis plays out before booking holidays, says airline chief

Almost $500,000 alone has been wagered on Gerry Hutch’s chances of becoming a TD or not

Irish entrepreneurs visit Toronto at pivotal moment, as part of EY Entrepreneur of the Year awards programme

Drone strike causes fire at UAE nuclear power plant as efforts to end war in Gulf stall

The cause is rooted in the Thucydides Trap – referred to this week by Xi Jinping – the simple but dangerous arithmetic of a rising power and an anxious incumbent

Trump considering whether to lift US sanctions on Chinese oil companies buying Iranian oil

As Boy George said: ‘If you don’t know any Jewish people, maybe that’s the problem.’

Art gallery he ran also became a sort of cultural and philosophical salon

Admiral Brad Cooper said a strike on an Iranian school may have been the only civilian casualty incident of the war

Friedrich Merz tells conference he no longer sees country as a land of opportunity

Gulf states have been grappling with how to deter Iran after the war made clear the limits of US security guarantees

Biggest drivers of increase are transport fuels and home heating oil

US-China summit was also ​on investors’ radar

Increase in attacks on ​enclave further sign of stalled progress under Trump’s plan to halt Israel-Hamas war

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Israeli air strikes on road south of Beirut kill eight people, including two children