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March 2, 2026

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John Swinney accuses US and Israel of breaking international law

The SNP leader released a statement on Monday night expressing his “deep concern” over the escalation of the conflict in recent days. It was also announced that the Scottish Government had established a cross-government group to consider the impact of the violence on Scotland. The group will work with the Foreign Office to support Scottish citizens living, travelling or working in the region, and take steps to support affect people here in the country. In his statement, Swinney also warned that Keir Starmer’s decision to let the US use UK bases in its operations is making the situation more dangerous.

March 2, 2026

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President Donald J. Trump announces major U.S. combat operations in Iran, vowing to crush nuclear and missile programs – CNAW 2 with Colin Scroggins

President Donald J. Trump has announced major U.S. combat operations in Iran, vowing to crush nuclear and missile programs In an eight-minute video, Trump says the United States’ objective is to protect Americans by confronting and eliminating threats from Iran’s regime, which he describes as a long-standing sponsor of terrorism. He said this operation follows decades of hostile actions, including the U.S. embassy hostage crisis, the 1983 Beirut barracks bombing, attacks on U.S. forces in Iraq, maritime incidents, and support for militant proxy groups across the Middle East, including Hamas’ October 7 attack on Israel. Trump said Iran must never

March 2, 2026

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BREAKING: US Manufacturing data above expectations! 📈🏭

02.03.2026 – US Manufacturing PMI (February): Published: 51.6 (Expected: 51.2, Previous: 51.2) 02.03.2026 – US Manufacturing ISM (February):  Employment: 48.8 (Previous: 48.1)  PMI: 52.4 (Expected: 51.7, Previous: 52,6)  Prices: 70.5 (Expected: 60.6, Previous: 59)  Link copied! ” aria-label=”Link copied!”> The content of this report has been created by XTB S.A., with its registered office in Warsaw, at Prosta 67, 00-838 Warsaw, Poland, (KRS number 0000217580) and supervised by Polish Supervision Authority ( No. DDM-M-4021-57-1/2005). This material is a marketing communication within the meaning of Art. 24 (3) of Directive 2014/65/EU of the European Parliament

March 2, 2026

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‘Several’ US warplanes crash in Kuwait

Kuwait’s defence ministry has announced that ‘several’ US warplanes have crashed in the country. It, however, said all the crew of the planes survived and that Kuwaiti authorities are assisting in rescue efforts, Al Jazeera reports. As of the time of this report, it is unclear the exact number of US fighter planes that crashed and the exact cause of the crashes, although they are believed to have been shut down by Iranian weapons as the war with the US continues. Al Jazeera showed a video showing how one of the fighter planes crashed. Kuwait is one of the Middle

March 2, 2026

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U.S. and Israel launch another round of strikes on Iran following Khamenei’s killing

Senior administration officials on Saturday briefed reporters on the runup to the U.S. strikes against Iran, said the U.S. had sought a diplomatic solution to its impasse with Iran, but it ended up as “not a tangible and realistic option.” They said that the factors in President Trump’s decision to strike were the long-term threat of Tehran’s ambitions to acquire nuclear weapons and the short-term threat posed by its conventional missile capability. In the negotiations, the Iranians “refused at every instance to address ballistic missiles,” the officials said. They added that Iran refused to address proxies, which Mr. Trump “thought

March 2, 2026

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Trump points to ‘dire threat’ to future generations in expanding rationale for U.S. intervention in Iran

President Donald Trump elaborated on his rationale for attacking Iran in a new video statement on Sunday evening after the death of three American service members in Kuwait, underscoring the broader risks of the ongoing U.S. and Israeli military campaign in the Middle East. Trump said the offensive had hit “hundreds of targets” in Iran, including Iranian Revolutionary Guard facilities, air defense systems, an Iranian naval building and had sunk nine ships. “Combat operations continue at this time,” Trump announced in a six-minute video posted to Truth Social “They will continue until all of our objectives are achieved. We have

March 2, 2026

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US military reportedly used Claude in Iran strikes despite Trump’s ban | AI (artificial intelligence)

The US military reportedly used Claude, Anthropic’s AI model, to inform its attack on Iran despite Donald Trump’s decision, announced hours earlier, to sever all ties with the company and its artificial intelligence tools. The use of Claude during the massive joint US-Israel bombardment of Iran that began on Saturday was reported by the Wall Street Journal and Axios. It underlines the complexity of the US military withdrawing powerful AI tools from its missions when the technology is already intricately embedded in operations. According to the Journal, US military command used the tools for intelligence purposes, as well as to

March 2, 2026

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Court orders further postponement of Séamus Culleton’s deportation from US, but he must stay in detention

BREAKING |  Seamus Culleton. Photo: GoFundMe Amy Molloy and John Mulligan Yesterday at 21:15 A court in the US has issued a further order preventing the deportation of Irish man Séamus Culleton, but has denied his request to be released from a detention facility. Mr Culleton, from Glenmore, Co Kil­kenny, entered the US on a tourism visa in 2009, but remained there past the permitted 90 days. He had been living in Boston for nearly 17 years. Source link

March 1, 2026

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Austin bar shooting leaves three dead, including suspect, and 14 wounded | Texas

The FBI’s joint terrorism taskforce has been called in to help investigate a deadly mass shooting in downtown Austin, Texas, on Sunday morning in which a gunman opened fire in front of a bar popular with university students, killing two people and injuring 14 others before being fatally shot by police. An FBI official, Alex Doran, told reporters at a press conference that it was too early to determine the shooter’s motivation. But he added that evidence found on the suspect and in his car indicated a “potential nexus to terrorism”. CBS News reported that officials had identified the suspect

March 1, 2026

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Trump says Iran leadership agrees to talks after US and Israel strike Tehran | US-Israel war on Iran

Donald Trump said on Sunday that Iran’s political leadership have agreed to talks, a day after the US and Israel began to target the country’s military and political infrastructure, killing the supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and several top officials. “They want to talk, and I have agreed to talk, so I will be talking to them,” Trump told a reporter for the Atlantic magazine on Sunday. “They should have done it sooner. They should have given what was very practical and easy to do sooner. They waited too long.” The comments were some of the first from the president